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Remo Drums presented The Drummer Night at the London International Music Show, ExCel, Docklands on Saturday 14th June 2008 in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Drummer Night brought the drumming community together in a unique celebration that featured 16 world-class drummers performing, and who gave up their time to perform at the event with some artists flying in especially to support the cause. One of those being Big Night Out drummer James Hester. Also at the show was Ian Matthews an old friend of many players of Big Night Out. Ian of Kasabian has played with the Big Night Out on numerous occasions before and after his rise to fame with Kasabian standing in for James. Along side James and Ian was legend Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

IAN MATTHEWS - KASABIAN

The show opened with percussionist Pete Lockett supported by drummers from the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance playing REMO World Percussion. Then came an amazing list of REMO drumhead artists performing individually on drumset with a house band to their favourite tracks. The House Band opened the second half with Paul Mason on drums followed by Mark Schulman (Cher, Pink), Andy Newmark (Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music), Ian Matthews (Kasabian), James Hester (Malakai), Cherisse Osei (Mika), Jerry Brown (Girls Aloud), Neal Wilkinson (Van Morrison), and Steve White (Paul Weller) who was also joined on stage by Chad Smith. The unique finale was all the drummers taking to the stage on the eight drumsets.

CHAD SMITH - RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS

JAMES HESTER - MALAKIA + BIG NIGHT OUT

After his performance Mark Schulman himself a cancer survivor, contributed with an emotional and motivational speech at the event as he praised the efforts of Teenage Cancer Trust. With this came a live auction hosted by Chad Smith – REMO had donated a 50th Anniversary REMO snare drum signed by all participating REMO artists. After an enthusiastic response the auctioned snare drum settled at a staggering £1,500 by Jules Follett. After being moved by Mark Schulman’s speech, Jules Follett made the decision to gift the snare drum to Mark to be later auctioned by Teenage Cancer Trust alongside other drums and cymbals donated by Phil Collins (Genesis), Stewart Copeland (The Police), Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) as well as a snare drum donated by Nigel Olsson and also signed by Elton John. The final amount raised from the concert will be announced in January at Namm 2009.

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