Newcastle Drum Centre

Rodney Holmes Drum Clinic

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:17:58 +0000

Yesterday evening we hosted a drum clinic with Rodney Holmes, which was a marvelous success. A great time was had by everyone, and Rodney was totally amazing, a really nice guy with some amazing drumming techniques. We’re going to be announcing another clinic and electronics day with Craig Blundell very soon, so make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter on the main Newcastle Drum Centre page if you dont want to miss out.

Photos of the night were taken by Richard of In The Shot Photography.

We’ve started a flickr account and uploaded the pics, so the rest of the pics from the night can be seen by visiting the Newcastle Drum Flickr Page

Cheers

NDC

Want to save £1,200 ?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:12:30 +0000

We’ve just taken delivery of the new TD-12KX, and as promised we’re putting up a quick blog post to let you know. With improvements more or less across the board, including the mesh heads, the support frame and the module there is bound to be something to impress you.

TD-12KX Roland TD-12KX Electronic Drum Kit w Mesh Heads

If you want to look at a bit more information about the kit head on over to its product page by clicking here

To clear the shelves of it’s predecessor, and make room for the stock of the new ones, we have knocked a massive £1,200 off the standard retail price of the previous model, the TD-12KV with Black Pads. If you want to snap up a bargain on the last few we have remaining then head along to it’s product page by clicking here. Even though it’s the older model, thats still a whole lot of kit for not a lot of money!

NDC

Classifieds system overhauled

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:21:28 +0000

After numerous problems with the previous classifieds system, we have taken the step to remove the old system entirely and replace it with an entirely new system.

Unfortunately this has meant that the previous adverts have gone, though most of them were out of date anyway. User accounts that were made for the old system are still in place and can be used to post right away into the new system, so get posting those adverts.

NDC

Random as a box of frogs

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:16:20 +0000

We have just had about the most random sale you could think of…

The conversation went something like this:

Customer: Hi there, i need a snare..
Us: We have many *gesture at snare wall*
Us: What are you looking for, metal, wood, any particular sound?
Customer: Well, the sound doesnt really matter.
Us: Uhm, ok…..
Customer: My partner is going to make a cabinet out of it and replace the skins with wood inlayed with a cat tattoo…
Us: Ooook!

So, basically this guy’s girlfriend is Rosie Brown, an artist who makes some excellent bespoke cabinets and furniture with intricate inlaid designs from wood. The snare is going to have both skins replaced with one of her wooden designs.

As the snare is to be made into a cabinet instead of played, we half expected just a non-descript basic snare to be used, but no the customer suprised us yet again and went for a £340 Jimmy Degrasso Pearl signature model, in gold finish. Not often we get someone spending almost £350 on a snare and not even hitting it with a stick first!

Here is the snare he took away:

Pearl Jimmy Degrasso Snare

We’ve given the customer a card with our details on, and asked him to send us a picture of the snare when it’s finished, so we’ll make another post when we get that through.

In the mean time, if you want to look at some more of Rosie’s work you can do so by clicking here.

NDC

Counting down the days

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:19:54 +0000

We’re all sitting with bated breath here are Newcastle Drum Centre.

We’re awaiting a delivery coming in with a whole new set of electronic kits, such as the Yamaha DTX 900K and the DTX 950k, as well as the Roland TD-12KX. So if you’re a Yamaha fan or a Roland fan, we’re sure to have something in shortly to suit you!

A couple of quick videos to show you these awesome kits while we wait not so patiently…

Yamaha

Roland

If you want to be kept up to date on these two lovely kits, go over to our main online store site and use the sign up to newsletter box on the left hand side of the page.

NDC

Off to pastures new

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:15:07 +0000

We’re sad to see the departure of Harry Whatton, one of the Drum Centre members of staff. Harry has been with us for about 3 years now, and although he loves a bit of drumming and percussion his heart (and his degree) were always in the more arty side of things. Harry has been lucky enough to get a job as a painter of fine art, so we know he’s going to love it. We wish him all the best, and look forward to him dropping in for a coffee whenever he is in the area!

A farewell pint
Lovely Hair Clips	Hatted Harry	More Hair Clips

Harry is to ‘thank’ for some of the crazier point of sale sheets you might have seen dotted about the shop to advertise items on the shop floor. Some of the better ones are below for your amusement (click to enlarge):

NDC

Snares and stick trickery

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:33:24 +0000

We’ve recently taken delivery of the new series of Black Panther snares that were announced at this year’s NAMM show. With a massive range of 14 new snares, each with their own distinctive sound and look, there is sure to be one in there that suits your taste / music. We’re even offering up to 25% of each snare to mark their launch, so get along to the sales page to find out more about them.

2010
Black
Panther
Snares

The Stinger

The Phantom

The Blade

The Cherry Bomb

The Fastback

The Black Widow

The Blaster

The Machete

The Brass Cat

The Velvetone

The Sledge Hammer

The Phat Bob

The Panther

The Retrosonic

And if you are going to be getting a new snare, why not learn a new stick trick to really show it off with. We stumbled across this video recently and thought you all might like to see it as well:

Impressive stuff eh?

And finally, we’re still not seeing many pics for the “Show us your kit” section, so get sending them in!

NDC

Friday Freebies Again

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:04:19 +0000

Its been a few weeks since we did a Friday Freebies update, so here is a quick rundown of the latest winners:

Ipod and Sabian t-shirt winner was John Marston

11″ Splash winner – Nia Davidson of Scarborough

16″ AAXplosion fast crash winner – Paul marshall of Gloucestershire

Still plenty of prizes to be had, and remember each £50 spent on the site gets you a ticket, so a £300 purchase gives you 6 chances to win!

NDC

Good Morrow Ladies And Gents

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:13:25 +0000

Ye olde Newcastle Drum Centre team

Good morrow fine people, we have foundeth archived photographs from the very first day of opening of ye Newcastle Drum Centre back in 1892 on a cold and blustery winter morn..

As ye can see, here be the team resplendent in all their glory, with top hats and firm stern poses as all gentlemen should comport themselves when having their photographs recorded for posterity.

Thou canst clicketh on the image to see it enlarged through whichcraft to display larger on your television set.

In the image you see:

Top left: Sir Graham of Robson
Top right: Daniel Ward Esquire
Botom left: Lord Harold Watton
Bottom right: Duke Banjamin Alldred III

The descendant of one of these fine fellows, Ben Alldred of the current Drum Centre staff is playing fine tunes and melodies this Sunday with his band Thea, purveyors of the finest in groove metal. If thou findeth thineself in the area of the Ouseburn this coming Sunday the 31st Of January in the year of our Lord 2010 then thou shouldst parktake of fine bevarages in the Tyne bar and hear Ben and his band thrashing out from 8pm onwards.

Meanwhile the Drum Centre is running along nicely, and we should have more updates for you later in the week with new kit from the Namm show, so tune in frequently!

NDC

It’s squealy good!

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:38:47 +0000

It’s been a long two months since we said goodbye to our last Pork Pie Little Squealer kit and now they’re back and better than ever. This time in stunning blood red sparkle high gloss lacquer which you really can see your face in! Classic pro quality chrome fittings with isolated rims mounts complete the sexy looks, as you can see below;

(click to enlarge)

Pork Pie Little Squealer - Blood Red	Pork Pie Little Squealer - Front View
Pork Pie Little Squealer - Bass Close Up	Pork Pie Little Squealer - Rack Tom Close Up

The sound – huge. Supplied with coated single ply heads the toms still manage to deliver a pre-EQ’d beef and resonance that sounds like it’s been through a recording studio already. Thin all maple shells and razor sharp bearing edges (the best in the business we’re told) like this are very hard to find on a kit of this price.

We all want one, would owning three drum kits be too much i have to ask myself?

If you want to see a bit more about it on the site, click here.

Dan / NDC

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