It was anything that my uncle was listening to. I was listening to Joy Division, New Order, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and The Smiths. You said the music scene when you were growing up in Manchester was amazing. Obviously, we had poverty like no other, but the family vibe in the council estates in Manchester has always been massive so growing up there I was surrounded by love and danger I guess. There were loads of cool people, and the football was great – it was just a fun place to be. Growing up in Manchester was fun, dangerous and super unique especially in the late eighties, early nineties there was so much fantastic music coming from and coming through the city. What was it like growing up in Manchester then? I’m really loving your second single Dirty Old Town which is an ode to Manchester. On Salt of the Earth, Shotty Horroh, born Adam Rooney, arrives like the fire-breathing love child of Liam Gallagher, Alex Turner and Sid Vicious: spilling the true blood of Manchester’s council estates, snarling at a system built to hold him down atop crunchy, melodic riffs it’s the sound of a nation - indeed, a world - in crisis, told by its prodigal son. Mark Millar catches up with Shotty Horroh to talk about what it was like growing up in a Manchester council estate his musical influences and the recording of Salt of The Earth. You can listen to all Ask the DJ playlists on the FMS Magazine Spotify CHANNEL.įind Shotty Horroh’s playlist below and HERE.Shotty Horroh releases his debut album Salt of The Earth, on October 12. Shotty Horroh’s debut album, Salt Of The Earth, is out on 12 October via Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc. City are gonna win 20-0 Rita Ora is gonna dm me anything is possible when I hear this song.” “”I live my life in the City” – soon as I hear that, I’m ready to have the best day ever. I expected it from Papoose, not Ian Brown. As a rapper, I was so impressed he did something like this. A beautiful song I couldn’t leave off the list for every reason.” I love this song ‘cause he takes the piss out of posers.”Ĩ. He has complex rhyme patterns and talks about stuff that really happens in the street or the boozer. “Alex Turner always reminded me of a rapper.
Arctic Monkeys – ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ “He rhymes almost every word in each sentence the anger, the theatrics in his delivery. ‘Stan’ by Eminem is storytelling at its best and at a level I will always aspire to.” “Throughout my career I’ve told stories in my music. “Pac is one of my favourite rappers of all time and this song is so intense his cadence, lyrics, the features on it are spot on. What kind of list would this be without it?” “Ian’s melodies and lyrics in his obvious, proud Mancunian accent let me know people that sound like me can sound mint.” “”I need to be myself, I can’t be no one else” – this song makes you feel 10 foot tall.
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It’s kinda, full circle to be able to write a list like this with an establishment like yourself, a very fun exercise indeed.” I used to study these songs day in day out in awe of my idols and their talent. – ‘a sharp-tongued drama starring Connor Swindells as a troubled teenager trying to make rhyme pay.’ – which premieres at the BFI London Film Festival on 13 October.Īs for his Top 10: “This playlist is made up of songs that made me want to make the type of music I make. Horroh makes his acting debut this autumn, in the film Vs. And that’s how it’ll be from now till the end of time.” For years I became Shotty Horroh for safety. “This is the first time in my career I’m showing people Adam. As a Mancunian, that sound just resonates more than anything else,” he says. “Back home, rock and roll’s always been working class music. On songs such as ‘Shudehill,’ ‘Alien’ and ‘Dirty Old Town,’ he digs deep into the reality and rubbish of modern life: at times passionate, aggressive and intense, others heartbreaking and tender. Upcoming album, Salt Of The Earth, is the sound of Shotty Horroh’s musical roots.
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Ahead of both his album and movie debut this October, Manchester’s Shotty Horroh (aka Adam Rooney) has announced his latest single ‘Frank & Stein’, out now and available on all DSPs.
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