Bill (Drums)

Bought up in South East London, started playing drums at around 7 years of age on pots and pans after watching a holiday camp band and getting hooked. Later played with a local marching band where he was able to refine his rudiments by playing the side drum. Bill had some excellent tutorage along the way from the likes of jazz drummers Dave Barry, Tony Marsh and Colin Woolway (Suzy Quotro). 

In 1982 he met with Mike (bass) and went on to form a band called The Force, playing original music and playing to reasonable sized crowds at London venues such as The Half Moon Putney, Half Moon Herne Hill, Fulham Greyhound etc. Dave later joined the Band and we went on to play at some bigger venues including a support gig with Bad Manners at Hatfield Poly. We later changed our style to that of a covers band and had an opportunity to share the stage with the legendary Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze playing a good number of his material in front of a packed audience, a great privilege. Also played with Buddy Curtis And The Grasshoppers, a semi successful mid 80’s R n R band and The 3 Masons

Equipment Used:-

Drums : Mapex - Saturn series maple.in emerald green sparkle.

Cymbals : Zidjan

Hardware:Mapex and Pearl. Big Dog Double pedal, Iron Cobra single pedal

Sticks:Vic Firth 5b