Dave Cheeseman
Encyclopedia
Dave Cheeseman is a prolific English
underground session musician
, currently most well known for his work with Sack Trick
and Pillow Talk.
after being inspired by Guns N' Roses
' live music video
of "November Rain
", in which frontman Axl Rose
can be seen enthusiastically engaging a huge stadium crowd while seated behind a piano
.
Van Halen
and later Dream Theater
became the focus of his musical fixations and provided inspiration for his pursuit of keyboard playing perfection, despite the latter of the two bands being in Cheeseman's words "Unbearably tedious at times".
Cheeseman played keyboards in the York
heavy metal
outfit Beyond Redemption, with Gideon Letch, Mark Burnett and Evil Clive Jevons, achieving success on the local and underground international metal scene. The band were also notorious for their stage show which inevitably involved band members stripping to the waist in scenes reminiscent of a Manowar
video.
Later on, he founded Pillow Talk with James Jirgens, Gideon Letch and Mark Burnett. The band's shambolic comedy rock caught the attention of Chris Dale of Sack Trick
, who recruited Cheeseman for his own rock outfit.
In the meantime Cheeseman played drum
s for several Nottingham
based indie
bands including the underground folk
rockers Heroic Trio. He also plays bass guitar in a tribute band, Beyond Comprehension. People have commented that it is strange that Cheeseman should play in a tribute to his own band, but he has said that it only adds to his Underground credentials.
Cheeseman also plays for Twin Zero
, a Reuben Gotto rock project based in London
.
Cheeseman is also an avid Hull City A.F.C.
supporter and is regularly seen at the KC Stadium
, in his seat next to Uriah Heep
bass
player Trevor Bolder
.
Pillow Talk - Purely Platonic (2001)
Smooth Cheeseboard - Paprika Gentlemen (2002) - Solo project with Chris Smith
Pillow Talk - Painful Love (2003)
Pillow Talk - Criminal Conviction (2005)
Twin Zero - Monolith (2005)
Pillow Talk - Come On England (2006) - Single for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Twin Zero - The Tomb To Every Hope (2006)
Sack Trick - Live in Tokyo (due 2008)
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
underground session musician
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
, currently most well known for his work with Sack Trick
Sack Trick
Sack Trick are an eccentric British music collective who have been compared to the humour of Monty Python and musical madness of Frank Zappa. The bassist Chris Paulo Dale is the center of the group, guiding the audience through a universe that is more rock circus than rock opera, with a partiality...
and Pillow Talk.
Biography
Cheeseman started playing the keyboardKeyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
after being inspired by Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
' live music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
of "November Rain
November Rain
"November Rain" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, written by lead singer Axl Rose and released as a single in June 1992. It appears on the album Use Your Illusion I. The music video for this song was also released in 1992, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography...
", in which frontman Axl Rose
Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he enjoyed great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disappearing from the public eye for several years...
can be seen enthusiastically engaging a huge stadium crowd while seated behind a piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
.
Van Halen
Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
and later Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
became the focus of his musical fixations and provided inspiration for his pursuit of keyboard playing perfection, despite the latter of the two bands being in Cheeseman's words "Unbearably tedious at times".
Cheeseman played keyboards in the York
York
York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
outfit Beyond Redemption, with Gideon Letch, Mark Burnett and Evil Clive Jevons, achieving success on the local and underground international metal scene. The band were also notorious for their stage show which inevitably involved band members stripping to the waist in scenes reminiscent of a Manowar
Manowar (band)
Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York. Formed in 1980 the group is known for its lyrics based on fantasy and mythological topics along with their "loud and bombastic" sound...
video.
Later on, he founded Pillow Talk with James Jirgens, Gideon Letch and Mark Burnett. The band's shambolic comedy rock caught the attention of Chris Dale of Sack Trick
Sack Trick
Sack Trick are an eccentric British music collective who have been compared to the humour of Monty Python and musical madness of Frank Zappa. The bassist Chris Paulo Dale is the center of the group, guiding the audience through a universe that is more rock circus than rock opera, with a partiality...
, who recruited Cheeseman for his own rock outfit.
In the meantime Cheeseman played drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s for several Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
based indie
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
bands including the underground folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
rockers Heroic Trio. He also plays bass guitar in a tribute band, Beyond Comprehension. People have commented that it is strange that Cheeseman should play in a tribute to his own band, but he has said that it only adds to his Underground credentials.
Cheeseman also plays for Twin Zero
Twin Zero
-Biography:The band's first release was 7" vinyl Earthbound on Danish label Futhermocker Records. Released in November 2004, this featured one 7 minute track split over both sides of the record....
, a Reuben Gotto rock project based in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Cheeseman is also an avid Hull City A.F.C.
Hull City A.F.C.
Hull City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. The club participates in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football...
supporter and is regularly seen at the KC Stadium
KC Stadium
The KC Stadium, often shortened to the KC, is a multi-purpose facility in the city of Kingston upon Hull , England. Conceived as early as the late 1990s, it was completed in 2002 at a cost of approximately £44 million. It is named after the stadium's sponsors, telecommunications provider KC,...
, in his seat next to Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep (band)
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and regarded as a seminal classic hard rock act of the 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and David Byron's operatic vocals...
bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
player Trevor Bolder
Trevor Bolder
Trevor Bolder is an English rock bassist, musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his tenure with The Spiders From Mars, the one-time backing band for David Bowie, although he has played alongside a variety of musicians since the...
.
Beyond Redemption
1997 - 2000- Dave Cheeseman - Keyboards, Vocals
- Clive Jevons - Guitar, Vocals
- Mark BurnettMark BurnettMark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...
- Bass Guitar - Yvgeni Vatchkov - Bass Guitar
- Gideon Letch - Drums
Beyond Comprehension
1998–Present- Dave Cheeseman - Bass
- Gideon Letch - Vocals
- Rock God - Guitar
- Oliver RobinsonOliver RobinsonOliver Robinson is a retired American basketball player who played shooting guard for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs....
- Crew
Pillow Talk
1999–Present- Dave Cheeseman - Keyboards, Vocals
- James Jirgens - Guitar, Vocals
- Mark BurnettMark BurnettMark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...
- Bass - Chris Harter - Bass, Vocals
- Dr Roland Parker - Bass
- Ned Potter - Drums
- Chris Smith - Drums
- Gideon Letch - Drums, Vocals
- Ben Calvert - Drums
Heroic Trio
1999–Present- Dave Cheeseman - Drums
- Nicola Underdown - Bass, Vocals
- Sarah Moore - Guitar, Vocals
The Deltarays
- Dave Cheeseman - Drums
- Dan HardyDan HardyDan Hardy is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2004, Hardy fought in various promotions such as Cage Force and Cage Warriors before signing a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2008. He was...
- guitar - Darren Hardy - Bass
- Chris TomlinsonChris TomlinsonChristopher George Tomlinson is an English long jumper.Tomlinson began competing for Middlesbrough AC at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m. He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School and to this day holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump...
- Vocals - Glen DaviesGlen DaviesGlen Davies , is a footballer who played in the Football League.-External links:...
- Drums
Twin Zero
2004–Present- Dave Cheeseman - Keyboards
- Anf Morfitt - Bass
- Reuben Gotto - Guitar
- Karl Middleton- Vocals
- Bing Bong - Guitar
- Ben Calvert - Drums
- Si Hutchby - Drums
Sack Trick
1997–Present- Chris Dale - Bass, Vocals
- Reuben Gotto - Guitar, Vocals
- Robin Guy - Drums, Vocals
- Dave Cheeseman - Keyboards, Vocals
Selected Underground Discography
Beyond Redemption - Injury Time EP (2001)Pillow Talk - Purely Platonic (2001)
Smooth Cheeseboard - Paprika Gentlemen (2002) - Solo project with Chris Smith
Pillow Talk - Painful Love (2003)
Pillow Talk - Criminal Conviction (2005)
Twin Zero - Monolith (2005)
Pillow Talk - Come On England (2006) - Single for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Twin Zero - The Tomb To Every Hope (2006)
Sack Trick - Live in Tokyo (due 2008)