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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Daniel Dylan Wray

‘A big chunk of my motivation is vengeance’: Skinny Pelembe, the musical don of Doncaster

Skinny Pelembe.
‘If you think of the musical landscape as a jungle, I want to be an elephant’ … Skinny Pelembe. Photograph: Sophie Jouvenaar

‘Every problem you have is down there when you’re up here,” says Doya Beardmore, AKA Skinny Pelembe, overlooking his home town of Doncaster.

This hillside is key to his new album, Hardly the Same Snake, its exact position revealed in morse code during one song and via clues in the artwork. He came here to de-stress when his dad was ill, before he died, and he would love to lead his listeners here via the album for a special gig. “I bet only two fucking mega-fans would turn up,” he laughs.

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