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Don Bannister

"You hum it, I'll play it...!"

About Me

I am a professional musician living in London. I play the drums! I have been playing and recording professionally nationwide and overseas, and teaching for the last 10 years, continuing to embrace as many different musical experiences as possible and using those experiences to constantly build on my skills as an all round musician and performer. That experience extends to recording and performing with signed artists on major and indie labels (Go-Beat/Universal, Island/Universal, Trunk, Telstar, Albert Productions UK, Sony, Lowlands), performing in promo videos, live on radio (Capitol London,Radio 1), TV (Trevor Nelson's Urban Choice for BBC2, Channel 4's "Faking It", 4 Music, Italian T.V.'s Bianca Notte), festivals worldwide (Essential Festival, Montraux Jazz Festival, Beautiful Days Festival, Ole Blues Festival) and sharing stages with the likes of George Clinton, James Brown, Meshell N'Degeocello, Brand New Heavies and Gabrielle to name a few.Span style="text-align:center;position:absolute; background-repeat:no-repeat; height:32px; width:100%;left:0px;top:200px; background-position:center center;

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/29/2007
Influences: Basically everything, musical and non-musical, will influence me in some way and shape the way I approach what I do, but specific musical and artistic inspiration has come from the following (among many more too many to mention!): Stewart Copeland, Steve Jordan, JoJo Mayer, Tony Williams, Brian Blade, Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine, Vinnie Colaiuta, Keith Carlock, Jeff Porcaro, Benny Grebb, Nathaniel Townsley, John Bonham, Gary Novak, Will Kennedy, Herbie Hancock, The Police, John Scofield, Frank Zappa, Isaac Albinez, Refused, The Mars Volta, John Mayer, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jordan, Steely Dan, Pinin Farina, snowboarding...... and the list goes on and on!!!
Sounds Like: "Boom-Cha,Boom-Boom-Cha!"
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None