Clive Deamer

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

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. 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.

Deamer has drummed for Portishead since 1994, playing on Dummy (1994), Portishead (1997) and Roseland NYC Live (1998) and Third (2008). He appeared on the 1997 album New Forms by Roni Size & Reprazent, which won the Mercury Music Prize.

In 2000, Deamer formed the jazz band Get the Blessing with Jim Barr (bass), Jake McMurchie (saxophone) and Pete Judge (trumpet), in Bristol. Deamer appeared on Plant's albums Dreamland (2002) and Mighty ReArranger (2005).

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

Deamer joined Radiohead as the second drummer on the tours for the albums The King of Limbs (2011) and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016). He also performed in the live video The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement and on the 2011 double single "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase", and played additional drums on A Moon Shaped Pool. 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." 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.

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