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?Answers to john@viceuk.com.
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