3 Daft Monkeys

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Origin Cornwall, UK Years active 2000 - present		Genres Folk

Associated acts The Levellers Athene Roberts & Tim Ashton (Duo) Website http://www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk Members Tim Ashton Athene Roberts Rich Mulryne Jamie Graham Albums Of Stones & Bones, The Antiquated & The Arcane, Hubbadillia, Ooomim, Social Vertigo, Go Tell the Bees, Brouhaha Profiles Facebook SoundCloud Twitter

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3 Daft Monkeys are a world music-influenced acoustic band from Cornwall, UK, consisting of Tim Ashton, Athene Roberts, Rich Mulryne, and Jamie Graham. 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 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; Lakefest festival^[6]; Folkwoods, Holland; the Glastonbury Festival, the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival; Folk Segovia, Spain; Lorient Interceltic Festival, France; Kevelaer World Music Festival, Germany; Labadoux Festival, Belgium, Buskers Bern Street Festival in Switzerland, and enthusiastically welcomed returns to the Beautiful Days and Larmer Tree festivals.

Throughout the 2000s, the band were 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, BBC Radio Cornwall, and BBC Radio Wales, and have been described by presenter Mike Harding as "a brilliant band... absolutely amazing".

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. Mulryne rejoined the band as a guest drummer for the album Social Vertigo, and has since rejoined as a full member.

In 2011, Lukas Drinkwater joined the band as a temporary replacement for Jamie Waters for the summer tour, and later joined permanently after Waters stepped down. In 2015, Jamie Graham took over playing bass.

Brouhaha (2000)

Six songs recorded in Cornwall in 2000 with the band's original line-up.

Wonderful
3 Daft Monkeys
Nothing
Maximillian
Saturn Returns
Global Junkie

Ooomim (2002)

Eight songs recorded in Germany, during October 2001 and released in 2002.

Faces
Ooomim
We Be
Weird-Id
Crimson Eyes
Chuffy
Cheerio
For the Wedding

Hubbadillia (2004)

Ten songs recorded by Mark Tucker at Presshouse Studios, Devon during the summer of 2004, released December 2004.

Hubbadillia
Hey Listen
Trez Cerveza
Air
Astral Eyes
Bubbles
The Man
Stop
Timeless
Does My Head In

Gibbon It Live & Dreckly (2007)

12 tracks recorded live at various venues during 2006.

Broygas Tantz
Hubbadillia
Tres Cerveza
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One Fine Day
Ooomim
Social Vertigo
Astral Eyes
Hey Listen
Faces
Maximillian
Mazoltov

Go Tell the Bees EP (2007)

Showcasing three new tracks from the band's forthcoming album, plus one old favourite.

Go Tell the Bees [Radio Edit]
Paranoid Big Brother
Social Vertigo [Radio Edit]
Astral Eyes [Remastered]

13 Tracks recorded with Mark Tucker during 2007 at Green Room Studios . Includes guest musicians on cello, brass, and percussion.

Paranoid Big Brother
Eyes of Gaia
Human Nature (Prelude)
Human Nature
Go Tell the Bees
Guardian Angel
Since
One Fine Day
Social Vertigo
Little Secret
Let 'Em In
Monkey & the Slippers
Dance of the Old Man of Storr

The Antiquated And The Arcane (2010)

The Antiquated and The Arcane
Under One Sun
Just A Ride
Doors Of Perception
Days Of The Dance
Perfect Stranger
Time To Evolve
Casualties Of Tour
Civilised Debauchery
She Said
Love (SIC) Fool
Love Life
Masquerade Parade (bonus track on downloads only)

Of Stones & Bones

Agnes the Giant Killer
Sarah, the Devil and Jack
The Lovers of Porthgwarra Cove
Jenny and the Changeling
World on its Head
The Tale of the Laziest Pirate
Morwenna
The Pellars of Zennor
Reverend Hawker of Morwenstow
One and All
The Stranger

Film Appearances

The band played the part of buskers in the Cornish film Darralla Jooan Choy an Horr (trans.The Tale of John of Chyannor), winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Goel Fylm Kernow (Cornwall Film Festival). In 2015, Athene took a role in the forthcoming Tulip Fever, directed by Justin Chadwick.