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- Next Gig - Sunday 20 May 2012, Bell, Glangrwyney at 2.30pm
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Band Details
Band Name : Dan James
Genre : Alt folk
Gigall Friendly Rating : 5/10 
Year Hits : 246
Month Hits : 64
Week Hits : 6
Town : Blaenavon
Contact : Dan James
Telephone : 07776098325
Email Address : espjune@hotmail.co.uk
Website Address : http://www.bebopdajig.com
Introduction
Dan James has been a full time professional musician since 1997. When he’s not writing music or gigging he does this and that (mostly that!).
Dan writes stories about people and their visceral struggle for existence – the hardships of fishermen, farmers and miners and the injustices of their lives.
He derives much inspiration from the landscape – he loves the bleak post industrial landscape of Blaenavon and being high up in the mountains, as it’s a great place to think and be creative.
There’s also the great widescreen skies of Lincolnshire and the bleak fenland, mudflats and misty shorelines, not to mention the old parts of Worcester city centre and Rainbow Hill.
He’s been a wide range of bands, encompassing psychadelic, jazz punk, green agit pop, blues, modern jazz (be-bop), Hot Club jazz, folk rock and folk.
Dan James is half of duo Miln & James and part of trio Brand F with expert spoons player Paul Weir. Dan James was also previously singer and main songwriter with the folk rock band Reincarnation (with Nick Quarmby and Steve Cricket from the Phil Beer band) as well as a former member of seminal folk band Firebrand (with Miranda Sykes, now with Show of Hands) and formerly guitarist with jazz outfit The Gareth Hall Quintet. In his time with these bands he has played Glastonbury (Pilton) festival five times and has performed as far afield as Jersey Irish Festival and Haird O Knochrach festival in Scotland. He has also appeared on two highly regarded folk compilation CDs A feast of folk and Best of British Folk alongside such luminaries as Fairport Convention, Steeleye span and Kathryn Tickell.