This is our friend Daniel Kingsnake. He’s like if Pete Doherty was a 40-year-old rockabilly from Spain. Daniel used to live above the Marathon Bar on Chalk Farm Road and we’d go up there and party with him quite a bit in between him playing guitar downstairs at the bar. Jack White has played with him a few times and Kevin Shields is such a fan of his unique style that there’s talk of the two of them making a record together. For one reason or another we lost touch but we bumped into him the other day on the tube to Angel. His daily routine is: Don’t Sleep / Go And Busk On The Train All Day Until You Make About £40 / Go Home And Party / Don’t Sleep / Go Out And Busk All Day etc etc. Honestly, we don’t think he has slept since the last time we saw him and that was about two years ago. How does he do it?
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Hey! We don't know how he does it either! Maybe it's the kebabs that keep him going?? But we saw him in Tufnell Park a couple of weeks ago he was talking to a woman and they were looking in the window of that sewing machine shop, and we said oh look that's the Elvis guy from Marathon!! He looked cool tho, he was rocking the quiff!
Posted by: Christine and Elaine | 26/06/2006 at 19:19
fucking legendary guy.
Posted by: charlie | 27/06/2006 at 12:24
don't tarnish this guy by comparing him to old '4 songs' Doherty. if Doherty was a 40 year old rockabilly from Spain he would be a 40 year old rockabilly from Spain instead of a moonfaced army brat poetry student from shitshire
Posted by: strawberry blobber | 30/06/2006 at 12:39
Danny is indeed a proper legend!
Have got him playing at the opening of my gallery at the junction of Bethnal Green and Brick Lane in a few weeks - he was my 1st choice entertainment and I can't wait!!
He fucking rocks! (literally)
Posted by: benito | 27/03/2008 at 22:11
"don't tarnish this guy by comparing him to old '4 songs' Doherty. if Doherty was a 40 year old rockabilly from Spain he would be a 40 year old rockabilly from Spain instead of a moonfaced army brat poetry student from shitshire."
Ha ha! Well said Strawberry Blobber. I bumped into Daniel in Tufnell Park only this evening and ended up having a drink with him. Camden legend!
Posted by: Up the ARSEnal! | 06/01/2010 at 22:44