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Contents Masthead 10 No Hazmat Catfsh and the Bottlemen’s Bob Hall 18 Maximilism Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier 28 A Revival Inside Revival Drum Shop Subscribe 37 Peter Erskine Time Pressure Win! 46 This Is A Tribute CONTENTS Te Drum Set and Impersonation 55 Art Blakey’s Greatest Triumph Issue Fourteen, Autumn 2016 By Darryl Tracey 59 Carmine Appice Heavy Hitter Editor: Tom Hoare [email protected] Design: Luke Douglas [email protected] Social: Vicky Batrak Proof Reader: David Smith Contributors: Darryl Tracy, Julia Kaye Photographers: Ellius Grace, Jordan Curtis Hughes, Bob Hall, Photo by David Langley Max Respect: Jef Consi, Dan Wiseman, Matt Budd, Luis Cardoso, Ellie Shapiro, Rob Grad, Katie Bursey, Kate Darracott, Elspeth Leadbetter, Beto Benitez, Flora Hodson, Elaine Smith, Julia, Greg, Ben Smith, Tomas Barth, Ryan Swift, Norbert Saemann, Michele Melrose, Tracy Hoeft, Carol Ross, Christian DiGirolamo, Sarah Avrin MASTHEAD Cover Illustration: Michael Parkin www.parkinparkin.com Issue Fourteen, Autumn 2016 Copyright © Te Drummer’s Journal 2016 Te proprietors and contributors to Te Drummer’s Journal have asserted their right under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identifed as the owners and authors of this work. 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A particular highlight was opening a you invited me to spend a Friday night watching four ffty- festival dressing room door to fnd a large, hairy something men, clad in studded leather, impersonating TWelshman wearing nothing except thigh-high leather KISS in a feld in the pouring rain, I’d likely decline such stiletto boots and fshnet tights, carefully applying black an ofer. But it was absolutely great. and white makeup to his face. Some of the other people in this issue can probably relate to “If you’re looking for Peter Criss, he’s gone for a slash,” he being told that, on paper, their ideas may not work. Greg stated, quite matter-of-factly, without so much as looking Saunier of Deerhoof (page 18) played strange, experimental away from the dressing room mirror. I nodded and quietly and improvisational rock music in San Francisco for six shufed backwards out of the door. years before people began paying attention. Jose Mendeles (page 28) started a drum shop in Portland that trades It wasn’t the actual Peter Criss - the long-time KISS exclusively in vintage percussion with little more than a drummer - I was looking for, but another Welshman clipboard. Bob Hall, of Catfsh and the Bottlemen (page named Matt whose job it is to impersonate him. “You met 10), has led an indie revival when most of the press had Gene then?” Matt joked when I fnally caught up with written indie music of as having died a painful death. him. “At least he had his makeup on, eh?” Perhaps the best example is Art Blakey (page 55), who For the three days, I’d been walking around a festival where rallied against the emergence of white, highbrow, elitist the line up was comprised strictly of the country’s best jazz in 1950s America, and brought it back to its roots. tribute bands, speaking to their respective drummers. It was difcult to have a boring conversation, so we included Welcome to Issue 14 of Te Drummer’s Journal. a few on page 46. Plus the dog had a great time. Tom. Sideshow Bob is among the most iconic Simpsons characters. He’s an evil genius, intent on exacting revenge on Bart. In the beginning, Sideshow Bob was BOB never meant to be a recurring character. Twenty-seven seasons later, he’s become part of the HALL fabric of Springfeld. It’s been said that Catfsh and No Hazmat the Bottlemen’s Bob Hall has a Words By Tom Hoare passing resemblance to Sideshow Photography by Jordan Curtis Hughes Bob. Bob - the real Bob - takes this as a compliment. “It’s the hair,” he grins. THE DRUMMER’S JOURNAL 11 hen Catfsh and the Bottlemen released their debut Te Drummer’s Journal: I’ve only just realised that, although album in 2014, some wrote them of as an indie you’re from Wales, you don’t have a Welsh accent… band who were too late to the party. It’s true they Bob Hall: Both my parents are from Shefeld. I think that’s madeW no secret about drawing infuence from a time when the whole nature-nurture thing right there. I grew up in North the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand were regular Wales, a little town called Llandudno. I just don’t sound like I fxtures in the charts. Tis doesn’t really seem like that long ago, did. but the intervening years were enough for every teenage band with skinny jeans and guitars to wander into the wilderness and Was it the kind of place where everyone knows everything never return. about everyone? Yeah, this is why it is strange to come back sometimes. You think, According to Google Trends, ‘indie landfll’ was a term that “I’ve not been home in a while,” but frst appeared in 2006, with its usage peaking in 2009. It was when you get back very little has employed mostly by the press to lament the eye-watering excess ever changed, which is nice. But of bands whose careers, when plotted onto a graph, looked like yeah, there is also a lot of everyone you’d asked your average four-year-old to draw Mount Everest. knows each other’s business. “We said yes to By 2010, it would seem all the national newspapers had got Does it have a music venue? everything. And together and collectively decided this was the year that indie Tere was one but I’m not sure I’d music could ofcially be declared dead. Tere was little call it a venue. In some ways, that was sometimes that complaint. Te Hoosiers volunteered to be placed into a rocket a good thing because, when we were meant playing to and shot into space. Balance had been restored to the force. Te starting out with the band, it forced music industry and the music-purchasing public could move on. us to travel to venues elsewhere. It five people.” made travelling not a big deal. We’d You can probably see now why Catfsh and the Bottlemen – four play in the pubs in diferent coastal early twenty-somethings who play catchy, guitar-driven rock towns every week, then we’d try to music - were, initially, not met with open arms. Some criticised save enough money to do a two- them for doing little more than fogging a dead horse. In reality, week tour. With small venues when you’ve taken in travelling Catfsh and the Bottlemen were what the British indie scene really expenses and hotels, you’re not going to make any money. needed, a band with the foundations to actually create something worthwhile, as opposed to salvaging scraps from the dump. Did the pubs not just want you to play covers, though? Tey’d say things like, “We need two 45 minute sets, top 40 sort of In May 2016, Catfsh’s second album, Te Ride, debuted at stuf.” So we said, “We’ll play three 45 minute sets but it’s all going number one in the UK. to be our own tunes.” And it got to a point where people would come up at the end of the set and be like, “What was that song?” Tat helped us fgure out the songs people liked. We’d take the ten most popular songs, take them on tour and play them in venues. THE DRUMMER’S JOURNAL 12 13 You must have had some of those graveyard gigs… You entered the Young Drummer of the Year contest back in Oh, yeah. Tat’s what people never see really. We get a lot of the day, right? “You just came out of nowhere!” But really, there were six years I was nowhere near the standard of the kids who enter now, prior to us getting recognised when we were gigging four nights though. I went back last year to watch. Tere was this ten-year- a week. We said yes to everything. And sometimes that meant old on frst - which is nerve wracking enough - and he walks playing to fve people. But you can’t let doing a gig like that put out, sits behind the kit and just stares into the crowd for what you of.

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