Career Britt Daniel

1 career

1.1 spoon
1.2 drake tungsten
1.3 divine fits
1.4 collaborations

career

in 1988 britt daniel formed first band zygotes while in high school. in 1990, while student @ university of texas, daniel formed second band, skellington, travis hartnett, mac stringfellow, paul cannon , mike hurewitz. skellington recorded , self-released town s gone dry in 1991, , skellington ep released year later in 1992. before breaking up, band released skellington rex, contained songs re-recorded on spoon s debut album telephono.

the following year, daniel joined three-piece rockabilly band named alien beats brad shenfeld. during 1993 alien beats recording session, computer-chip designer , percussionist jim eno brought in substitute drummer, later added permanent drummer. alien beats released 7 single in may 1993, disbanding after.

spoon

in 1993, daniel , ex-alien beats drummer eno, along guitarist greg wilson , bassist andy mcguire, formed spoon. spoon has served daniel s primary musical focus.

drake tungsten

britt daniel @ sxsw in 2006

daniel has written , recorded solo material under pseudonym drake tungsten has since abandoned name , plays solo shows under own name, , has reportedly begun setting aside songs possible solo album, including new york kiss , telephone heart, has been performing @ solo shows since @ least 2006.

divine fits

daniel has been involved in new band called divine fits, consisting of members spoon, wolf parade , new bomb turks. group s debut, thing called divine fits, released on august 28, 2012 through merge records. first single album, love real , released on july 10, 2012.

collaborations

in 1999, daniel played bass 2 gigs in glam rock supergroup golden millennium, composed of fellow peek-a-boo records labelmates.
in 2002, daniel worked bright eyes on fourth volume of post-parlo s home series.
in 2002, daniel recorded bass, keyboards , backing vocals on first sally crewe & sudden moves album, drive stole (12xu).
daniel has produced songs bands love ve chosen darkness , interpol.
in 2004, daniel remixed interpol s slow hands, appears on slow hands single.
he worked sound designer , composer computer game company origin systems.
in 2006, daniel teamed brian reitzell , helped create of original music film stranger fiction.
he appeared in veronica mars episode rashard , wallace go white castle , air date february 1, 2006, in sang karaoke version of elvis costello s veronica.
in 2009, produced white rabbits album s frightening.
in 2015, collaborated austin band sweet spirit on song have mercy , cover of spoon s paper tiger.




^ raoul hernandez, drake tungsten , boy skellington , austin chronicle, january 25, 1999
^ peek-a-boo records drake tungsten bio page, peekaboorecords.com. retrieved october 11, 2007.
^ sean o neal, britt daniel of spoon, archived march 6, 2008, @ wayback machine. july 19, 2007. retrieved october 12, 2007.
^ britt daniel live @ swedish american hall on 2006-03-29 . internet archive. 
^ peek-a-boo records golden millennium bio page, peekaboorecords.com. retrieved october 11, 2007.
^ origin systems inc. developer bio, mobygames.com. retrieved october 11, 2007.
^ columbia records, stranger fiction soundtrack archived october 12, 2007, @ wayback machine., columbiarecords.com. retrieved october 11, 2007.
^ sweet spirit & britt daniel – paper tiger (spoon cover) . stereogum.