Fave Albums:

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Tool - Undertow
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10000 Days
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Audioslave - Audioslave
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk & Bellybutton
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
Nine Inch Nails - Fragile
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Ozomatli - Ozomatli
List is endless…………

Influences:

Stewart Copeland, Danny Carey, Buddy Rich, Josh Freese, Jimmy Chamberlin, Matt Cameron, Mike Bordin.

Life Changing Gigs:

Pearl Jam - Bradford Queens Hall 1992
Buddy Rich Big Band - Sheffield City Hall 1986
Tool - Leeds Uni 1994
A Perfect Circle - Manchester Apollo 2003
Donington Monsters Of Rock 1988
Pearl Jam - Brixton Academy 1993
Alice In Chains - Nottingham Rock City 1993
Jim Rose Circus Side Show - Sheffield Octagon 1993!!!
Audioslave - Stage right at Download 2003
Soundgarden - Nottingham Rock City 1994 (day after Cobain shot his mouth off)
Queensryche - Nottingham Rock City-1988

Fave Movies:

Goodfellas, Godfather 1&2, Fearless, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Casino, 39 Steps (1935 version) Rear Window, Ealing comedies, Spinal Tap, various Woody Allen films

Fave Books:

On The Road, Sleepers, The Beach, Catcher In The Rye, Angels & Demons, I’ll not even pretend to like House Of Leaves as I can’t be arsed reading it yet. One day…….

Fave Tipple: Guinness, Red Wine, real coffee (not instant shite) Purdeys, Hoegaarden.

Gear used:

Premier Series Birch - Gun Metal Sparkle finish
10x8 tom tom
12x9 tom tom
14x14 floor tom
16x16 floor tom
22x18 bass drum
14x6 Ahead Snare
Trick Pro1-V double pedal
Premier Genista drums
Zildjian snare drum & cymbals
DW9000 hardware & pedals
Vic Firth sticks
Slugpercussion Punchcollar beaters.

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