DRUMSET & PERCUSSION
grew up amongst the canterbury musical life of the 1960’s with a strong jazz foundation.
since 1974 work has been concentrated on exploring a more personal percussion language through the processes of improvisation.
solo work, collaborations with experimental rock musics & open - form song, extensive work with dance, film and visual art, involvements in numerous jazz-based ensembles, & workshop residencies have formed part of that development.
mostly, however, the pleasures & discoveries have been in music-making with many of the finest european & international musicians in ad hoc & group improvising collaborations including alan silva, cecil taylor, henry grimes, derek bailey, evan parker, keith rowe, toshinori kondo, irene schweitzer, joelle leandre etc
tours & concerts have been throughout europe, australia, canada, u.s.a., mexico, china and japan, and have included such remote places as the arctic.

working currently in konk pack ( with tim hodgkinson & thomas lehn), duo w/ annette peacock, the josef nadj dance project, the recedents ( with lol coxhill & mike cooper),the phil minton quartet, the trio with michel doneda and john russell, the duos with john russell, phil minton...etc.
numerous recordings.......

‘he has a virtuosity as astounding as it is inexplicably hilarious. i have rarely heard such an exquisite combination of volcanic power and finely- honed precision.’ the wire 1986

‘one of the giants of free improvisation’ the wire 2001.

“totally upended the cliché that great british drummers are rare to non-existent.” the wire 2008