Bath RhythmFest

Pete began playing drums at age 15 and was soon playing along to albums by Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne and Deep Purple. Having spent a couple of years finding his own way he began working from such well known books as Gary Chester’s New Breed and Gary Chaffee’s Patterns series.

At 20 Pete headed south from his hometown of Leicester and was soon out gigging, which eventually led to him hooking up with guitarist Jan Cyrka.

Around this time Pete began studying with renowned teacher Bob Armstrong who was responsible for ironing out a few areas of Pete’s playing as well focusing on traditional grip and developing reading skills.

Pete went on to record two CDs with Jan and during this time he also worked with a couple other guitar greats including recording work with Motorhead’s Eddie Clarke and lots of UK touring work Phil Hilborne.

In 1996 Pete began teaching at the then new music school the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford where he still teaches. One day whilst at the ACM Pete got a call from a friend of Jan’s to audition for the pop band Republica with whom Pete went on to work over the next three years.

Pete has also written regular articles for Rhythm magazine as well as having work published in Modern Drummer. He’s also the author of three drum books, Double Trouble, 100 Tips For Drums and Crash Course-Drums.

James is Head of Drums at BIMM, Bristol as well as holding the drum seat for Malakai.

With Malakai he’s played the largest venues in the UK (including 3 sell out nights art Brixton Academy, Manchester Apollo, Royal Festival Hall), recorded sessions for Annie Mack, Zane Lowe and Gilles Peterson (Radio 1) at the world famous Maida Vale studios, performed live sessions on Radio 6 Music, played live on Lily Allen’s BBC TV programme and last summer played 02 Festival (Hyde Park), Glastonbury, Massive Attacks Meltdown Fest and many others…..

The Rhythm Course is great fun and run by a great team, it’s one of the highlights of my year!! See you at the bar!!

Craig has stamped his mark as one of the most in-demand session drummers and international drum clinicians in modern day drumming. His list of commercial credits is rapidly expanding and he is now one of Mapex, Roland and Paiste’s foremost clinicians.

His clinic style, performances and level of entertainment have received rave reviews in the media all over the globe and have put him ‘out there’ with some of the best clinicians and educators in the world. Craig is currently recording in the studio with Rebel MC/Congo Natty, Tenor Fly and Top cat and members of Alabama3 before he hits the road with David Cross (King Crimson) for a European tour in February. He is also known as “The Drum DJ” playing in clubs using samplers and groundbreaking technology incorporating various guest MC’s to play with him.

Craig continues to get great reviews in publications worldwide and still manages to keep on stretching the boundaries of his instrument. He went down a storm with last years students, so, we got him back!

Colin Woolway has been playing and teaching drums professionally for 35 years. During those years he has done every kind of gig from Olympic stadiums with Suzi Quatro to scout huts and muddy gardens with hundred year old music hall acts.

He is best known these days as the founder of the Drumsense Teaching programme, and the author of Drumsense Volumes 1 and 2. Colin regularly presents clinics. masterclasses and lectures, and this is his 5th year at Bath.

Colin is a long time endorser of Sonor drums, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and Aquarian heads. .