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About Will

I am a professional rock drummer based in Hertfordshire, UK. I play with cover and tribute bands and am an online session drummer.

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Bishop's Stortford

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I am a professional touring and recording drummer, based in Hertfordshire, UK. I enjoy what I do and am an asset to any band I play in! Below is a list of my strengths: - Playing since 1999. - Quick learner, efficient and leave nothing to chance. Play both covers and in tributes. - I can play to clicks/backing tracks and also create them for my bands. - Can play double pedal. - Can play acoustic music through to metal. At my core I'm a backbeat drummer. - Good gear, well presented. - Upbeat and energetic stage demeanour, plenty of smiles. - Willing to adapt and dress according to different situations. - Have played all over the UK, Europe and the Middle East. - I am available to dep (substitute) for an absent drummer at the last minute. - Can read/write drum notation. - Have extensive recording experience and have recorded 900+ songs through my online service. - I have Musical Director experience and in that role I have coordinated my band's arrangements, interpretations and tones. The role has led me to be the first point of contact for new deps and I give them crash courses in what to expect onstage (cues etc).

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5 out of 5

I honestly cannot thank Will enough. We threw him a real curve ball with less than a days notice and he totally pulled it out of the bag. A total pro. Great to work with, communicative and fantastic musician. Had real integrity in making sure he could deliver what we asked for before committing. I cannot recommend him enough...

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1 year ago

Thanks very much Jeni! You're all top people at the church. It was nerve-wracking only having about 4-5 hours to get my notes and basic parts together, but it turned out fine in the end!

5 out of 5

I've used Will's drums for two different projects now and have found him to be capable of nailing a variety styles and always playing tastefully and for the song. I'll no doubt be using him again future!

5 out of 5

He was undeterred by us giving him a hard time every now and then along the way!

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Will's Song list

AC/DC Back In Black

AC/DC Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)

AC/DC Down Payment Blues

AC/DC For Those About To Rock

AC/DC Gone Shootin'

AC/DC Hard As A Rock

AC/DC Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be

AC/DC Hells Bells

AC/DC Highway To Hell

AC/DC It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N' Roll)

AC/DC Let There Be Rock

AC/DC Rock And Roll Train

AC/DC Rock Or Bust

AC/DC Shoot To Thrill

AC/DC Shot Down In Flames

AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip

AC/DC The Jack

AC/DC Thunderstruck

AC/DC TNT

AC/DC Whole Lotta Rosie

AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long

Aerosmith (Dude) Looks Like A Lady

Aerosmith I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing

Aerosmith Livin' On The Edge

Aerosmith Mama Kin

Aerosmith Walk This Way

Alice Cooper Poison

Alice Cooper School's Out

Altered Images Happy Birthday

Arctic Monkeys Fake Tales Of San Francisco

Arctic Monkeys I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

Arctic Monkeys When The Sun Goes Down

Beach Boys God Only Knows

Biffy Clyro Many Of Horror

Billy Idol Dancing With Myself

Billy Idol Eyes Without A Face

Billy Idol Hot In The City

Billy Idol Rebel Yell

Billy Idol Shock To The System

Billy Idol White Wedding

Black Sabbath NIB

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Blink 182 All The Small Things

Blink 182 The Rock Show

Blondie Picture This

Blur Song 2

Blur Parklife

Bob Dylan Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Guns N' Roses version)

Bon Jovi Always

Bon Jovi Livin' On A Prayer

Bon Jovi Wanted Dead Or Alive

Bon Jovi You Give Love A Bad Name

Bonnie Tyler The Best

Boston More Than A Feeling

Boston Rock And Roll Band

Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven

Bryan Adams Summer Of 69

Buzzcocks Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

Cameo Word Up! (Gun version)

Catatonia Mulder And Scully

Chris Isaak Wicked Game

Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode

Coldplay In My Place

Coldplay Yellow

Creedence Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Rising

Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary

Cutting Crew (I Just) Died In Your Arms

David Bowie All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople version)

David Bowie Rebel Rebel

David Lee Roth Just Like Paradise

Deep Purple Perfect Strangers

Deep Purple Smoke On The Water

Def Leppard Photograph

Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me

Eddie Cochran C'Mon Everybody

Electric Six Gay Bar

Elle King Ex's & Oh's

Elton John Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

Elvis Presley Heartbreak Hotel

Elvis Presley Little Sister

Europe The Final Countdown

Evanesence Bring Me To Life

Faith No More What A Day

Feeder Buck Rogers

Feeder Just A Day

Foo Fighters All My Life

Foo Fighters Learn To Fly

Foo Fighters My Hero

Foreigner Juke Box Hero

Foreigner Waiting For A Girl Like You

Free All Right Now

fun. We Are Young

Garbage I Think I'm Paranoid

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Money

Green Day Basket Case

Guns N' Roses 14 Years

Guns N' Roses Back Off Bitch

Guns N' Roses Bad Obsession

Guns N' Roses Better

Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy

Guns N' Roses Civil War

Guns N' Roses Dead Horse

Guns N' Roses Don't Cry

Guns N' Roses Don't Damn Me

Guns N' Roses Double Talkin' Jive

Guns N' Roses Estranged

Guns N' Roses Get In The Ring

Guns N' Roses It's So Easy

Guns N' Roses Madagascar

Guns N' Roses Mr Brownstone

Guns N' Roses My Michelle

Guns N' Roses Nightrain

Guns N' Roses November Rain

Guns N' Roses Out Ta Get Me

Guns N' Roses Paradise City

Guns N' Roses Perfect Crime

Guns N' Roses Pretty Tied Up

Guns N' Roses Right Next Door To Hell

Guns N' Roses Rocket Queen

Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N' Roses This I Love

Guns N' Roses Used To Love Her

Guns N' Roses Welcome To The Jungle

Guns N' Roses You Could Be Mine

Hole Celebrity Skin

Huey Lewis & The News The Power Of Love

INXS New Sensation

Iron Maiden Run To The Hills

Jake Bugg Lightning Bolt

Jefferson Starship Jane

Jet Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

Jimmy Eat World The Middle

Journey Any Way You Want It

Journey Don't Stop Believin'

Judas Priest Breaking The Law

Kaiser Chiefs I Predict A Riot

Katy Perry I Kissed A Girl

King Harvest Dancing In The Moonlight

Kings Of Leon Molly's Chambers

Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire

Kings Of Leon Use Somebody

KT Tunstall Black Horse & The Cherry Tree

L7 Pretend We're Dead

Led Zeppelin Black Dog

Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker

Led Zeppelin Misty Mountain Hop

Led Zeppelin Rock And Roll

Led Zeppelin The Rover

Lenny Kravitz Fly Away

Manic Street Preachers A Design For Life

Mansun Wide Open Space

Meat Loaf I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Metallica Enter Sandman

Michael Jackson Beat It

Misfits Attitude

Motley Crue Kickstart My Heart

Motorhead Ace Of Spades

Mumford & Sons Little Lion Man

Muse Hysteria

Muse Plug In Baby

Muse Time Is Running Out

Nickelback How You Remind Me

Nino Rota Theme From "The Godfather"

Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit

Oasis Champagne Supernova

Oasis Don't Look Back In Anger

Oasis Rock N' Roll Star

Oasis Stop Crying Your Heart Out (Leona Lewis version)

Oasis Wonderwall

Oasis Supersonic

Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train

Paramore That's What You Get

Pearl Jam Alive

Philip Bailey Easy Lover (Phil Collins version)

Pink So What

Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 (Korn version)

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Pixies Where Is My Mind?

Poison Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Poison Nothin' But A Good Time

Poison Unskinny Bop

Portugal. The Man Feel It Stilll

Prince Little Red Corvette

Pulp Common People

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen Fat Bottomed Girls

Queen I Want To Break Free

Queen We Are The Champions

Queen We Will Rock You

Radiohead Creep

Radiohead High And Dry

Rage Against The Machine Killing In The Name

Rainbow Since You Been Gone

Rammstein Du Hast

Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop

Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers Give It Away

Red Hot Chili Peppers Otherside

Reef Place Your Hands

REM Everybody Hurts

REO Speedwagon Take It On The Run

Republica Ready To Go

Robbie Williams Angels

Royal Blood Figure It Out

Semisonic Closing Time

Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK

Sex Pistols Bodies

Sia Chandelier

Skunk Anansie Weak

Slade Cum On Feel The Noize (Quiet Riot version)

Slade Merry Xmas Everybody

Slash Anastasia

Slash's Snakepit Jizz Da Pit

Slash's Snakepit Serial Killer

Sleeper Sale Of The Century

Soundgarden Black Hole Sun

Steel Panther Death To All But Metal

Stereophonics Dakota

Stereophonics Just Looking

Stereophonics The Bartender And The Thief

T. Rex 20th Century Boy

Take That Rule The World

The Automatic Monster

The Beatles A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles Come Together

The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There

The Black Crowes Hard To Handle

The Cardigans My Favourite Game

The Cars Just What I Needed

The Clash Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Cranberries Zombie

The Cult She Sells Sanctuary

The Dandy Warhols Bohemian Like You

The Darkness I Believe In A Thing Called Love

The Doobie Brothers Long Train Running

The Doors People Are Strange (Echo & The Bunnymen version)

The Go-Gos Our Lips Are Sealed

The Hives Hate To Say I Told You So

The Human League Don't You Want Me

The Killers Mr Brightside

The Killers Somebody Told Me

The Killers When You Were Young

The Kinks You Really Got Me (Van Halen version)

The Pixies Where Is My Mind?

The Police Roxanne

The Pretenders 2000 Miles

The Pretenders Brass In Pocket

The Rolling Stones Honky Tonk Women

The Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash

The Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil

The Scorpions Rock You Like A Hurricane

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Midnight Moses

The Skyliners Since I Don't Have You

The Top Notes Twist And Shout (The Beatles version)

The Undertones Teenage Kicks

The White Stripes Seven Nation Army

The Who Behind Blue Eyes (Limp Bizkit version)

The Zutons Valerie

Thin Lizzy Rosalie

Tommy James & the Shondells Mony Mony (Billy Idol version)

Travis Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

U2 One

U2 Vertigo

U2 With Or Without You

UK Subs Down On The Farm (Guns N' Roses version)

Van Halen Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

Van Halen Dance The Night Away

Van Halen Jump

Van Halen Panama

Velvet Revolver Dirty Little Thing

Velvet Revolver Do It For The Kids

Velvet Revolver Fall To Pieces

Velvet Revolver Let It Roll

Velvet Revolver Loving The Alien

Velvet Revolver Pills, Demons & Etc

Velvet Revolver Set Me Free

Velvet Revolver Slither

Velvet Revolver Sucker Train Blues

Velvet Revolver The Last Fight

Weezer Hash Pipe

Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag

Whitesnake Fool For Your Loving

Whitesnake Here I Go Again

Wings Live And Let Die

ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man

Will's Prices

Last updated: 2024

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Performance duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£62.50
Up to 1 hour	£187.50
Up to 2 hours	£312.50
Up to 3 hours	£437.50

30 min show

Applies to all types of events.

£125

90 min show

Applies to all types of events.

£250

2 and a half hour show

Applies to all types of events.

£375

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

My energy, my smile, my solos and my professional manner.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

I have played 500+ shows in the UK, Republic of Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain.

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Too many to mention - Larry Mullen, Steve Hewitt, Sean Moore, Alan White, Jimmy Chamberlin, Steven Adler, Matt Sorum.

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

I have played to (and soloed to!) crowds of up to 2500 at Zeniths in all four corners of France.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

I am fine with event timings changing, but please inform me ASAP.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

I will pass on the request to the band I'm playing with.

How much time do you need to set up?

Personally, I need approximately one hour to be set up, soundchecked and comfortable.

Can I pick the pieces you play from the set list?

I will pass on the request to the band I'm playing with.

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

I bring my acoustic drumkit to all events.

Can you learn specific pieces before the event?

I will pass on the request to the band I'm playing with.

Musicianship

Genres:

Rock, Alternative rock, Glam rock, Indie, Hard rock, Pop rock, Punk rock, Britpop, Post rock, Classic rock, Heavy metal, Power rock, Pop, Covers, Acoustic, Americana

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Instruments:

Drums

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Event types:

Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Recording session, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve

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Other skills:

Drum technician

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