Personal Profile -Having played the piano / keyboards from the age of 8, and drums from the age of 11, I have vast experience of working with music. I have appeared in many performances both as a solo artist and a band / ensemble member. In 2006 I took part in the UK National Young Drummer of the Year competition, competing against 500 others, which I then went on to win. I also have quite considerable knowledge of working in recording studios and composing pieces for other bands and myself. I have a good working knowledge of Pro Tools, Reason, Sibelius and other such music programmes. I have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and I’m also very computer literate. I am a dedicated and determined person who will persevere with any task or problem. I have a strong commitment to see tasks through to a successful conclusion. I’m very much a ‘people person’ and love meeting new people which is great because it means I work equally as well as part of a team as using my own initiative.I AM NOW LOOKING FOR WORK - SESSION WORK OR OTHER... PLEASE CONTACT ME!Brief Career History -I won the Young Drummer of the Year '06 and since then I've toured the UK with some great drummers such as Billy Ward (Joan Osbourne) Gregg Bissonette (independent) - played on tour with Thomas Lang (independent) and played clinics with Steve White (Paul Weller), Carl Palmer (ELP), Ian Palmer, Nick Ward and Craig Blundell.I was awarded a Hampshire Music Service Exceptional Ability Award in both Keyboards and Composition.I opened Europe’s biggest drum show, Drummer Live, in London and I was an artist at the UK National Drum Fair in Birmingham.I appeared on BBC's Xchange TV show and countless newspaper and magazine entries - front cover and a full inside spread in Drummer magazine. I’m also featured in adverts for DfD, Baskey and Vic Firth and I am also listed as an artist on the Mapex website.
I'm currently endorsing Mapex drums, Vic Firth sticks, Bigfoot kickdrum beaters, Baskey rug lugs, Remo skins, DfD bass drum skins and Protection Racket cases.I play with many different bands such as:Rock/Indie band - Mucky Fingers
Pop/Rock/Indie band - MozyDARE
Blues Brothers tribute/function band - The Magic Tones Blues Brothers Band
Saturday Night Beaver – 70’s Tribute Band
Skool Daze – 80’s Tribute Band
Indie band – The VisionI’ve also played with HYJO – Hampshire youth Jazz Orchestra for two years.My bands have played some great gigs ranging from The News Awards at the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth to the YMCA Carers Festival in Botley (3,000 people),I've been lucky enough to play on lots of records and am always looking to do more!!I’ve done numerous recording’s with different producers all to a high quality with a great production of which I am very proud.I played on a possible England World Cup Anthem and also for the same producer a possible Eurovision Song Contest entry - which was amazing!I performed as part of the Rhythm Stix Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London.I was the percussionist for the play ‘Richard the Third’ performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre with the BBC and got into the Guinness Book of World Records.I also do a lot of solo projects e.g. songs for click track play alongs at clinics etc. I’ve performed in a number of musicals such as ‘The Match Girls’, ‘The Blues Brothers’, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and more all of which I’ve loved!I recently performed at CliveAid in Oldham, Manchester – this was a Rock Show in aid of Clive Burr from Iron Maiden, playing along side Adrian Erlandsson (Cradle of Filth) and Robyn Guy (Bruce Dickinson) I’ve also played at the Fill Your Head With Rock festival in Wolverhampton with Pete Boot from Budgie and I’ve appeared at The Drum Crew in Nuneaton which is a cancer charity event.I’m hopefully going to do a few dates with Mapex this year around the country and keep building up work too!I teach at Brookfield School and I’m soon to work for GRC Percussion, teaching Drums and Piano.Check out http://www.drummerworld.com/watchlistdrummers/James_Birt.htm
l for my drummerworld page!! Cheers Bernhard!!I want to say a quick thank you to 2 people - My Mum for always being there for me, supporting me and keeping me in line and My Dad for always being there and helping set up my drums at every gig and all the behind the scenes stuff they all do! so THANK YOU!Please feel free to e-mail me at any point for further information at
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If you would like me to appear at drum clinic, open your store. I am also interested to hear from Promoters, booking agents and record companies.
If you would like to ask me a question or comment on anything you have read on here please do not hesitate to contact me, I try to reply to every email I receive.Hope to meet you soon,Best wishesJAMES BIRT x x»-(¯`v´¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯`v´¯)-«
