2018-05-19 NAME YOUR PRICE DOWNLOAD - BOSTiiiN': The Be Kind Help MIND Album

Bostin' Days is the West Midland’s favourite indoor music festival, bringing the atmosphere of the festival fields, without the need for waterproofs and wellies.
Originally starting as a tribute to The Levellers, the festival has grown, and evolved. 2018 sees Bostiiin 3 take-over The Robin 2 in Bilston.

All profits from future downloads, will be donated to our chosen charity, which is Mind.

You can PAY WHAT YOU WANT for this album. Essentially, it could be free, but EVERY PENNY of donations goes directly to the MIND charity (For Better Mental Health).

Dig deep if you can afford it.

If you want to see all of these lovely acts in the flesh, BOSTIIIN' Festival takes place at The Robin 2 in Bilston on Saturday 13th Oct.
Tickets from www.bostindays.co.uk

Released May 14, 2018. Compiled by Scott Doonican for Team Bostiiin'

We were able to put this together in less than a week, because of all of the wonderful acts who have so selflessly given up these tracks for your delectation. I feel honoured to call you all friends, and it is proof that there are still some bloody good souls in this world.

Keep paying the good stuff forward people. You are all diamonds.

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VIDEO - 3 DAFT MONKEYS "World on its Head"

3 Daft Monkeys have a new video for the track "World on its Head", filmed at Tehidy Woods in the middle of the night, and starring Ollie Oakenshield from Rogue Theatre. Filmed on a budget of nothing and brilliantly edited by our  Rich Mulryne.

3 Daft Monkeys - World on its Head

3 DAFT MONKEYS - SEPTEMBER 2011 NEWS

"Phewee, what a summer. We’ve had such an amazing time, so many memories of so many wicked gigs and frolicking audiences. Thank you so much for being the bestest audiences ever. And not too much mud either (well quite a lot, but we’ve forgotten it already in a haze of music and partying). And plenty of sunshine too. It’s been amazing to see what a diversity of people we have drawn to the dance-floor this summer, you’re certainly an interesting and beautiful bunch of primates to watch from our raised podium.

Your response to our new line-up and songs has been fabulous, so thanks again for being so wonderful. We’ve really enjoyed leaping off stages after our shows to meet you all, it’s been great fun.

We’ll be putting some pictures up from the summer on our website in the next few weeks, so keep checking.

LOTS of things to tell you…

We´re releasing a single on November 6th

We’ve jiggled around and re-recorded your favourite song of the summer “Days of the Dance” and we’ve been lucky enough to have it mixed by Jim Lowe who works with the Stereophonics and Amy McDonald amongst others. Athene and Lukas have put a whole string section on it, and it sounds absolutely epic, which we feel is fitting for such a dramatic song. We can’t wait for you to hear it. It will be available as a download on 6th November ready for the tour. We’ll also be making a video, so watch this space.

Tickets on sale for our November tour

Tickets are on sale for ALL the venues now so check out the dates on our website and the bottom of this page, and we’ll dance our way through the autumn breezes. Richie will be joining us on percussion for the whole tour so you’ll get the full “4-monkey” extravaganza

Street Teams Needed

Do you live in any of the towns we’re playing on our tour. We’re looking for people who can put up posters in shops/ universities/ cafes and all the places the right kind of groovy people will see them. In return we can give you a free ticket for you and a friend to come to the show. If you’re interested please email us at info@dmfmusic.co.uk and let us know which show you can advertise, your home address and email."


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3 DAFT MONKEYS - NEWS JULY 2011

Hi everyone out there on Planet Primate,

We’ve got lots of news this month.

First, and most importantly is the news that Jamie has decided that his time with the band has reached a natural conclusion, and that he no longer wants to go on tour. We totally respect his decision and wish him love and every happiness in whatever he decides to do.

The good news is that he is replaced by the fantastic musician Lukas Drinkwater. Many of you will have met him already as he has been touring as our bass player since the beginning of May, and was actually our driver for a season a few years ago. As any of you who have seen us this summer will agree, the new line-up is working extremely well, and our live shows are highly dynamic. Lukas is also from Cornwall and has played in many bands including Peoples String Foundation and Frootful. He’ll also be singing backing vocals, and may occasionally bring out his double bass if we ask him nicely. Lukas is really excited to have joined the band, and if you want to know all the on-tour gossip, he’s going to be Tweeting and Facebooking regularly.

Also, we hope you’re enjoying our special 4-piece shows? We’ve been touring with Richie Mulryne on percussion this summer, and the audiences seem to be loving it. We’ll remain as this line-up for at least the rest of the summer, and maybe beyond, so we hope you get a chance to come and see us at one of our forthcoming festival gigs. Tim is really enjoying being able to run around the stage a bit more as he’s free of the bass drum.... as some of you may have noticed by Tim and Lukas’s new ‘dance routines’!

We’re getting fabulous feedback about our new video for Under One Sun. We’d really like to increase the viewing numbers on Youtube, so we’d like you, lovely monkey friends, to spread the word, put a link to it on Facebook, tell your friends, link to it on the pages of your favourite bands, tweet it. Here’s the link: WATCH ONLINE. Mark Falmouth took some fantastic photos while we were filming the video, which you can see HERE

There’s more gigs being added to our list all the time, so keep checking.

And thanks to all you wonderful people for filling the tents and dancing your socks off at all the festival gigs we’ve done so far this summer. The atmospheres have been electric, and we’re having a BRILLIANT time. See you at Chagstock this weekend, or Sidmouth Folk Festival next weekend, or Scotland after that.... Check out all of our forthcoming gigs HERE

Bye for now,

Athene, Tim, Lukas and Richie xxx

www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk

3 DAFT MONKEYS - NEW VIDEO

(3 Daft Monkeys Newsletter end of June 2011)

"Hi everyone in Apeland,

Very exciting news.... WE'VE MADE A VIDEO!!!

It was made by our drummer Richie Mulryne at Dingles Steam Village
for "Under One Sun", and it's BRILLIANT....
and we had a great time filming it, as you'll see!

AND as our very special mailing list members, we thought you should see it first.
So.... here's the link: UNDER ONE SUN


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXS4DmjKskg


Hope you enjoy it... tell your friends, let's spread the word



3 Daft Monkeys xxx"



Music video for the 3 Daft Monkey song - Under One Sun.
Written and performed by the 3 Daft Monkeys.
From the album 'The Antiquated & The Arcane'
3daftmonkeys.co.uk

Camera by John Gray
Produced, Directed and Edited by Rich Mulryne
Filmed at Dingles Steam Village, Devon





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3 DAFT MONKEYS - NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2011

Hello Hirsute Humans and Purple Primates everywhere.

Spring is in the air, the crocuses are out and us monkeys are coming down from the trees with some VERY exciting news... wait for it...................

3 DAFT MONKEYS WILL BE PERFORMING 3 LIVE TRACKS ON THE BOB HARRIS SHOW ON BBC RADIO 2 ON SATURDAY 2nd APRIL.

It will be on his Bob Harris Sunday show which is on Saturday night from midnight til 3am (we'll be on from 1 til 2am) and we are very excited to be doing it. Crack open that mug of cocoa, turn up the gramophone, let's party! Bob Harris saw us performing at Cropredy in 2010 and came straight up to chat to Athene afterwards, and was very enthusiastic about live performance. Hooray for Bob!!!!!

So, to celebrate, we're coming to play some live shows for you in the next couple of months. The dates are below, with venue contact details.... make sure you get your tickets as soon as poss as our last few gigs have been complete sell-outs and we couldn't bear to turn anyone away. So far we'll be in Bideford, Bridport, St Agnes, Southampton, Colchester and Bridgwater, and there'll be more added soon.

The voting is still on for the Spiral Earth Music Awards, and we are still in the running in the "Best Live Act" category, up against the big boys of the acoustic music world. It would be fab if you could follow this link and put your tick in our box. http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/spiralawards2011/

The festival season is shaping up nicely, we'll update you on which fields we'll be in soon. Festivals are still sorting out their line-ups, so if there's one you REALLY want to see us at, don't tell us, TELL THEM. Send an email to the festival, or start a page on their chatroom... they really do take notice.

Reviews are still rolling in for the new CD, we've had some really great ones, and will put more links up on our website to them in the next few weeks. We also have a feature in December's issue of Acoustic magazine, and will be appearing in some other glossies in the next few months.

One more snippet, we discovered that Athene's musical track The Old Man of Storr was used twice in a wonderful BBC Documentary called "The Art Of Cornwall". It's well worth a look if it's still on iPlayer.

And don't forget, on the home page of our website www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk you can download a free bonus track that's not on the CD called "Masquerade Parade"

So, see you at a gig VERY VERY soon, let's stir up a revolution, and DANCE.

3 Daft Monkeys xx



February
Fri 18 - The Palladium Club, Bideford, Devon - Tel 01237 478860
Sat 19 - Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset - Tel 01308 424901

March
Sat 26 - Driftwood Spars St Agnes, Cornwall - Tel 01872 552428
Wed 30 - Talking Heads, Southampton - Tel: 02380 678 446
Thur 31 - Arts Centre, Colchester. Box Office 01206 500900

April
Fri 1 - Bar 27, Bridgwater - Plus support

May
Sat 14 - Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire
Sat 28 - Barefoot in Babylon, Blackpool

June
Fri 3 - Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham
Sat 26 - Sedburgh Folk Festival, Cumbria

July
Sat 2 - Folk Im Schlosshoff, Bonfeld

August
Sun 14 - Boomtown Fair


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FREE DOWNLOADS - 3 DAFT MONKEYS

3 Daft Monkeys is a Cornish band that comes from the ashes of the sadly defunct band Lordryk.

"3 Daft Monkeys are a world music-influenced acoustic band from Cornwall, UK, consisting of Tim Ashton, Athene Roberts, and Jamie Waters (who replaced original member, Rich Mulryne). The instrumentation consists of vocals, fiddle, twelve-string guitar, bass guitar and foot drum. The band's musical influences include Celtic, Balkan, Romani, Latino, electronic dance, reggae, dub, punk rock, and traditional folk music.

The albums Hubbadillia and Social Vertigo were recorded in Devon at Martin Barre's Presshouse studios and Green Room Studios respectively, and were produced by Mark Tucker, who also works with bands such as Flook and PJ Harvey.

The band have had great success at venues and festivals all over the UK and Europe, including being invited by Show of Hands to play the main stage at the Eden Project and the 2008 BBC Proms at St David's Hall in Cardiff. Other highlights include GuilFest; Folkwoods, Holland; the Glastonbury Festival, the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival; Folk Segovia, Spain; Lorient Interceltic Festival, France; Kevelaer World Music Festival, Germany; Labadoux Festival, Belgium and enthusiastically welcomed returns to the Beautiful Days and Larmer Tree festivals. They are also a regular support act for The Levellers, with Roberts usually returning to join the Levellers onstage for the finale in a duelling fiddle-off of "What You Know" with added tambourine from Waters and tin-whistle from Ashton.

The band have enjoyed airplay on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Wales during 2006 and 2007, and were described by presenter Mike Harding as "a brilliant band... absolutely amazing"." (from wikipedia)

"Their new album 'The Antiquated & The Arcane' will be out on 01 November 2010.

3 Daft Monkeys release their brand new studio album, The Antiquated & The Arcane on 1st November 2010 through their own 3DM Records label. The hugely anticipated release is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2008 album Social Vertigo. The Antiquated & The Arcane draws heavily from 3 Daft Monkeys experiences on the road and takes the listener on a rollercoaster journey via the frenetic, the serene and the surreal. The album demonstrates a leap forward for the quirky folk trio in both production and sonics and features some of their most mature song-writing to date with catchy hooks and melodic choruses. Beautifully produced by the band and mixed by Richard Evans (Real World) the album was recorded in an authentic ‘live’ studio setting. There is an intensity mixed with a light, almost ironic edge which provides the album with moments of bitter-sweetness." (from their MySpace site)


Athene Roberts - fiddle, vocals
Tim Ashton - vocals, guitar, whistle, drum
Jamie Waters - bass

Discography:

"Brouhaha" (6 tracks, 2000)
"Ooomim" (8 temas, 2002)
"Hubbadillia" (10 tracks, 2004)
"Gibbon It Live & Dreckly" (12 tracks, 2007)
"Go Tell the Bees EP" (4 tracks, 2007)
"Social Vertigo" (13 tracks, 2008)
"The Antiquated & The Arcane" (12 tracks, 2010)

www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk
www.myspace.com/3daftmonkeys

DOWNLOAD:

www.mediafire.com/?6hwxv5c4lyvq7oi (11 tracks)
www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk/Vertigo.php (click on Music you can download 9 tracks one by one)
www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk/PBB_Download.html (track "Paranoid Big Brother", password: vertigo)
www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk/MP_Download.html (Track "Masquerade Parade" from the forthcoming album)


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