David Readman (born 6 July 1970) is an English singer best known as the vocalist of hard rock band

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and former vocalist of

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band Adagio. He released a solo album in 2007 and was part of German guitarist Alex Beyrodt's band

Voodoo Circle Voodoo Circle, also known as Alex Beyrodt's Voodoo Circle, is a German hard rock band founded in 2008, as a project of Silent Force guitarist Alex Beyrodt (currently also playing with heavy metal band Primal Fear) who had the idea to re-think ...

, from 2008 to 2016, returning in 2020. In 2015, two new projects featuring Readman on lead vocals were announced. The first called

Room Experience ''Room Experience'' is a rock album that was released in both a regular and a 500 copies sold out limited edition by Melodic Rock Records on 22 May 2015. It is distributed worldwide by Cargo Records UK. Vocals are led by David Readman (Pink Cre ...

, is a melodic rock project led by Italian musician

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, with a self-titled album released in May 2015. And the second is Almanac, the new heavy metal band led by former

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guitarist

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. In September 2016 it was announced he had reformed the David Readman Band, his solo band that he founded in Germany. It now features Dutch musicians Emile Marcelis (ex-Vengeance, bass), Eddie Claessens (Vandale, drums) and Bram Engelen (Ostrogoth, guitars). Readman joined British heavy metal band

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in 2017. In October of the same year, a new project called Pendulum of Fortune came out, featuring Readman with Bodo Schopf, Franky R. and led by Vladimir Shevjakov. In 2020, while the world was being plunged into a lockdown along with Julien Spreutels, Francesco Mattei, Nicolas Spreutels and Dennis Thomas, founde
Immunity for the Masses
and released their first track ‘Welcome To This Nightmare’ a project that defied all laws of music by being written and fully produced remotely from all corners of Europe all within two weeks.

Early life

Readman was born in

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River ...

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, and attended Towneley High School.

Discography

Solo

*''David Readman'' (2007) *''Medusa'' (2022)

Pink Cream 69

*''

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'' (1995) *'' Food for Thought'' (1997) *''

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'' (1998) *''Live'' (1999) *'' Sonic Dynamite'' (2000) *''

Mixery ''Mixery'' is an EP by the German hard rock band Pink Cream 69 containing rare, live, acoustic and re-recorded tracks. Track listing Album notes * "King of My World" recorded during the sessions for ''Sonic Dynamite''. * "Shame" & "Brea ...

'' (2000) *''

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'' (2001) *'' Thunderdome'' (2004) *'' In10sity'' (2007) *''

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'' (2013) *''Headstrong'' (2017)

Adagio

*'' Sanctus Ignis'' (2001) *''

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'' (2003) *'' A Band in Upperworld'' (2004)

Andersen/Laine/Readman

*''III (Three)'' (2006)

Voodoo Circle

* ''Voodoo Circle'' (2008) * ''Broken Heart Syndrome'' (2011) * ''More Than One Way Home'' (2013) * ''Whisky Fingers'' (2015) * ''Locked & Loaded'' (2021)

Room Experience

* ''

'' (2015)

Almanac

* ''Tsar'' (2016) * ''Kingslayer'' (2017)

Pendulum of Fortune

* ''Searching for the God Inside'' (2017) * ''Return To Eden'' (2019)

Tank

*''Re-Ignition'' (2019)

Immunity for the Masses

* ''Welcome to This Nightmare'' (2020)

As a guest

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*''Evolution II'' (1995) (under the name Dave Twose)

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'' (1999) (backing vocals)

Silent Force Silent Force is a German power metal band with neoclassical and progressive influences, founded by guitarist Alex Beyrodt. Band history The band was formed in 1999 by German guitarist Alex Beyrodt ( Sinner, Primal Fear, Voodoo Circle, The ...

*''The Empire of Future'' (2000)

Missa Mercuria

*''

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'' (2002)

Delany

*''Blaze and Ashes'' (2009)

Place Vendome

*'' Place Vendome'' (2005) (co-wrote "Heavens Door" and backing vocals)

Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall

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'' (2013) *''

Kingdom of Rock ''Kingdom of Rock'' is the second full-length studio album by Swedish heavy metal songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Magnus Karlsson. It was released under the project name ''Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall'' on 6 November ...

'' (2015)

Thomas Zwijsen Thomas Zwijsen is a Dutch/Belgian (Flemish people, Flemish) classical acoustic and heavy metal guitarist. He is known for his arrangements of Iron Maiden (and a selection of other artists') songs for classical guitar both on YouTube since 2007 an ...

* ''Perferct Storm, Nylonized Album'' (2014)

Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Luca Turilli's Rhapsody (often simply referred by itself as Rhapsody, LT's Rhapsody or Turilli's Rhapsody) was an Italian symphonic power metal band created and led by Luca Turilli after his split from Rhapsody of Fire, also including German, F ...

*'' Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus'' – lead vocals on "King Solomon and the 72 Names of God" (2015)

Thomas Blug – ''Blug Plays Hendrix'' (2010)

*Thomas Blug – guitar *David Readman – vocals *Reggie Worthy – bass *Wolf Simon – drums *special guests – Dreist

References

External links

Official David Readman websiteOfficial Pink Cream 69 websiteOfficial Voodoo Circle websiteDavid Readman (Room Experience, Pink Cream 69, ex-Voodo Circle) – ,,I’m sure we are ready to hit the stage…“
{{DEFAULTSORT:Readman, David 1970 births Living people Musicians from Burnley English male singers English heavy metal singers Pink Cream 69 members Tank (band) members Adagio (band) members 21st-century English singers 21st-century British male singers Frontiers Records artists AFM Records artists