Clive Deamer

Clive Deamer is an English drummer and percussionist who has been the drummer for the jazz band Get the Blessing since 2000.^[1] He has worked with acts including Radiohead, Portishead, Jeff Beck, Alison Moyet, Siouxsie Sioux, Roni Size, Hawkwind, Robert Plant and Reprazent.

Clive Deamer
Deamer performing with Get the Blessing in 2011.
Background information
Born	Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Genres	Jazz alternative rock trip hop
Occupation	Drummer
Years active	1983–present
Member of	Get the Blessing Radiohead Portishead
Formerly of	Roni Size & Reprazent Hawkwind Robert Plant

Biography

Deamer was the drummer of Hawkwind between 1983 and 1985. The band leader, Dave Brock, later said Deamer was "too professional", and he was replaced with Danny Thompson Jr.^[2] Deamer was the drummer of the rhythm and blues revival group Big Town Playboys and appeared on albums including Crazy Legs (1993) with Jeff Beck.^[3]

Deamer (left; on drums) with Portishead in 2013.

Deamer has drummed for Portishead since 1994,^[4] playing on Dummy (1994), Portishead (1997) and Roseland NYC Live (1998) and Third (2008).^[5] In 1997, he appeared on the album New Forms by Roni Size & Reprazent,^[6] which won the Mercury Music Prize.^[7]

In 2000, Deamer formed the jazz band Get the Blessing with Jim Barr (bass), Jake McMurchie (saxophone) and Pete Judge (trumpet), in Bristol.^[1] From 2001 to 2007, Deamer was a member of Robert Plant's backing band. He first met Plant at Plant's daughter's wedding in 1991 when Deamer was playing with Big Town Playboys.^[8] He appeared on Plant's albums Dreamland (2002) and Mighty ReArranger (2005).^{[citation needed]}

Deamer worked with the French singer Damien Saez on the albums God Blesse / Katagena (2002),^[9] Debbie (2004)^[10] and Paris (2008).^[11] He participated in Saez's Yellow Tricycle project for the album To Lovers Prayer (2009).^[12] In 2007, he recorded with Siouxsie Sioux on her album Mantaray.^[13]

Deamer joined the rock band Radiohead as the second drummer on the tours for the albums The King of Limbs (2011) and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016).^[14][15][16] He performed in the live video The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement and on the 2011 double single "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase",^[17] and played additional drums on A Moon Shaped Pool.^[18] The Radiohead drummer, Philip Selway, said: "One [of us] played in the traditional way, the other almost mimicked a drum machine. It was push-and-pull, like kids at play, really interesting."^[19] In 2014, Deamer collaborated with Jonny and Colin Greenwood from Radiohead on the track "Under The Paving-Stones, the Beach!", on the soundtrack of the film Inherent Vice.^[20]

Discography

Year	Artist	Title	Notes	Cite
1983	Kevin Brown	Road Dreams	drums	[21]
1983	The Glee Club	Let My People Twist!		[22]
1989	Champion Jack Dupree With The Big Town Playboys	Live At Burnley		[23]
1990	Kevin Brown	Rust	drums on four tracks	[24]
	Big Town Playboys	Now Appearing	drums	[25]
1992	Headmaster	The Kids Said Rock		[26]
1993	Kevin Brown	Time Marches On		[27]
	Jeff Beck & the Big Town Playboys	Crazy Legs	drums and backing vocals	[3]
1994	John Gotting	A Month Of Sundays + The Best Of Johnny G	drums on four tracks	[28]
	Andy Davis Band	Andy Davis Band	drums and vocals	[29]
	Portishead	Dummy	drums	[30]
1996	Roni Size / Reprazent	Reasons For Sharing		[31]
1997		New Forms		[6]
	Portishead	Portishead	drums on four tracks	[32]
1998		Roseland NYC Live	drums on all but two tracks, percussion on one	[33]
	Dr John	Anutha Zone	drums on two tracks	[34]
	The Insects & Richard Grassby-Lewis Featuring Jon Hassell	Love And Death On Long Island soundtrack	drums	[35]
	David Ferguson	The View From Now	percussion	[36]
1999	Day One	Waiting For A Break	drums on one track	[37]
	Emiliana Torrini	Love in the Time of Science		[38]
	Tom Jones	Reload	drums and timpani on one track with Portishead	[39]
2000	Goldfrapp	Felt Mountain	drums on one track	[40]
	Mark Springer	Nature/Music/Food/The Stars And The Planets	percussion on three tracks	[41]
	Day One	Ordinary Man	drums on three tracks	[42]
2001	Beth Hirsch	Titles & Idols	drums on one track	[43]
2002	Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man	Out Of Season	drums on three tracks	[44]
	Alison Moyet	Hometime	drums on one track	[45]
	Baxter Dury	Len Parrot's Memorial Lift		[46]
2012	Radiohead	"The Daily Mail" / "Staircase"	Drums and percussion	[47]
2016	Radiohead	A Moon Shaped Pool	Additional drums on "Ful Stop"	[18]