DAYTIME TV Talk New Collaborations, Music Tastes, and Touring (Q&A)

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DAYTIME TV has continued to grow in popularity since its formation back in 2020. The four-piece has a varied soundscape that pushes the boundaries of alternative, rock, and indie music. The group has demonstrated their live abilities with festival appearances such as Mad Cool Festival and BST Hyde Park. With a UK tour on the horizon, we sat down with them to discuss all things from the band’s evolution in sound to their dream collaborators.

For newcomers to DAYTIME TV, who are you, and what defines your sound?

We’re a 4-piece band from Scotland, England, and Italy who all met in London and got started just after COVID. We started as kind of an alt-rock band, but now we’re really trying to push the boundaries of what that can be.

How do you feel your sound has changed since your first release back in 2022?

We’re definitely using a lot more drum machines and synths now, but still being rooted in big guitars and something real that takes you somewhere you might not have expected. I guess we’re being way more daring than when we started.

You’ve collaborated with producers like Pete Hutchings. Are there any other artists or producers you’d love to collab with?

 So many. Collaboration is kind of the main fun bit of being in a band, and we love lending our writing chops to other artists and working on songs with different people. It’d be cool to work with a band like Wolf Alice, Nothing But Thieves, Tame Impala, or LCD Soundsystem. See how they approach it and make something spicy. Pete Hutchings has been amazing to work with, too, and we will 100% do more with him. Absolute mad genius energy.

I’ve heard great things about your live performances. Do you have a favourite one so far?

Playing shows is what it’s all about for us. Personally, my favourite so far was supporting You Me At Six in Liverpool on their farewell tour. The venue was this huge old theatre with 3 floors of people, and the whole place was packed before we came on, so it felt like a headline show. Everyone was bouncing from the word go, and it was class. Those Scousers sure can dance.

Do you have a personal favourite track from your discography?

My current favourite is something that I know is coming soon but isn’t out yet. Out of what we’ve released, I’d probably say our new single ’Sun’. It’s a much happier song than we might normally write, and we released it in the recent heatwave, which was just the perfect cocktail. It goes off live, too, which is always a bonus.

Has your song writing process shifted as the band has evolved?

I think we’ve become braver with what we’re trying to do. There’s absolutely zero playing it safe here, and that’s part of what excites us when we go to write a song — pushing to find something unique. But the process is the same. Our only rule is not to shoot down ideas. We let them go down the rabbit hole before we judge if it’s a keeper.

Which other UK alt-rock bands inspire your sound?

 I don’t think any specific bands have really inspired our sound. We have a scarily wide range of music tastes between us in the band, and I love that. It means we don’t work within tight parameters and that anything goes. If we love the sound of something, it’s staying.

What does the rest of 2026 have in store for DAYTIME TV?

Super excited to head out on tour in October around the UK in association with Music Venue Trust to help keep grassroots venues alive in cities that bands tend to sometimes miss. We’re heading to places like Coventry, Newport, Bournemouth, and loads more, where we’ve never played, so that will be class to hit some new territory. We’re also heading out to some international places we’ve never been to, like Scandinavia, amongst others, which I can’t wait for. On top of that, more music is coming, and I’m buzzing for people to hear what we’ve done. Buckle up.

DAYTIME TV is on Instagram, X, Threads, and TikTok. You can stream their latest single, ‘Sun,’ below and read more interviews here.

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