DANNY MILES OF JULY TALK ANSWERS FIVE QUESTIONS AND SHARES A FIRST LISTEN OF HIS NEW TRACK WITH CANADIAN HIP-HOP LEGENDS MICHIE MEE & LEE REED
By Ben Rispin @benrispin
Beat Maker and Producer Danny Miles of July Talk
Prolific beat maker, producer, and drummer of July Talk, Danny Miles has been taking the underground hip-hop world by storm. With upcoming shows around Southern, Ontario, don't miss your opportunity to catch him live.
Get tickets to Danny Miles and guests at Bovine Sex Club May 23rd. Ticket link below.
FIRST LISTEN: ALARMS by Danny Miles, Michie Mee, Lee Reed and Rules.
Michie Mee, seen here performing at the Junos features on 'Alarms" by Miles and Co.
Full disclosure, Danny Miles and I are good friends and my band Rules is a part of this and involved in the ongoing Endless Bummer project.
We met at an Alexisonfire concert a few years ago and kept in touch. We bonded over a shared love of 90's hip-hop. We ended up becoming close friends and even started a moving company together.
Danny is the drummer of alt rock group July Talk, who have been taking the world by storm since the inaugural 2012 self titled release. An impressive catalog continued. This past Christmas, July Talk released The Solstice EP a collection of covers and this Spring a vinyl collection with new and old material called Remember Never Before.
Cover art for July Talk's Remember Never Before, available now
July Talk covering Mclusky's To Hell With Good Intentions available on The Solstice EP.
To say July Talk keeps its members busy is an understatement. Not only do they continue to put out music, somehow they've managed an impeccable record of it all being good. Something that isn't easy to do this far into their career.
Danny Miles looking handsome with July Talk back in 2012
Months ago now, Danny told me he was working on a hip-hop record called Beautiful Music. His passion for the project was infectious. His love of the craft of beat making lead to him remixing my band Rules' album The Bummer Circus Comes To Truth City with revolutionary rapper Lee Reed at the helm vocally called Endless Bummer.
Revolutionary MC Lee Reed
READ:
DANNY MILES OF JULY TALK, LEE REED, RULES, RELEASE GRIMEY POLITICALLY DRIVEN, PUNK-HIP-HOP WITH "ENDLESS BUMMER"
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While he's been diligently working on that Endless Bummer, his passion for music has enabled him to become one of the most prolific music creators I've met in a long time. In the past few months, Danny has released some of the best underground hip-hop Canada has seen in awhile. Gaining the attention of not just his alt music colleagues, but the North American independent hip-hop community as well. This past week Beautiful Music and his release with Swamp Thing have even made the top ten independent college hip-hop charts in the US.
Not too shabby for a kid from London, Ontario.
Danny has several dates coming up around Ontario listed below.
Beautiful Music By Danny Miles available now
FIVE QUESTIONS WITH DANNY MILES OF JULY TALK
WHEN AND WHERE DID YOUR LOVE OF MUSIC FORM?
I grew up with an uncle who was 12 years older than me and he was basically my big brother. He showed me some of my favourite music to this day. When I was a small child I was listening to music I probably shouldn’t have been listening to.
He showed me Guns N’ Roses- Appetite For Destruction around when it came out and I was obsessed with that album. I probably should have been listening to Raffi but I was blasting Welcome to the Jungle.
I also remember the first time he showed me Smells Like Teen Spirit. We were in my grandparents Oldsmobile and he put Nevermind in the cassette deck. I will never forget the feeling that song gave me. It was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It truly was a special song when it came out. It changed my life. I would have been 9 or 10 years old.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST CONCERT YOU WENT TO?
My Dad took me to see Paul McCartney at the CNE in Toronto. All I remember from that show was a funny smell I had never smelled before (weed) and that Hey Jude went on for like 45 minutes (at least it felt that way)
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST “BIG SHOW”? OR YOUR FIRST SHOW EVER?
Well Paul McCartney was obviously a big show but since I mentioned that one. My second show was The Rolling Stones also at the CNE with my Dad and the opening band was one of my favourite at the time Stone Temple Pilots and Purple had just come out and I remember they played Vaseline first song and Scott Weiland was mesmerizing. Such an amazing band.
WHAT WAS YOUR WORST SHOW OR FUNNIEST SHOW MEMORY?
Probably July Talk when we played the Townhouse in Sudbury back in 2012. I got so fucked up on hard drugs and alcohol before the show I couldn’t remember how to play the first song which was The Garden. I Keith Mooned that shit haha, I never got that fucked again before a show again. I sobered up pretty quickly after that first song disaster though. That was an eye opener for me. A great learning experience about my tolerance haha.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOUR BAND?
a fun tour with my best buds Rules and Lee Reed!
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