[gallery type="slideshow" link="none" size="full" ids="139216,139217,139218,139219,139220,139221,139222" orderby="rand"] What got you into music, and if you had not gotten into music what would you be doing today? My Dad had Pink Floyd on vinyl growing up. I was fascinated by Dark Side of The Moon and The Final Cut in particular, the lyrics and the spacey guitar sound. It wasn't till I started buying records myself in 1991 when I heard Nirvana's Nevermind and U2's Aching Baby that I got really hooked on music. I started playing guitar in 1996, having seen a Radiohead concert in Nottingham on The Bends tour. The atmosphere was electric, and it was an outpouring of emotion, total escapism. Then a few years after starting to learn chords, Jeff Buckley's death in 1997 and posthumous album Sketches For My Sweet Heart The Drunk a year later confirmed what I was starting to realise. I wanted to be a song writer no matter what. I was always into writing at school mainly poetry. Having studied William Blake, he wrote in such powerful and sensual language, I related to the angel references and the idea of an unseen hidden world. The world inside of us, the world of feeling and dreams. All of these things seemed to suggest it was possible for me to blaze my own trail with my imagination, pouring that into my writing and singing and playing. If I wasn't a musician, I would probably be a writer. I did some work experience at the Independent newspaper, and was interested briefly in becoming a journalist, but the reality of that job, was you had to write stories about celebrities, and it wasn't fictional or meaningful. Fictional characters are way more interesting as are other possible worlds other than the British media circus.
Interview: Dan Heathcote
Interview: Dan Heathcote
Interview: Dan Heathcote
[gallery type="slideshow" link="none" size="full" ids="139216,139217,139218,139219,139220,139221,139222" orderby="rand"] What got you into music, and if you had not gotten into music what would you be doing today? My Dad had Pink Floyd on vinyl growing up. I was fascinated by Dark Side of The Moon and The Final Cut in particular, the lyrics and the spacey guitar sound. It wasn't till I started buying records myself in 1991 when I heard Nirvana's Nevermind and U2's Aching Baby that I got really hooked on music. I started playing guitar in 1996, having seen a Radiohead concert in Nottingham on The Bends tour. The atmosphere was electric, and it was an outpouring of emotion, total escapism. Then a few years after starting to learn chords, Jeff Buckley's death in 1997 and posthumous album Sketches For My Sweet Heart The Drunk a year later confirmed what I was starting to realise. I wanted to be a song writer no matter what. I was always into writing at school mainly poetry. Having studied William Blake, he wrote in such powerful and sensual language, I related to the angel references and the idea of an unseen hidden world. The world inside of us, the world of feeling and dreams. All of these things seemed to suggest it was possible for me to blaze my own trail with my imagination, pouring that into my writing and singing and playing. If I wasn't a musician, I would probably be a writer. I did some work experience at the Independent newspaper, and was interested briefly in becoming a journalist, but the reality of that job, was you had to write stories about celebrities, and it wasn't fictional or meaningful. Fictional characters are way more interesting as are other possible worlds other than the British media circus.