Glenturret

Irish Folkrock and Pop

This is the Project where I was the drummer for ten years. With Glenturret I learned all the basic stuff. Especially to deal with stage-fight – which seems to be more easy buried behind a rack of toms and cymbals. Sitting with a Dobro at the edge of a stage nowadays it feels a bit closer to the audience…

How to write songs together, make a song work, technical difficulties (drums are the most troubled instrument you can imagine: all problems you got in a band are cause of them). To serve the music and not your own ego was another thing to master.

We played at many places like the Schüür in Luzern and Reitschule in Bern – it was lots of fun and action and good friendship. Visit their homepage.

After I moved from my hometown Baar to Bern to start an acoustic folk duo with Ralf Reimann, I went one or two times a month back home for rehearsals. This went on as I moved to Basel, every time a journey of about 110 km one way. For other countries this might be nothing – but here in little Switzerland moving this far is half through the country and considered as a trip to the other end of the world 😉 .

After two more years I got tired of this, as I was also involved in other acoustic projects in Bern and Basel. I had to set priority, and this was acoustic music. My decision catched a lucky moment: after one month they found a new drummer who is in line with the team.

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