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Choppa Dave

What the world needs now is... Choppa Dave

About Me

Dave Noakes is every critic's favourite, the one and only Choppa Dave! His wirlwind career has being rocketing upwards ever since he first joined the 3rd violins section of Beginner Strings of Higham Ferres Music Centre at the age of 7. His move onto drums and percussion at 13 pushed him towards a degree in Jazz at Leeds College of Music. In Novemeber 2003, having completed his degree, Choppa Dave packed up his stuff and flew off to Barcelona where he still resides, making sickening sounds on his laptop in the evening and teaching primary school children through the day. PLEASE NOTE: Choppa Dave would like his my space to offer more than just disturbing music. He therefore welcomes all manner of input on his comments page. He would even go so far as to request vegetarian pan cooked recipes, film recommendations and anything else that could in any way improve peoples' lives. Come on people! Lets get cheesy about this!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/4/2005
Band Members: Dave (Mr David) Noakes
Influences: Max Tundra, Jamie Lidell, Akufen, Matthew Herbert, Rip Off Artist, Squarepusher, O Lamm, Super Collider, DAT Politics, Prod, Bogdan Raczynski, Keith Jarrett, Portishead, Miles Davis, Shostakovich, BILL EVANS, BILL EVANS, Toots Theilmanns, John Coltrane, Debussy, Messian, Mahler, Barber, Bernstein, Bacharach, Stevie Wonder, The Isley Brothers, Bill Withers, Michael Jackson, The Delfonics, The Stylistics (don't deny the joy), Earth Wind and Fire, Rose Royce, Massive Attack, Mid 90's Indie, Early 90's hardcore and jungle, NOT THE 80'S!!!!!! Autechre, Drum and Bass nights, house nights, techno nights, hip hop nights (and any other excuse to go and dance for a fair few years), Quasimoto, Busdriver, The Books, Tortoise, Prefuse 73, Daedalus, Jackson And The Computer Band, Eight Frozen Modules, Joanna Newsom, Juana Molina, Bjork, Mu-Ziq
Sounds Like: "Choppa Dave is one bad mother f*cker" - Miles Davis "Something very special indeed" - Igor Stravinsky "The best thing to come out of Britain since the Stones" -John Lennon "What can I say? The guy rocks!" - Jimi Hendrix "Better than any drug" - Keith Moon "A piece of history" - Orsen Wells "True genius" - Socrates "A threat to the modern world" - George W Bush "Delicious and nutritious" - Delia Smith
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Radio Broadcast

Chopper Dave's 'Make Everybody Happy' is to be played on Thursday 18th May 21:00 and 23:00 Spanish time (20:00 and 22:00 in Britain) on the University of Valencia radio station www.upv.es on a pr...
Posted by Choppa Dave on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:56:00 PST