For Sale: Waving Goodbye To The Drum Kit That Drummed For Kylie

I’m selling a drum kit.  Quite an extraordinary drum kit too.  It’s a Trixon Speedfire  - have a look at it here.  It’s lovely isn’t it.  It looks like something that would be played by a band in a groovy night club in The Jetsons.

 

Here it is being played by me in the gym at Harrow School.  (the first time I’d been in a gym for about 35 years).

This was for an advert for a motor car made by Lexus.  I featured in the ad for 0.00007 of a second but in this film (just before Kylie appears) you can admire the beautiful eccentricity of the drum kit’s design for quite a bit longer.  You can also admire the Prince of Wales check on my second hand Armani suit.

Back in 2003 I fancied buying myself an unusual drum kit.  A chap in Munich was selling one so I decided to motor down and purchase it.  I took along my old drumming mate John Sutton so that he could keep me amused on the autobahn.  It was a freezing night and inevitably my clapped out Nissan Prairie broke down – we had conked out by a little emergency telephone box and so I whimpered in English and in five minutes a big burley mechanic turned up and asked me to open my bonnet.  He then proceeded to start bashing something underneath the bonnet with a very large mallet.  I have no idea what he did but the engine started immediately and we made it all the way back to Leytonstone with the Trixon and with no further trouble and they didn’t charge me a penny. We love those Germans!

So the poor Trixon has been living in the cellar for quite a few years now – it’s absurd design hidden away in its cases.

Now I wanted to buy a painting.  My wife Joy thought this would be a perfect opportunity for me to raise the funds by selling my ridiculous mid-life crisis car.

But as I’m still going through the mid-life crisis – (so far I’ve clocked up 15 years and have about another 5 to go)  I said I’d sell the Trixons instead.

Here’s the painting

This is lovely too and we can look at it all the time rather than have the Trixons unused and hidden away.

So, before it goes on ebay is anyone interested?  It’s £2,900.  (a drum shop in central London had one up for sale at £5,000 – it had been used by the drummer in Bill Haley and the Comets but the condition was rotten – not a patch on mine).

You don’t have to be able to play the drums just have the room for a little bit of modern art – you could use it as a coffee table.