Send a text Welcome to this episode of Music’s Elite Seat, where we dive deep into the lives and careers of some of the most talented musicians in the industry. In this 15th instalment, I’m thrilled to have with us a true powerhouse of the West End, Touring and Depping Drumming Theatre world, Daniel Hayward. With years of experience on some of the biggest stages in the UK and London's theatre district, Daniel has built a reputation for his incredible versatility, precision, and ability to bri...

Send a text Tim is a Nashville-based drummer and educator. He has toured with multiple Nashville artists (Gloriana, Jana Kramer, Jerrod Niemann, Remedy Drive, Cody Fry, Adam Sanders) and records drums for projects from his home studio as well as other Nashville-based studios. In addition to touring and recording, Tim is passionate about creating educational resources for drummers and musicians and maintains a roster of private students (both virtually and in Nashville). Tim has also spent man...

Send a text Tony Succar is a two-time Latin GRAMMY award-winning artist, producer and composer/arranger. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Miami, Florida, Succar earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Jazz Performance from Florida International University in 2008 and his master’s degree in 2010. In 2018, Tony was nominated for the Latin GRAMMY for Best Tropical Song, “Me Enamoro Más de Ti.” He received four nominations in 2019 for his album, Más de Mi, winning Producer of the Year and Best Sal...

Send a text Taking the elite seat today is one of the busiest and best musicians out of the UK Jonathan “Ginger” Hamilton who’s Most known for his drumming work with the amazing Sam Smith. As well as playing for Sam, Jonathan has literally been a pro musician since the age of 14, playing with big gospel artists around London before moving into the mainstream pop music scene at 18. This is literally a guy who’s seen and done it all, and I’m extremely grateful for your time Jonathan! In this co...

Send a text In the elite seat today is the incredible Devon Eisenbarger. Devon plays guitar for the megastar Katy Perry, which has taken her all over the globe, She’s also played with Zayn Malik on the Pillowtalk tour in which we also delve in to. We speak about everything ranging from her technical workouts on the guitar, to touring with one of the biggest artists on the planet to auditions, the universe and everything in between. I honestly can’t thank you enough devon for being such a rock...

Send a text In this episode I'm incredibly lucky to have an hour of one of the busiest teachers on the planets time. Henrique De Almeida is a professor at the worlds best music college [Berklee College of Music] and has been for the last 10 years. Along with this remarkable achievement, he's a world class musician, and has played some of the biggest gigs around. I catch up with Henrique while he's setting up his new drum school in Colorado. I'm so grateful to Erika for helping me set this up ...

Send a text In this conversation I speak with the incredible Eric "Pik Funk" Smith. Eric is best know for his work playing Bass guitar for superstars Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Rhianna, P.Diddy and much more. In this conversation we talk everything touring, family and work-life balance, reading and auditions. Thank you so much Eric for being literally one of the coolest most insightful people I've ever spoken to. There's so much in this to digest and I thoroughly enjoyed the analogy's....

Send a text Kyle Keegan plays drums for the folk turned alternative sensation artist Ben Howard. Amongst playing some of the greatest and biggest shows on the music circuit, recording for Ben on his last two albums and touring the world, we pretty much cover everything in this conversation. This one is a personal one for me, being a huge Ben Howard fan, and I can't thank Kyle enough for his time and humility. He gives advice on everything from becoming a sustaining a career in music, to his a...

Send a text Rich Redmond is an incredibly diverse, energetic and inspirational person. He has been playing drums for the country phenomenon Jason Aldean for the last 20 years and achieved 26 #1 singles in the billboard charts throughout his playing career. Rich diversified into becoming a motivational speaker and uses his expert knowledge of live drums in his speeches and incorporates the instrument that got him where he is today. Rich also acts, is an author of drum books and has his own pod...

Send a text [MISSING INTRO] How is the show going? It’s going great…you know, we’re rolling, we’re heading towards a year, which is unbelievable. It’s going great! We have lots of new cast members on the horizon and things like that… Yeah! There’s a cast change coming up, right? Ben Platt being one of the major changes… Yeah, so Ben leaves November 19th is his last show and we’ve got like an interim Evan Hansen in between I guess like November to January-ish, and then we have a full...