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Super proud to have joined the Snareweight family! These incredible little tools have been a huge part of my sound (if you haven’t heard them, think the wallet, but better) since one decided to come home with me after a show in Manchester, way back in 2016. I took my snare out of its case and

Drums, percussion and production on ‘FUML’ by Evan Torrente.

I am very proud to announce that I have joined the Big Fat Snare Drum family. I can’t think of a show or studio session over the past few years that I haven’t used their remarkable tools. These photos were taken for BFSD in Jackson, MI, as a man in a trilby shouted over to

86 dates, beginning in New York for a sold out Union Pool, then to Austin, TX for five shows at SXSW, a Europe tour, America tour, Barcelona for Primavera and carrying on around Europe for shows and festivals with Thurston Moore and DIIV, Canadian festivals, New York at Baby’s All Right, European festivals, finishing up

Drums, percussion and production for ‘Goodbye Suzie Q’ by Evan Torrente.

Drums and percussion for ‘I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me’, the debut LP from King Hannah. King Hannah’s debut album, I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me, presents a group whose hearts belong to the American South, projecting their songs onto a desolate desert backdrop of broken-down blues and voodoo grooves.  Pitchfork Read

Drums and percussion for All Being Fine by King Hannah. “Flickering between stark realism and offbeat humour, expect tales from the Wirral Peninsula set to Americana desert sprawls. A Well-Made Woman sits somewhere between Mazzy Star’s sultry folk and Tom Waits’ sparse bar room theatrics” Hero Magazine Read the Fader review here. Read the Paste

Drums and percussion for A Well-Made Woman by King Hannah. ‘A Well-Made Woman’ finds Whittle’s dexterous scorched guitars decorate voodoo rhythms, while Merrick’s deeply sinister and darkly sardonic vocals slither and deliver a twist in the tail. “I wanna be a mother one day…something tells me I’ll be waiting a long, long, long time”. God Is In

Photos taken across 2021 in sessions for King Hannah.

Live Stream performance with King Hannah for Grauzone Festival 2021. State Trooper The Sea Has Stretch Marks Crème Brûlée

Co-production and mix for Evan Torrente.

Amdek were a range of DIY FX kits made by Boss in the 1980s. The HCK-100 Hand Clapper is an 808-esque clap in a box, with a variation on the 808/909 circuit.  This pack, sampled to 1/4” mastering tape through classic Neve preamps, features 3 pitches with 3 different reverb settings for each (dry, short

The MT-500 PCM-based keyboard, released in 1986 by Casio features 8bit drum samples and the oh-so-tubular ‘Super Drums’ engine.  Delivering infectiously punchy, lo-fi drums, the MT-500 has been multi-sampled to 1/4” mastering tape through classic Neve preamps into easy-use One-Shots and Loops for DAW production and audio samplers.  24bit WAV’s, organised into clear, easy-use folders.

October 2021 Tour Dates with King Hannah. OCT 16 SAT District @ 7:00pm Liverpool, United Kingdom OCT 20 WED Yes @ 7:00pm Manchester, United Kingdom OCT 21 THU Hyde Park Book Club @ 7:00pm Leeds, United Kingdom OCT 22 FRI Broadcast @ 7:00pm Glasgow, United Kingdom OCT 23 SAT Star And Shadow Cinema @ 7:00pm Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom OCT 24 SUN The Cookie @

Drums for King Hannah’s cover of State Trooper by the ever-iridescent Bruce Springsteen. Released under City Slang Records.

Remote Drums and Percussion for UK/AUS artist Jack Burn, with additional sound design. This is final track from a series of four releases with Jack.

Remote Drums and Percussion for UK/AUS artist Jack Burn, with additional sound design.

Drums and Percussion, and.. I joined the band! Released under City Slang Records. ‘Tell Me Your Mind And I’ll Tell You Mine’ sounds like late nights and early mornings, from the beauty and closeness of acoustic guitar in opener “And Then Out Of Nowhere, It Rained”, to the final immersive thicket of distorted guitars in “Reprise (Moving

Drums and Additional Production for UK band King Hannah, their first release under City Slang Records. Read Clash review here. Read Circuit Sweet review here.

Remote Drums and Percussion for UK artist Jack Burn, with additional sound design.

Additional Drums for Gibraltar / UK artist Evan Torrente.

Remote Drums and Percussion for Liverpool based band Motel Sundown.

Remote Drums and Percussion for UK artist Jack Burn, with additional sound design. https://ditto.fm/timezones

Remote Session for South African Singer / Songwriter Julia Church. Listen to the ‘Drum Only’ end-of-session bounce on the player below.