Dave Rowntree

partially taken from blurpoint

Dave Rowntree was born on 8 May 1963 in Colchester. When he first announced that he wanted to make music, his parents bought him a set of bagpipes. Not suprisingly, he abandoned them for a drumkit. He was taught to play drums the hard way - by a gargantuan Scotsman who taped a sixpence to the drum skin and smacked the pupil across the back of the head if his stick ever missed the target. By a coincidence, Dave had also attended some of the Saturday morning jazz classes run by Graham's father. He played in Idle Vice, a jazz punk trio, Hazel Dean, The Carpets Eaters From Hell, and Circus. For three months he also lived in London as a squat punk with a mohawk and played at various squat gigs, after which he moved wholesale to France and made a meagre living busking. Just like Graham, he became a protest vegetarian for a while but he failed because of malnutrition. His special hobby is flying, and he obtained his pilots' license a couple of years ago. His mother was a pianist with the London Orchestra, his father was a BBC sound engineer (now retired), and he has a sister called Sarah. He is married to a woman named Paula. He is the only member of Blur who ever completed their degrees, a Higher National Degree in Computer Science from Woolwich.

Dave seems to spend a lot of time animating now and working with computers, he is also involved in the Beagle 2 Mission to Mars project - Beagle 2: The British Led Exploration of Mars

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Dave is the drummer in the Ailerons. The Ailerons debut EP 'Left Right' was released through iTunes. The first release from The Ailerons, the Left Right EP, is out now, exclusively through iTunes. The tracklisting for the EP is: Dig A Hole/ Waking Fever/ Bonafone/ Roll Over. 'Dig A Hole' was also made 'Single Of The Week'.