Geoff Hicks was born in a snow drift in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1972 and soon after started pounding out rhythms on his dad's old orange marble Ludwig's (like Ringo's). He also poured over his dad's vast LP collection, first getting into Coltrane and Roland Kirk and then moving into CSNY and Bowie.
Years later, after moving to Vancouver, Geoff got involved with West Van's "She Stole My Beer", a rollicking, sweaty, Southern-Rock party band that inexplicably found itself signed to MCA Records in 1995 after endless criss-crossing Canada and the Northern U.S.. After that period, Geoff toured Canada with Linda McRae (Spirit Of The West), and then moved into the drum chair for The Paperboys for more endless touring of Canada & the U.S., with fun overseas tours of Germany, Scandanavia, and the U.K.. Geoff appears on two Paperboys C.D's, "Dilapidated Beauty" and "Tenure".
From 1995 through to today, Geoff has been a busy freelance drummer, touring and recording with Harry Manx, Jim Byrnes, Craig Northey (The Odds, Colin James), Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms), CoCo Love Alcorn, Bruce Knauer, Mark Petersen, Isabelle Longnus, Carrie Catherine, The Modelos, Andy Warren, Bocephus King, and Ox (mark Browning). For the past two years Geoff has been performing with Canadian blues legend Colin James.
The band has toured Europe playing festivals from Spain to Switzerland, sharing the stage with the likes of Little Richard and Los Lobos. The band completed a successful tour of Canada in 2006 in support of Colin's C.D., "Limelight" selling out rooms like Toronto's venerable Massey Hall.
