Roddy Lorimer

Roddy Lorimer (born 19 May 1953) is a Scottish musician who plays trumpet and flugelhorn. He has performed with Blur, Gene, the Rolling Stones, Draco Rosa, the Who, the Style Council, Eric Clapton, Suede, Supergrass, Beyoncé, Jamiroquai, Dr John, the Waterboys, Nik Kershaw, Bruce Foxton, Fish (of Marillion). He is a founding member of the horn section Kick Horns.

Career Lorimer studied the trumpet at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Lorimer, as part of the Kick Horns, toured North America and the UK with the Who in 1989. World tours with Eric Clapton in 1993–96 and later a European tour for six months with the Clapton Band in 2006. He was a member of Pete Townshend's 'Deep End' (1985), a short-lived supergroup founded by Townshend featuring Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

He toured through the 1980s and early 1990s with the Waterboys. Currently he is playing with Cotton Mouth, one of Bangkok, Thailand's best blues rock bands, and Rolling Stones tribute band Midnight Ramblers, also based in Bangkok.

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Baaba Maal - Firin' in Fouta, Nomad Soul The Beautiful South - Miaow, Quench Beyoncé – Green Light Eric Bibb - Natural Light Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, The Great Escape Boyzone – Picture of You China Crisis - Working with Fire and Steel, Flaunt the Imperfection Erasure – The Innocents Eric Clapton - From the Cradle, Back Home Deep Purple - In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet Dr John - Anutha Zone Gabrielle - Give Me a Little More Time David Gilmour – About Face David Gray - Life in Slow Motion Groove Armada - Vertigo Geri Halliwell - Schizophonic Jamiroquai - Synkronized Tom Jones - Reload, Carrying a Torch The Lightning Seeds - Sense Michael McDonald - Soul Speak Mr Bean - Elected The Pretenders - Human on the Inside Primal Scream - Screamadelica, Dixie-Narco Finley Quaye - Maverick a Strike, Vanguard Chris Rea - Auberge The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels, Flashpoint S Club 7 - S Club, 7 Jimmy Somerville - Read my Lips,Dare to Love The Spice Girls - Spiceworld Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies, Pure Phase, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Stereo MCs - Connected, Deep Down & Dirty Rod Stewart - A Spanner in the Works Supergrass - In It for the Money James Taylor Quartet - Theme from Starsky and Hutch Toploader - Onka's Big Moka Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel, Deep End Live!, Psychoderelict The Waterboys - A Pagan Place, This Is the Sea, Fisherman's Blues, Room to Roam, Book of Lightning Westernhagen - Jaja, Krieg, Affentheater, Keine Zeit Wham! - Fantastic The Who - Join Together

Others by country Germany – Die Fantastischen Vier, Udo Lindenberg, Nina Hagen, Extrabreit, Klaus Hoffmann France – Lio, John Jaques Goldman, Ettiene Daho, Carmel Spain - Danza Invisible Scotland - Nazareth, Fish, The Proclaimers, Danny Wilson, John Martyn. Ireland - The Pogues, Shane MacGowan Wales - Cerys Matthews England – The Levellers, Pele, The Pale Fountains, Bernie Marsden, Andy Fairweather Low, Bros, Dead or Alive, Mel C, Lighthouse Family, Hard-fi, Public Image Limited, Duran Duran, Kim Wilde, Bruce Foxton, Richard Ashcroft, The Style Council, Holly Johnson, The Communards, Mr Blobby Scandinavia – A-Ha, Ace of Base Australia – Kylie Minogue, The Sunny Boys Brazil – Robi Draco Rosa Japan – Nobohide Sake, Miss Honda Africa – Papa Wemba, Miryam Mursall USA – Rufus Wainwright, Jay Owens