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Dan Elson

Monkey Obsessed, Beard Loving, Musical Monster

About Me

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Dan Elson met at a very young age. He went to different schools together and shared a mutual love of all kinds of music with himself. He wrote his first song aged four. He can’t remember how it went, but knows it was about a star and was undoubtedly very good.
He started playing brass instruments before he was 7, and started working out what sounds good on a piano aged 11 (a process he still endeavours to master). At 15 he started playing the bass guitar so he could be in his friend’s metal band. At 16 he broke his finger and could not play the piano, so he learnt to play the guitar instead (luckily he broke a finger on the strumming hand).
He began recording his music aged 17 to win a bet with a boy called Adrian, who bet him that he couldn’t write, perform and record a song within a month. Within a week Dan had done so with the help of a boy named Funky. However Funky’s computer crashed days later losing all evidence of the song. As there was no physical proof of the feat Dan lost the bet. The boy who won is still, as far as we know, called Adrian.
Funky assisted on Dan’s next 2 recorded songs, but soon Dan had learnt the art of making computers do vaguely what you want them to and was going it alone. He has recorded over 90 original songs in the last 4 years, so that he can get them out of his head and hopefully get five minutes peace!
Daniel Richard Elson BA (hons) has a music degree, but doesn’t like to shout about it. He publishes his own compositions on www.sibeliusmusic.com and plays with/leads various musical groups. As far as Dan is concerned one of his greatest acheivements is writing a song which a six year old enjoys enough to sing around the house. Even if he does substitute the correct lyrics for "Can I tell you about my special hair"?
He has achieved international fame (well other-national obscurity) with air-play on the radio in New Zealand (where technology still dictates that the whole family sit around the wireless every evening for the magical little men inside to sing to them) as well as radio play on UK student stations, and Radio City (apparently). He’s also discovered that there is nothing which excites the average myspace user like monkey based rock n roll. He gigs on his own with an acoustic guitar, or with anyone else he can persuade to turn up.
Dan values his myspace friends, and endeavours always to communicate with them but tries not to clog up bulletins with anything but real news. Dan hates being added by random bands that don’t care about him as a fan, and believes strongly in word of mouth as the best form of promotion. If you want to talk to Dan, ask him a question, or leave some feedback please use the comment and message facilities. He doesn’t really care if you wipe your feet when you visit his profile, so long as you give him a quick smile.

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EP RELEASED AND READY TO BUY!
You can now order your copy of Dan’s Eponymous EP: this is available for £3.50 via the below link [or £3 in person]. To purchase your copy (using paypal) click here....Credit card payments should be expected soon, once my paypal account updates. If you have difficulty with the paypal site, or don’t have a paypal account message me for alternative payment methods.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/1/2006
Band Website: channel4.com/music/myband/DanElson
Band Members: The clue is in the title.
Influences: Socks, beards, monkeys, silly bets with silly boys, Scottish builders, many hours of boredom and access to expensive music equipment, party rings, scallies, a lifetime's worth of music listening, tupperware and Anneka Rice.
Sounds Like: Dirty good time rock n roll, with sing along choruses, thick vocal harmonies, pounding drums, crazy synths and crunching guitars.

"Monkey obsessed, beard loving, musical monster Dan Elson brings you a pop punk collection of catchy lil gems with a comedy tilt that you will be singing for a while."

Generation Live Magazine

Of my Eponymous EP....

"Wonderful CD!"

Fizzy Milk

"Faintly ridiculous, in the nicest possible way, quirky & delicious."

Suffolk & Cool Podcast about Pocket Monkey
Record Label: Unfortunately none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New video

I'm getting quite into my 80s covers - this is a version of Tiffany's dance floor filler 'I Think We're Alone Now' with a little animated video I made yesterday morning.  If you're familiar with ...
Posted by Dan Elson on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:47:00 PST

Dan Elson videos!

You can now see my video for Beardy Song online at the following two links!  Woohoo!  How DIY is it?  Post your comments on either site.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssIXLTPhwBEhttp://...
Posted by Dan Elson on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:32:00 PST

Fueled By Music

This wicked E-zine is featuring one of my tracks t the moment, so get over there and have a butchers, cos it’s boss like.http://www.fueledbymusicpromotions.tripod.com/Clicky clickyDan...
Posted by Dan Elson on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:53:00 PST

I think...

... that if you click here you can check out my everygenre page and hear otehr music.http://www.everygenre.com/members/40/MaybeWordDan
Posted by Dan Elson on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:18:00 PST

I’m on a podcast again

Click here http://podcast.itsafrogslife.net/2008/03/show-48-and-barry-s ays.html to go to the it’s a frog’s life acoustic podcast.  I’m on show 48 which they’ve titled And ...
Posted by Dan Elson on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:54:00 PST

No place in the final...

... no place in the oxjam gig... no gig at the Hanover this Thursday.Thing's have taken a turn for the worse.Sorry to anyone planning to come down.Dan
Posted by Dan Elson on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:52:00 PST

If you can’t stand teh heat...

.... will you be able to take the final?We won at the battle of the bands heat last night, making it through to the final next Friday night at Liverpool Student Union (which is the JMU one on Maryland...
Posted by Dan Elson on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:50:00 PST

I’m recording...

... a new EP this afternoon - ok so it's not studio quality but I had an afternoon spare and an acoustic guitar.Anywho, it will contain 5 never before recorded tracks that have never been recorded bef...
Posted by Dan Elson on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:32:00 PST

FREE CD!

Basically I have a free CD to give away.  I made up a promo for a student radio station that seems to have mysteriously dissappeared.So, basically if you come to my gig on Thursday all you have t...
Posted by Dan Elson on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:23:00 PST

Your Help Needed!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me out.All you need to do is go to http://liverpool.com/localbands/dan-elson.html and rate my music out of five.  In exchange on the website you can listen...
Posted by Dan Elson on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:37:00 PST