Drum and Drummer

Happy New Year! Or is it too late to say that, where’s the cutoff? Anyway, we’re back with our first episode of 2023. Find out what we got up to over Xmas; there’s gifts, gigs, wigs, late NYE party i…

Welcome to Mum and Mummer! A podcast about Mums, Mumming and Mummers. It’s a kind of New Years special and after teasing it for a while we have our Mums on the podcast! Say hello to Ann and Sandra. W…

Merry Christmas everyone and welcome to our Xmas episode. For this special occasion we’ve got not one, but TWO guests as we welcome back bassist and legend Josh Rowe and joining us for the first time…

This week we are joined by very special guest Mark Pusey! Mark is probably best known for playing drums for Ed Sheeran but as well as that he’s had an incredibly successful career playing for Tom Jon…

It’s George’s birthday week, nearly Xmas and England are through to the quarter finals. WHAT A WEEK. George has been out partying three days in a row watching bands and singing karaoke, Xmas shopping…

Happy birthday to us! It’s our one year anniversary so come celebrate with us as we chat about George’s gig at The Joiners, getting older, the best way to serve pizza at a wedding and we answer that …

EASY! Although George missed the game, it was a great start to the World Cup for England. George has been getting ready for his headline show rehearsing and Ben helped him re-skin his kit (let's talk…

It’s another episode of Drum & Drummer and somehow we’ve pulled out an edit we think is worth listening to. George has been busy working at his crew job and experienced yet another w**ker at a gig. B…

Wedding season is over and Ben’s got some stats. George did a Halloween gig with Wren and met friend of the pod Connor Griffiths in person. Surprisingly there’s some drum chat this week including bre…

It’s a blast from George’s past this week as we welcome his first drum teacher onto the show. Pete Watson has been drum teacher for the last 18 years and teaches both in schools and at his private st…

It’s another episode in your ears. The boys are in the same room eventually after George had a nightmare journey to Portsmouth. Ben had a tough weekend with car sickness, new tattoo work healing badl…

Una piña colada por favor! Ben’s back from his holiday, hooray! First bit of work was a Decade gig with George but in a different kind of venue. There’s a Nottingham-gate update, new drumstick chat w…

George had an eventful gig at an 80th birthday party and then DIDN’T have a wedding gig when the band were cancelled the day before in what can only be described as bizarre circumstances! Yamaha make…

Forget Tony Stark, GEORGE IS THE NEW IRON MAN! George tells all about his Ironman 70.3 achievement (no nudity allowed apparently), it was tractor VS lorry as Ben drove to Cornwall for a gig plus a tr…

He’s been mentioned a lot on the podcast and this week we finally welcome Neil Elliott onto the show. With Ben having been Neil’s human drum machine (and work wife) for 11 years at the studio, we wan…

On this week’s show we talk about breaking the gig pack down record, what’s on our drum shopping list (turns out it’s a lot), the Foo Fighters memorial gig and a listener email gets us thinking about…

We’re joined by very special guest Ben Thomas who is the drummer for Rag’n’Bone Man! We chat to Ben about how he got started with Rag’n’Bone Man, dealing with an unpredictable set, staying calm befor…

Are we cool? Doubt it very much. On this week’s episode (probably the most dark and worst) Ben and George chat about selling out, making their Instagram more “sexy”, wedding guests who’ve had a few t…

Welcome to another episode of Drum and Drummer. As wedding season starts to slightly slow down, George has been on a long cycle ride, Ben’s been busy at the studio and had his hand tattooed plus ther…

It’s Thursday. You’re nearly through another week. Well done. IT’S THE BIG 4-0! On this week’s episode Ben and George chat about how they spent their time in Lockdown 3.0, go through some listener Tw…