Dan Fable
Daniel George Newman, known professionally as Dan Fable, is a musician from Manchester. He had a No. 59 hit on the UK Singles Chart with his and Venbee's 2022 single "Low Down", and co-wrote two of her subsequent singles, "Messy in Heaven" and "Rampage", which charted at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 29 on the NZ Hot Singles chart respectively.
Life and career
Fable was born Daniel George Newman.[1] He became interested in music after becoming a fan of Eminem, and would record tracks using a cheap microphone[2] and Audacity. He told a May 2021 episode of the Pretendship podcast that, having undergone guitar lessons as a teenager, he spent "a bit of time" in prison, "went in rapping and came out singing" after "brownnosing" himself a guitar from the prison's chapel, spent the rest of his incarceration "writing things over nothing or over songs on the music channel on the TV", and came out wanting to be Ed Sheeran.[3](p27:20) After leaving school, he became a joiner, and built himself a home studio; after finding that other artists were happy to pay him to use it, he started his own record label.[2]
In 2012, he released "The Girl That Never Smiles",[4] and the following year he released "Beautiful Liar".[5] After attending a BBC Music Introducing masterclass, he met Josh Healey, and collaborated with him for his single "The Girl I Used to Know".[6] In 2017, after his own record label went bust,[2] he set up a budget videography company, Keep Me Young, which offered two live music videos and a photoshoot for £100; explaining himself to Fstoppers.com, he explained that he was able to keep costs down by shooting basic, non-custom videos, that each act had two hours including an hour to film and half an hour for a photoshoot, that he personally took care of shooting, lighting, and editing himself, and that he filmed in a studio near a recording studio owned by the same landlord.[7] In 2020, after his independent label also closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, he decided to diversify into promoting himself.[2]
In March 2022, Venbee released a clip of her then-unfinished collaboration with Newman, "Low Down", a song about depression.[8] It went viral on the platform, resulting in a mad rush to finish the song;[9] the song later charted at No. 59 on the UK Singles Chart.[10] He also co-wrote her second single, "Messy in Heaven",[9] a diatribe about drug addiction[11] which charted at No. 3 on the same chart,[10] and her 2023 song "Rampage",[1] which charted at No. 29 on the NZ Hot Singles chart;[12] all three appeared on her mixtape Zero Experience.[13] On 25 November 2022, he released "One Punch Tommy", an alt-indie song[14] about toxic masculinity.[15] In January 2023, he signed to North West Songs, a then-new music publishing company founded by Nick Raphael, Christian Tattersfield, and Ben Bodie,[16] and later that year he collaborated with Hybrid Minds for "Favourite Song" and "Maniac".[17]
Artistry
In addition to Eminem and Ed Sheeran, he has cited Angus & Julia Stone as influencing the melodic side of his music.[2] In an interview with Music Week, he stated that he predominantly wrote songs that were "stripped back and emotional", and that before "Messy in Heaven", he "hadn't really" written over beats and found doing so "a bit of a learning experience".[18]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Newman Daniel George". ASCAP. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Carving out grooves, with Dan Fable – iamur". 29 November 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ "Diss Content | Pretendship Ep. 83 w/ Dan Fable". music.amazon.com. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ "BBC Radio Manchester - BBC Music Introducing in Manchester, 11/11/2012". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ↑ "BBC Radio Manchester - BBC Music Introducing in Manchester, 23/02/2013". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ↑ "BBC Radio Manchester - BBC Music Introducing in Manchester, 04/05/2013". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ↑ Kampff, Stephen (28 August 2017). "How Does This British Photographer Make a Profit Shooting £100 Music Videos?". Fstoppers. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ Jolley, Ben (2 November 2022). "Venbee: thrilling, cathartic drum 'n' bass from 'Messy In Heaven' hitmaker". NME. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 ""I Do My Best And It Seems To Work!" Clash Meets Venbee | Features". Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews. 16 March 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "VENBEE". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ↑ Rom, Annelies (19 March 2023). "We Need To Talk About Venbee". UKF. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ "The Official New Zealand Music Chart". THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ↑ Venbee - Zero Experience Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-12-03
- ↑ "Dan Fable delivers poignant alt-indie gem 'One Punch Tommy' • WithGuitars". Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ↑ "Dan Fable has dropped his new single, 'One Punch Tommy'". Dork. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ↑ "North West Songs launches with roster including Dan Fable, Sekou, No Guidnce and Daniel Avery". www.musicweek.com. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 1 - Radio 1's Drum & Bass Mix, DNB60, Hybrid Minds!". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ↑ "Hitmakers: Dan Fable tells the story behind his and Venbee's DnB hit Messy In Heaven | Interviews | Music Week". www.musicweek.com. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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