Getting to Know… The Daylight Orange | Interview 🎤

On the 156^th interview in our Getting to Know… series, we get great insight & intriguing answers from English band, The Daylight Orange.

When asked about what made them distinct, English band 🎙 The Daylight Orange offered up one of the most colorful answers to appear on a Q&A from our Getting to Know… series.  The response played out a little something like this: “We’ve got that sneaky equilibrium of 60s psychedelia, 70s blues, some 80s bass lines thrown in for good measure and a hero’s dose of some 90s indie to medicate your headphones at 3am…” WOW – that characterization speaks for itself.  As always, it our pleasure to host these ‘Heavy Psychedelic Pop Destroyers’ on our 156^th interview.  As is always the case in this Q&As, we get great insight and truly intriguing answers to burning question.  So, without further ado, here is 🎤 Getting to Know… The Daylight Orange: Interview #156! 

 Starting things off right, for those who may not be familiar with The Daylight Orange, what would you say makes your band distinct or unique? How do you rock the audience’s socks off?

🎤 We’ve got that sneaky equilibrium of 60s psychedelia, 70s blues, some 80s bass lines thrown in for good measure and a hero’s dose of some 90s indie to medicate your headphones at 3am…

Okay, let’s explore some juicy backstories. How did The Daylight Orange form and what were some of the goals or the visions you had as a band early on?  

🎤 We basically jammed every night in an after-hours nightclub after work. Usually starting at 2am fairly coherent with some slow heavy drums and piano riffs then morphing into some dirty synth and backward guitar beast until sunrise called us home for slumber. Our early goals were definitely to get into a studio and throw everything in the air and see how it landed. Which is why I think our stuff sounds quite varied depending on what ungodly hour it was written. It’s sometimes dangerous getting too attached to a song and not letting it take its own shape and trusting the studio robots to do their thing.

Let’s talk more about goals.  Have your goals or your perspectives changed since first starting out? What do your aspirations or goals look like now?  

🎤 Yes hugely. Like every other musician on the planet at the moment our M.O is to survive these strange days and keep the wolf from the door whilst staying creative and focused on the original reason as to why we do this. A love of music. It’s easy to get lost some days but the goals still stay the same. Make loud noises as best we can.

Everybody is influenced by somebody else. Who would you consider some of your biggest musical influences and how are they influential?

🎤 We all like so many different types of music. Man I heard some good elevator music last week! Today bands like Spiritualized, Soulwax and The Flaming Lips are getting heavy rotation in this house but yesterday it was Otis Reading, INXS, Hamilton Leithauser, Nils Frahm and Kekko Fornarelli so we’re open to suggestion for musical influences. It needs a decent hook or an unusual sonic to satisfy my appetite tho. Some of the music Hamilton Leithauser is putting out with Rostam is quite delicious and I think we may have taken some of that onboard as well as the turn it on its head song structures of The Flaming Lips.

Ah, the fun stuff.  What’s your craziest tour story or the wackiest thing that’s happened during a performance?  Feel free to be creative.

🎤 On tour, you’ve got to embrace your inner child and promote as much mischief as you can or think you can get away with. Get creative with it and if you get caught it’s normally worth it… But you know the drills… “What happens on tour stays on tour!”

Up until this point in your career, what would you describe as your favorite song you’ve recorded or performed live? What makes that song special?  

🎤 Playing, it would be a tune called 🎵 “You Wanted Sound” which we’ve decided to never put down in the studio as it just wouldn’t to it justice as the intro is just a spaced-out white noise of backwards guitars and stoner time signatures that sync up every now and again. On tape, I think I’m fondest of 🎵 “Salt Water” as it breaks as well as mends people I know who’ve listened to it.

Is there anything else awesome, cool, or left of center the world should know about you? Secret talents or surprising tidbits?

🎤 Half of us are dedicated all year-round surfers and in the southwest of England. You gotta be dedicated to get in the Atlantic Ocean in the winter.  Matt & I used to race Formula Ford racing cars for near death thrills…

Closing things out, what is The Daylight Orange currently working on, promoting that you can share with us or want us to know about? We love secrets, but there’s no pressure. 

🎤 We’ve just released our third single called 🎵 “Squeaky Little Disco” which is doing well and available everywhere. It’s a tale of falling in love with head spins, hanging on to bass bins and swapping elevated heartbeats for tranquilizer break beats. Yeah, that looks weird on paper looking at it! Anyways, it’s a cool tune we think. Also, looking forward to getting back in the studio and throwing new music ideas up in the air and hope they land in the right order again. Expect Vinyl offerings soon too!

Thank you so much for sharing taking the time to answer these questions, and best of luck moving forward. 

Muchos Gracias for the Q&A Brent and The Music Hype. Just followed you on twitter and will spread the word you handsome devil!

Cheeeers

Dan

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