..:: Rich ::..
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Richard Birch
Date / Place of birth
17.09.84 / Norwich, Norfolk.
Position in band
Drummer.
Equipment
5-Piece Premier XPK Drums, Sabian AAX Stage 14" HiHats and 20" Ride, Sabian AAX 10" & 12" Splashs, Sabian AAX 20" Chinese, Zildjian Z Custom 18", 19" crashes, Pearl PW-100 Double Bass Pedal, Premier Hardware. Vic Firth Extreme 5B Sticks.
What song made you pick up your instrument?
"Bullet with butterfly wings" by the Smashing Pumpkins.
Your favourite ForenZic moment?
Hearing our fully mixed/mastered EP Surgery for Beginners for the first time. It was my first experience inside a professional studio and on hearing the results the whole band were left literally speechless. To this day I am still amazed it sounds so good, buy the CD if you don't believe me!
Your favourite ForenZic track to play live?
Amnesia.
Your most cherished possesion?
My squirel army.
Your favourite position?
On a drumstool, hidden in the back.
What's your poison?
A nice frosty beer.
What are your currently listening to?
Faith No More, Oceansize, Mars Volta and Pearl Jam.
What are your currently watching?
Deal Or No Deal.
What are your currently reading?
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene
ForenZic member most likely to?
Tell a band what he REALLY thinks.
The best rumour you've ever heard about yourself?
That I'm the illegitimate son of a cartoon dog!
Hailing from the sleepy market town of Bungay in Suffolk, Rich joined ForenZic in November 2003 after a chance visit to a kebab shop where his gaze fell upon a poster reading "Idiot required". Despite his drunken state and before the donner was even out of it's wrapper, the call was made and the rest as they say, is history.
Rich has been playing drums since the age of 12 and list Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Jimmy Chamberlin and Danny Carey as my influences. Long term goals include giving up smoking, and to disprove the illusion of drummers as intellectually devoid, knuckle dragging halfbreeds; he is currently in his final year at Lancaster University studying for a degree in physics, astrophysics and cosmology. His favourite colour is red and does not like mushrooms.
