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Seb Rochford: getting around

Inside a tube train at rush hour

Have drums, will travel – but how? Seb Rochford was so keen he used to take the underground...

THERE'S A famous story about Charlie Watts, drummer with the Rolling Stones, who used to play jazz gigs in north London with double-bassist Dave Green before the Stones were formed back in the 1960s. Neither Watts nor Green had a car, and somehow managed to carry their kit on a bus.

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The first three years I was in London, I didn’t have a car, so I had to carry my drums on the Tube

Seb Rochford perfected a technique like that when he first moved to London from college, as he explains here.

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