G'day.
We are on a magical quest to find a top-notch drummer, into things like Pixies, Devo, Regurgitator and Celtic Frost! It would also be tremendously advantageous if said drummist could sing harmonies and growl and stuff. If you've got your own hands and feet, and the will to rock it up with South London's premier punk-synth-pop-gumbo troupe, send me a message and we'll pretend none of this ever happened...
Cheers.
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Me sad.
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I can sort you out with a CD if you want.
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So come on you London drummers, sort it out!
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As Christina would say, he's right you know, uh uh, he's right...we are fantastic. Now come on and join us in our fantasticness.
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but theoretically i would love the job.
when can i start?
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So! Next?
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Just toremind you, a South London band needs a kick-arse rock drummer, in the habit of enjoying Pavement, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Devo, Regurgitator, Motley Crue, the Bee Gees and PRINCE. Now get on with it and lo, all will be well and Aslan will bless this frosty land with his warm sigh.
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Trees growing sideways??
Thank you !
Haha
xMx
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Trees growing sideways??
Thank you !
Haha
xMx
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No I don't mind you hijacking that message, very asertive of you to do so. Firstly I can sing and play and I love sining harmonies though I have rarely ever used it in a band situation and i'm not sure I want to start now and secondly can you get hold of me via this address as Drowned in Sound is a great site but so fucking slow. michael_frangou@ipcmedia.com
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Just look at me for christ's sake.
You know what I'm talking about.
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confused,
stockton-on-tees
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Is there ANY fucker out there that fits the bill?
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1) It's patently not true, and
2) If it WERE true, the quest for a drummer would cease upon my demise, and the band would be no better off.
So please, SINGING DRUMMERS OF LONDON (there must be a few, for crying out tits), GET THEE TO A FUNNERY and join this chuffing kick-bum band of ethereal HONK. Now! Lest I run out of ways of reiterating my desperation, and am forced to make good on my suicidal promise.
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Thankyou, Lauren! By the way...can you/this other drummer sing as well?
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We're a heavy, light, funny, serious, magical, tragical quirky synthy popcore heavy metal balladeering shouty harmonised glee-shaft. We go 'ping!' and 'whoosh!' and "BANG!' and other noises most often associated with the torture of farmyard animals. We smell of South-East London and it smells of us. The ability to DRUM and BACKING VOCALISE is needed, preferably encapsulated in the same biped humanoid. Can you help? We're gonna be famous and all that PLEEEEASE
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YOU sing and drum for us, and I won't break your mama's legs. Kapiche?
Please, we're ACHING to move on!
Cheers.
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Your handle on the English language has had me wetting my Playboy knickerlettes.
Trees growing sideways??
Thank you !
Haha
xMx
sorry I only sing and I can't drum to save my tits :(
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Your handle on the English language has had me wetting my Playboy knickerlettes.
Trees growing sideways??
Thank you !
Haha
xMx
sorry I only sing and I can't drum to save my tits :(
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*grr computer*
xMx
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Thanks, by the way :)
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* I play drums very well
* I can also sings (and play drums at the SAME TIME)
* I like the Smashing Pumpkins and the Pixies
* I'm not currently in a band
BUT
* I live in Derby
* I also like U2
Some things just not meant to be...
Soz dude.
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*weeps for Guthrie*
:o(
xMx
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Got it! Move to London. And listen to 'The Sweetest Thing' - you'll soon come to your senses.
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I woke up this morning and realised that my band are actually the future of rock. "Wouldn't it be corking," thought I, "if a (singing) drummer in (South) London would just get back to me and my band could assume its rightful place on the Gnarlèd Willow Throne of Rock Supremacy". I really thought that. No, I did. Shut up, I did.
So - (singing) drummers of (South) London, get on the ol' 'Reply' button and JOIN MY FUCKING BAND; we rock more than the Pixies, Pavement, Smashing Pumpkins, Gary Numan, the Futureheads and Boris Karloff put together. And Karloff was a badass motherfucker, I'm tellin' yous.
SING - DRUM - SQURIM WITH GLEE
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...in London.
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its the fooking funniest thread on DiS and part of me (the evil part) just doesnt want this thread to ever end...
heehee
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Stay tuned - more futile self-abasement next week. :(
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Anyone else want to dash my dreams against the rocks of despair?
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I sort of don't want you to find a drummer for another few months.
I might learn to drum, it would be nice to be in constant demand like that! The singing would never come tho..
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Why don't you want me to find a drummer? As if it wasn't hard enough to find one, you now intend to actively hinder my efforts? Cut you down, I will! With my broadsword shall I rend you a bloody twitching mess, aye!
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Come on, ye fuckers...look how late I've stayed up, waiting for a reply...
Come to think of it, does anyone know of any OTHER websites I could try? I'm sure other websites exist. Maybe one or two of them are about music...and maybe thence I could find a boom-bang-a-bang-lah-de-dah-er. Anyone?
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Ta very mucho
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OK, I'm running out of patience with you lot. Non-singing drummers don't like me, non-drumming singers don't like me, non-musical accountants, 'frinky ones' and Finns from Cornwall don't like me. WHO in the name of Bubbler Ranx is going to step into the breach and COMPLETE MY FUCKING BAND? Must I go through this humiliating parade again? Oh, very well...
BANG!
South-East London band need plop-hot drumagician to treat feet to sweet beats, lay down smoove grooves and and bish-bash-bosh to our tip-top tosh.
FLUME!
You will ideally be 5"7', of Asian descent, a dab hand with a saucepan and answer to the name Madhur Jaffrey. Sadly, 'Mads' wasn't interested, and apparently shouting "You selfish bitch" through a stranger's letterbox at 2am is'harrassment' or something. This country...
KLUTZ!
But really, we don't care who you be, what you done or wherefore you at; you are what you is, after all. You just need to drum, like things we like (which today includes the Beach Boys, Meshuggah, The Hooters and Scarfo) and be game for a laugh. It's a knockout. That's life.
REPEATS OF 'MONK' ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS!
So if this is you, fucking e-mail me you cunting breeze-block of shit. I've been expecting you...
...yeah right. As if.
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OK, anyone, really?
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My desperation has now reached such extremes that I am willing to OFFER YOU MONEY to play the drums and sing for my band. Twenty cents of leftover US holiday cash can be yours if you'll just fucking PLAY the fucking DRUMS and fucking SING a BIT.
What more do you want? Blood?!
OK, twenty cents and VIAL of my fucking GORE. Happy?
People already like us, we have a manager, some recent label interest and a great pumping fist of the finest tunery you never did hear. So please, come on now, cut me some slack...where the fuck all the singin' drummers at?
Get in touch, the usual address, etc. I expect I'll be here, spinning on my thumb and inventing synonyms for 'futile'.
Yours, at his wit's end,
Guth.
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xMx
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xMx
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*sigh* But really...you only want me for my verbiage. Oh well...
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*sigh* But really...you only want me for my verbiage. Oh well...
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:P
I want you becuase you a sexy devil in your picture *ahem*, and I wish I could drum, but I can't, so erm... yeahs.
but i don't want this thread to end it makes me laugh!! Britain's next top model makes me want to go into hiding.
xMx
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No?
No, this thread will never end.
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Girls, eh? I'll never understand 'em. Especially the frinky ones.
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So:
Oyez, oyez, come and get it. London-based pasty-faced wastes of space require improviser, vocaliser, can of Tizer.
Drum? Sing? Hate your day job? Light relief lies to the south of the Thames. If you can Grohl, Sturmer or even Collins, please, get in touch. We'll rub your back and tell you you're special.
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No one deserves a drummer more than you. Good luck in your quest.
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Any takers?
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Next?
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...hmm, OK, I'm putting you in charge of catering for the tour. Now all we need is a tour! Oh...and a drummer...anyone?
(P.S. - Thunder_Cat, check out www.mumrah.com, you Catch-It Kebabs fan, you!)
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I'm presuming you know all the members and their names but... he has joined a band in Leicester and is moving there very soon. We may go down together as I'm at uni there next week.
But his going there has nothing to do with me, like.
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www.mumrah.com
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(In case anyone else is reading this and wondering what it's all about, go to www.dothedog.com/bands.htm)
Oh, and if anyone wants to drum for my band, read the other gazillion posts above.
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See... I have more Catch-it-Kebabs 'Knowledge Points' than you. ;)
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Anyway, go to www.mumrah.com. It's scrummy - the Catch-Its themselves said so.
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:-D
And I can't get onto your site, for some reason. :(
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH come ON, Alan damn you, O come all ye faithless, joyless and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. I don't know about you, but I ain't never seen an ass like that...
...why not perch it on a leatherette-bound stool? Behind a drum kit? Four- or five-piece would do, any extra's just showing off...got cymbals? Got a BIG CRASH, a little splash and pockets full of expendable cash? Good, 'cause rehearsals ain't free, yo. Hold on, I'm not cutting to the Chevy Chase here...I'll keep it Martin Short:
South London rock band seek drummer that can sing like a n angry chaffinch, and roar like a lioness filled with the anguish that she must eat her young lest she starve. More importantly, you'll be able to drum like Alan Grohl-Haake-Chamberlin-Theodore, or just REALLY WELL. A few twists and turns here and there...some fast bits...double-kick optional. You will get the horn over Devo, XTC, the Beach Boys, Venom, The Cars, things that squeal electronically, things that chime percussively, things that yelp because you trod on them...yeah, we're like a pool full of hungry puppies, into which a barbecued horse is thrown...
...interested? Yeah? Well, where the fuck have you been? I've been asking around for ages.
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And I'm looking for accompaniment: a percusionist that can scat on the drums. And a singer that can 'do' human beatbox. But there's only enough room in the tour 'bus' (a battered Volvo estate) for one more person. So I'm looking for someone who can do the lot, and who doesn't have a fat bum. Is it you?
No?
Well AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH, come on you motherfucker, you can drum. Surely you can hold a bloody tune as well? No? Well are you really a musician then? Django Reinhardt lost the use of two of his fingers, but carried on being shit-hot on the guitar. Frank Zappa lost the treble end of his voice but kept a handle on the wonkiest melodies ever written. Rick Allen lost an arm. What's stopping you, you lazy bastard?
We need a drummer who can sing/grrr/bzzzz/skibi-dibi-dibi-yote-dodo-dote a bit. Preferably, you'll like all manner of wonk-rock - XTC, Cardiacs, Devo...but also poppy things, like Erasure, the Beach Boys, The Cardigans...and heavier, and softer, and wider, and thinner, and round-and-round-the-garden-like-a-teddy-bear. And you'll be prepared to rehearse and gig in London. Am I asking a lot? Maybe, but I've now reached the point where I'm now writing this solely for the behoof of non-singing, non-drumming DiSers who derive some sick endosmirk from my glumwoof, so what the fuss...
ANSWER ME YOU CUUUUUUUUUUUNTS
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I can't sing.
I'm still living in Paris.
So it's a big No !
Sorry !
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You are never going to get a drummer this way.
I suggest you steal one from somewhere else. Next time you are at a gig and hear a drummer you like... drug his beer or something then bundle him in a cab... take him home... chain him up then make him play for food, or calls home to his loved ones...
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OK, bum-'eads, I'm tired and less than genial.
South London band require drummer with backing-vocal capabilities to play songs of love, betrayal, curiosity and despair. We draw on similarly pretentious artists such as Pixies, Devo, Smashing Pumpkins and Black Lace to achieve our punky/poppy/wanky/AAAAAAAAARGH JUST JOIN MY BAND YOU BASTARD sound. Anyone interested, with their own kit and ideas, please leave a note below, or send me a message.
winter warmer
As the nights draws in and the chill winds of winter near,
let us spare a thought for a lone voice crying in the wilderness of South London. His is a sad plight, cast a drift without a Drummer unable to realise his dream of recording that 'difficult' second album and appearing, twenty years in dodgy channel 4 music documentaries.
So I ask all of you if you do have a drummer, even an old one you're not using any more, please think about donating it to the Guthrie Benevolent Fund.
Remember a drummer is for life not just for Christmas.
Message on behalf of the GBF.
*sob*
Thanks, gwildar...that was actually quite moving.
NEXT!
Where are you, you drummy BASTARDS?!!
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Regrets? I've had a few. One of them which oft resurges is this: several years ago, I was in Rose Morris (no, the shop) in Denmark Street. There was a pile of yellow fliers on the counter: "siKTh need a bass player". An interesting job desription and list of influences followed. I picked one up and took it home...
I never ended up applying for it. I didn't think I was good enough.
Now SiKTh are ace, and pretty darned famous.
Bollocks.
Still, in retrospect, I'm not much cop on the bass, so it was probably better that I didn't send the e-mail and saved the money. Erm...
Anyway, what I'm getting at is this: do you want to join a band that's on the cusp of greatness? Do you want to see your name up in lights? Do you want to jack it in after a couple of years for a short-lived but lucrative modelling contract? Well, fuck off then. If, however, you're a tip-top drummer with backing vocal capabilities, living in or near London, I WANT YOUR ASS, SOLDIER. Please, please, please - let me get what I want. See the last ONE HUNDRED AND SIX posts for influences, etc., and GET IN TOUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
We don't sound like the Smiths, by the way.
gunthrie
On a cold crisp halloween I was fucked on hybrid theory and made friends with a bunch of long-haired beare-d fellow. They screamed 'jooiiiinnnnnnnnnn ussssss'.
So I become at one with the hairy folk...
In other words I have tons of mates in a samba band. Samba band practice is next Thursday, at least one of them might want to try out your band.
What are you offering? And could you handle a smelly hippie drumming for your band? Let me know, and thy will find out.
...You still there?
A thought just crossed my mind Mr. Guthrie. You should take solace in some of the groups we hold in the grounds of St. Stithiens Castle, deep in the heart of deepest Bushley.
We accomodate people with such problems like you. They too, have had problems finding drummers with vocal capability.
They too, have had problems finding drummers with an affiliation to Devo.
We've found a way to re-assimilate many of the people who have come through our doors and i hope you will be another successful story of our instution.
Dr. Brett
Magical Rock Surgery
...
Jesus. Is this thread STILL going???
Yes, it is. Sadly.
Now, either you help me find a singing drummer or you can jolly well stop complaining. No Rusks for YOU!
.
If you help me find like minded musicians. Seriously, being in a bandis hard work, but forming a band is like climbing up a mountain. A big mountain. Made of glue. And velcro. When you're dressed in wool.
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Yeah. Me again. Deal with it, bitch.
London band.
'Rock' persuasion.
One drummer short.
Drummer must backing vocalise.
Sounds like: Pixies, Devo, Clor, heavy metal, synth pop, but better.
Saw The Rakes 'on Jools' tonight.
Thought I could do better.
Want to help me?
i'm still
waiting for a big package in the post.
Of what?
Are you a drug dealer?
the drumkit
nonce.
Hey!
You never said you were getting a drum kit! That's ace!
Wait...did you mean...you're waiting for me to send you one?
You rotter! Oh woe, oh woe...will my quest never meet a happy end?
buy me
a drumkit and your worries will flow down that cold river.
Pick me
I can play the triangle...
GUNTHRIE
QUICK QUICK THERE'S A DRUMMER CALLED T-SHAPE AVAILABLE! QUICK QUICK!
Ahhh...
...very thoughtful of you, but I've already contacted that guy, and it didn't work out. So the offer's still open:
want to drum and sing for my band, anyone?
(Thankyou, Marilyn)
Offical King of the Musician's Forum
Guthrie! Guthrie! Guthrie!
Thankyou, serfs.
*waves royally*
Get me out of here, Jeeves, these people smell.
i love you
gunthrie!
Ah, Marilyn...
...I do hope Santa brings you a drum kit this year. And the ability to play it. Fuck it, if we're dreaming, tap him for a record deal and a tour bus full of muffins.
the only thing
santa's brining me is coal. I'm been a bad little girl.
he
may throw in a dictionary too.
The one year anniversary
of this thread is fast approaching. Can we all club together and pay for a monkey/person/monkey-person to be trained to drum and sing for him?
c'mon man
your in london there must be tonnes of drummers!! you must be looking in the wrong places. i live in scotland which has less people and have no trouble in finding drummers, maybe we have a surplus up here, i could send some down for you if you want, you would have to pay p&p though
Soul-fart.
Most charitable of you, warny. Alas - 'tisn't going to happen. I wanted George Michael's heart last year - didn't even get that.
And I wish it were that simple, s_y_b (can I call you s_?). I remember seeing a group of Glaswegians called [cayto] a couple of times and their drummer was tip-top. AND he could sing! But I think it would be a tad unfair, not to mention impractical, to either
a) enlist the skills of someone whose travel expenses for rehearsals would cost more than the drum kit itself
or
b) mail a living person, however talented, to me, as no doubt they would arrive at best bewildered and at worst completely smashed-up.
Thankyou for the thought, though.
If I am indeed looking in the wrong places, do you perchance have any better suggestions? I've drawn a blank, despite some hefty Googlage.
Happy Anniversary!
Guthrie
cayto
are very good !
PLease stop this thread
it's doing my head in.
no way
Gunthrie is the best fucker on this board ;)
Aww.
What a sweet-feet. Thanks, manrilyn.
gwildar - don't remind me. It's so depressing.
Still looking, folks. Let me know.
manrilyn?!
The cheek, I think I'm offended.
Ha...
...no offence was intended, ma'am...I just thought you might like one of your surplus 'n's back.
Yours,
GUTHRIE
(Happy new year, by the way, Marilyn)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
I know a drummer...but she live sin Putney. She's cool as chips though!
Cool as chips?
I tend to prefer mine hot, but I'm in no position to be picky - hand her over at once. Is she any good? Available? And of the 'singing' persuasion?
Thanks, Marilyn. If it weren't for you...well, I'd still be writing this bastard thread on my own.
it's ok
I often write threads alone. She's cool, has her own drumkit and best of all lives above a pub! Her names Remi, i need to get het number from a mate then I'll pm you asap x
Ace-core!
What a star. Thankyou!
C.F
.....rules.
I am a drummist (!!!!! do you mean "drummer"?) and I can do what you are after, but a bit busy with my own band.
Regurgitator must be a grind band then!!
G.
Damn you
you little prick-tease, you. If you've got the skills to pay the gas, electricity and platypus bills, please, hook me up, yo. We've got a bass player already. Fuck your other band. Come to Butt-Head.
And no, Regurgitated are the grind band. Regurgitator are more...eclectic.
Regurgitated have the better album artwork, naturally.
guthrie?
do you live here? Is the musician's board you're domain?
I know a few drummers into you're kinda stuff. I would offer myself cept i'm mega outta shape drum wise, and this bastard uni thing i frequent. good luck on your quest.
This thread has been going for over a year now
and you still haven't found a drummer? Man trying to form a band is difficult. Trust me I know.
I think maybe this exceedingly long thread is making everyone believe you're not serious.
I can assure you...
...I am. And it's frustrating me to the point of tears.
hollywood_freak, do me a lemon as we Londoners are purported to say and put me in touch with some of these drummers you know, or vice versa, please! See 'tears', above.
Here we go again.
It's wince o'clock. Here I am, settling into the my-bum-shaped groove of the computer chair, racking my brains for yet another synonym for 'help me find a drummer'. Nothing comes to mind. Why did Alan Drownedinsound set up a 'Musicians' forum? Perhaps he was expecting a 'music'-themed site would attract more qualified practitioners of 'music'. And yet where are they all? There are umpteen people on here crying out for band members, drummers especially, and though I've been wailing the loudest for over a year, still no-one has stepped forth and taken up the throne and twin sceptres of Drumdon. Has anyone who advertised on here had any luck? Or are all the musicians on here already in bands, seeking that elusive last member? Oh I don't know. You'd think that I'd just give up and become an accountant. But I'm crap at maths. So I have to keep trying.
What ho, chums, and welcome to the show. This week on 'Guthrie No-Mates' we're making a very special request. We're looking for a percussionist (that's French for 'drummer'). But not just any drummer - we're looking for a drummer that can sing. No, don't rush to the phone yet, Meg White - we need a drummer who can sing WHILST DRUMMING. Sit down, Meg. Does this sound like you? Well, wait. Let me introduce you to Guthrie. Guthrie?
"Hi."
Now, Guthrie, I understand you've been looking for a singing drummer for...how long?
"Over a year now, Nicky."
Right. And have you had any interest at all?
"Well, a couple of people got in touch, but they either didn't really like the music or they just weren't able to sing at drum at the same time."
Yes, I understand that 'singing-and-drumming-at-the-same-time' is pretty essential for your band, isn't it?
"Yes, Nicky, it is."
Have you asked, maybe, Rahzel?
"Yes, but he said he's too busy with The Roots and Bjork and Mike Patton at the moment. Plus his 'cymbal' sound isn't very convincing."
Alright. So give us an idea of what you're lookiong for.
"OK, well I'm too desperate to impose age restrictions or anything like that, so really, just anyone who can drum and sing in London who's into Pixies, Devo, Biffy Clyro, that sort of stuff. It's basically punky-ballady-prog-synth-mash with a sense of humour and no dress code."
Haha, that's a catchy way of putting it. Well, good luck, Guthrie, and thankyou for joining us.
"Tha-"
Can YOU help? Perhaps you're a singing drummer who's just parted ways with your old band. Maybe you were singing and drumming in a band years ago, but gave it up, and now you want your rock back - remember there are no age restrictions here. Or maybe you know someone who's just left university with a music degree, and they're looking to dedicate themselves to a shit-hot London-based gumbo-rock troupe. Maybe none of these, maybe all of them. If you can help, please, please get in touch. With your help, we can put an end to the misery of people like Guthrie.
And that's all we have time for this week. Until next time - be aggressive. Goodnight!
do you a lemon?
will make a few calls, see if any are interested. I'll just say go here...
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/144171
That would be...
...FANDABIDOZI. Sir Thanksalot.
Look, I can sing and I can drum
send me some MP3s or links to them.
Ho hum...
...that didn't work out either, folks. I'm about to blow my brains out with a bicycle pump. Please help me.
my drummer friend in skiing
I suggest you buy me a drumkit. Either that or get a fecking drum machine and wheel in Stephen Hawking.
not in skiing, rather is skiing. She's doing my swede in.
and who the fuck are celtic frost
Damn, damn, damn.
If I could afford to, and there was any chance of you being good enough on it to gig within a few months, I would, O Generous Marilyn. Your friend's a knob. I'm a knob. Celtic Frost are knobs.
www.taste-of-black.ch/images/celtic_frost.jpg
drums, etc
I play drums and sing, at the same time. Got any demos, websites?
Guthrie!
Interest! Check it!
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I'm on the mofo.
:)
Fuck! Another dead end...
...which is, incidentally, what I may be reaching shortly if no-one turns up and offers some singy-drummy skillz. YOU! You're new here. Read the start of this thread and then tell me you want to join my band. Please.
Look, dunno how stuck you are
but where you based as I know a really good drummer who hasn't had a band in ages. He used to be the old drummer in my old band until he had a row with our lead singer (as did everyone). Dunno if you're interested, or he is for that matter. What type of music are you? THIS THREAD MUST END.
why gunthrie is Amazing
A-hahahahaha.
Methinks you just want rid of me...but if you're serious, and there really is a singing drummer in London just ambling about, please, moker, point 'em thisaway. We play punky/poppy/metally/proggy synth-pop with two-(hopefully three-)part harmonies and choruses you can sing along to as long as you know the words.
Jeepers!
There's been a recent spate of DRUMMERS on this 'ere board (yes, I've left each of them my name, of course), but rather than type out the last 140 or so posts again, I'm bumping this back up to the top in the hope that said drummers will checkidy-check it. Come on, drummers! I was about to give in and knock back the Domestos until I went on here! GET IN TOUCH!
I bet...
anyone who got inspired to become a singing drummer after seeing this thread when it started are really good now.
But to rub it in they all don't live in London :-D
Oh my god
Ok, I've just read all of this and I've got to be in a band with this motherfucker,he's genius. Where the fuck do I sign? I'm in Essex but will travel in,play the drums a bit and am willing to give it a go with the vox, fuck it,I may not be exactly what ya loooking for but what is there to lose? It's worth a try innit?
FUUUUUUUUNK!
Is this for real? Are you what the do you mean what is? Wow ow ow ow!!! Could it be that my zesty quest is finally nearing its bendy end?! YOU, Turbs, are getting a message RIGHT up yer 'ooter RIGHT now! YEEEEAH! Thankyooooooooooooooooou!
your first album me be called
Ace-o London band need singing drummer
*must be
I love how Guthrie was checking his thread at past 3 in the morn.
I don't want this thread to die. Turbo must be stopped!
well
...I'm about to write a message now,soon as Eastenders is finished. I don't want this thread to die now I've read it either,it can't whatever the outcome!
Now you're worrying me...
...you're not one of marcofella's evil drones, are you? Hell-bent on prolonging my suffering? Hmm...
So what if it's gone 3am? I still need a drummer. I need a drummer for all hours, man. I'm like Prince. If I wake up in the middle of the night, haveing dreamt about a pneumatic drill which has subsequently inspired me to write a song that goes DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN, that drummer needs to be in that studio in his jim-jams, man, cup o' black coffee, slippers, pounding out mah tasty beatage.
Oh - and I can't sleep.
You'll never guess what...
...I was on my way to the oxygen pump today when I tripped over a broken paving stone, upturning it in the process. I picked myself up and glanced back at what I'd stumbled on. I noticed that the slab appeared to be glowing...
I kicked a few concrete shards aside and a bright light was clearly coming from beneath the pavement. I knelt down and peered throught the hole.
No.
It couldn't be.
I cleared a few more loose shards with my cuff.
My goodness! Is it...is it possible?
I beat the remaining slab with my fist and it fell throught the hole. My face was suddenly illuminated, and I found myself staring down into a room, perhaps no bigger than a large garden shed, teeming with all the singing drummers in Britain, laughing, joking, trying on eachother's hats. THEY HAD BEEN HIDING FROM ME FOR OVER A YEAR. Anyway, I was about to jump for joy when the I dislodged an adjacent paving stone by accident and it fell into the room, landing on Roger Taylor's head. He yelped, hoarsely. Phil Collins looked up and said "Oi!", then they all looked up and began running away. I don't know where they ran to. Probably their new hiding-place which I won't uncover for another year.
So - I'm back to square one. Would any drummers who can sing who are in or near London who like Queen, Pavement and/or Devo and who are not wankers like to join my band? Please?
bonjour
Hello Guthrie.
Do I play drums? Yes.
Do I sing? Yes.
Do I do both at the same time, and have done before in a band? Yes.
Has my old band effectively split up due to a lack of talent/commitment on the part of two players? Yes.
Am I forming a band with kids my age (16)? Yes.
BUT am I still open to other offers? Yes
Do I live in London? Yes.
Do I like Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, The Rakes, The Beatles, Blur, XTC, Bloc Party, The Clash, Pulp, Foo Fighters, The Libertines, The Automatic, Black Wire, Maximo Park, The Research, Jimi Hendrix, The Futureheads, Graham Coxon, the Blood Arm, The Lodger, The Who, Franz Ferdinand, The Kinks, Wire, Arctic Monkeys, The Chalets, We Are Scientists, The Strokes, Supergrass, Queen, Pixies and Dexy's Midnight Runners? Yes.
Is my e-mail address jadedickinson@gmail.com? Yes.
Incidentally.. am I of Asian descent? Yes, and my both my mum and English dad cook a mean curry. (a friendly tasty one, not a nasty bully of a curry)
!?!??!???!??!?!!!?!?!?!
Where the fuck have you been?!! You're getting an e-mail right the fuck right now, motherfucker! FUCK!
was it a match made in singing drummer heaven?
i feel we have a right to know.
for guthrie's sake; i hope so
for the thread; i hope so too.
having a drummer could take this to whole new levels of entertainment...