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1.
What is your fondest childhood memory? Playing in the drum band at
primary school.
2. What were you like at high school? I was
probably shy, idealistic, and slightly arrogant.
3. When did you know that a musical career was what you
wanted? When I was about five.
4. With all the attention the band has been getting it has
to be hard to avoid developing an ego. Who or what keeps you grounded?
Being in the music business for so long is a lesson in ego control anyway. I
think I went through that phase earlier and therefore I developed a
healthy disrespect for it which is my 'grounding' force.
6. What are you passionate about? Music, art,
literature, human rights, animal rights and my family and
friends, and not necessarily in that order.
7. What is your philosophy on life? I'm not sure
if a have just one, but it would involve treating everyone
how one would want to be treated and it would also involve accepting weakness
and strength and facing the contradictions and struggles in life with optimism.
8. Tell us something about yourself that would surprise
us... I use to play football...
9. How do you respond to the critics? Critics
have their place, I don't mind informed criticism but I detest
the other kind.
10. Where do you see yourself 10 yrs from now?
I'd like to still be able to make music and write.
11. What advice would you give young drummers who want
to make it in the industry? Start writing songs
and join as many bands
as you can.
12. What's Invertigo's song writing method's? For example
- write the lyrics, find the music to match or
vice-a-versa? We write
in several different ways. Sometimes it's lyrics first, or chords first or a
guitar riff first or a drum feel, it depends on the kind of song and where the
inspiration is coming from.
13. Where's your favourite place to be? In my
studio.
14. If you could say one thing to Keith Moon, what would
it be? "I think you partied a little too hard."
15. What's it feel like to be the featured drummer in the
current issue of 'Drumscene Magazine'?
It feels amazing and is something I dreamt about when I was a child, it is one of the most exciting things that has happened to me personally.
Part Two
* Favourite movie? 'The Hunger', 'Wings Of Desire', 'The Kids Are Alright', 'Last Tango In Paris', 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'...etc
* Favourite song? ''One' U2, 'Life In A Northern Town' Dream Academy, 'Nails In My Feet' Crowded House, 'Rock 'n' Roll All Night' Kiss....etc
* Favourite Pseudo Echo song? 'Destination Unknown' and 'Over Tomorrow'
* Best thing a fan has ever done for you? Created a website for me!
* Favourite food? Anything that doesn't involve the inhumane killing of animals.
* Favourite cartoon character? Batman
* Your dream band? Invertigo
* How many drum kits do you own? Two
* What's one thing you can't do without on the road? A book
* What's one song you wish you had written? Yesterday - The Beatles, When Doves Cry - Prince, Wonderwall - Oasis
* Do you feel fame comes with a price? Everything does.
* Your stuck in a lift with three people for 2 hrs - who would they be and why? Jesus, Charles Bukowski
and Catherine Denurve.
* What's your most embarrassing moment? I fell off a drum stool while playing in a band some years ago -
I went to stand up but fell over instead.
* What was the first record you bought? A record by Sandy Nelson who was a drummer in the fifties and sixties.