Guava Rockets is the new musical partnership between Megan Angharad Hunter and Dave Hunter, which is released via the label Dim Byd Mawr.
Megan Angharad Hunter is a Welsh-speaking author, screenwriter, and musician from Dyffryn
Nantlle, North Wales. She is best known for her debut novel published in 2021, tu ôl i’r awyr,
for which she received the Welsh Book of the Year Award before publishing her second novel,
Cat, as a contribution to the Y Pump series, which won the 2022 Tir na n-Og Award. She was
also awarded the literature Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod in 2020/21. Considering the emotion,
dynamics and musicality that goes into Megan’s vocals for Guava Rockets, it might be surprising
to learn that singing came later among her musical pursuits; she is also a prize-winning classical
flautist, as well as playing the piano, Welsh harp, saxophone and guitar, and being a gifted
songwriter in her own right.
In a similar vein, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Dave Hunter is best known as a
widely published music journalist, and particularly as an author of books on guitars and related
equipment. It all stems from the music, though, and Dave’s credits run deep here: a founding
member of the London-based ’90s indie-rock band Drugstore, he went on to compose and
record music for film and television (including the score for the BAFTA Award-winning America
Gaeth a’r Cymry), and to burnish his production skills along the way. Since returning to the east
coast of his native United States in the 2000s, Dave has also fronted the popular roots-rock
band The Molenes and indie-rockers A Different Engine—both named several times for
Band/Album of the Year for the Northeastern U.S.—and also released the Pandemic-inspired
solo project I Think We’re Ready as The Stereo Field in 2021.
As Guava Rockets, Dave and Megan bring together all the diversity and dimension of their own
creative ventures and weave it into something deeply dreamy, hopeful, and
inspiring—ultimately just their own little effort to make you “shine until the lights have all gone
down.”
