Sugardog
Sounds
Experience
The following is a brief history of Adrian's experience and projects he's worked on or collaborated in since 1994.
PERFORMER/BANDS
Monkjack 9peice funk band
La Vida Santana-9 piece Santana tribute act
Omega 66 - electronic funk
Freeman Street - Soul and funk
Buena Risca Social Clwb - Latin jazz group
The Dandos-world/urban/folk fusion quartet
The Seratones-latin quartet
Samba
Repercussion Street Band-founder and musical director'95-'04
Guest samba teacher to the following:
Samba Bangor, Samba Tawe, Bang On, Samba Brecon
RECORDINGS
Repercussion Street Band - 2 albums
Charlotte Church - Demo recording
Freeman Street - Guest artist
Omega 66 - Guest artist
DANCE PROJECTS
Diversions Dance Company - summer residency teaching young dancers to play junk
THEATRE PROJECTS
Trinity College London wrote and performed sound scape
for ‘Gone Viral’ at the St. James Theatre London
Northampton Theatre and Jersey Arts Centre, both combining scrap percussion and dance.
St. Donuts Arts Centre - various samba projects
Theatr Iolo wrote and composed the music for ‘That’s Mine’ a short play for touring nursery schools.
St Davids Hall Cardiff theatre in education projects.
New Theatre Cardiff Summer project
SCHOOLS
Over 400 schools across the UK delivering Samba and Junk percussion workshops
CARNIVAL PROJECTS
Week long residencies at:
Christchurch Primary, Bristol
Victoria Park Primary, Bristol
St.Pauls Primary, Bristol
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
SWICA carnival residencies
A versatile player with over 20 years of experience. From his early days learning then running his own Samba group (Repercussion Street Band) Adrian soon began to experiment with different sounds and ideas. His hunger to learn and discover new rhythms and styles from around the world, the desire to aquire new and unusual instruments has led him to a huge array of the weird and wonderful
The early days were spent exploring Brazilian drumming and since stepping down from leading a samba band has gone on to play with many different styles of groups and musicians - Latin jazz, funk, folk, East European, dance etc
Adrian has taught all over the UK and Europe.
He currently runs his own successful corporate team building company, Big Beat that works extensively across Europe and the rest of the world and has run conferences as far as Malaysia for Unilever.
As an accomplished session percussionist he has recorded many a session and recent work with various contemporary artists including Charlotte Church.
Adrian particularly likes a challenge and working outside his comfort zone having worked on numerous dance projects and now “Gone Viral” offers a chance to extend his music vocabulary utilising his very expensive “Electronic toys”!
His artillery of percussion instruments spans the world and most of which you will never have heard of. But he is always keen to demonstrate how they’re played.