He lives in Chorley, UK.
Dogman has been playing music nights in Lancashire for the past 10 years.. He has also played many charity gigs at local pubs. He once headed the EMI album launch party for Starsailor. The tag ‘Dogman’ came from his friendship with the band, as Ben Byrne, would always shout down the telephone to lead-singer, James Walsh,“Hey, it’s Dogman Dave’!”

His first CD was the limited-edition digipak of ‘The Whisperer’ in 2010.

BBC6 ‘Unsigned on the net’ with Tom Robinson played ‘Home Fire’ in July 2010. The head of Expat Records A&R, Paul Shulver, former Virgin V Festival and Media head, heard and loved this Dogman + Mikans version and he began tracking his tunes put onto MySpace. Dogman’s song, ‘Spitfire’, an allegorical story about the exciting relationship with his wife, and helped him seal Expat’s distribution deal. BBC6 Introducing played It’s a love thing and offered it in a podcast as the best unsigned music of Bank Holiday weekend.
‘The Cat that solved the String Theory’ is Dogman’s second album. His most recent album ‘He chose the road’ was released in 2013.