PRESS RELEASE: A brand new music exhibition and education conference dedicated to music making is taking place in Manchester this November.
The Music Show will take place at Manchester Central on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th November 2013 and will promote the benefits of music and showcase...
Musicians from across the country have rallied round a Truro drummer donating hundreds of pounds so that he can buy a new drum kit after his disappeared from a garage.
Darren Curgenven, who has been playing drums for 15 years, was devastated when his specialist Yamaha beech kit went missing...
If you haven’t already heard, it’s that time of the year again and we will soon be opening for entries to the 2014 Young Drummer of the Year Competition.
Entries will open on October 1st 2013 and will close on November 1st 2013.
Now in it’s 12th year, the competition...
Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward is still hard at work on his new solo album. However, it’s unclear when the musician hopes to have the new tracks ready for his fans.
Although Ward didn’t help out with Black Sabbath’s album 13 or the reunion tour, this doesn’t mean that...
Former Baroness drummer Allen Blickle, who left the band after sustaining major injuries in a bus crash in 2012, has re-emerged with a new project alongside his ex-step brother Juston Nuckois called Alpaca.
But it doesn’t sound quite how you’d expect.
Alpaca presents a strange...
Drummer Zac Hanson was ushering out a man who somehow managed to sneak onto the band’s tour bus while they were on stopover in Seattle on Monday.
In a video posted by TMZ, the man grabs onto Zac’s leg before the musician gently pushes him out the door.
The ousted intruder...
Nick Menza’s gruesome altercation with a circular saw blade left doctors, along with Menza himself, unsure if the musician would ever be able to play drums again. Thankfully, due to some surgical steel, Menza recovered and is currently performing with his eponymous project, Menza, along with another...
Sepultura’s Iggor Cavalera has been convinced by James Murphy to form “a metal version of the White Stripes” with his brother Max.
Iggor, 42, the Brazilian tribal funk-metal drummer who sold 20m records around the world with his former band, Sepultura, has been living in England...
Original Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says he could easily be talked into reuniting with his bandmates. Speaking with NME, Mason admitted he’d be ready to jump on a Floyd tour at a moment’s notice, but he’s not optimistic about it actually happening.
“I would do it,...
Two-time Guinness World Record holder Russ Prager hopes to break a drum marathon record while drumming for disaster relief. He’ll have to keep up the beat at the Quaker Steak and Lube until nearly 3 a.m. Tuesday to be a success.
According to Guinness rules, he can drum continuously for...
Musicians past and present are set to pay their respects at the funeral of legendary Southampton drummer Roger Pope today.
Roger, who played with Rod Stewart, Elton John and Paul McCartney, died from cancer earlier this month hours after tying the knot with long-term partner Sue Tressider in...
New music coming from the Beethovens of metal Slipknot has been teased in the last few months, and now drummer Joey Jordison has confirmed that not only is a new album in the making but work on it has already commenced.
Currently doing the press rounds to promote the self-titled debut album...
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason said the music industry has finally accepted streaming services, but added that there is still a tension between the record labels and the artists.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal Tech Cafe in the heart of London’s Tech City, Mr. Mason said the band, which...
41 Store St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7DB, starts Wednesday 2nd October 12-2pm.
Foote’s is pleased to announce lunchtime ‘Acoustic Open Mic’ sessions with The Icarus Club starting 2nd October (and the 1st Wednesday of every month thereafter).
Started in 2007, The Icarus Club runs...
Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders has admitted that he broke his hand by punching a wall while drunk, causing him to miss out on recording sessions for new album AM.
The band had to bring Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas while Helders recovered, who spoke about the injury in an interview with...
