The fact we had a rapper added an interesting slant to the band. We played jazz fusion mixed with hip hop and other popular music influences. We were really young, but older musicians would come to see our gigs we were always sold out when we played at the Jazz Café. Quite Sane is where I feel I served my apprenticeship. We went on to play shows in popular venues in London such as Dingwalls, The Jazz Café, The Blue Note, Subterranea, etc. At the age of 17 we won a battle of the bands competition with Capital Radio and were awarded Band of the year. At school, my two best friends and I formed a band which was eventually known as Quite Sane. I went to the Newham Royal Academy of Music in East London, a classically based music school where I played percussion in an orchestral band at 10 years old. I chose to become a drummer at the age of 9 when I first saw a family friend play a ruby red kit. Dad was a singer in a band and from that, I always wanted to do music. Here he tells us about his audio journey and explains ITM. Cassell now wants to help develop underprivileged artists at the beginning of their music careers through his artist development programme ‘In the Making’. But even with this early grounding in music, success has been spectacular for the London-based drummer, who has been known to sit behind the kit of two-hit acts, Plan B and The Streets (at times simultaneously).īeing a Ivor Novello Award winner and a senator for the Ivors academy. You might say Cassell The Beatmaker was born with a drumstick in his hand son of a musician and earmarked for a musical career at an early age.
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