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Highwood Drums

Butchering trees in the name of music!

About Me


Highwood Drums is a small drum company based in west yorkshire, UK... it is run entierly as a 2 man operation comprising of:
Gareth Heeley (founder, product designer, client correspondence & manager)
Simon Eland (wood worker - shell maker, machinist & tooling manufacture)
We specialize in bespoke drums & ply drum shells, all hand made out of an almost endless list of wood options.
This page has been created to showcase not our own music but our artists & the bands we support.
Specific information about our services drums, shells & parts and components can be found on our website: www.highwooddrums.co.uk
we have a small number of selected artists on our endorsee roster, we try to support the everyday gigging drummers & major label support is not essential to meet our criteria.
HIGHWOOD ARTISTS
New Artists - Ross Jarman - The Cribs (kit in construction - info to follow)
Danny Barnett - Virginia may theory an crygirlcry (info to follow)
Ben Turner
Band: - Tribute To Nothing http://www.myspace.com/tributetonothing
Equipment: Vg Kit & EP Snare, info to follow
Alvin Ryan
Band: - Drum Tutor/live drums for Clark & full time Bands - Calcutecs, Everybody Is Going To Die
Equipment: 18 x 14, 12 x 8, 14 x 14, Natural Finish Modern Vintage kit + Wood Hoops
Mike Ellis
Band: - Uk session drummer/ Avoidance of Doubt (Mike-E) http://www.myspace.com/sessiondrummer
Simon Ferguson
Band: - Underbelly http://www.myspace.com/underbellymusic
Equipment: 22 x 16, 16 x 13, 13 x 10, 10 x 7 Nesting "russian doll" kit + matching snare & 14 x 5.5 natural birch snare
Brigga
Band: Milloy - http://www.myspace.com/milloy
Equipment: 14 x 8, 36ply birch snare, 24 x 20, 12 x 7, 16 x 18, 18 x 18 kit
14 x 10, 1" thick Birch Snare
Gavin Filmer
Band: SHAPES - former band: 62pennies - http://www.myspace.com/weareshapes
Equipment: Purple Acrylic Custom kit
Dave
Band: Deserves To Die
Equipment: 13 x 6 Priest Black Satin Birch Snare Drum
Tim Day
Band: Robots Talk In Twos - http://www.myspace.com/robotstalkintwos
Equipment: 14 x 5.5 Rosewood & Birch Mixed Snare Drum
We are allways looking out and interested in hearing from other drummers & bands, we are taking on more artists, if you sish to apply please forward more info to Gareth through this page or contact him via email, you will be required to provide a Bio, gig/touring history, current gig/touring info & any other relavent info such as recordings.
Note: we dont give drums away for free & also just buying a drum or kit does not put you on our list, we select choice drummers who's work we like & are giging/touring and invite them to join our list.
THIS IS OUR NEW PROFILE, GARETH WAS GETTING TOO MANY DRUM ENQUIRIES THROUGH HIS PROFILE, KEEP EM SEPARATE PEOPLE.

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Member Since: 3/21/2006
Band Website: highwooddrums.co.uk
Band Members:

RHYTHM MAGAZINE REVIEW

Highwood drums recently got 4.5 out of 5 stars in a review by Geoff Nichols In Rhythm mag

Click HERE to read it (adobe PDF format)

DRUMMER LIVE 07

Highwood drums had a great show at this years drummer live at the ExCel Center in Londons Docklands, it was our first year at the show and a total success... we meat many clients, sold alot of drums & made several new friends.

World renown drum maker Ronn Dunnett of Dunnett Classic Drums, www.dunnett.com was at the show Ronn had some kind words to say about our work which he posted on his drum smith pictorial of the show.

here is what he had to say
"Gareth Heeley of Highwood drums is really making a name for himself. These drums are of exceptional design and quality. His booth was always so busy I had to borrow these 2 shots - I could never get an open shot of the drums!"

you can see Ronn's full pictorial & video footage at www.drumsmith.com

below are pictures of our stand at the show, pics courtesy of David G Hughes

HIGHWOOD T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE
Highwood Leaf Logo T-shirts (sizes S, M, L, XL) & Stickers available are now available, T-Shirts are avialble in black with a White Logo, The Thsirts are NOT screen printed, the print is much higher quality that is guarenteed to last far longer than a screen print, the first batch of T-Shirts are £8.00 each (£10 with P&P in UK) .

To Order - Email us or send £10 via Paypal to [email protected] or [email protected]

Sticker info to follow Both Tshirts & Stickers will be on our site & Myspace soon

HighWood now makes Solid Steambent drums - bent from a single plank of premium timber.
From £399.00 delivered anywhere in the UK

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Sounds Like: CAST ACRYLIC KITS & SNARES NOW AVAILABLE - NO JOINS/SEAMS

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Highwood Drums Review on Mike Dolbear.com

The new Hammer Snare Drums just got reviewed on www.mikedolbear.comhere is the addressCLICK THIScheersG...
Posted by Highwood Drums on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:37:00 PST

NEWS Jan 08: eDRUM announce collaboration with Highwood Drums

The HighWood Hammer Snare DrumsAfter a successful dual exhibition at Drummer Live, eDRUM and Highwood Drums are proud to announce an official collaboration. Highwood's reputation has grown considera...
Posted by Highwood Drums on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:23:00 PST