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About Me

I am the drummer for the mighty South Wales band known as DAYER. I could tell you more about me but...

a) I can't be bothered to write anything else at the moment;
b) You probably won't find it that interesting anyway;
c) If you're desperate to know then you can always ask me.

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HERE'S A CLIP OF A BRAND NEW SONG THAT WE PLAYED AT OUR FIRST GIG IN 5 YEARS... (FILMED AT THE COURTHOUSE, CAERPHILLY: THURSDAY 26th APRIL 2007)

Music:

3 Colours Red; AC/DC; Bryan Adams; Ryan Adams; Air; The Alarm; Damon Albarn; Alisha's Attic; All Star United; Tori Amos; Angels and Airwaves; Anweledig; Arcade Fire; Arctic Monkeys; Ash; Richard Ashcroft; Athlete; A Thousand Suns; Bach; Burt Bacharach; Badly Drawn Boy; Samuel Barber; Beach Boys; Beatles; Beck; Jeff Beck; Daniel Bedingfield; The Bees; Beethoven; Ben Folds Five; Biffy Clyro; Big Star; Bjork; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Black Sabbath; Blind Faith; Blink 182; Blues Brothers; Bluetones; James Blunt; Blur; Bon Jovi; The Boo Radleys; Boss Hog; David Bowie; Boxcar Racer; James Dean Bradfield; Brand X; Broken City Skyline; Ian Brown; Dave Brubeck; Jeff Buckley; Tim Buckley; Bullet for my Valentine; Kate Bush; Bush; Bernard Butler; CAM: Michel Camilo; Vanessa Carlton; The Carpenters; Johnny Cash; Casting Crowns; Catatonia; Nick Cave; Tracy Chapman; Chopin; Eric Clapton; Stanley Clarke; The Clash; Billy Cobham; Coldplay; Paula Cole; Phil Collins; The Cooper Temple Clause; The Coral; Chick Corea; Chris Cornell; early-Corrs; Cosmic Rough Riders; Elvis Costello; Counting Crows; Graham Coxon; The Cranberries; Crash Test Dummies; Creed; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Sheryl Crow; Crowded House; The Cure; Custom; The Darkness; The Datsuns; Dave Matthews Band; Miles Davis; DAYER; Deaf Shepherd; Deep Purple; Def Leppard; Del Amitri; delirious?; Diamond Head; Diem; Dirty Pretty Things; Doc Savage; Dodgy; The Doors; Dopamine; Doves; Dream Theater; Francis Dunnery; Dweeb; Bob Dylan; Earth, Wind and Fire; Echobrain; Editors; Eels; Elastica; Elbow; The Electric Soft Parade; Elgar; Embrace; Eminem; Enter Shikari; Evanescence; Perry Farrell; Fatboy Slim; Fear Factory; Feeder; Brian Ferry; Fightstar; Finn; Neil Finn; Fish; Fleetwood Mac; Flotsam and Jetsam; Ben Folds; Foo Fighters; Fountains of Wayne; Fourplay; Aretha Franklin; Funeral for a Friend; Fun Lovin' Criminals; Peter Gabriel; Garbage; Marvin Gaye; Genesis; Lisa Germano; David Gilmour; Gomez; Gorillaz; The Greatful Dead; Martin Grech; Green Day; Guns'n'Roses; Steve Hackett; Peter Hammill; Handel; Hard-Fi; Francoise Hardy; Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals; George Harrison; PJ Harvey; Jimi Hendrix; Hepburn; Lauryn Hill; HIM; The Hives; Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra; Buddy Holly; Hootie and the Blowfish; Son House; Tim Hughes; Hundred Reasons; Idlewild; Natalie Imbruglia; Incubus; InMe; Innercity Pirates (formally My Red Cell); INXS; Iona; Iron Maiden; early-Michael Jackson; The Jam; Janes Addiction; Wyclef Jean; Jem; Jet; Jewel; JJ72; Billy Joel; Elton John; Andreas Johnson; Norah Jones; Quincy Jones; Tom Jones; Martyn Joseph; Journey; Joy Zipper; Keane; Graham Kendrick; Kenickie; Jack Kerouac; Alicia Keys; Kicks Joy Darkness; Kindle; Carol King; King Crimson; Kings of Convenience; Kings of Leon; The Kinks; Kiss; Korn; Gene Krupa; Kula Shaker; KuTe; The La's; Geraldine Latty; Avril Lavigne; Led Zeppelin; Lemar; John Lennon; Annie Lennox; Lift to Experience; Lightning Seeds; Linkin Park; Liquid Tension Experiment; Little Angels; Live; Llama Farmers; Longview; Lostprophets; Love; The Magic Numbers; Mahavishnu Orchestra; Maher Shalal Hash Baz; Manic Street Preachers; Aimee Mann; Marillion; Bob Marley and the Wailers; Lene Marlin; George Martin; Willy Mason; Brian May; May Contain Nuts; Dave Matthews; Paul McCartney; Nelly McKay; John McLaughlin; Melanie; Mercury Rev; Metallica; George Michael; Dominic Miller; Mike and the Mechanics; Joni Mitchell; Moby; Mombomb; Rebecca Moore; Morcheeba; Alanis Morissette; Van Morrison; Motorhead; Mozart; Mull Historical Society; Muse; Mushroomhead; The Music; The Mutton Birds; My Chemical Romance; My Private Cell; My Vitriol; My Void; N*E*R*D; Nervous; Troy Newman; New Radicals; Joanna Newsom; Nine Black Alps; Nine Days; Nine Inch Nails; Nirvana; No Doubt; Nichole Nordeman; Stina Norenstam; Norma Jean; Oasis; Mike Oldfield; onehundredhours; Our Lady Peace; William Orbit; Beth Orton; Ours; Pantera; Papa Roach; Paradise Lost; Paramore; Jaco Pastorius; Pearl Jam; Liz Phair; Phatfish; Edith Piaf; Pink Floyd; The Pixies; P.O.D.; The Pogues; The Polyphonic Spree; The Poppies; Portishead; The Presidents of the United States of America; Elvis Presley; Primal Scream; Prince; The Prodigy; Pulp; Queen; Queens of the Stonage; Rachel Stamp; Radiohead; Rage Against The Machine; Razorlight; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Matt Redman; Reef; Terry Reid; Relish; R.E.M.; Damien Rice; Buddy Rich; Smokey Robinson; The Rolling Stones; Rush; Saint Etienne; Santana; The Seahorses; Semisonic; Serart; Sex Pistols; Silverchair; Paul Simon; Simon and Garfunkel; Sinch; Slipknot; The Small Faces; Smashing Pumpkins; Elliott Smith; The Smiths; Snow Patrol; Soulfly; The Sound; Soundgarden; Matt Spencer; Spice Girls; Spin Doctors; Spiritualized; Split Enz; Squeeze; John Squire; Starsailor; Steely Dan; Steps; Stereophonics; Mike Stern; Sting; Joss Stone; The Stone Roses; Stone Sour; The Style Council; The Strokes; Suede; The Sugarcubes; Sum 41; Super Furry Animals; Supergrass; Matthew Sweet; The Swift; System of a Down; Take That; Tchaikovsky; Teenage Fanclub; Ten Benson; Tenacious D; Bryn Terfel; Texas; theaudience; Therapy?; They Might Be Giants; Thin Lizzy; Thirteen Senses; Thom Yorke; Throwing Muses; Tim Reynolds; The Transplants; Traveling Wilburys; Travis; Trivium; KT Tunstall; Turin Brakes; U2; Ultrasound; Velvet Revolver; Velvet Underground; The Verve; The Vines; Vital Information; The Von Bondies; Rick Wakeman; We Are Trees; Weather Report; Dave Weckl Band; Weezer; Paul Weller; White Stripes; The Who; Wilco; John Williams; Tony Williams; Brian Wilson; Wings; Nicky Wire; Stevie Wonder; Robert Wyatt; Yeah,Yeah,Yeahs; YFriday; Pete Yorn; Neil Young; Will Young; Your Favourite Enemies; Frank Zappa; Joe Zawinul; Zwan; (PHEW! more to follow...)

Movies:

12 Monkeys; Adaption; A Nightmare Before Christmas; Almost Famous; Back to the Future trilogy; Batman (original, ...Returns, ...Forever and ...Begins - but NOT under any circumstance the awful ...and Robin!); Blues Brothers; Blues Brothers 2000; Bowling for Columbine; Chasing Amy; Dark Crystal; Dead Poets Society; The Departed; Dogma; Donnie Darko; E.T.; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Fight Club; Forrest Gump; Garden State; Ghost World; Harry Potter series; High Fidelity; Hot Fuzz; Human Traffic; Josie and the Pussycats; Life of Brian; Lord of the Rings trilogy; Magnolia; Matrix trilogy; Men in Black 1+2; Pulp Fiction; The Pursuit of Happyness; Rock School; Rocky; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Rutles; Saved!; Shaun of the Dead; The Shawshank Redemption; Some Kind of Monster; Spider Man 1+2; Spinal Tap; Star Wars (1-6); Stigmata; That Thing You Do; Trainspotting; V for Vendetta; Vanilla Sky; Walk the Line; Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; X-Men trilogy; (more to follow...)

Television:

American Dad; Blackadder; Black Books; Dr Who; Extras; Family Guy; Futurama; Have I Got News For You; Later... with Jools Holland; The League of Gentlemen; Little Britain; Look Around You; Lost; Monty Python; The Muppet Show; My Name Is Earl; Nevermind The Buzzcocks; The Office; Pobl y Cwm; Pocoyo; QI; Red Dwarf; Sesame Street; The Simpsons; Spaced; Star Wars:The Clone Wars; Tellytubbies; Top Gear; (more to follow...)

Books:

31 Songs; A Wished For Song; The Bible According to Spike Milligan; Bono on Bono; Come As You Are; The Complete Spike Milligan; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night; Dream Brother; Everything; Fly Fishing (by J.R. Hartley); Heavier Than Heaven; High Fidelity; Marillion/Seperated Out; The Mr Men series; Naked Lunch; Out of the Ordinary:True Tales of Everyday Craziness; Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung; Ready, Steady, Go!; R.E.M.|Fiction; To Kill A Mockingbird; Twelve; Velvet Elvis; Walk On; What's Your Dangerous Idea?;

Heroes:

When I grow up I want to be Homer Simpson.

My Blog

For those too lazy to visit the band page (you know who you are)...

Here's a copy of my latest blog for the band page (www.myspace.com/dayerband if you don't already know)! "I had a great time last Saturday playing at The Whammy Bar in Ystrad Mynach. As it was a new v...
Posted by Craig on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:24:00 PST

It's International Star Wars Day so...

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! This is also a belated 'THANK YOU' to everyone who came out to see us last Thursday at the Courthouse in Caerphilly for a very memorable evening as Dayer returned to the li...
Posted by Craig on Fri, 04 May 2007 05:44:00 PST

The Dayer Comeback Special

Here are some photos of Dayer's comeback gig at the Courthouse in Caerphilly taken by Guy's brother, Ross (nice one fella)! You can also view a video clip of the BRAND NEW S...
Posted by Craig on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:39:00 PST

It's too late to turn back now!

Well it's very late (or very early depending on how you view things) but I've just got home from the last rehearsal before our gig tomorrow and I'm knackered. My ears are ringing, I have blisters...
Posted by Craig on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:06:00 PST

5 More Questions - this time for YOU to answer!

Easter may have come and gone but there is still time to enter the DAYER EASTER GIVEAWAY!!!For those of you who have still not added Dayer to your MySpace friends (shame on you) we are running an East...
Posted by Craig on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:30:00 PST

12 Questions - With Craig (All 20 Questions)

For those of you that have been on the band site (www.myspace.com/dayerband - and if you haven't, why not?) will have seen the new blogs entitled 12 Questions. Each of us were given 20 Questions to an...
Posted by Craig on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:31:00 PST

Road to V or Highway to L? YOU decide!

Yep - it's that time again when us Dayer bods get down on our knees and ask, beg and plead with you guys to help us out. This time we're asking for you guys to vote for us to open the V Festival at e...
Posted by Craig on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:40:00 PST

You wait for ages and then two come along at once...

For those of you who haven't yet heard, a SECOND Dayer gig has been confirmed for Saturday 5th May at 'The Whammy Bar' in Ystrad Mynach (www.myspace.com/thewhammybar). The band will be playing alongs...
Posted by Craig on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:15:00 PST

All good things come to those who wait...

As I haven't blogged for a while I thought I would take this opportunity to tell you all out there in MySpace land of the exciting news that is taking the world by storm. As I write this, plans are be...
Posted by Craig on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:12:00 PST

Happy New Year

Ah - New Year! A time when we casually reflect over the ups and downs of the last 12 months while simultaniously looking forward, ever hopeful, of what the next 12 months will bring... Either that or ...
Posted by Craig on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:33:00 PST