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china drum NE online decided to let China Drum fan and singer Minnie interview Adam Lee before her gig supporting them at HERMIPALOOZA! What have you guys been doing all these years away? Think the last time I saw you live was when I saw down in London in 1997! Well, we have been raising family’s, we all have kids now, apart from John and Kate, who, incidentally, are our new guitarist and drummer, making an honest living...........just the usual stuff! What were your musical influences growing up? We all had a massive input from our parents playing music all the time, didn’t think it at the time though, haha! I was into bands like The Police, The Kinks, The Stranglers, Wire, The Clash,
SLF, The Only Ones, but the main influences were Hüsker Dü, Mega City Four, Leatherface, amongst others! What was the first vinyl you bought? The first album I bought was The Kinks Golden Hour, which you can’t get now! First single was The Sparks, second hand from the second hand bric o brac shop in Prudhoe. What sort of music do you listen to now? I listen to Weezer, The Foo Fighters, Bob Mould, I mainly jiggle on the spot in the kitchen while listening to Thelma Houston and The Pressure Cooker.............. that’s Thelma, not Whitney haha. Are there any local bands that you follow apart from mine now? I love watching bands at The
White Swan Ovingham. There is a really good young local band from Ovingham called Lyrical Whisky, destined for great things. Which person was a good influence/support to you in the early days? We had full support from Mega City Four and Leatherface, these two bands gave us the chance to tour for the first time and gave us advice on all aspects of the music industry, we are so grateful for this, without them, we would never have the memories we have now. :) Where did the name china drum come from? We wanted a name that didn’t mean anything apart from the band, (political or radicle) so without making a word up, one of our mates, who, bizarrely, had a trucking magazine on him at the time,
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