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14-04-2024 Played a special gig today at an unusual location: a boat in the Lee canal in London. We played there with the Inverted Worlds band and had the cool experience to play a rooftop gig on the ‘Word on the Water’!

09-03-2024 ‘Jezebel Jesus’ is out now! Check out Tim Gerard’s new single here. I took care of the percussion on this track!

07-03-2024 Blessed to have been part of another great night of live music, playing with the Inverted Worlds Band. This time we rocked up at The Jago in London!

03-03-2024 Blessed with my first gig with the Inverted Worlds Band, a jam band led by keys player Liam Lens, which hosts several acclaimed jam sessions throughout London. We had a wicked one tonight, at The Post Bar in Tottenham!

31-03-2024 Another productive studio session with multi instrumentalist Adam Flinders today! Our new instrumental ideas, which focusses on hand pan in combination with string instruments, are starting to take shape!

29-03-2024 We had a wicked first gig with Eddie & the Waves, at the Bermondsey Social Club in London last night! Thanks to live photographer Mark Goddard for capturing the vibes from my ‘office’!

28-03-2024 We had an absolute belter of a night at the Bermondsey Social Club in London with Fire In Her Eyes. Big love to a lovely audience during this sold out headline show! (photo by Mark Goddard)

17-03-2024 I spent the day in Tim Gerard’s studio, as we recorded percussion for Tim’s upcoming single ‘Jezebel Jesus’! Watch this space for the release!

10-03-2024 We are rehearsing with Fire In Her Eyes for our next London based concert, on the 28th of March at the Bermondsey Social Club.

13-02-2024 Productive studio day for Tim Gerard’s new single. I’m already excited about the African vibes that we’re going to bring with this one!

29-02-2024 Tonight we played an intimate and acoustic set with Fire In Her Eyes during the Success Express night at Piano Smithfield in Barbican, London. Thanks to the wonderful organisation for having us!

28-02-2024 What a wonderful we had with Fire In Her Eyes, yesterday in London… A big shoutout to the lovely crew and audience at The Troubadour!

26-12-2024 Santa Clause has been very generous this year, because I’ve been lucky enough to extend my collection of drums with this beautiful hand pan! I already can’t stop playing it…

24-12-2024 A very merry Christmas to everyone! Let’s make this a very musical festive season to remember! First step to achieve is to add this one to your Christmas playlist of course!

14-12-2024 Release concert for Christmas album ‘Pineapple & Puddings’ from Tim Gerard & Astro Ranger Frequencies was a big success! Thanks to a lovely audience at the Sir Richard Steele in London.

08-12-2024 It’s release day! ‘Mudiwa’, the fourth single from Steppers Division, can now be found on all streaming platforms. Check out our previously released live video here.

07-12-2024 An experience to never forget… Today my musical friend Tim Gerard and I were blessed to provide the music during David and Victoria Beckham’s private party, in central London. It was a true honour to meet this living legend in person and to even have a jam with his talented son Cruz Beckham, at the start of our second set!

03-12-2023 There will be an album release show for Christmas album ‘Pineapple & Puddings’!! On the 14th of December, at Sir Richard Steele in London. Doors will open at 7pm and the entrance is free, as it is for charity!

13-11-2023 With pride I present ‘Soulful Christmas’, the first single from the freshly released Christmas album ‘Pineapple & Puddings’:

12-11-2023 Behold my first (ever) percussion showreel!

11-11-2023 Pineapple & Puddings is out! ‘The best Christmas album that you never heard’ is how we like to call it. With ‘we’ I mean my friend Tim Gerard (London) and Astro Ranger Frequencies (New York) especially, as they made this wicked album come to fruition. Find it on Spotify and all other streaming platforms here!

26-10-2023 The upcoming Steppers Division single ‘Mudiwa’ just had a sneak preview on BBC Radio Norfolk! Stay tuned, as this fourth Steppers Division single will be officially released on the 8th of December!

16-10-2023 Nice vibes last night, at the Ain’t Nothin But blues bar in Soho, London. It is always a great feeling to play at this legendary place!

14-10-2023 It’s a wrap! All the percussion for the upcoming Fire In Her Eyes album has been recorded in North London today! I can’t wait for the band to put this baby out into the world, which will happen in February next year!

11-10-2023 Today I will be interviewed live on the Belgian radio station LRM, at 8.30pm (local Belgian time), to talk about my work for Steppers Division. It gives me a lot of pride to announce that, after having had national airplay on BBC Radio 1 already, our third single ‘Love Don’t’ also became ‘Track of the Week’ on this radio station. Tune in here!

08-10-2023 What a blast we had on stage tonight! I had a lot of fun, playing with London based singer/songwriter & blues guitarist Tim Gerard! We were privileged to be a part of the Spiritual Records Autumn Festival, at the Camden Assembly in London.

07-10-2023 In just about a week time I am going to release my first percussion showreel! Down below you will find a little taste of what to expect!

06-10-2023 It’s rehearsal time! In this beautiful rehearsal space in the English countryside, we are preparing a proper rock ‘n roll show with London based blues guitarist/singer songwriter Tim Gerard. On the 6th of October we are bringing the madness to the Camden Assembly, in London!

29-09-2023 ‘Man on the Moon’ from Fire In Her Eyes is out now!! We celebrated this release properly with a launch concert in the beautiful St. Pancras Old Church in London. The single itself can be heard here.

19-09-2023 Big thanks to The Troubadour for having us! It was a special to play with Fire In Her Eyes in this famous London venue, where icons like Led Zeppelin have played. A bucket list thing for me!

16-09-2023 We had an absolute blast to perform a fiery Fire support set for the amazing Rosalie Cunningham, at Lafayette in London. Here is a backstage picture with the full Fire In Her Eyes band, to proof the good vibes!:

15-09-2023 Tickets for the single release concert from Fire In Her Eyes, at St. Pancras Old Church in London, are on sale!

31-08-2023 London based indie rock band The Outers have released a music video, for their freshly released song ‘First Sight’. I took care of the drums in this one, which have been recorded at Ghost Town Studios London. Behold the end result down below!

29-07-2023 On the night that of our headlining show during the Potsdamer Erlebnisräume Festival, BBC Radio Norfolk played our third single ‘Love Don’t’ again! They picked up on the airplay from earlier that week, on national radio at BBC Radio 1. It made our first festival gig in Potsdam even more memorable…

29-07-2023 A BIG thanks to the Potsdamer Erlebnisräume Festival for having us as their headliner, we had a blast! The people of Potsdam were very welcoming to us Steppers and the vibes were ON!

25-07-2023 A new Steppers Division milestone has been achieved!! Our third single ‘Love Don’t’ got played on the national BBC Radio 1! During the radio show ‘BBC introducing Rock on Radio 1’, hosted by Alyx Holcombe, we got our debut airplay on the national UK radio. Listen back to the full episode here (our bit starts at 57.50). Blessed and thankful beyond words…

14-07-2023 Love Don’t is out!! On this beautiful Friday, the third Steppers Division single can be found on all platforms, so make sure to click that ‘play’ button! We also have something else to celebrate, namely our very first animated music video, which we made for Love Don't. Check it out below:

02-07-2023 It is official! On Saturday the 29th of July, we from Steppers Division will headline Potsdamer Erlebnisräume! We will play as final act, starting our set at midnight, and couldn’t be more excited! More information about the event can be found here.

29-06-2023 A sneak peek for the third Steppers Division single ‘Love Don’t’, which is about to be released really soon! This is the moment to check it out as one of the first, which can be done here!

28-06-2023 There’s no dull day in the Steppers Universe! So today, our second live video is out! In this one you might recognise our second single ‘Light, which is exactly the song that we are playing! Check it out here and shine like a light yourself!

24-06-2023 This week I had the pleasure to share the stage with Berlin based singer songwriter Rob Fleming. First we played a nice outdoor show during Fête de la Musique in Berlin on Wednesday 21-06-23, to then finish this nice week with a second show today, at music club Artliners in Berlin.

23-06-2023 The wait is over, as today the music video of second Steppers Division single ‘Light’ has been released into the worldwide web! Check it out down below and ‘light’ up your day!

21-06-2023 The new Fire In Her Eyes single ‘Juggling Clown’ is out on all streaming platforms now! You can find this wicked new song right here.

06-05-2023 Today we played a Steppers Division show at Nhow in Berlin. There were several cameras on stage, so there might be a special (stage view).

13-04-2023 Wicked times with Steppers Division, live at Artliners Berlin. Watch the full concert HERE.

06-04-2023 Played my first show as the percussionist for London based band Fire In Her Eyes, at Temple of Art & Music in London. The next show: at Brighton Dome, on the 21st of May 2023. More info HERE.

17-03-2023 ‘Light’, Steppers Division’s, is out now! Light up your day and listen HERE!