Drum For The Song Podcast

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Thanks for checking out episode 55 with the lovely Ciara Chinniah. Ciara is an incredibly inspiring drummer and is well known within the drum world for hosting her amazing drum camps for women in the UK and for being a published author of the fantastic book, 'Odd Times Made Easy' which does what it says on the tin. She's also an experienced podcas...

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Thanks for checking out episode 54 with the brilliant, Chris Allan. Chris is one of the hardest working rock drummers in the UK, touring the globe with rock bass legend Marco Mendoza, performing across the UK in theaters with 'The Story Of Guitar Heroes' and recording numerous sessions for various artists. To top it all off, he's also a really lov...

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Thanks for checking out episode 53 with legendary drummer, Chris Slade. Chris has had the most tremendous careers having played drums for fellow Welsh legend, Tom Jones, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, AC/DC, The Firm, Toomorrow, Uriah Heep, David Gilmore and Asia but is still touring and recording with his current project, The Chris Slade Timeline.

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Thanks for checking out episode 52 with Joey Belladonna. Not only is Joey the lead vocalist for thrash legends, Anthrax, but he's also a great drummer and also plays drums and sings in a cover band called Chief Big Way and sings in a Journey tribute band, Beyond Frontiers.

In this episode, we chat about the writing and recording process with An...

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Thanks for checking out episode 51 with Phil Woods. Phil is an experienced professional in the musical instruments industry and currently works as artist relations for Remo Drumheads and Stagg cymbals in the UK for the largest independent music distributor, EMD Music.

In this episode, we chat about Phil's history in the industry leading towards...

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Thanks for checking out episode 50 with former Slipknot percussionist, Chris Fehn, #3. Please share this with any fans of Slipknot. I am truly honoured to have had this opportunity because this is Chris' very first interview since his departure from the band in 2019. He has been a part of the metal industry for over two decades and has contributed...

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Thanks for checking out episode 49 with welsh BBC TV and Radio presenter and 'drumming weatherman', Owain Wyn Evans.

In this episode, Owain talks about his upbringing in Ammanford in south Wales and past music projects, his 'coming out' story and why he felt like he had to hide his sexuality when starting work in TV, his wild journey as a TV jo...

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Thanks for checking out episode 48 with Danko Jones drummer, Rich Knox.

In this episode, Rich has some great tips on how to improve the health of your body and mind, especially for touring musicians. He has recently started up a program and app called FitDrummers which offers an 8 week one-one-one coaching program with the goal being to achieve...

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Thanks for checking out episode 47 with Steve Vai & Sebastian Bach drummer, Jeremy Colson.

In this episode, Jeremy has some fascinating insights on being a session musician and how playing for the song in an instrumental band is different

to a much more common rock band situation containing vocals.

He also talks about some of the techniqu...

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Thanks for checking out episode 46 with Bullet For My Valentine drummer, Jason Bowld.

In this episode, Jason and I chat about his career history which consists of a large variety of session work, touring and remote recording for artists, TV and video games. Having performed as a session musician and as a full band member from small venues to st...

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Thanks for checking out episode 45 with Johnny Dee who is been drummer for German heavy metal Queen Doro for 30 years, and has been newly recruited as Tyketto's drummer and occasionally performs with his late 80's glam metal band Britny Fox.

In this episode, Johnny and I chat about his career history including the aforementioned projects plus a...

Thanks for checking out episode 44 with Martin Potts who works for the distributor KORG UK in a role as UK Artist Relations for Paiste, Vic Firth & Mapex drums but also has control of the marketing for Mapex in the UK.

In this episode, Martin and I chat about his history of playing drums which included him reaching grade 8 at a young age, but sadly due to problems with arthritis couldn't persue much in his playing career. So...

Thanks for checking out episode 43 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring Cardinal Black groove machine Adam Roberts.

In this episode, Adam and I have a long in-depth chat about his relationship with the drums strongly influenced by his father who is also a drummer plus the complicated history of his band Cardinal Black featuring 'best new guitarist in the world' Chris Buck, super smoothe soulful vocalist Tom Hollister and funky...

Thanks for checking out episode 42 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring the insanely talented Anika Nilles who has taken the drum community by storm over the past decade after being 'discovered' on YouTube, within a few years being the cover artist for Modern Drummer Magazine and most recently touring as the drummer for none other than the guitar legend himself, Jeff Beck!

In this episode, Anika and I have a great chat about h...

Thanks for checking out episode 41 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring the stupidly talented Darby Todd who likes to refer to himself as a freelance drummer and has been recently sitting behind the kit for Devin Townsend and Martin Barre (ex- Jethro Tull).

In this episode, Darby and I have a good chat about his recent experiences on the road with Devin Townsend and how he landed the job in the first place. We also talk about ...

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Thanks for checking out episode 40 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring the amazing Emily Dolan Davies who is the current drummer in the house band for The Voice Kids UK. She also plays drums for Kim Wilde and was the drummer in UK rock band The Darkness a few years ago. You might also recognise her from the Netflix documentary...

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Thanks for checking out episode 39 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring educator, clinician, public speaker and podcaster Mike Johnston!

In this episode, Mike and I have a great chat about his current drumming career which consists of running his drum education website mikeslessons.com, creating content for social media and his YouTube channel, hosting dr...

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Thanks for checking out episode 38 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring Robb Reiner from Canadian metal pioneers, Anvil.

In this episode, Robbo and I have a great chat about the history of Anvil and how the making of the blockbuster movie 'Anvil The Story Of Anvil' came about and how it changed their career for the good. We also talked about drums and e...

Thanks for checking out this special tribute episode of Drum For The Song podcast, dedicated to Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters who sadly passed away on March 25th 2022. Taylor Hawkins has consistently been one of my biggest influences when it comes to rock drumming and playing for the song.

This episode features some specially recorded video and audio clips from some past guests of the show, friends of mine and some future g...