Thom Mills Drums

Session, Recording & Touring Drummer

Thom Mills is a top UK touring, session & recording drummer, based in Brighton. He has worked with Egyptian Blue, Public Body, Foals, Frank Turner, Youth Sector, Fur, Skinny Lister, The Maccabees, Noah & The Whale, Mechanical Bride, Sunless ’97 & Ed Prosek.

Thom also runs his own remote drum recording business from his studio ‘RedDrum Recording Studio’ where he records for artists and bands from all over the globe. He has recorded for numerous artists, including Frank Turner, Fur, Youth Sector, Skinny Lister & Anna Rossinelli, and his drumming has been featured on films, adverts and computer games.


Live

European Tour with Egyptian Blue, Live in France

Studio

Queens of the Stone Age drum cover recorded at RedDrum Studios

Experience

Artists I’ve worked with:

Egyptian Blue (Yala)

Skinny Lister (Xtra Mile Recordings)

Public Body (FatCat Records)

Sloe Noon (Dalliance Recs)

Mechanical Bride (Transgressive Records)

Sunless '97 (Abeano)

Foals (Warner Bro) as Percussionist and Drum Technician

Ed Prosek (SCOLA Records)

Frank Turner & Nathan Gray (End Hit Records)

Fur (777 Music)

Shady Baby (Nice Swan Records)

Alfie Firmin

Thrillhouse (Spirit of Spike Island)

Gretchin (The Den Music)

BirdSMITH (Tom Van Can)

Anna Rossinelli (Universal)

Youth Sector (Family Values)

Lucy Feliz (Ok Pal Records)

Holy Vessels (Hello Babe Records)

Producers I've worked with:

Theo Verney (Fur, Egyptian Blue, English Teacher, TRAAMS)

Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Bombay Bicycle Club)

Adrian Hall (Tori Amos, Depeche Mode)

Christoph Skirl (The Magic Gang, Willie J Healy, Foals)

Mark Roberts (Black Peaks, Delta Sleep)

Charlie McClean (Diana Ross, Anna Rossinelli)

Iain Harvie (Del Amitri, The Maccabees)

Tristan Ivemy (Frank Turner, Alex Clare)

Nick Abbott (Keane, Foals)

Russ Junk Scientist (Larrikin Love, The Rakes)

Frank Turner (NOFX, Nathan Gray)

Jag Jago (The Maccabees, Jessie Ware, Magic Gang)

Mark Flannery (Black Sabbath, Def Leppard)


Studios I’ve worked in:

Abbey Road, London

Maida Vale, London

Rockfield, Wales

Metropolis, London

Echo Zoo, Eastbourne

Brighton Electric, Brighton

Blue Bell Hill Studio, Kent

Salvation Studios, Brighton


Biography

Over the last 25 years of playing drums, and 16 years professionally I have gained a vast amount of live, studio and drum teaching experience as a professional session drummer playing all over the globe with a wide variety of bands and artists. Most notably with Skinny Lister (Xtra Mile) and currently with Egyptian Blue (Yala Records). I have done numerous live tours all over the world including, UK, Europe, Japan & USA, playing at legendary venues such as Alexandra Palace, Brixton Academy & Electric Ballroom. Also playing many times at incredible festivals including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and Download (UK), Asagiri Jam (Japan), Greenfields (Switzerland), Ypsiprock (Italy) Bonaroo, Riot Fest (USA), and Hurricane and Southside (Germany). 

I have also played & recorded with a plethora of other bands including post-punk band Public Body signed to FatCat Records. Currently I am working with Indie post-punk band Egyptian Blue touring in support of the debut album release on Yala Records 'A Living Commodity'. 

Additionally in the past I have toured, recorded with Mechanical Bride, signed to Transgressive Records. The ‘Living with Ants’ album was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. Through Republic of Music, my band Holy Vessels released ‘Last orders at the Marshall Arms’ in 2012.

I also was lucky enough to work with Foals as a drum tech and percussionist in 2013 following up to their ‘Holy Fire’ album release. I appeared with them on BBC’s ‘Later… With Jools Holland’, Channel 4’s ‘Abbey Road Sessions’ and toured with them around Europe on the albums promotional campaign.

I have also been blessed to connect, work and be endorsed with some of the best drum companies in the world. These include C&C Custom Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Vater Drumsticks and Remo Percussion drum heads.

My extensive studio experience includes sessions at top, world renowned studios including, Rockfield, Metropolis, Maida Vale & Abbey Road. I have also played on countless records over the years with  a great variety of different genres which has helped me to gain knowledge on what works for any type of music and how best to play and write creative and interesting drum parts that suit and enhance the song I am recording.

“I now own and run RedDrum Recording Studio in Brighton on the south coast of the UK where I operate as an online session drummer & record custom live drum tracks for artists, bands, songwriters and producers from all over the globe. My clients so far have been extremely varied from Russian rock bands to tender UK based singer songwriters. My aim is to always deliver the highest quality live studio drum tracks with as many revisions as the client desires to artists, bands, songwriters and producers all over the world.

After many years of experience as a session studio drummer and online session drummer, and now with my own studio delivering the highest quality live drum tracks I believe I can deliver to all my clients a truly unique service; Cutting out the need to hire a high-end recording studio, engineer and producer but still getting the best real live drum tracks played by a professional online session drummer, and delivered straight to your inbox for a fraction of the price.”


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