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The Official Website Of Young 17 Yr Old Drummer Andy Finch.
Andy is from Leigh Park, close to Portsmouth along the south coast of the UK. He is a drummer and has been drumming since he was aged 9. He lives with his parents in the centre of Leigh Park. He attended the local "Park Community School of Arts and Drama" and left school with 10 GCSE passes. He also attended "Havant College" for half a year after his schooling ended but couldn't adapt to the lifestyle.
Now he is currently in part with an apprenticeship within I.T. His ambitions in life are to be a Professional Drummer. Of course, this costs money to participate in. Andy has a drum lesson every 2 weeks and throughout enjoys them; he is in a band Wishlist who play a more pop kind of music rather than rock. Andy likes all types of music but his favourite band is Dream Theater no 1 Progressive Rock band in the U.S. He has seen them live in concert and is inspired by the bands drummer "Mike Portnoy".
Andy is from Leigh Park, close to Portsmouth along the south coast of the UK. He is a drummer and has been drumming since he was aged 9. He lives with his parents in the centre of Leigh Park. He attended the local "Park Community School of Arts and Drama" and left school with 10 GCSE passes. He also attended "Havant College" for half a year after his schooling ended but couldn't adapt to the lifestyle.
Now he is currently in part with an apprenticeship within I.T. His ambitions in life are to be a Professional Drummer. Of course, this costs money to participate in. Andy has a drum lesson every 2 weeks and throughout enjoys them; he is in a band Wishlist who play a more pop kind of music rather than rock. Andy likes all types of music but his favourite band is Dream Theater no 1 Progressive Rock band in the U.S. He has seen them live in concert and is inspired by the bands drummer "Mike Portnoy".
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Although his parents had two other sons and a daughter and could not afford expensive gifts, they saved enough money to buy CONNOR his first drum set when he was five. When his drumming became “a loud nuisance” to the neighbors, he practiced with his drumsticks four to five hours a day on a practice pad.
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My playing career started totally out of the blue. A band called Metre was playing locally to me in Kennington, but their drummer didn’t turn up. Somebody said there was a guy down the road about a quarter of an hour away, so they turned up at my door and I went and played. ………And it started from there.
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