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Danny Short

About Me

Danny Short is a musician from Bolton, Lancashire, who writes and records his own songs. Some of which are featured on this page. His debut album "Collected times" was released in April 2009, and is available from www.invisiblegirlrecords.co.uk here:Danny has also played drums and sang in many gigging bands since the age of sixteen. The most high profile of all these different projects being "Big Arm" (Featuring Paul Ryder ex-Happy mondays on vocals) In 2007 the bands debut album "Radiator", on which Danny contributes drums and vocals, was released by Universal in the United Kingdom, France and Japan to much critical acclaim! Big Arm also went on to play many great live shows, including two tours of the UK and Scotland supporting the legendary Ian Brown. A couple of other bands/projects that Danny has been recently involved with have their own myspace pages here: www.myspace.com/bamboomerchants www.myspace.com/therivalfolk..........He also makes some noise at www.myspace.com/nothingmuchelse........Danny plays all the instruments on his recordings, unless otherwise stated!


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Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Website: http://dans.dmusic.com/
Band Members: Danny Short........No one else.
Influences: The Beatles, Syd barrett, The monkees, Genesis(1970-1980 period mainly), The Fall, Pink floyd, Jandek, The who, Sex pistols, Jim Fowler, Pale fountains, Richard youngs, Doves, Anthony phillips, Stevie wonder, Rush, Nirvana, David bowie, Squeeze, Public image limited, Goldfrapp, A.P.english, Ceramic Hobs,The Damned, Madness,The streets, Graham coxon, Yes, Steve hackett, The Smiths, Richard Harris, Mike Nesmith,Small faces, Bee gees, Jody wildgoose, Pete townshend, The Jam, The bluetones, New order, Human league, Captain sensible, The specials ,Grace jones, Tycoons Follies, Oasis, Frank sidebottom, Blur, The police, And many others...........
Sounds Like: Danny Short!!!
Record Label: Invisible girl records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Debut album "Collected times" released 21st April 2009

Dannys debut album is available now on the rather cool label "Invisible girl records" run by the wonderful Julia Adamson...(formerly Nagle)It is downloadable via the following link: For more info, ple...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:58:00 GMT

Church up the road

This short and sweet song was written in early March of 2009 on my latest musical aquisition......A rather brilliant 5-string banjo! The recording of the said ditty was then made and mixed over the co...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:13:00 GMT

Autumnal mood

This sombre little ditty began life as an untitled instrumental in may of 2007 and was recorded as a demo by myself the very same month. The tune came about through jamming around the main riff to Geo...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Make me happy

Not a great deal to say about this tune, other than the basic backing track was written and recorded one hazy Sunday morning in early February of 2009 and other bits and pieces of stuff were overdubbe...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:58:00 GMT

Leaving the city part one

This song was originally recorded back in May of 2006 as a rough instrumental doodle entitled "Into the woods". I had initially forgotten about this recording. Then one day in August of 2008 i sought ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:01:00 GMT

Asleep

Well!.... Here is a brand new track that i have have recentley written and recorded entitled "Asleep". This tune is one of a batch of approximatley 8 newly penned songs that i am currently i...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:56:00 GMT

Dee

Dee This song was written and demoed by me in 2004, and then covered by a band i was in named "The 303's". This recording is the "303" version from 2005 and features Martin Bailey and Jim ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:34:00 GMT

It is discovered

This song is influeneced musically by The Beatles and early Genesis. the lyrics deal with that modern day pest we have come to know as "Mobile phone". We are fast becoming a nation of people with mobi...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:21:00 GMT

This year is ours

I certainly hope so. celebrate!
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:38:00 GMT

More tunes

If you want to hear more of my tunes go here http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=30514 If you dont......then dont bother
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:05:00 GMT