Noise pop trio TAYNE creates new album inspired by Irish bandmate's gay father
Like all art forms, music can be a great vessel through which personal stories and experiences are shared in a universally accessible way.
LOVE, the new album from industrial noise pop trio TAYNE, has a particularly interesting family history at its core, involving the band’s Irish frontman Matthew Sutton and his father Noel, also known as Dizzy Dyin4it.Many GCN readers will already be familiar with Dizzy Dyin4it, a Dublin-based drag performer and DJ who is regularly found spinning the decks in Pennylane and PantiBar.
However, the performer’s personal life as Noel is likely lesser known.Throughout his childhood, Noel knew he was attracted to men, but it never felt like much of an issue.“My sexuality wasn’t something that I concentrated a lot on,” he told GCN. “I did have relationships with men in my early days, but I met somebody who I fell in love with, it happened to be a woman who was a neighbour of mine.
We were best friends and I loved the bones of this woman and I still do to this day.”The pair got married and had four kids together, however, like many relationships, theirs eventually broke up. “Part of that was because of my sexuality,” Noel explained. ”But the relationship didn’t end just because I was coming out as gay.”He and his ex-wife always wanted to be open and honest with their sons about the situation, and although “at times it wasn’t easy”, Noel said he “was very lucky” that his sexuality didn’t seem to faze his children. “As a matter of fact, they embraced it quite a lot.”It’s this entire experience that inspires TAYNE’s new album.“I guess the idea of it was viewing love as conflict and just exploring that,” Matthew said to GCN. “That’s how all the ties to my dad came into it.
