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Ben Thatcher is a talented drummer of the Royal Blood, a rock band from Brighton, UK. He has been playing drums since he was a young boy and is considered one of the best drummers in the UK. Ben grew up listening to a lot of music. His older brother introduced him to the Chili Pepper’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. He was four years old when it came out, but Chad Smith’s drumming inspired him in terms of drumming. Later down the line, he enjoyed drumming to Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age.
Ben Thatcher had a story when he was a child on his sixth birthday, his parents bought him his first full-sized drum set. Furthermore, he set up the drum with his parents in the small cupboard under the stairs, and that’s where he would hang out. It was kind of like Harry Potter, but instead of a magic wand, I had drumsticks and Pogs. Ben began drumming in church, thanks to his minister father, in Rustington, a small village in West Sussex, England. His brothers followed a similar track, playing in the Christian rock band Delirious.
Who Is His Biggest Influence in Music?
He got influenced by big names drummers like Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, John Bonham, Chad Smith, Stew Smith, Jon Theodore, Brad Wilk, Brooks Wackerman, and Jeremy Stacey. He said that Dave Grohl has been his main influence throughout his drumming career, alongside his brother-in-law Stew Smith, who played drums in a Christian-rock band called Delirious.
Ben Thatcher grew up listening to a lot of music. His older brother introduced him to the Chili Pepper’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. He must have been about four years old when it came out, but Chad Smith’s drumming inspired him. Later down the line, he enjoyed drumming to Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age. Dave Grohl has been my main influence throughout my drumming career, alongside my brother-in-law Stew Smith, who played drums in a Christian-rock band called Delirious.
Ben Thatcher: The Drummer of Royal Blood
Ben Thatcher is an integral part of Royal Blood and has played a key role in their success. He is an incredibly talented drummer and his unique style has helped to make Royal Blood one of the most popular bands in the UK. His skills have also earned him a place on best drummer lists and led to him being named the best drummer of 2014 by Gigwise.
Royal Blood is a two-man Uk band consisting of vocalist/ bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher. The band formed in 2013 and released its first album in August 2014. Their music is a mix of rock and blues and has been compared to that of Led Zeppelin and The Black Keys.
The band has toured extensively in the UK and Europe, and played at some of the biggest music festivals in the world, including Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, and T in the Park. They have also opened for some of the biggest bands in the world, including the Foo Fighters and the Arctic Monkeys.
The band’s sound is reminiscent of and rooted in modern blues rock, hard rock, garage rock, and psychedelic rock. The band was formed in Worthing in 2013. Royal Blood performed their first gig two days after Kerr’s return to England from his “working holiday” in Australia. Royal Blood was verified by the Official Charts Company as the fastest-selling British rock debut album in three years in the UK.
During the pandemic, Royal Blood has already recorded the album in March 2020 just as the first lockdown happened in the UK. They had to abandon the studio halfway through the recording process, but during all that time away they thought that they had an album and then eventually came back to finish things off. The extra time gave them the opportunity to reflect and be creative
Ben Thatcher: Playing Drum is His Happiness
For Ben Thatcher, playing drums was all he wanted to do from a very young age. For him personally, if he was behind the kit he felt so happy, It didn’t matter where he was or who he was playing for. At any opportunity to play, he would take it.
He admits that he was that “yes” man. From doing all of that experience of drumming, he learned how to play different types of music, how to play alongside many different instruments, how to play to click, and alongside backing tracks.
