David Palfreyman (born 26 September 1966) is an English songwriter, musician, actor and poet.
Music
David Palfreyman is best known for the 2017 double album
Decades, a collaboration with
Nicholas Pegg, for which Palfreyman wrote the music and lyrics, singing lead vocal on several tracks.
Alongside Palfreyman and Pegg, the album features a cast of notable actors, singers and musicians, including David Warner,
Richard Coyle, Jacqueline Pearce,
Jan Ravens,
Simon Greenall, Edward Holtom, Sarah Jane Morris, Cassidy Janson,
Mitch Benn, Jessica Lee Morgan, Ian Shaw,
Gary Barnacle,
Greg Hart,
Terry Edwards and
Martyn Barker.
Decades is David Palfreyman's second album, following his 2010 debut
RadioMagnetofon, which was released under his nickname Malf.
Starting out as a trombone player in his early teens, Palfreyman performed at the Royal Albert Hall and other venues around the UK with The William Rhodes School Band and Rhodian Brass, leading to his first experience of studio recording playing trombone on the 1980 LP The Sound Of Rhodian Brass.
Acting and writing
Palfreyman trained as an actor at Richmond Drama School (part of Richmond Adult Community College), graduating in 2000.
His acting work includes productions for the
Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the Canal Cafe Theatre in London, and the Horla Theatre Company. TV credits include appearances in
EastEnders and
Peak Practice, voice-overs for the BBC's
Newsnight and Sky Sports'
Modern Pentathlon World Cup coverage, and roles in the films
Oi Queer,
Baseline and
Brassed Off. He appears as himself in
Cheques, Lies and Videotape, a documentary about pirate videos which appears on the DVD release of the
Doctor Who serial
Revenge of the Cybermen.
His poems have been published in the Arrival Press anthology Poems of the Midlands () and the Anchor Books anthology Forward Press Poets 2008: South and East England ().
David Palfreyman's other vocations have included baker, fork lift truck driver, journalist, window cleaner and taxi driver. He is distantly related to the 19th-century novelist and poet George Eliot.
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