Drum and Drummer

After looking at the YouTube comments on George’s band’s promo video we chat about our Easter gigs and Easter eggs. Ben got to play darts backstage and George enjoyed being free from the shackles of …

After a quick chat about reels and Ben’s disdain for the English language we hear about George’s busy week playing late gigs in London and swimming with The Hoosiers. Ben’s been to the Portsmouth Mus…

It’s Thursday so who best to get on the show? It’s only the legend that is Tucker Rule! Not only was Tucker the drummer for New Jersey post-hardcore band Thursday, he is now also the drummer for supe…

On this week’s show we’re discussing the bold statement from Bernard Purdie about his involvement with The Beatles, the demise of GAK and Lynx Africa and a trip to hospital from eating too much beef.…

After a chat about depping and the importance of communication we answer some of your questions including counting in different time signatures, the difference between stop-time and tacet and explain…

We start this week's episode with a little help from our future machine overlords; they might destroy us all but before that they can help write lesson plans. We also have some correspondence about t…

Lots of random chat from us this week including Douglas from the Lurpak adverts (proving why trombones are better than saxophones), Mr Soft, Ben’s similarities to Marcus Rashford and entering the wor…

It’s episode 172 in this series of immaculately edited podcasts and there’s plenty to get through. George took a trip to ‘medley town’ in a recent gig as well as an actual trip by having to cycle two…

Today we’re chatting about Ben’s recent gig with Freshman Year and his analysis of the clientele and George learns a valuable lesson by not practicing. There’s also Hamlet, Meghan Markle’s jam, stink…

On this week’s show after discussing what George’s life will be like in his 50s he gives us a run down of his three recent, and very different, gigs. We also chat about nerves and what creates them, …

This week we are joined by drumming podcast royalty; it’s Matty Roberts! Matty is the host of the Percussion Discussion podcast and has interviewed a huge number of the worlds best drummers including…

Cool your drink with some smashed frozen water; it’s time to talk about George’s double gig at Icebreaker. Before we do though we get through some varied listener correspondence and the financial imp…

On this week’s show Ben tells us about a last minute recording session where he ended up recording the drumming legend Graham Walker (Gary Moore, Vanity Fare). We also chat about new Roland wireless …

This week we are joined by Connor McCorkindale! Connor is a fellow BIMM graduate, a teacher and plays for multiple bands including Winter Gardens and Coco And The Lost. We chat about his recent broke…

On this week’s episode we’re chatting about practicing and rehearsing; doing the right amount for the right context. We also chat about George’s recent trip to Chesterfield where he met up with Dave …

Before George heads up to Chesterfield for a video shoot we had another one of our ‘famous’ chats where Ben finally reveals all about his cryptic clues for 2024 and tells all about his NYE gig in Ban…

Happy New Year! On this week’s episode we’re catching up after Christmas with some gig chat including a surprise 60th birthday party and George’s dramatic M25 rescue mission. We also briefly talk abo…

Hope you all had a great Christmas! It’s Boxing Day so time to finish off those chocolates and join us for an Xmas treat. Traffic and illness thwarted our attempt at a ‘traditional’ Xmas special but …

Although Christmas is just round the corner we’re not particularly in a Chrismassy mood but this doesn’t deter us from chatting about parsnips, traditions and marvelling at his large but somewhat und…

This week we are finally joined by Ben Alldred from D’Addario; parent company of EVANS Drumheads. Having met Ben at Graham Russell Drums a few weeks ago when he helped skin and tune the ‘Florida Acro…