A recent article on the Sistema Europe website has put the spotlight on Sistema In Norwich’s ‘Performance Project’ – a brand new Sistema initiative for 2018-19. Over the course of 12 concerts and just under a year and a half,…
Exam Success: Christmas Term 2018
I am delighted to be able to report another term of exam successes for my students – with candidates taking exams on piano and on drums, ranging from Initial Grade up to Grade 5, with a 100% pass rate once…
One last party for Gillingham’s Excalibur Nightclub
Delighted to be back at the King Charles Hotel in Gillingham tonight, to celebrate the legacy of the legendary Excalibur Nightclub – which, in its heyday between 1989 and 1998, hosted artists such as The Prodigy, Salt N Pepa, Rick…
Hunters Quay ’90s Weekender
A few of the great pictures from three consecutive nights of Ultra ’90s Fresh at the ’90s Weekender at Hunters Quay in Argyll. All photos by Ken Clark.
The Pisces Rising at Summer In The City
I am delighted to announce that I’ll be playing percussion in a live orchestral performance for The Pisces Rising – a popular YouTube channel which re-orchestrates well-known theme tunes into large, epic-sounding masterpieces – at this year’s Summer In The…
Lack of updates…
I don’t generally make ‘New Years resolutions’ – but one thing I did want to do as of the start of this year was to update this page more, and be more active here. So far, not so good…! So…
Digital release: Jamie Roe Band – Reach For The Tide
It may have been made eighteen months ago… But the inaugural Jamie Roe Band EP – ‘Reach For The Tide’ – is finally available online! The four track EP showcases some of the early songwriting work of the band, and…
Ultra ’90s Jam launches Saturday 6th May
It has been a pleasure to play drums and percussion for Ultra ’90s – the hugely popular, one-of-a-kind ’90s dance tribute show show from PX Productions – for several years now; and when the show expanded in 2015 to include two lineups, I was delighted…
Keyboard Camp 2017 a huge success!
The first time I’ve got ’round to sitting down to write about it, even though it was now three weeks ago… (After Keyboard Camp finished, it was straight into four gigs over three days that weekend; an exhausting four-day studio…
Ten Years, No Day Job
March 2017 is something of a landmark for me, so here is a short piece of writing (and a few old pictures) all about it. It was back in March 2007 that I officially declared myself ‘a professional musician’. Nothing…