Bryn

Describe your style in three words?

Timeless meets modern

The first track you played on repeat?

Caesars - Jerk It Out

I didn't understand the meaning behind this track when I listened to this on my USB MP3 as a preteen, I recall revisiting it a couple of years later and heard the same song in a new light. Did it change much of this knee-slapper? Maybe slightly but regardless it's a timeless classic.

A song from your favorite album?

New Order - ICB - 2019 Remaster

I had a hard time choosing a 'favourite album' but I'll choose New Order's 'Movement', the circumstances put against them matched with an original presence made for music to inspire so many - including myself. 'ICB' is a perfect example of experimental alternative music for myself.

A song from your most memorable gig?

Slaves - Sockets

Slaves had played in Hull's 'Fruit' for their Take Control tour, I managed to grab a £2 ticket into a packed out tiny venue. Laurie had started the set with the start of 'Sockets', I still get goosebumps thinking about the excitement of waiting for Isaac to start battering his kit.

A song that always gets you up and dancing?

Molchat Doma - На Дне

It's just a class track, okay? The fact their music is probably 30 years out of date doesn't deter my opinion at all. Anyone who can't find this track catchy could be clueless - but the synth speaks for itself for sure.

A new song you're listening to?

Genie Genie - Lust Over You

I found Tiss through a friend's music review of 'Lust Over You', a truly experimental sound bringing together a cocktail of music genres paired with a distinctive look - I respect the initiative they put in big time along with the fact we're both from the North East.

Best song to turn up loud?

Bryn Stagg - Ante Up

Don't get me wrong, I didn't know what else to put here but my own music - if I wasn't my biggest fan I wouldn't be writing music. This track was behind the start of my solo project and bringing a strong, gritty disorientated track was what came in the finished piece - I love it.

A song that defines the teenage you?

Swim Deep - King City

If a song had to remind me of college it's this; edgy music, rolling awful cigarettes, embarrassing photos from naive gatherings with an ideology laughably like the Inbetweeners.

An anthemic song?

Arthur Brown - Fire

I don't know what exactly draws me to Arthur Brown, he holds a distinctive music style that helped pioneer metal/psychedelic/alternative music and this track made that fantasy a reality during the late '60s. Maybe it's that - maybe it's because he's also from Yorkshire.

Best song to end an all-nighter?

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Nostalgic, happy, positively major & dreamy. If you're with the right people at the end of a night out there's no doubt you would have a fond memory singing this in a drunken, disorderly, positively spangled & glazed state.