A Living Nightmare

“Doing the Nightmare Scenario stuff, I can go into full psycho mode at home, working 12 hours a day producing this thing, then do some artwork, or some video installation stuff to go along with it. It’s nice and different to have that sort of immediacy.”

Full psycho mode suits Dan Briggs. The bassist-turned-multi-instrumentalist lives alone in the woods in Greensboro, North Carolina, with no roommates around to roll their eyes if his amplifiers reach boiling point.

This fertile ground for creation is perhaps partly why he has become so prolific in recent years, with new solo project Nightmare Scenario just