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| For an accurate quote, please get in touch. 2 x 45 minutes plus encores, 2200w PA and lights | £200 |
Danny Brab is a Manchester-born singer and acoustic guitarist based in Staffordshire.
Danny honed his craft as a teenage busker performing in Bury Market subway and on Manchester’s Market Street. He then jumped on a ship to Belgium where he spent the next nine months entertaining the crowds daily outside Antwerp’s historic cathedral.
In a music career spanning 25 years, he has shared the bill with the likes of Liam Fray (Courteeners), The Slow Readers Club, The Wombats and The Bluetones. He once played on a major tour date supporting John Peel’s favourite band, The Fall.
Danny has also performed twice at Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club, on one occasion supporting Tony Wright from Terrorvision.
While an undergraduate at Manchester University he won a MBF National Songwriting Award in 2005 for ‘Welcome to Nowhere’ and ‘She’s Taken Everything’.
As a co-founder of post punk trio Optional Wallace, Danny wrote 'Generation' which was chosen as BBC Radio 6 Music’s Single of the Week, with the show’s host Steve Lamacq telling his audience: “It’s brilliant! Listen to it.”
Following a long break to pursue his day job, Danny is now back on the music scene and picking up more rave reviews for his performances as a covers artist.
Based in Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire
= areas covered (up to 50 miles)
= free travel (up to 10 miles)
Most requested/popular:
Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Dakota - Stereophonics
Don’t Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Friday I'm in Love - Cure
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
Half the World Away - Oasis
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
I Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
Last Nite - Strokes
Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg
Losing my Religion - REM
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Mr Brightside - Killers
Parklife - Blur
Sally Cinnamon - Stone Roses
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Sit Down - James
This Charming Man - Smiths
Town Called Malice - Jam
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
Wonderwall - Oasis
Ziggy Stardust - Bowie
Zombie - Cranberries
Other 90s to Date:
1000 trees - Stereophonics
About a Girl - Nirvana
Airbag - Radiohead
All Apologies - Nirvana
All the Small Things - Blink 182
Angels - Robbie Williams
Babylon - David Gray
Basket Case - Green Day
Beetlebum - Blur
Big Me - Foo Fighters
Bitter Sweet Symphony - Verve
Cast No Shadow - Oasis
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Common People - Pulp
Creep - Radiohead
Driftwood - Travis
Drugs Don’t Work - Verve
End of a Century - Blur
Every You Every Me - Placebo
Girl from Mars - Ash
Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam - Nirvana
Karma Police - Radiohead
Live Forever - Oasis
Lucky Man - Verve
Masterplan - Oasis
Molly's Chambers - Kings of Leon
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Plug in Baby - Muse
Pounding - Doves
Shotgun - George Ezra
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Someday - Strokes
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Song 2 - Blur
Sonnet - Verve
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
Supersonic - Oasis
Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
Talk Tonight - Oasis
The One I Love - REM
Time is Running Out - Muse
Tonight Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Up the Bracket - Libertines
Yellow - Coldplay
Other Pre- 90s:
8 days a week - Beatles
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
Atomic - Blondie
Big Mouth Strikes Again - Smiths
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Boys Don’t Cry - Cure
Days - Kinks
Debaser - Pixies
Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Everybody’s Talkin - Nilsson
Girlfriend in a Coma - Smiths
Hang the DJ - Smiths
Here Come Your Man - Pixies
Hide Your Love Away - Beatles
How Soon is Now? - Smiths
I’ll Be Your Baby - Bob Dylan
I’m a Believer - Neil Diamond
In My Life - Beatles
I Wanna Be Your Dog - Iggy Pop
Love her Madly - Doors
Made of Stone - Stone Roses
Marie’s the Name - Elvis
Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
No Feelings - Sex Pistols
Norwegian Wood - Beatles
People Are Strange - Doors
Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Smiths
Riders On the Storm - Doors
She Loves You - Beatles
Shoot You Down - Stone Roses
Shoplifters of the World - Smiths
Space Oddity - Bowie
Stand by Me - Ben E King
Starman - Bowie
Stuck in the Middle with You - Steeler's Wheels
Sunny Afternoon - Kinks
Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Teenage Kicks - Undertones
The Man Who Sold The World - Bowie
There is a Light and it Never Goes Out - Smiths
This is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
Where is My Mind - Pixies
With or Without You - U2
Ideally need 5m x 3m for full 2 speaker 2200 PA and lights, can set up in smaller with one speaker. 2 x 13 amp power sockets and a parking space please.
I am completely self contained. I will bring a full PA system and simple lighting rig.
I will need to know if the venue is indoor or outdoor (with sufficient cover).
Yes can play a playlist between sets. Please provide a list of tracks, or I will provide if preferred.
Biggest are Academy 1, Manchester supporting the Fall and Milton Keynes National Bowl with a tribute act . Honestly speaking, I just love a good pub gig or private party with an engaging crowd though.
Beatles, David Bowie, Oasis, Pixies, Radiohead, Blur but too many to mention. Life on Mars by David Bowie is a masterpiece.
I started as a teenage street busker. I’ve performed probably thousands of times since then.
A cosy venue/bar, comfortably full with an interactive crowd is generally my favourite type of gig, but really I just like performing.
Normally arrive an hour before to set up. Usually 2 x 45 minutes, but can do longer. 3 x 45 is preferred maximum.
Happy to play outside but with sufficient cover in case of poor weather. Flat level surface and power supply close to performance area.
Can learn specific songs if given sufficient notice. I have a repertoire of around 200 songs with full lyrics and I do not use prompts, iPads or sheet music.
5 star. Please see my Facebook page for specific reviews (Danny Brab - Music).
Various pubs and bars around Manchester, Birmingham and Stoke on Trent. Wedgwood. Titanic Brewery. Neil Morrissey’s Birthday Party x 2. Prem Management’s birthday (Stoke City FC).
Academy 1, Manchester
National Bowl, Milton Keynes
This last year:
4 Candles, Wolstanton
Park Inn, Burslem
Bod, Trentham
Bod, Alsager
Greyhound, Penkhull
Terrace, Stoke
Bridge Inn, Telford
Talisman, Tunstall
Captain’s Bar, Hanley
Altrincham FC, Manchester
BrewChimp, Urmston
Princess Royal, Dresden
PAU cafe, Trentham
No.41 Gin Bar, Milton
Hazlehurst Arms, Chell
Swifty’s, Meir
Black Lion, Trent Vale
Little George, Eccleshall
Cock Inn, Leek
Charlie Bassetts, Dilhorne
Peel Arms, Ashley
The Jug, Newcastle
bod, Stone
Brew Chimp, Urmston
Shed, Maybank
Sixtowns, Wedgwood
Sneyd Arms, Keele
Wood Lane Cricket Club, Wood Lane
Foundary Bar, Congleton
White Hart, Tean
Moorland Inn, Burslem
Little Vic, Newcastle
Egerton Arms, Salford
Roost, Wednesbury
Point, Talacre
Museum, Newcastle
Quarter @ Potbank, Stoke
Mainwaring Arms, Whitmore
Corner Pin, Longton
Star & Garter, Stafford
Cronkinson’s Farm, Nantwich
Little George, Eccleshall
Plus many more private bookings…
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