Geoff Dugmore

Geoff Dugmore (born 12 April 1960) is a Scottish drummer, musical director and producer. He was a member of the bands the Europeans, and Wildlife.

Career

Educated at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow, Scotland, Dugmore started his musical career initially playing guitar. However, he became enamored with the drums upon seeing pictures Ringo Starr playing inside his Beatles records, immediately becoming impressed with the drum set equipment. He eventually traded his guitar equipment with a school friend for a drum set. At the age of 13 he started making demos and sending them to record labels, and also played in cover bands from the age of 16. Signed to the short-lived Coma Records, at age 16 he released just one recording on the label. Dugmore moved to London at the age of 18 with his band the Europeans (Steve Hogarth, Colin Woore & Fergus Harper) and signed to A&M Records. They released three albums: Vocabulary, Live and Recurring Dreams. The band achieved much critical acclaim within the industry but broke up shortly after the release of the last album.

In 1993, Dugmore and Nigel Butler produced Belouis Some's album Living Your Life.

His first major recording session after the Europeans was Joan Armatrading's Sleight of Hand. Soon Dugmore was playing on albums with many major artists from around the world including on Tina Turner's Foreign Affair, Stevie Nicks' Other Side of the Mirror, Rod Stewart's single "Downtown Train", Robbie Williams' Life through a Lens, Demi Lovato's Here we Go Again and Killing Joke's Pandemonium. He has toured constantly with many major acts worldwide and more recently has been recording with Richard Ashcroft and Newton Faulkner. In 2013, Dugmore produced the debut album for Little Eye.

To date, Dugmore has performed on 89 top 20 albums worldwide.

Equipment

Dugmore currently plays DW drums, Remo drumheads, Sabian cymbals, and also uses Vater drumsticks.

Live tours

• Ronnie Lane Memorial Concert
• 1 Giant Leap
• Damien Saez
• Robert Palmer
• Paul Rodgers
• Mike Scott
• Killing Joke
• Debbie Harry
• Climie Fisher
• Thompson Twins
• The Waterboys
• Belouis Some
• Eikichi Yazawa
• Wildlife
• The Europeans
• Fine Young Cannibals
• Psyched Up Janis
• Jimmy Nail
• Ray Davies
• Tim Finn
• Heather Nova
• Johnny Hallyday
• Lulu
• Xu Wei
• CBGB's Special with Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Deee-lite, Anthony Kiedis, Lou Reed

Discography

• 1986 Joan Armatrading, Sleight of Hand
• 1986 Tim Finn, Big Canoe
• 1989 Bankstatement, Bankstatement
• 1989 Stevie Nicks, The Other Side of the Mirror
• 1989 Debbie Harry, Def, Dumb & Blonde
• 1989 Tina Turner, Foreign Affair
• 1992 Brian May, Back to the Light
• 1993 Debbie Harry, Debravation
• 1994 Jimmy Nail, Crocodile Shoes
• 1994 Killing Joke, Pandemonium
• 1995 Peter Murphy, Cascade
• 1995 Jimmy Nail, Big River
• 1996 Killing Joke, Democracy
• 1997 Robbie Williams, Life Thru A Lens
• 1998 Heather Nova, Siren
• 1999 Dido, No Angel
• 2001 Natalie Imbruglia, White Lilies Island
• 2001 Ian McNabb, Ian McNabb
• 2001 Ian McNabb, Waifs & Strays
• 2003 Mark Owen, In Your Own Time
• 2005 Natalie Imbruglia, Counting Down the Days
• 2005 Lee Ryan, Lee Ryan
• 2008 Will Young, Let It Go
• 2011 Heather Nova, 300 Days at Sea
• 2012 Ronan Keating, Fires
• 2016 Richard Ashcroft, These People
• 2019 Heather Nova, Pearl

References

Bibliography

Further reading:

• Hämäläinen, Jyrki "Spider" (2020). Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?. Milton Keynes: New Haven Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1912587407.