Daniel Dylan Wray
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Write about music & culture & various things for various places, mainly the Guardian / [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Daniel Dylan Wray
The sun is shining, birds are tweeting and a river gently flows just yards away as Jerskin Fendrix tells me about his love of growing up in Shropshire. “It was so gorgeous and majestic,” he says, sitting in the garden of a friend’s house where he spent a lot of time in his youth. “It was nature, forests and hills and then just normal teenage life.
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1 week ago |
djmag.com | Daniel Dylan Wray
On 12th July 1979, 50,000 people descended on Comiskey Park in Chicago for a baseball game that ended in a riot. Fires burned, a sea of fans rushed the field, and riot police stormed in to contain the chaos. All the while, thousands of records sat in a giant heap, melted and burnt.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Daniel Dylan Wray
Your roles fluctuate wildly between the serious and silly. Does one necessitate the other? vammypI’ve always thought it’s all the same. You just try to be as honest as you can, and if you’re being honest in absurd circumstances then you’re in a comedy. It’s not like I try to be funny or serious – just honest. If you’re watching someone play a bad guy and there’s nothing about the performance that makes you feel for the person or understand them in a deeper way, that’s a fail to me.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Daniel Dylan Wray
Fifty years ago, Cabaret Voltaire shocked the people of Sheffield into revolt. A promoter screamed for the band to get off stage, while an audience baying for blood had to be held back with a clarinet being swung around for protection. All of which was taking place over the deafening recording of a looped steamhammer being used in place of a drummer, as a cacophony of strange, furious noises drove the crowd into a frenzy.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Daniel Dylan Wray
Fireworks explode, flames burn, smoke engulfs the room and a screech erupts from the audience as a masked Tyler, the Creator emerges from a thick green haze to the gut-rumbling bass of St Chroma. It’s rare to hear such a frenzied response to new songs but it establishes the mood for an evening during which the LA rapper’s most recent work, from 2024’s Chromakopia, is received with the same level of adoration as old favourites. And he runs through the album almost in its entirety.
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The exodus seems to be in full swing so I’m over at the other gaff now. https://t.co/I8S1VvJJFh
David Wrench is one of the most in demand mixing engineers in the world atm, we spoke about how that came to be, from his teenage years making Welsh language acid house to blagging himself a job in the studio and getting a wake up call from Julian Cope. https://t.co/fLU62p1EBa
RT @rocking_bob: Great @guardian piece on New Jill Swing. Thanks, @DanielDylanWray https://t.co/FwKuAMbG4S