March Of The Drummer
Our Favourite Drummers And Their Bands
Here are our favourite drummers with the bands that they power so skilfully. Keep checking back - we'll be adding to the gallery as we march through March!
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Drums Of The Day #31
Keith Moon destroys drumming as we know it - literally. It's that famous 'My Generation' meltdown.
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Drums Of The Day #30
Look out! It's a funk attack, courtesy of Chad Smith and the Chili Peppers...
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Drums Of The Day #29
Tre Cool is a Basket Case... Green Day prove that punk's not dead.
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Drums Of The Day #28
Husker Du destroy the '60s dream. USING DRUMS.
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Drums Of The Day #27
Who is that masked drummer? Why it's Queens Of The Stone Age's secret weapon...
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Drums Of The Day #26
Same as it ever was... David Byrne does the idiot dance again for 'Once In A Lifetime'.
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Drums Of The Day #25
Shouty, sweaty men punching each other. Fugazi: the sound of angry young DC.
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Drums Of The Day #24
Charlie Watts on cowbell. How The Rolling Stones made everything seem effortless.
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Drums Of The Day #23
John Bonham: truly the greatest ever. Kneel before The Beast.
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Drums Of The Day #22
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal. Bill Ward invented heavy metal drumming. Don’t bother arguing. You are wrong.
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Drums Of The Day #21
Cowbell? Ha, ha ha. Stop laughing. This is RAGE. Against The Machine, natch.
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Drums Of The Day #20
Slipknot - eight rubber-masked bringers of extreme noise terror. And a powerhouse drummer.
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Drums Of The Day #19
Cherub-faced Billy Corgan brings the Cherub Rock.
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Drums Of The Day #18
The riff that launched a thousand foam-fingers-in-the-air moments... 'We Will Rock You' by Queen...
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Drums Of The Day #17
The masked marauders Slipknot in one of their typical aural assaults... 'Left Behind'.
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Drums Of The Day #16
You’ll be Running To The Hills when you get an earful of some classic Iron Maiden. ARF!
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Drums Of The Day #15
It's Salford's drum 'n' bass combo... The Ting Tings with the surprisingly flashy 'Shut Up And Let Me Go'...
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Drums Of The Day #14
The Grunge Ringo is back. And he's got his own band. The Foo Fighters, in fact. Here's 'Monkey Wrench'. Woo!
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Drums Of The Day #13
Sisters Of Mercy's Doktor Avalanche... the mystery drummer that nobody has ever seen. Ooh.
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Drums Of The Day #12
The greatest drummer in the world. And Buddy Rich. Muppet drumming madness.
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Drums Of The Day #11
Fancy something OTT and theatrical? Step forward Muse and their 'Knights Of Cydonia'....
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Drums Of The Day #10
Big song. Big drums. It's the fresh new sound of 1991 and the Grunge Ringo. Are you ready for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?
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Drums Of The Day #9
Hey Brandon Flowers! Don't have a go at your drummer... Ronnie Vannucci is actually quite good, like.
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Drums Of The Day #8
He doesn't want to sign any more autographs, but that doesn't stop Ringo Starr of The Beatles from being the unsung hero of legendary drummers.
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Drums Of The Day #7
Mummy, I'm scared... The flamboyant neo-prog rock Mars Volta get into some serious time-signatures...
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Drums Of The Day #6
Double-bass drum expertise as Metallica get all serious about war in the classic 'One'...
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Drums Of The Day #5
Scary. scary stuff from Joy Division as Steve Morris takes drumming to an inhuman level...
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Drums Of The Day #4
'I Am The Resurrection', says Ian Brown at The Stone Roses landmark Blackpool show in '89. Behind him, Reni bangs out a legendary groove.
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Drums Of The Day #3
U2's hymn to the drudgery of the weekend (or was it a murderous interlude in Northern Ireland?) - 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
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Drums Of The Day #2
The Jesus And Mary Chain: when drumming is used as an offensive weapon.
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Drums Of The Day #1
The master: Keith Moon does his unique thing on the awesome 'Won't Get Fooled Again'...
Latest Xfm Sessions
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A Morning With The Enemy
The band woke us up with a storming live session at Xfm Towers... listen again here.
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A Morning With Keane
Those Keane lads came into the Danny Wallace Breakfast Show on Xfm to play an intimate - you read that correctly, intimate - session.
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An Evening With The Horrors
The dark lords of Southend played a session of favourites from their excellent album Skying. Listen again here.