Dan Hoyes
guitarist • producer • tutor
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Alessi’s new album ‘Love Is The Currency’ is out on 27th October on Zooey Records. We’ll be playing a number of shows that week to promote the album, and a full UK tour is planned for Spring 2018. I’ll be playing the following shows with Alessi: 23rd Oct – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge 24th Oct –...
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Over 40 riffs in one song. My tribute to the guitar riff. If this can’t persuade someone to play guitar, then I’m not sure what will! Guess which one was my least favourite…
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Very proud to have been one of the producers on Miri’s Sound Vibrations EP. The project was recorded with four different producers creating a song each with Miri. We wrote the title track together a few years ago, and was nice to finally get to record it properly. It features the beautiful string sounds of Alex Priest and...
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Been busy learning to play this stunning percussive acoustic number! I think this was something like take 27… got there in the end… just!
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For the last few weeks I’ve been mixing and editing a series of Flight School live videos recorded in my flat at the end of last year. Some of the songs are taken from the recent ‘You Cut The Line EP’ and we tried a few covers as well. I really wish we’d have used...
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Recently, I had the pleasure of recording and playing on a very simple version of ‘Joy To The World’ with Alessi. The very good people over at For Folk’s Sake have included it on a Christmas compilation album also featuring Stornoway, Dark Dark Dark and Left With Pictures. All profits from the album are going to Médecins Sans Frontières....
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Earlier this summer, Miri, Joshua and I recorded some live videos in my living room of the some new songs we’d written, with the help and expert editing of the brilliant Kate McLarnon. Have a view of them below. It’s been such a fun summer playing at festivals, events and a residency at a bar...
