Clive Deamer
English drummer for Get the Blessing and Portishead.
Since 2000, Clive Deamer has served as the drummer for the jazz ensemble Get the Blessing.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birthplace
- Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
- Genre
- Jazz
- alternative rock
- trip hop
- Occupation
- Drummer
- Years active
- 1983–present
- Current member of
- Get the Blessing
- Past member of
- Roni Size & Reprazent
- Hawkwind
- Robert Plant
Facts from the source article.
Key facts and history
Band leader Dave Brock later said Deamer was "too professional", and he was replaced with Danny Thompson Jr.[2] Deamer has drummed for Portishead since 1994, playing on Dummy (1994), Portishead (1997), Roseland NYC Live (1998), and Third (2008).[3] From 1983 through 1985, Clive Deamer played drums for the band Hawkwind.[2] Between 2001 and 2007, Deamer played in the backing band for Robert Plant.[1]
Deamer's initial encounter with Robert Plant occurred in 1991 at the wedding of Plant's daughter, where Deamer was performing with Big Town Playboys.[4]
What the cited sources add
A 2005 article notes that Reprazent took out the Mercury Music Prize for the jazz-tinged New Forms.[5] A 2008 interview states that Deamer, then 47, played with Portishead in the 1990s and on the Mercury Music Prize-winning Roni Size album New Forms.[6] In that same interview, Robert Plant recalled first seeing Deamer at Plant's daughter's wedding in about 1991.[6] A 2012 article reports that Deamer's band Get The Blessing won the 2008 BBC Jazz Award for Best New Album.[7]
A 2017 article describes Deamer as "something of an unsung Bristol music legend" who has provided percussion for Roni Size and Reprazent, Hawkwind, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.[8] A 2016 article states that Deamer revealed on his official website that Radiohead would use a two-drummer setup for their world tour.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Clive Deamer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Nastos, "Get the Blessing", AllMusic (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Clive Deamer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hawkwind", 5 January 2005; "Crazy Legs", Epic Records, 1993 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Clive Deamer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Weingarten, "Beak>'s Geoff Barrow on Stunning New LP, Getting Back to Portishead", spin, July 17, 2012; "Third", Island Records, 2008; "New Forms", Talkin' Loud, 1997; Hegarty, "Independence days", The Age, 13 May 2005 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Clive Deamer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Corner, "How We Met: Clive Deamer & Robert Plant", The Independent, 2008-06-21 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Hegarty, "Independence days", The Age, 13 May 2005. facts only, no text reused. theage.com.au
- Corner, "How We Met: Clive Deamer & Robert Plant", The Independent, 2008-06-21. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk
- "How jazz secretly invaded pop music", The Independent, 2012-04-12. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk
- Cork, "Calls for Portishead drummer to boycott Radiohead gig in Israel", Bristol Live, 2017-06-07. facts only, no text reused. bristolpost.co.uk
- Karan, "Radiohead Enlist Portishead Drummer Clive Deamer for World Tour", Diffuser.fm, 2016-05-08. facts only, no text reused. diffuser.fm
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Clive Deamer (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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