THOM MILLS DRUMS – REMOTE DRUM RECORDING, TOURING & RECORDING SESSION DRUMMER
THOM MILLS DRUMS – Touring & Recording Session Drummer
It’s that time again, going state side and this time we are out on our own with the brilliant Beans on Toast and Will Varley in tow. We’re starting in Florida and taking in Flogging Molly’s Salty dog cruise to the Bahamas, which sounds like a crazy drunken boat trip with Rancid, Frank Turner, Fishbone and many others! Also we are hitting up Toronto in Canada and some of the usual hot spots for us in Chicago, Pittsburgh & Cambridge on this 3 week tour.
It’s been 2 weeks now on tour in the U.S. with Skinny Lister. We spent our first week mainly doing our own headline shows and also taking in an awesome slot at Riot Fest in Chicago. Now we have joined up with Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and will be supporting them around the USA for the next 5 weeks. We also have Beans on Toast on the bill every night, so its a full English breakfast, lunch and dinner for the Americans! Here are my 1st two weeks as a photo diary:
So festival season is now upon us and things are hotting up quickly. The last few months have been very busy, after my trip to SXSW and then touring with Chuck Ragan, I had 2 weeks off then straight into another month long UK tour. Now a few weeks into festival season having already enjoyed some great shows at Greenfield in Switzerland and looking forward to Reading & Leeds, and a number of festies across Europe, I now have some new exciting touring news. Skinny Lister will be supporting Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls across the entire United States of America! Dates are over 2 months, September & October and we will be visiting both coasts, all the dates are below:
I have just arrived back from a 3 week intensive touring schedule (24 shows in 25 days) where I was lucky enough to attend South by South West or SXSW in Austin Texas. It’s the largest music industry festival event in the world, and is a bit like Glastonbury festival being dumped right in the middle of a huge city. What a fantastic festival with a wealth of fantastic bands from around the globe the only trouble is the musician is an after thought with record labels, management and anyone else important taking the limelight. However I had a brilliant time and my Skinny Lister schedule is below:
It was then straight onto a European tour after SXSW supporting Chuck Ragan & The Camaraderie. Beginning in Scotland we travelled all over Europe; UK, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. What a wonderful group of guys and a pleasure to support them around Europe! 