Jonathan Daniel Harper is a session musician and started his musical career as the drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 for Reading-based British

United Kingdom

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 Alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band, The Cooper Temple Clause

The Cooper Temple Clause

The Cooper Temple Clause were an English six-piece alternative rock band originating from Wokingham, Berkshire. Formed in 1998, the band quickly gained a following through their live concerts, and have produced three albums, the latest being Make This Your Own...

. He filled in the vacancy for drummer in the Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) when Adriano Cintra

Adriano Cintra

Adriano Ferreira Cintra is a Brazilian multi-instrumentist and producer, also known as an underground and club celebrity in his hometown. He was guitarist and singer for the garage rock power trio Thee Butchers' Orchestra, and among his many projects and bands are Ultrasom and Caxabaxa. He was...

 took the place of Iracema Trevisan

Iracema Trevisan

Iracema Trevisan Carneiro , also known as Ira, was the bassist for Brazilian indie-electro band CSS....

 as bassist, after she left in April 2008.

In January 2010 Harper joined the Chris Corner

Chris Corner

Chris Corner is an English musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of the band Sneaker Pimps and is now active with the IAMX solo project.He has been living in Berlin since 2006, where he has set up his new IAMX studio for music and visual work....

 (ex-Sneaker Pimps

Sneaker Pimps

Sneaker Pimps were a British trip-hop band formed in Hartlepool, England in 1994. They are best known for their first album Becoming X and particularly the singles "6 Underground", "Spin Spin Sugar", and "Tesko Suicide" from the same album...

) project IAMX as a member of the live band.

He attended the Forest School in Winnersh

Winnersh

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 with the other original members of The Cooper Temple Clause band, with whom he grew up with in Reading

Reading, Berkshire

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. He has cited Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

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, Neil Young, dEUS, Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Primal Scream

Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...

, Squarepusher

Squarepusher

Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....

, Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder as some of his main influences.

Equipment

Gretsch USA Maple Custom in natural wood finish.

22” x 18” Bass Drum.

16” x 16” Floor Tom.

12” x 12” Rack Tom.

15” x 8” Gretsch hexagonal badge snare in walnut finish.

14” x 5.5 1960’s Gretsch round badge in blue marine pearl finish.

14” x 8” DW bronze snare.

14” x 5” Yamaha birch custom snare.

Ludwig Vistalite 1970’s olive badge in clear finish.

22” x 16” Bass Drum.

16” x 16” Floor Tom.

12” x 10” Rack Tom.

20” Zildjian K Custom dark ride.

18” Zildjian K Custom dark crash.

18" Zildjian K Crash/Ride.

18" Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash

17" Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash

13" Zildjian K/Z Hi-Hats.

2 x Pearl powershifter bass drum pedals.

All hardware by Yamaha.

Pro-mark drumsticks.

protection racket cases.