The 1975: Introducing Band Members : George Daniel

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Introducing Band Members : George Daniel

The Drummer

George Bedford Daniel is the drummer for the British pop band The 1975. He was born on the 26th of March 1990 in Brussels, Belgium. His horoscope sign is Aries and currently at the age of 25. He met fellow band members Ross MacDonald, Adam Hann and Matthew Healy in high school. They began to play music together in 2004, beginnning with punk-rock and pop covers before beginning to write their own music.

He was described by Matt Healy as someone who is ,"This weird kid who turned up at school, really tall but looking about nine and was this odd character." The pair bonded over their dislocated childhoods - Matt moved between London and newscastle while George was born in Belgium and grew up in Seattle - and the sense of isolation they felt in their homes in the Manchester suburbs.

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One of the solid raw interviews :

This all came as the group were approaching the end of two years of solid touring in front of crowds that were growing ever bigger and ever more voracious. It was like, Healy says, being in a “really glamorous version ofDawn of the Dead. Instead of being followed by zombies, it was iPhone-clutching kids. There’d be 100 kids between the tour bus and the stage door, when I’m in my boxers with a hangover. So my first reaction with human beings is in a resentful, semi-clothed situation – ‘Matty! Matty! Matty!’ – and I’d be, ‘They don’t even care about the music! They’ve just got their phones out!’”

Healy found himself tumbling towards a crisis, which arrived on 6 December, onstage in Boston. “There was girl stuff,” he says. “There was family stuff. There was financial stuff. There was drug stuff. I remember hearing the crowd and having an identity crisis. I thought: ‘If you want to see a show, I’ll give you a fucking show. If you’ve come to see the jester drink himself into a slumber, I’ll give it to you.’ I felt like I’d become an idea as opposed to being a person.”

At one point, a fan shouted, “I love you, Matty!” He’s ashamed of his response. “What did I say to the poor fucking girl? ‘You don’t have the right to love me. You don’t know me. I love you but you don’t get to love me.’ Jesus. Can you imagine your favourite band shouting that at you? What a dickhead. What a horrible thing to say to a kid who fucking does love me.”

At the show’s end, Healy fell to the stage and refused to leave. “George carried me off, cos I would have stayed there, apparently. I just wanted to sit there and do something you don’t. It was so blurry and of such a particular colour: I remember everything as orangey yellow.”

The easy reaction to take – and one we see again and again when members of groups with startlingly passionate teenage followings hit a wall, as opposed to troubled stars with middle-aged male followings, like Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy – is to say: suck it up, pal. You’re in a band. People love you. You’re making money. Grow a pair.