![]() When his wife completed her PHD a year and a half ago and got a job teaching at Princeton, Robin realized he’d be leaving New Orleans (at least as a full time resident) and figured it was time to collect his thoughts on wax while he still had easy access to musician and engineer friends down there. Robin probably averaged a gig a day for the last decade or so and was quite happy just playing live for a long time. He’s recorded a lot of band albums and been on other people’s records over the years but never found the time to do his own album. Robin Clabby has been 1/3rd of the front line of the high-energy 8 piece funk outfit since 2010. For more info go to a few years now, the Brass-A-Holics have been one of my favorite New Orleans bands, playing that unique GoGoBrass Funk style. It was magical."ĭaywalkers play Academy 3 on Sunday and Night & Day on Thursday. People were screaming the words back! There were clubbers, rockers, a real mixed crowd. "It was the moment where everything seemed to come together and make sense. "That was by far the best gig we've ever played," beams Tonn, his smile a good mile wide. Last week, in their mightiest achievement so far, they played Sankey's Soap to a hardcore drum and bass crowd - with stunning results. We proved that we could win people over." That gig proved to us we could carry it on. By the end of the gig, people were singing along to the words. "Four Mancunians, on Boxing Day, playing to a huge crowd of drum and bass loving Scousers! I don't think you get a tougher first gig than that. "That gig was a real experiment, we really threw ourselves in at the deep end!"exclaims Tonn. It was, by their own admission, "a very big experiment", having not really rehearsed that much, and not knowing whether the public would really get their propulsive mix of rap and rock. With Tonn's conversion complete, and with percussionist Dom on board, the world first got its taste of Daywalkers just over a year ago, when they played a drum and bass night in Liverpool on Boxing Day. His first ever rock gig was Fear Factory, but I think he came out a real convert." we had to educate him a bit, take him to rock nights like Rock Kitchen and Jilly's Rockworld. I wasn't sure if he wanted to form a band, but he said he'd give it a go. He was just an amazing performer, he has real stage presence. He's referring to guitarist Phil and bassist Robin, two metal exiles on the Manc music scene (Phil was once in rock contenders Rinse), who were seeking to form a new band but with a radical twist. Rock music allowed me to express myself better." That was until I met Phil and Robin, who opened me up to rock music. "But I had loads and loads of words that I couldn't find the music for, lyrics that didn't suit hip-hop or drum and bass. "I've been writing words and lyrics since I was a boy," he explains. So what did he do next? Erm, he became a metalhead and went to Jilly's Rockworld. And, at the fledgling age of 24, he still had the entire world of Urban music in the palm of his hands. A distinguished MC and producer, he's been involved seriously in the music industry since the age of 15, and performed to huge festival crowds when most of his peers were still at school revising for their GCSEs. Tonn will be familiar to anyone within Manchester's club scene. Sat in Night & Day Cafe on a bustling Friday afternoon, Tonn takes a large gulp of his beer, and reflects fondly on how he, a Manchester drum and bass veteran, has ended up being so well integrated into the city's metal fraternity.Īnd moreover, how this alliance resulted in new Manc band Daywalkers, the fantastic point where the two worlds of Manchester rap and metal collide in one sensational musical package. I'm down with the rock kids of Manchester these days." I've been to loads of rock gigs and clubs. ![]() I was familiar with clubbing audiences where people just let themselves go, and act crazy. "I didn't know how people reacted or danced. So it was quite a transition going to a metal concert. ![]() "I'm from an MC, drum and bass background, that's my main knowledge of music. "It was actually a Fear Factory concert," he recalls. THE very first time that Tonn Piper, affable gentle giant frontman of Daywalkers, went along to a heavy metal concert, he didn't know what to do with his feet.
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