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Blooming Brilliant
Blooming Brilliant

Tom and Dale were in a band called Green- within about two or three minutes of them their drum kit was like nothing I had ever
wood Park. We shared a bill at a biker’s pub writing that! A week later we had an audition seen before. He had two or three bass
in Leicestershire and I can always remember and a week after that we played our first drums, two seats, symbols everywhere and
it, clear as day. We were headlining the night gig!” he was a very animated character and that
and they went on. I can remember being Stepping back into the history of his really drew me in, and then I got my first
stood with my parents and looking at my dad drumming, Karl tells us, “I’ve always drum kit and I’ve not stopped since.”
and going ‘Oh my god, we’ve got to go on drummed. I started playing drums when I
next!’ I remember watching the guys and was 11 and playing live when I was 13 or 14. Reverting back to the subject of his per-
thinking ‘Oh god, they are good, they are I think I was in Coldstone for three quarters sonal gamble in joining the band, Karl ex-
very good’. So they did their thing and the of a year to a year. Prior to that I was in a re- plains, “I was in the covers band I mentioned
pub erupted and everyone loved them and ally heavy, heavy, hardcore band as a kid and when I joined The Bad Flowers. The three
we went on and had a good night and after- then after Coldstone I was in a covers band people in the band were very good friends of
wards I had a beer with them and sat in their for about three years doing 60s, 70s and 80s mine. The singer remains one of my best
van and we got talking about their touring rock and blues covers in pubs. I’ve always friends, the bassist I went to school with, and
schedule and stuff and what they were up to played. I’ve never stopped. I’d made very good friends with the guitarist,
and after that I never saw them again. “I think I was probably about one and a but I knew if I wanted to make a career out of
“But I followed them on Facebook and I half years old when I first picked up a pair of music it was never going to happen with that
remember saying to my dad at times how I sticks. I couldn’t play anything but I’ve got a band and I’d always wanted to work with
would love to have been in a band like that. photo at home of me in a baby-grow and my Tom and Dale, but when I had the chance I
It was my kind of music, they were touring dad has got me sat on his knee behind his still had to weigh a lot of things up. I work a
like I would love to tour. The band I was in at brother’s drum kit. He was a drummer, so lot of hours during the week. To go to re-
the time just didn’t have the potential to go music has always been in the family. My hearsals it’s 50 miles there and 50 miles back
that far and then a few years later I was sat dad’s always been into rock music, so I was and I do that twice a week now and I lost a
at home and I read a status they’d put out always brought up on that and if I ever saw lot of friends from joining the band.
that the band was coming to an end and Tom a band on telly or if there was ever any live “Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been left with
and Dale wanted to carry on under a new music around I would always zone in on the the friends who really matter and that has
name with new music and if anyone knew of drummer. The obsession really grew when taught me a lesson. But I used to have a
a drummer to get in touch so I got in touch my dad introduced me to Dream Theater and massive friendship group and we’d go out
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