Martin Pointon - Drums
Twenty-one years and an awful lot of hair loss later, Martin still batters away at the drums. After picking up sticks properly at the age of ten (mostly through pestering his music lecturer parents to borrow the college drum kit during the holidays) and subsequently playing in a succession of Cambridge bands throughout his teenage years, he went on to graduate from the Musician's Institute, London (PIT) in 1994 with a high merit before finally realising his life's dream and turning professional, doing both teaching and sessions. He was also Staff Writer for the UK's Rhythm magazine during some of this time.
Sadly, cost of living and a need to live in the real world meant Martin had a hiatus from drumming after 1996, never even playing his drum kit (it was kept at his mother's house) until 2002 when Martin picked his sticks back up after being asked to play in a production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Having re-lit his musical fire, he practised as much as possible and then got playing in bands again in 2005, making a concerted effort to get his former glory back - an effort that is yet to be achieved.
Martin's weekday waking hours are spent staring at reams of java and .NET code that allegedly help keep buses on time. As a consequence he knows that a 'most-significant bit' is not a reference to his missus and he cannot ever be hit by the proverbial bus because he knows when it's coming. He also works with The Mistreated's guitarist, Bernard. Due to his programming tendencies, Martin was put to pasture designing and developing this website - currently a work-in-progress that has now taken so long that he needs to re-write it to change the platform. As he is now obsessed with shoe-horning his spare hours working towards being a cross-country glider pilot, time for this is evaporating even quicker than ever.
Playing live is what most musicians exist for and Martin is no exception. Although Martin suspects that everyone else agrees because when he's playing is one of the few occasions that he stops talking.
