Meet our Newest Local Swindon Events Blogger - Daniel Gibbon

I am here to capture the moment of freedom, to cover the unveiling of talent and to amplify those who have remained silent for more than a year. I want you to join me on an adventure, an uncaging of confined creative expression and real-life experience. I am here to enhance your immersion in the vibrant culture that Swindon has to offer through raw conversationalist journeys. I want to dive headfirst into the many subcultures that enable escapism that run parallel to our developmental submersion back into a new normality and attempt to convey the limitless emotions along the way.

What to expect

We are all on a journey of discovery. I share my goal with the viewership I intend to reach, a collective search for insight into what inspires a creative mind. What emotion was felt for an artist to prompt them to write their first lyric, to place their finger upon a key? Who inspired them to break free of the confines of routine and conformity, to plunge into financial insecurity and career uncertainty? How do they party? Infinite questions with just as many answers.

Content

Through an amalgamation of live coverage, stills and video from my trusty camera and my tenacity to meet the person or people behind the art, I intend to bring you exclusive content like never before. To truly understand one must break free from inhibitions and embrace the moment. I will bring exclusive interviews with performers and journey seekers alike to enhance our shared experience. If you’re at a live event in Swindon and want to expand your knowledge, I am here to add context through these blogs. If you see me at an event and want to talk, I want to listen.

Interests

I love live music, films, literature, art, poetry, gaming and if the mood is right, any drink with a percentage. The ambiguity of my interests is the result of having no favorite genre. I listen to music that evokes, I watch films that make me question, read books that inspire, play games that test my skills and drink because, hey, you’ve got to do something on weekends. I relish an opportunity to see raw, uncensored talent free from the grasp of corporate guidelines as well as commercial bands and authors. I am a seeker of expressionism, inspiration and all things that shatter conventionalism. My interest, like all other human beings, is for knowledge. If I can inspire one person through my work, spark a single conversation that opens questions that make you reflect, I will consider my time well spent.

Join me

Since our first lockdown our fields, galleries and stadiums have been mostly silent. We have raised our protective barriers both physically and metaphorically, distancing ourselves from each other and the diminishing normality we once knew. We have climbed, survived and strived for a better tomorrow with the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel being forever dwindled by uncertainty. The roadmap to freedom meanders up a steep hill, with each passing day the end draws nearer. If all goes to plan, we will be at the precipice of a cliff formed of repressed feelings and social isolation. Below lies an ocean of experience and wonder that we are about to be plunged into. Jump with me.

Find out more about Daniel Gibbon HERE!