Daniel God Damn Byrom

Daniel ‘God Damn’ Byrom, best known as the frontman of Brighton’s alternative rock outfit Wild Cat Strike, is embarking on his first solo venture, with a 4-track EP of low-fi indie-folk titled ‘Live from Sad Claire’s Apartment’ – out August 14th 2020 via Small Pond records.
As prolific song writer it was only a matter of time before Byrom launched his own solo project. Having focussed on writing and touring with Wild Cat Strike over the past six-years, there was an abundance of unused songs, ideas, lyrics and melodies to play with: “I had always planned to do a solo project in a more folksy lo-fi way, and the vision just became clearer - the songs started to fit together”. After discovering a copy of ‘Manson in His Own Words’ surreptitiously placed on his doorstep, his initial songs were heavily influenced by cults and crimes of passion: “It seemed like a sign, albeit not a very promising one”.
The image of sad Claire in her apartment – a fictitious character existing only in Byrom’s imagination – is a melancholic one, but buried in amongst themes of death, loneliness, and existential dread, ‘Live from Sad Claire’s Apartment’ bristles with hope, an exploration of existence and all things human – warts and all.