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Uriah Heep
Welcomes Russell Gilbrook |
At
last we can announce what we have all been waiting for re:
Lee’s replacement. Here are a few words to welcome Russell
into the Heep fold.
URIAH HEEP
are delighted to announce that
the drummer RUSSELL GILBROOK has joined the band. He
replaces LEE KERSLAKE who left the band in January due to
health reasons.
Russell is regarded as one of the UK’s finest drummers
and clinician’s and has demonstrated specialist drum clinics
all over Europe. He has worked with such diverse artists as
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Van Morrison, John Farnham, Alan
Price, Chris Barber and Lonnie Donnigan.
RUSSELL GILBROOK comments “I am really excited to be joining
a band with such a fantastic history and quality of
musicianship and musicality.
I am just as excited to be a part of the band’s progress
into the future, and I cannot wait to get in the Recording
Studio because the songs we have already worked on are
fantastic. This will hopefully take the band to a new level.
I hope the fans will enjoy my playing and singing as much as
the band and welcome me as a member of Uriah Heep.”
Comments URIAH HEEP and founder member MICK BOX “ Russell
came to the auditon and blew us all away. He is one of the
heaviest drummers I have ever heard. We spent two days
auditoning a shortlist of twelve drummers from 120
applicants and once Russell started playing we just knew he
was the man for the job. There were smiles all around and he
made the drum stool his. We were never looking for a clone
of Lee Kerslake as that would have been an impossible task
as there is only one Lee.
Had we taken that stance we would have in effect stood
still. We were looking for someone who can come into the
band and energise it and have a wealth of ideas, especially
for the new songs and give us a new lease of life. Russell
did just that and his appointment comes at the start of an
exciting new phase in the band’s career’. We hope the fans
will feel the same way once they have heard him play and
sing.”
HEEP commence recording their first new studio album for
nine years since 1998’s ‘Sonic Origami’ later this month at
Chapel Studios (Darkness, Artic Monkey's) in Lincolnshire
with producer MIKE PAXMAN (Status Quo, Judie Tzuke).
The as yet untitled album - which will be Heep’s 21st
official studio album is scheduled for release in early
September on Sanctuary Records.
RUSSELL GILBROOK’S debut live show with Heep will be at the
Katinkulta Festival in Finland on April 14th.
You can visit Russell at his MySpace site
http://www.myspace.com/russellgilbrook
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