Eric Lavansch - The Black Page Online Drum Magazine

night and two nights later play in a differentclub just 500 yards down the road. We couldplay every night of the year if we wanted.That’s a pretty demanding schedule. How oftenare you away from home?I guess I am away about 10 months of theyear. Whenever we get a couple of weeks offI try and shoot back home, but the problemis that the schedules change so much. Oneweek there is one show in the diary and in afew hours it can change to five shows, recordingand a video. When we play in Europe Itend to fly back to the UK in between shows.I was recently just back in May and July, andI probably won’t get back now until the sametime next year.What are the best and worst parts of workingin Thailand?Definitely the food here is a big bonus! It’s justincredible. I love the way of life and the generalpublic’s admiration of music. It’s a reallybig part of peoples lives here. The concertsare always fantastic and the Thai people areso friendly, warm and accepting. I would saythe only downside is the traffic. It’s brutal.…Oh yeah, the golf’s great too! (laughs)You have played some huge concerts withSek. Any particular highlights you care to recount?One of the most memorable was being toldwe were doing a live TV show the very nextday. Nothing else was said. Anyways, I gotto the studio at 10am thinking typical smallstudio for a one song performance – wrong. Itwas an hour-long special dedicated to Sek topromote the new album. We were playing 8live songs with a live audience of 3000 anda viewing figure of just over 6 million! Nervesvisit eric at myspace.com/drummeruk