Dan Michaelson is the singer of Absentee. The Coastguards is his new project. The debut album "Saltwater" is available now and to celebrate Dan will be playing an intimate show here at Cafe OTO.

"Your ears naturally tune into Michaelson's skill at putting words to the parts of relationships that usually stay silent. The cruel asymmetry of romance is addressed exquisitely, recalling the resigned grandeur of the Go-Betweens' Robert Forster" - **** The Times

"Impressive - comes on like Smog fronting the songs of Ed Harcourt" - Uncut

"An intensely felt and sparsely drawn study of the beginnings and ends of relationships" - **** Time Out

"A set of frighteningly good songs" - **** The Stool Pigeon