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~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer

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About Me


Hello! I'm Danny, and I hail from a dark corner of Cambridgeshire known as Huntingdon. Its not great but its not totally shite either - so I guess its pretty much like every other town in this country except Hull, which is really shit! I own and run Soma Photography which specializes in music and portrait photography (www.somaphotography.co.uk) and I sing in a band called Friends Of Enemies www.myspace.com/wearefriendsofenemies. I have also been the singer in AsTheLightFades, Kill The DJ, The Vices, All Ignore Bob, Inarow and Misspent Youth. One day it will all click and I will either leave on a massive musical adventure around the globe - or accept my fate and get a 'real' job and spend my bank holidays in Dunelm buying paint and curtains thinking about 'how I could have been a rock star'. Oh the joy....
I have many interests including music, books, sports, film, graphics and photography. I currently work for a media company in St Ives doing photographics/service management, for Soma Photography as a freelance photographer and I am also in the first year of a Photography Degree at ARU/HRC.
I spend most of my weekends either at the Portland/Barfly in Cambridge, the Met Lounge in Peterborough getting hammered or out in good old Hunts doing the same :-). If you see me out mines a sambuca with a snakebite on the side, cheers muchley hombre!!
Smashing Pumpkins - Fav.Band.Ever :-)

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My Interests

LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB!!!

Music.Is.The.Most.Important.Thing.In.My.Life:In a nutshell, guitar-based rock is my fav but I have eclectic taste in music. If it makes me feel something I like it!!!!!
Photography: I have just started a Degree in Commercial Photography and I am loving it! I really enjoy the work of Ansell Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yui Mok,Curtis Moffet, Bill Brandt.....I take photos for bands including live shoots and portraits. I am currently available for freelance work and or work experience offers....
Films: I love Tarten Asia movies, like Jap horrors etc! I also like Michael Moore movies, and I could list about 50 great films here!
Baseball: used to play loads and have represented my country at international level!
Friends: Totally could not live without my mates, I am blessed with awesome mates and I am so lucky to have them!

I'd like to meet:

People who love music, like having fun and like getting drunk! In that order.....ha ha!

One person I would love to meet is Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins. I dont really believe in heroes, but this guy is responsible for my passion and love for music. I listen and read his lyrics and thank the stars I'm not the only person in the world that feels the way I do....

I would have also liked to have met the late greats Bill Hicks and Jeff Buckley, both were genius's way before there time and true legends of their arts.

If you wanna chat about music, bands, films or photography add me on

MSN: [email protected]

This week I have mostly been listening to:

Fighting With Wire : Man Vs Monster

Benton Falls : Guilt Beats Hate

Brandston : Dial In Sounds

Led Zeppelin : Mothership

Sounds Like Violence : The Pistol

Camber : Anyway, I Have Been There

Blue Car

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What you don't see is the mic twat me in the eye after this picture was taken lol :-)

Music:

The Smashing Pumpkins (Fav EVER band), Marvin Gaye, Goo Goo Dolls, James Iha,Finch, FFAF, Owen, Dashboard Confessional, Pearl Jam, Nirvana,Sounds Like Violence, Camber, Fighting With Wire,One Line Drawing, Cave In, Straylight Run, Fear Factory, The Spill Canvas, Otis Redding, Credence Clearwater Revival,Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Jackson 5,The Cure, Head Automatica, The Beautiful Mistake, Aura Sun, Biffy Clyro, Coheed and Cambria, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elliot, Far, Taking Back Sunday, New End Original, The Weakerthans, Propagandhi, Kevin Devine, Ray Lamontage, Get Up Kids, Abandoned Pools, Guided By Voices, Fireapple Red, Sparta, Mars Volta, Douglas, The Ataris, On The Might Of Princes, Rival Schools, The Used, Allister, Soundgarden, Rocky Votalato, Alice In Chains, The Movielife, The Mono Effect, Right Turn Clyde, Deftones, Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Iron Maiden, Foo Fighters, Chili Peppers, RATM, SOAD, Feeder, Killswitch Engage, Guns N Roses, One Last Reason, Brighteyes, Blood Brothers, Jetplane Landing, Bush, Symposium, Waxwing, Miricle of 86,Pantera, Tracy Chapman, WASP, Bullyrag, King Prawn, AsTheLightFades, The Copperpot Journals, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, The Promise Ring, Walls Of Jerico, Time In Malta, UFO, Thin Lizzy, 36 Crazy Fists, Korn, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Appleseed Cast, Thursday, Jerry Built, Kids Near Water, No Comply, The Exit, At The Drive In, Alkaline Trio, Temple Of The Dog, Small Brown Bike, Rufio, Idlewild, Ash, Reef, The Little Explorer, Machine Head, Lostprophets, Rueben, The Next Auturm Soundtrack, My Awesome Compilation, A Static Lullaby, The Early November, Recover, Garrision, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Thrice, Silverstein, Horndog, Neo, Boy Sets Fire, Boy Hits Car, One Minute Silence, Ben Kweller, Llama Farmers, JJ72, Million Dead, Frank Turner, My Chemical Romance, Hondo Maclean, Zwan, Billy Corgan, A Perfect Circle, Deep Purple, Sonic Youth, Uresia Yatsura, Life Of Agony, For Dire Lifes Sake, Third Eye Blind, The Darkness, Spin Doctors, Radiohead, 3 Colours Red, Underworld, Leftfield, Faithless, The Police, Capdown, The Who, The Kinks, Audioslave, Led Zep, Incubus, Soulfly, PIXIES, Scarfo, Roni Size, London Elektricity, Nu-Tone, Pendulum, Pechy, Weezer, David Gray, U2, Green Day, Tool, REM, Stereophonics, Avenged Sevenfold, RX Bandits, Waterdown, thisGirl, Misspent Youth, Grade, Hundred Reasons, Hell Is For Heroes, The Offspring, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, Billy Talent, Everclear, The D4, Lenny Kravitz, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Buckley (GOD),David Bowie, Beth Orton, Gratitude,Bullets & Octane......and relax!

Movies:

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Borat, Goodbye Lenin, The Machinist, Scarface, House oF Flying Daggers, Kung Foo Hustle, Memento, Human Traffic (burn your bible, watch this!), Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Bowling For Columbine, The Ring (Jap Version), This Sporting Life, City Of God, Donnie Darko, LOTR, Star Wars, The Power Of One, Passport To Pimlico, Eraserhead, Wild At Heart, Kill Bill Vol 1, Aliens, Battle Royale, Belevue Rendevous, Shaun Of The Dead, Old School........:-)

Television:

Trailer Park Boys, Little Britain, Pheonix Nights, Max and Paddy, Alan Partridge, Peep Show, The Office, Extras, Bo Selecta!, The League Of Gentlemen, Will and Grace, South Park, My Family, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Joey, Sky Sports (when Liverpool are playing!), mostly comedy stuff I dont really watch alot of TV!!!!

Books:

The God Delusion : Richard Dawkins

Brave New World : Huxley

Stupid White Men or Dude Wheres My Country? : Micheal Moore

Black Vinyl, White Powder : Simon Napier-Bell

Hell Bent For Leather : Seb Hunter

Hegemony Or Survival : Noam Chomsky

The Acid House + Pornography : Irvine Welsh

1984 + Animal Farm : George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code : Dan Brown

Haunted : Chuck Palahniuk

We Need To Talk About Kevin : Lionel Shriver

Heroes:

Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins R.I.P), Micheal Moore, Kurt Cobain, Bill Hicks, Jeff Buckley, my friends, my parents, Martin Davie (my best friend, who I really couldnt live without - my biggest hero by far!) and last but not least my little brother Ashley ( i wish I had your confidence and charisma at your age! I love you bro!!

My Blog

Dream Catch Me......

...is such a beautiful song! I know its huge, I know everyone probably loves it as well but its been a long time since I heard a song that really touched me and made me just stop and listen.The lyrics...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:52:00 PST

A very strange summer.....

....is about to come to an end and I can honestly say I'm glad. Its been fucking awful overall and I will not miss this summer at all!There were of course some great times in amongst the shit and my ...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:21:00 PST

Moving house, moving on......

......and looking forward!I'm moving on Saturday to Ermine Street in Huntingdon and I'm really looking forward to the change. Mark has been a legend since I moved in at Dover Close back in October 200...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:10:00 PST

Ladies and Gents..

2006 ended up being a bit good as far as getting this lil project known as Kill:The:DJ up and running! We managed to record a demo, book a few shows and get the word out - which is damn good consideri...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:25:00 PST

My friends

My friends I had to post this because most of the stuff that gets posted on these bullitins is full of crap.I wanted to post something that means something and also will maybe make you think about...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:10:00 PST

So there I am....

... walking up through Hartford minding my own business when from the corner of my eye I see what I think is a bare white arse pumping in a bush!! Sure enough, on further inspection a bloke is shaggin...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:54:00 PST

I'm very happy and I dont know why....

...but I like it! Things are going well! Band is taking shape, social life is the best it has ever been as I'm seeing all my amazing old mates loads (Mike, Chris, Macca, Cory etc) and I'm making lots ...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:56:00 PST

To be different......

.....will ensure that you are actually the same. I was having a very interesting conversation with my brother the other day, in which he had pointed out that in all his efforts to be different, to be ...
Posted by ~Danny Sambuca~ Photographer on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST