| Charles Hayward played in Bristol recently and my jaw has only just re-joined the rest of my face having spent months on the floor.
He's not very well known but really should be, he plays solo but instead of just doing a workout around the kit he fires off samples with his feet and creates entire songs, plus he sings at the same time. While all this is going on he's doing some of the most inventive and intense drumming I've ever seen, little syncopated fills come out of nowhere and then they're gone, then he'll start using a tom in place of a snare for perhaps 3 beats and switch back when you least expect it, then into a beat that just holds and doesn't change for ages and ages. Really emotional and intuitive playing, thoroughly recommended.
While we're on the subject, he played in a band called "This Heat" in the late 70s / early 80s and any drummer would benefit from hearing their album "Deceit". In fact, any human would benefit greatly because it's like nothing else and is indescribably good.
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