Rim Risers provide increased height, giving better grip on the stick and greater player comfort. A huge impact on cross-stick or rim shot playing styles, without interfering with standard stick snare drum playing styles.

They come with a full fitting kit and instructions. RimRisers can be quickly fitted or removed and require no permanent modifications to the snare drum.

The RimRisers are available from playrecord.net in both the Black and Chrome finish.

Click here to view a video of Donnie Marple checking out the RimRiser.

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There are two packs which include mutes for a full drum kit, the Rock Set Sizes – 12″, 13″ & 16″ toms with 14″ snare and the Fusion Set Sizes – 10″, 12″ & 14″ toms with 14″ snare.

Each pack includes 3 tom head mutes and a snare head mute.

Both packs also include a heavy duty stick-on, re-usable bass drum mute which will fit any size kick drum & can also be used with a double pedal.

Additionally, it also features 2 x overhanging cymbal mutes and a hi-hat mute, plus an ‘inner disc’ that is used between the hihat cymbals.

Each pack also includes full fitting instructions.

Look out for the individual mute pads being sold separately….. Coming soon to playrecord.net

Products include bass drum pedals, standard and pro versions both with a single or double pedal. Also a large variety of stands including cymbal, snare and hi-hat stands all available in their top end heavy duty range down to the lightweight range.

Also now available are the Bigdog drum thrones, again, from the budget up to the luxury versions.

One of our favourite Bigdog products is the Bigdog Bass Drum Double Pedal (PRO).
This, in our opinion, is up there with the likes of the Iron Cobra double bass drum pedal and it features the cool unique Bigdog blue finish footplate. Besides the cool look and great quality, the Bigdog Bass Drum Double Pedal (PRO) is also very affordable in comparison to the likes of the Iron Cobra.

All the Bigdog hardware is now available to buy from playrecord.net, many of which with a special introductory price for a short period of time which can be viewed in the special offers section of our website.

All the accessories will be available in the upcoming weeks so keep coming back to see the new lines being added to our catalogue. To view all our Bigdog range please click here

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There are new designs available and we have increased our range of sizes which go from small all the way up to XXLarge.

In Addition, we have the all new baby, children and ladies tops range all with many new designs. Like the men’s T-shirts, these are also available in a full range of sizes.

As a special introductory offer, ALL the baby, children and ladies tops have been price cut for a limited time. Many of these can been seen in our “Hot Products” on the front page of our website. All the offers can be viewed in our “special offers” section and the full range can be viewed in the T-shirt categories.

The festival was an idea to change the way our world thought, it was a free event, to get as many people as possible to attend. The subject as we all know was for more peace and love on the planet, and indeed it was a weekend full of love, peace and happiness. Amazingly, there were no more than 6,000 injuries over the whole weekend and three deaths, one accident and two drug related deaths. Which is pretty impressive to say there were over 400,000 people at the Festival.

In 1999 Woodstock had another festival, again to bring peace and love to the world. This time there were around 200,000 fans entering the three day event. The ‘99 Woodstock did not go to plan. In fact it was a disaster, but come on, what did they think would happen. You put 200,000 people in a field in front of the likes of metal gods Metallica and Rage Against The Machine.. not exactly going to have a loving peaceful weekend are you. On paper the line up was incredible, well if you have James Brown and the Chilli Peppers on the same stage it’s going to be pretty special isn’t it. The festival soon turned into a full scale riot including huge fires and big brawls. The reason being, Woodstock 69 was a free event full of peace and tranquillity, 99 wasn’t free and people were even getting searched to make sure there was no food being brought into the festival. To me it seams like it was a scheme to make a lot of money, not an event to change the world!

I personally blame it on the amount of hardcore, heavy metal acts supporting Woodstock. Such as Korn and Limpbizkit, two bands that are notorious for getting their fans to go crazy. Silly if you ask me. If your looking for a peaceful weekend then James Brown and Elvis Costello are perfect, Insane Clown posse and Kid Rock not so much!

Now we’re in 2009, forty years after the original Woodstock. There is a special anniversary taking place in both New York (August 15th-16th) and Berlin, Germany (August 22nd – 23rd). It was a fantastic success in New York and i’m sure Germany will be the same. Woodfest is free like the 69 weekend and has a lot more sensible choices of acts.

All of you lucky enough to enter either events have an amazing weekend and enjoy all the bands you see. Also don’t forget why you are going to this festival, to appreciate the brilliant music and to help put more peace in this world, I’m sure you all will have a great few days and I hope to see some reviews on how the weekend went.

Cheers, Tom Playrecord.net

This year on the other hand has rock legends, Faith No More headlining the NME/Radio 1 stage. Also, the amazing Radiohead headlining the main stage. That’s not it, there is a much better selection of bands to suite every taste this year!

Throughout the weekend there’s a wide range of music such as uber dance group, The Prodigy, who will be supporting the Arctic Monkeys on the main stage, Deadmau5 headlining the dance stage, Deftones right along side Fall Out Boy and FFAF plus many more massive names; Kings of Leon and the Lostprophets!

I’m sure most people will agree it is going to be a time to remember for many years to come. I hope all of you attending either Reading or Leeds have an awesome weekend and enjoy all the bands you are wishing to see! =D

Written by Tom B

The so called “Glastonbury effect” has meant that Jay-Z has now seen his album sales rocket by nearly five-fold..not bad for an album that came out in 2003. He’s not on his own though, many of the artists have seen an increase in album sales since the event, such as
Amy Winehouse and Neil Diamond.

So are we in a time now where Glastonbury will be hailed as a commercial, sales boosting marketing campaign?… quite possibly. The industry will be feeling the bennefit of sales, especially with the amount of downloading that has impacted on high-street business over the last few years. No doubt the major’s will be rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the next “Glastonbury Effect”.

Further Reading
A.M. Nuggets: Glastonbury Festival Pics & Reviews
I wish I was there: Massive Attack at Glastonbury 2008
Amy Winehouse performs/fights at Glastonbury
Lupe Fiasco – Glastonbury Speech

Diddley’s debut single titled “Bo-Diddley” hit number 1 in the R & B chart back in 1955. His success shined throughout the 50’s and 60’s with several releases, interviews and shows. His work continued, and he kept touring into his later years.

In May 2007 Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care follwing a stroke he suffered after a concert in Iowa. A heart attack followed in August the same year. While recovering from both stroke and heart attack Diddley went back to his home town of McComb for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail, it was at this unveiling that he played his last public performance. Whilst Jesse Robinson sang a song written for the occasion, he felt that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone.

Further Reading

Thanks, Bo Diddley
RIP Bo Diddley
Bye Bye Bo Diddley
RIP Bo Diddley
RIP Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley Dies at 79

Chris has work with a number of bands and artists in his career including the La’s and most recently Robbie Williams.

Chris and Zak seem to be following in each others footsteps. They have both been involved with The Lightning Seeds and it now seems they can both say they have been part of Oasis.

We can assume that Robbie Williams will be far from pleased with this news, as himself and Oasis have had rivalry since 2000.

The Drum kit set up that Chris Sharrock uses is the Premier Maple Classic series:

14″ x 8″ Maple Classic Rack Tom (x3)
14″ x 9″ Maple Classic Rack Tom
14″ x 10″ Maple Classic Rack Tom
14″ x 14″ Maple Classic Floor Tom
16″ x 16″ Maple Classic Floor Tom
18″ x 16″ Maple Classic Floor Tom
22″ x 14″ Maple Classic Bass Drum (x2)
22″ x 18″ Maple Classic Bass Drum
14″ x 5.5″ Steel Modern Classic Snare (Parallel Action)

London International Music Show is 4 shows in one; London Guitar show, Drummer Live, Unplugged and the Sound Recording & Technoligy show all under one roof and one ticket gets you into all shows.

The show promises all the lastest gear and technology with siminars, conferences and even celebrities of the music world. You can expect to see exhibitors from “Acoustic Guitar Magazine” through to “Yamaha Music UK”, and instruments from xylaphones to bassoons.

On the Live stage you can see Paul gilbert playing on saturday for the London Guitar show, Chad smith will be beating them skins for the Drummer live line-up, and the list goes on….

For updates on the event visit www.londoninternationalmusicshow.com and be sure to not miss the best music event this year.