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HANG IN BALANCE:




PLEASE DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO ANY OF THIS IN ANY WAY >>>
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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