Hosted by Ben Whyntie & George Pickering · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 239 episodes
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Join Ben and George every week as they delve deep into discussions about drums, drumming and drummers. They chat about everything from first kits to worst gigs, drumming tips to drum sticks and everything in between. Welcome to the disarray of two mates passing the time, whilst trying to stay in time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ben Whyntie & George Pickering hosts Drum and Drummer, a music show with 239 episodes published.
George has had a busy few days playing the Isle Of Wight Festival (supported by The Cure) then up to Cambridge to play some summer balls with an ABBA tribute band with some ridiculous stage times. Ben drops some celebrit
We’ve got some more listener correspondence about dealing with sound limiters and Ben’s been watching almost all of the World Cup. George went to Cambridge for the weekend to play a festival but the highlight wasn’t spen
Ben’s not dead! He just had a very important phone call and due to that we recorded this week’s episode in person at Little Piggy Studios. George has been to the dentist and there’s another dead bird on Ben’s property. W
We start this week’s episode with a cracking listener email and George tells about his recent run of festivals; from crappy hardware, chicken wing eating contests to being on the jumbo screen. Ben’s had some tricky logis
On this week’s show we’re talking about care homes, an unforgivable error at a wedding gig, 48 minutes of Sleep Token, blocking a French toilet and meeting a secret Olympian. Enjoy! Follow us on Instagram: @drumanddrumme
George is back from completing his Iron Man in Mallorca, Ben took a birthday trip to Graham Russell Drums for some new hi hats and he also found something rather unexpected in his back garden. Enjoy! Follow us on Instagr
We’ve recorded this episode in advance as George is in Mallorca doing another Iron Man! We chat about his last gig of the ‘tour’ in Lowestoft, what he learnt doing two sets a night plus an impromptu jam with a pizza deli
This week it’s Ben’s turn to head up to Newcastle for a friend’s wedding. From busy KFCs, getting locked out of his room, big grassy breasts, a few Guinni and trying not to be in ‘function band mode’ there’s plenty of go
George has been up north for some more Lainey shows in Newcastle and Edinburgh where they stayed at a Go Ape, walked up a big hill and he had a slightly clumsy walk onto the stage. Ben’s found a drum he’s been looking fo
Is this the day the music died? Ben is questioning his gigging career after playing a surprise wedding which didn’t exactly go to plan and George gigged in central London battling parking and meeting ladies with disco ba
On this week’s show we talk about recession proof biscuits, cooking meat, batteries and after a long, and final, chat about what constitutes a tour we decide to form the ‘Tour Police’. George runs us through his recent g
We start this week's episode with some listener drummer pet peeves before talking about Ben’s first Wonder Year gig of 2026. George has started his “tour” with the Lainey Wilson Experience but if one show isn’t enough he
Ben’s been to Barcelona on a stag do and put his new spine through its paces, sightseeing, playing escape rooms and maybe consuming the odd pina colada. We also have a good chat about going up and down the drumming ‘ladd
George took it easy this weekend with just two gigs and a 50 mile bike ride. Ben had his first gig back after spinal surgery playing in front of UK metalcore legends Bury Tomorrow and despite a sound limiter, a crashing
George had a busy weekend gigging in the Midlands with two different tribute acts and eating too many burgers. We also chat about custom kick skins and whilst they’re great, they can make life hard when playing for multi
This week we are joined by the awesome Alex Ballew from the band ERRA. Formed in Birmingham, Alabama, ERRA are mainstays in the metalcore scene and have just released their seventh album ‘Silence Outlives The Earth’ on 6
After a quick chat about quadruple strength squash George recounts yet another completed half marathon but why didn’t he just go faster? While his bleeding nipples recover we also chat about a gig in Dubai that might not
While Ben recently had major surgery on his spine, George had the more painful experience of going to Lowestoft for a gig. We also talk about line dancing in odd time signatures, pasta portion control, bowel accidents at
Ben updates us on his recovery from surgery and George has been picking up more ‘Brighton Drumming Badges’ by playing Molly Malones on Valentine’s Day. There’s also some lovely spreadsheet chat, playing darts with Gabi K
On this week’s show Ben runs us through his time at the hospital having spinal surgery and how recovery is going. George has been optimising his drum kits and did the best gig he’s ever done. Enjoy! Follow us on Instagra
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Drum and Drummer is hosted by Ben Whyntie & George Pickering. The show is categorised under music (leisure) and has published 239 episodes.
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