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Artist Interviews
Q&A: Fyfe Dangerfield
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 19 January 2010
Fyfe Dangerfield is the English musician and songwriter presumably best known as a founding member of that Avant-garde pop combo Guillemots. Born in Birmingham in 1980, Dangerfield was classically trained from a young age and worked briefly as a music teacher at an independent boys school before rising to fame as the Guillemots’ frontman. Fyfe’s debut solo album ‘Fly Yellow Moon’ is it out now via Polydor and he is set to play London’s Scala this Friday. We caught up with Fyfe to find out more and ask the Same Six.
Q1 How did you start out making music?
It just happened really. There was a piano in the house and I used to try to reach it with my tiny hands when I was about two. So it all followed from there, I guess.
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Love and adulthood.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
It can be anything. On this album most of the songs weren’t written in one go, normally I’d get a basic melody idea in five free minutes before I had to go out or something, and then I’d carry it round in my head for a few weeks or months and gradually think of other sections or lyrics etc.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Anything you hear influences you. At the moment Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction’ seems to be throwing up the most amazing stuff. I heard a staggeringly great track on there the other day, by Thomas Feiner & Anywhen, called ‘Dinah And The Beautiful Blue’.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Thank you!
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
For this album, it’s just nice to have it coming out, really. And personally, I hope people get to hear all the bonus tracks – we’re releasing a version through my website that has another ten track bonus album of stuff from the same sessions, and they’re all songs I’m really happy with. So it’s almost like a double album! For the future, well, I just want to be more disciplined and make much more music, and get my home studio (well, little room in my flat) operating. That’ll do.
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