London-based Anglo-Italian band channelling the influences of Can, Neu, Velvet Underground, The Doors, Bob Dylan and more

TV producer, writer, keyboard botherer, electro-n00b, fool.

Dan Atrill has played in a number of UK bands. Writing and performing as Ideal Takeaway in Southend-on-Sea. 

As guitarist in Suspicious Objects (2015-2019), an Anglo-Italian Krautrock-influenced outfit they received praise for their live performances at London’s Betsey Trotwood venue. 

He played over 100 gigs with his band Spring Park Motel from 2008 to 2013, including helping to run a monthly club night and making appearances at the annual East Finchley and East Barnet festivals. The band regularly played  around Camden, North London, and at a number of long running popular music events including Honky Tonkin’ Sundays, What’s Cookin’, Come Down And Meet The Folks, Dusk Till Dawn and Clerkenville West. Their recorded output can be found on Spotify and on an independently released CD titled Cousins In Arms. 

Dan previously embraced power pop as guitarist, then bass player in radio-friendly band, The Melancholiacs, who split in 2007 after their last gig at Islington’s Hope & Anchor.

Influences are far and wide including a fascination with fat synth sounds and multi-layered guitars. He writes and records musical collaborations from his home studio in Essex.

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