#linzidrew

Where to begin; the drums or the film? I'll start with the drums. I've had a pair of matching Premier Projector toms (12x10" & 14x12") and a punchy but odd sized 20x18" Projector bass drum in my workshop for a few years. The intention was to combine them all and do a "faithful restoration" collective re-wrap job, going for a Clem Burke-style red sparkle finish, however...

...I DON'T DO FAITHFUL RESTORATIONS!!

So, apart from cleaning up all the chromework on the lugs & hoops and waxing the bearing edges (got to love those beefy 1980s Premier re-rings!) it was taken apart and put back together again with a new mismatched set of Evans hydraulic heads and a bespoke uniformed new wrap. This is where I went a bit niche!

I've always loved the film An American Werewolf In London, but it's the film-within-the-film 'See You Next Wednesday' that's the real inspiration here. It's the porno film that plays in the background when David meets hisundead friend Jack in a Piccadilly Circus adult movie cinema (this is pre-internet, kids!) and stars a personal hero of mine, a certain Linzi Drew as the character Brenda Bristols.

I could waffle on like a fanboy about Linzi, but I'll just recommend reading her autobiography Try Everything Once Except Incest And Morris Dancing for all the juice. The fact that Linzi grew up just a couple of streets away from where I was born (and now live) also ties in with this kit and the general anarchic/creative vibe in BS3 right now.

So the wrap features a square image of Linzi from the film repeated in a chequered red white & blue pattern. The bass drum head artwork also features an image of Linzi that was digitally modified to look like a watercolour symmetry painting with Badgerwood Drums wording in the finest late 70s/early 80s porno font (the devil is definitely in the detail here!).