Playing with a drum kit in a large Trad band is controversial enough and here I explain the approach of the rhythm section by doing a video analysis of 5 Kíla tracks and the rhythmic influences we take from around the world.
' I was able to get 2 Artist AAA laminates, one extra one for my great friend Liam, who had to go around, also as Dave Hingerty. He was enjoying that I can tell you. Free booze backstage, and hanging out with, and having breakfast and dinner in the same room as, the likes of Lou Reed and Nick Cave, and making up tall stories to people who thought he was me'.
“This is stuff our dads wouldn’t have talked about.”
Happy new year! In 2023, I aim to occasionally recall stories from the vaults including great or strange experiences I had with such luminaries as Trevor Horn, Bobby Womack, Pete Townsend, Steve Albini...and well, in this case below...Chris Martin. 'Clank'!
Someone on the coach noticed I had 25 spare tickets to the World Cup quarter final 1990 that the travel company asked me to tout outside the Stadio Olimpico which was surrounded by police horses and helicopters. I asked this large tough streetwise red haired Dubliner to help me sell them.
'So, I’m upholding that promise and will learn the songs even though another drummer is doing the gigs presently. Madness I know, but I actually enjoy it. Headphones, great music, drums, pen and paper. Heavenly'.