Here are a selection of videos of rehearsals, TV Sessions, and live shows from the last few years of touring. As you can see by the different videos, I like diversity in my playing, from pop, to folk, so math/post rock, as it keeps me on my toes, and (I feel) improves me as a musician.
William Bowerman, Drum Rehearsals, 12/09/08.
Back when I lived up in Nottinghamshire, I used to practice in an primary school when all the teachers and pupils had gone home, and the cleaners were cleaning! I wrote a lot of my drum parts for Brontide in this room, and also practiced a lot of my Bright Light, Bright Light parts. This video is me playing my drum parts for the Brontide song MFBT.
La Roux on Christmas Top Of The Pops, BBC1, 25/12/09.
Here is the footage of me performing Christmas Top of The Pops with La Roux. We turned up to the filming and everyone was taking it far too seriously. We decided to go the other way and dress as christmas characters. I chose the elf...a good choice, I'm sure you'll agree?! I play an electronic set up with La Roux. They wanted the set up to look more like an electronic percussion rig, so I play standing up, with the kick drum on a backing track. This performance with Vocals to track, as are all top of the pops performances. This Youtube video has flipped over, I am not playing left handed.
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Vox - Elly Jackson,
Keys - Michael Norris,
Keys - Mickey O'Brien.
Brontide at New Slang, London, 12/11/08.
Here is a live video of me performing with Brontide at the end of 2008 in London. It was one of our first shows, and this video was filmed by the lovely people at Beatcast TV. As you can see, Brontide revolves a lot around loops and layering the guitar parts. It is a great but fun challenge to have to stay in time with these to keep the song together, especially this show, where I didn't have a monitor!
Guitar - Tim Hancock,
Bass - Nathan Fairweather.
La Roux on T4 Stars of 2009, Channel 4, 29/11/09.
This video was filmed in November 2009 at T4 Stars of 2009. We performed the track Bulletproof which went Number 1 in June of the same year. This show was at Earls Court Arena and was aired live on Channel 4.
Vox - Elly Jackson
Keys - Michael Norris
Keys - Mickey O'Brien
I Was A Cub Scout, Pink Squares music video, 20/11/07
Here is the video for Pink Squares by I Was A Cub Scout, directed by the wonderful Bugsy and Ross at One In Three. This was a long day filming in November 2007, from 6am until about midnight, and the day before my first european tour. The video is very drum heavy, which made for a busy day, which for drummers in a music video is usually unheard of. There were loads of snare drums on the shoot, and a scene on a revolving wheel where I have to hit all the drums, a hightlight of the day to say the least!
Vox - Todd Marriott
Jim Moray at BBC Folk Awards 2009, 02/02/09.
This video is the Jim Moray performance at the 2009 BBC Folk Awards. Jim was up for a number of awards, and was asked to perform his later-that-night award winning rendition of Andy Partridge's All You Pretty Girls. We hired a brass section for the day, and Jim asked a lot of his friends and family on to the stage to sing the backing vocals! I was in control of the laptop and track for this song.
Vox - Jim Moray
Violin - James Delare
Box - Nick Cooke