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3 Daft Monkeys are a world music-influenced acoustic band from Cornwall, UK, consisting of Tim Ashton, Athene Roberts, Lukas Drinkwater, and Rich Mulryne. The instrumentation consists of vocals, fiddle, twelve-string guitar, bass guitar and percussion. The band's musical influences include Celtic, Balkan, Romani, Latino, electronic dance, reggae, dub, punk rock, and traditional folk music. The albums ''Hubbadillia'' and ''Social Vertigo'' were recorded in Devon at Martin Barre's Presshouse studios and Green Room Studios respectively, and were produced by Mark Tucker, who also works with bands such as Flook and PJ Harvey. The band have had great success at venues and festivals all over the UK and Europe, including being invited by Show of Hands to play the main stage at the Eden Project and the 2008 BBC Proms at St David's Hall in Cardiff. Other highlights include GuilFest; Folkwoods, Holland; the Glastonbury Festival,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Glastonbury 2007 - Artists/line-up )〕 the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival; Folk Segovia, Spain; Lorient Interceltic Festival, France; Kevelaer World Music Festival, Germany; Labadoux Festival, Belgium and enthusiastically welcomed returns to the Beautiful Days and Larmer Tree festivals. They are also a regular support act for The Levellers, with Roberts usually returning to join the Levellers onstage for the finale in a duelling fiddle-off of "What You Know" with added tambourine from Waters and tin-whistle from Ashton. The band have enjoyed airplay on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Ulster〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Late Show with Colin Murray Playlist )〕 and BBC Radio Wales〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Mixing It Playlist for 23 September 2006 )〕 during 2006 and 2007, and were described by presenter Mike Harding as "a brilliant band... absolutely amazing". In May 2012 they played Lakefest festival〔http://lakefest.co.uk/line-up-2012〕 and are due to play Scarborough's Acoustic Gathering〔http://www.acousticgathering.co.uk/〕 on the 9 Sept. ==Line-up changes== The band's first album, ''Brouhaha'', featured Rich Mulryne on djembe, kick drum, cymbals, tambourine and saucepan. From ''Ooomim'' onwards Waters played bass. In May 2011, Lukas Drinkwater joined the band as a temporary replacement for Jamie Waters just for the summer tour, later it was decided that Lukas was to join permanently after Jamie stepped down. When not performing with 3 Daft Monkeys, Lukas plays double bass in the (Dart Valley Stompers ), a popular Traditional and New Orleans Jazz Band led by award winning saxophone and clarinet player, (Jeremy Huggett ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「3 Daft Monkeys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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