This Side Of Paradise DAN FLINT
It has been more than a decade since Dan Flint firmly landed on Rhythm’s radar, thanks to his effortlessly cool and inventive playing with Surrey Brit rock heroes You Me At Six. By the time the band’s third album – 2011’s Sinners Never Sleep – came out, he’d already developed his own signature style, a creative rock player just as comfortable playing off the tom hoops throughout a verse as he was powering a thick 4-4 crash-laden chorus.
Back then, he reminded us of a young Travis Barker, a drummer whom Flint also namechecked (along with Dave Grohl and Chad Smith) in those early interviews as a hero of his. Similarly to Barker spreading his musical wings into hip-hop, Flint has stretched out from those early days and dipped his toe in a treasure trove of genres, wading particularly deeply into dance.
“I have a greater pool of influences now,” he tells Rhythm in the run-up to the release of his band’s new album, SUCKAPUNCH. “I love house and dance music, hip-hop and R&B. I think when you’re younger you have the mindset that you’re in a rock band, so you listen to rock music. Now, I don’t listen to a lot of bands that sound like us.”
A decade of immersion in a slew of genres – as both drummer and producer – has clearly widened his musical palette. He still has his own style, but now it smashes out of
