Drums Of Death

Drums Of Death is the alter-ego of Colin Bailey, a Scottish musician. Drums Of Death emerged from London’s club scene in early 2008 and after Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and Alex Waldron heard a tape of his music they signed him to their record label and party crew: Greco-Roman. Stories quickly began to emerge in the press that he was cursed by some voodoo magic and had his heart cut out and replaced with a broken drum machine. Whilst keeping his real face a secret with black and white paint and refusing to answer rumours about this curse he performed on stages around the world from Los Angeles to Bangkok, to London to Berlin and everywhere in between. As his reputation for ferocious solo performances grew, there appeared whispers about a live band and an album.

Drums Of Death has remixed Hot Chip, Tricky, Franz Ferdinand, Mando Diao, James Yuill, Steve Mason, Drop The Lime, Alphabeat and Mika, amongst others, and co-wrote the title track of Peaches’ album ‘I Feel Cream’.

Bestival 2009 saw the debut of the Drums Of Death live band – a wild and powerful act who will tour heavily to support the debut album, ‘Generation Hexed’, an album of love songs and rave horns, released on September 20 on Greco-Roman records.