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Hang in Balance
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HANG IN BALANCE:
PLEASE DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO ANY OF THIS IN ANY WAY >>> ;-) ABOUT: Daniel born 1st january 1984 1994-1997 romford drum and trumpet corps, snare, tennor and bassdrum... Played queens birthday, came second in uk's under 19 militarymarching tattoo at royal albert hall, lord mayors show, travelledfrance, spain, germany and portugal to perform in many differentevents. took a few weeks of beginner guitar lessons at albany school,Hornchurch Essex. 1998- moved from greater london to skegness... Went out with my bro clubbing in ibiza (whilst on a family holiday...) 1999 mainly jammed my lunch times away with the band I played in,Wilderness.... Played spilsby theatre and a few local fund raising events. Spilsby High School production of Grease, played bass in the'pit band.' formed rock cover band necropolis, joint over the edge for recording of original material in hear no evil studio earls court. Also played live with these guys in skeg, boston, spaldingand grantham. 2000 performed as part of the 'our town story' reginal shows as well as performance inside the millenium dome (now known as the 02 arena) First jobs leaving school were; shelf stacker-(lasted 1 month) Glass collector/Celler boy/fast food attendant/pizza shop 'manager',this all happened during my 18 month employment by Luminar Leasure atFantasy Island, Ingoldmells. (Completed 2001) millenium vollenteer award, taught electric guitar and bass whilst acting as musical director in local youth clun. 2000 enrolled-2002 graduated. Sam Newsom Music Centre, a devision of Boston college, BTEC NationalDiploma in Popular Music(finishing with a distinction over all) NCFESound recording, a level sound technology. Grade five bass guitar,grade 6 electric guitar. Grade 3 theory. 2000-2001 with some friends from other local bands formed zx81, wroteand recorded original songs, plus won a local battle of the band. 2001-made it to glastonbury for first time :) (let the fests begin!) Started to work in The Shades Rock Bar, co-ordinated the acts andplayed there myself many times. (Above the bar was my black copy of anGibson SG guitar which I made for my technology project at school.) 2002 totnes school of guitar making 2003-2004 leeds college of music, higher national diploma in stringed musical instrument technolgy (finished with a distinction) -whilstmoonlighting as local crew/rigger for events crew ltd; worked on thestadium tours of peter gabriel, atomic kitten, incubus, beta band andthe shadows... 2004- ended up by random events at the Small World Festival inLincolnshire. There I saw a djembe being tunned in the back of a vanby chris (link?) So that eve i danced to djembe for first. In the smallhours whilst watching my new friends band, The Blue Book Project Iexperienced my first hang contact. Soon after this I'm moved to lincoln and became a greenpeace local,made a few fund raising events (blow out) got work for a fest withchaichapel, got my first djembe (link?) Chapel.... 2004-worked my first full festival season for ChaiChapel 2005-worked 12 fests for chai chapel 2006- went to ghana to learn about the full process of djembe manifacture. whole season worked fests for chai chapel INSTRUMENTS: Guitar- I first picked up one of my fathers guitars when I was about 12/13. My first guitar was a nylon stringed acoustic, I played this for the first year until my father gave me a red Gibson SG copy. blahblahblahblahblahblahblahbkahblah,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,jndfijdwibdifbdihbfwdbfidbfjdbfcjhdbchjbdechjbdechjbefjchbefhjcbefhjcbfhjkcbefhjcbfhjefbcjhfebchjefbchjbefchjbcfhjbefhjcbefhjcbdfhj Uni? ect... Hang- I first cast my eyes onto a hang the same day that I first noticed the pure beauty of a well tuned African Djembe, I had just returned to the UK in the summer of 04 after spending a few months in Germany whilst working on the renovation of a old short thatch cottage on Insel Rugen>>> CasCas (ball shakers/african conkers) , lessons... MUSICAL BACKGROUND: DANIEL: Romford Drum and Trumpet Corps,example.... Albany School,basic guitar lessons, few performances.... Spilsby High School,Grease ect.... Necropolis,few gigs.... Our Town Story,02 Performance Regional to national... ZX81, winners gigs ect... Boston College, NAT DIP in POP MUSIC, A Level music, NCFE sound recording... Millenium Vollenteer Scheme, guitar teacher, performance co-ordinator... Greenpeace Local co-ordinator (lincolnshire) fund raising gigs awareness, yes to wind... SouthView Holiday Home-DJ, Bingo caller,Child distractor.... Totnes School of guitar making Leeds College of Music, higher national dip in stringed musical instrument technology... Moonlighting as Local crewing, Beta band, Atomic Kitten, Incubus, Peter Gabrial, The Shadows... Chai Chapel, chai chappie, festi co-ordinator ect, Random bongoist... Hang PLaying Hedge Monkey London Underground Busker Hang in Balance Syncromistic TRAVELS: Places busked: ENGLISH CITIES: London Oxford Cambridge Leeds Huddersfield Chester Lincoln Bath Bristol York Brighton Bournemouth Plymouth ENGLISH TOWNS: Boston Spalding Salisbury Hunstantion Kings Lynn Market Raisen Watham Abbey FESTIVALS: (Chai Chapel, Stewerding, other) 1 Glastonbury 2 Womad 3 Big Green Gathering 4 Greenbelt 5 Download 6 Beautiful Daze 7 Electric Picnic 8 End of the Road 9 Bestival 10 Wakestock 11 Solefest 12 Global village peace gathering 13 Small world (linc's) 14 X-fest 15 Trowbridge village pumps 16 Earthfirst 17 T in the park 18 Paradise gardens 19 Cambridge strawberry fayre 20 Lemmington peace fayre 21 Big chill 22 Stainsbury folk fest 23 Oxford cornbury music fest 24 Canterbury LIVE 25 Rhythms of the world 26 Llama Tree 27 Endorse it in Dorset 28 Witchfest 29 Glade 30 Love Box 31 Stokefest 32 Systo Palty 33 Secret Garden Party 34 Sunrise Celebration 35 Thames Fest FESTIVALS:(playing hang) Big Chill Greenbelt Love Box Edinburgh Fringe Festival Stokefest Cambridge Stawberry Faire London Thames Festival Hardly Strictly Blue Grass Festival (California) Sunrise Systo Palty (Space of Joy) SCOTLAND: Edinburgh IRELAND: Limerick FRANCE: Nice Bordeaux Paris SPAIN: Madrid Barcelona SWEDEN: Stockholm NORWAY: Oslo SWITZERLAND: Berne Basel Geneva GERMANY: Berlin BELGIUM: Brussels ITALY: Florence Pisa RUSSIA: St Petersburg AMERICA-CALIFORNIA: Venice Beach Pier 39 Sana Monica, 3rd street Long Beach Orange County Huntingdon Beach San Deago Nevada City INDIA: Saturday Night Bazar Anjuna Flea Market Arambol Main Street Mapusa Market (on a friday) CONTACT : daniel@hanginbalance.com-email daniel james waples-facebook www.hanginbalance.com www.myspace.com/hangplayinghedgemonkeys 07752050591 |












