Stu Fisher
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Stuart "Stu" Fisher is an English
musician, notable for being the current drummer
of alternative rock
band Hole
. Prior to becoming a member of Hole, Fisher was also the drummer of English psychedelic rock
band Ozric Tentacles
and also Fingermonster. He was raised on the Isle of Wight
, later relocating to Somerset
while in Ozric Tentacles, London
and later Los Angeles
while playing with Courtney Love
and is now based in the Isle of Wight. Love revealed he had once worked for Hello!
magazine in 1999.
on the live track "Sploosh!", recorded for XFM
in London, United Kingdom in 2003.
ist Micko Larkin
, at London auditions held by Courtney Love in 2007. After a period of rehearsal in Los Angeles, Fisher and Larkin played as part of Love's new band alongside bassist
Patricia "Pato" Vidal, Bethia Beadman on piano
and keyboards and rhythm guitarist Liam Wade. In July 2007, the band began a short four-date tour of the United States
and Europe
, performing at Givenchy Salon in Paris, France on July 4; Bush Hall in London, United Kingdom on July 9; the Hiro Ballroom in New York on July 12 and the Roxy Theatre
in West Hollywood, California
on July 17.
During January 2009, recording sessions for Love's long-in-preparation studio album, Nobody's Daughter
, began in Burbank, California
with Fisher playing drums and percussion. At a second recording session, in Los Angeles
' Henson Recording Studios
, Love also performed drums and it was during this session, on June 17, 2009, that Love announced that the album would be released under the name of Hole
. In the following months, former lead guitarist Eric Erlandson
and former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur
disputed Love's right to use the name of her former band, due to a contract Love and Erlandson signed in 2002 after the band's initial split. Despite ongoing disputes, Hole's reunion proceeded with Fisher on drums. The final recording sessions for the album were held at Electric Lady Studios
in New York and although Fisher was the main drummer on all of the album's songs (except "Letter to God
"), Jack Irons
was also an additional drummer. On April 23, 2010, Nobody's Daughter was released as Hole's fourth studio album and the band also embarked on a worldwide tour. Fisher's first official appearance as Hole's drummer was on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
on February 12, 2010, performing "Samantha
."
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...
musician, notable for being the current drummer
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
of alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band Hole
Hole (band)
Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...
. Prior to becoming a member of Hole, Fisher was also the drummer of English psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
band Ozric Tentacles
Ozric Tentacles
Ozric Tentacles are an instrumental rock band from Somerset, England, whose music can loosely be described as psychedelic or space rock. Formed in 1983, the band has released 28 albums as of 2011, and become a cottage industry selling over a million albums worldwide despite never having major...
and also Fingermonster. He was raised on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
, later relocating to Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
while in Ozric Tentacles, 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...
and later Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
while playing with Courtney Love
Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...
and is now based in the Isle of Wight. Love revealed he had once worked for Hello!
Hello!
Hello is a weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories, published in the United Kingdom since 1988. Hello is sister magazine to ¡Hola!, the Spanish weekly magazine launched in Spain in 1944...
magazine in 1999.
Ozric Tentacles (2002-2003)
Fisher was the drummer for Ozric Tentacles from 2002 until 2003 and is featured on the 2010 reissue of the band's third studio album, StrangeitudeStrangeitude
Strangeitude, released in 1991 on Dovetail Records, is an album by Ozric Tentacles. It was re-released in 1998 by Snapper Music.-Track listing:# "White Rhino Tea" - 5:55# "Sploosh!" - 6:26...
on the live track "Sploosh!", recorded for XFM
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are...
in London, United Kingdom in 2003.
The Courtney Love Band and Hole (2007-present)
Fisher was recruited, alongside lead guitarGuitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist Micko Larkin
Micko Larkin
Michael Joseph "Micko" Larkin is an English musician of Irish background, most notable as the lead guitarist of the indie rock band Larrikin Love and more recently, Hole.-Early life and career :...
, at London auditions held by Courtney Love in 2007. After a period of rehearsal in Los Angeles, Fisher and Larkin played as part of Love's new band alongside bassist
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
Patricia "Pato" Vidal, Bethia Beadman on 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...
and keyboards and rhythm guitarist Liam Wade. In July 2007, the band began a short four-date tour of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, performing at Givenchy Salon in Paris, France on July 4; Bush Hall in London, United Kingdom on July 9; the Hiro Ballroom in New York on July 12 and the Roxy Theatre
Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre is located in the historic downtown section of Clarksville, Tennessee in the United States. Standing on a corner of the Public Square it offers live theater shows to the public offering a wide variety of selection in the spirit of literary theater...
in West Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
on July 17.
During January 2009, recording sessions for Love's long-in-preparation studio album, Nobody's Daughter
Nobody's Daughter
Nobody's Daughter is the fourth studio album by alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on April 27, 2010 through Mercury Records. The album was originally conceived by Hole frontwoman Courtney Love as a solo project titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean, following her poorly-received solo debut...
, began in Burbank, California
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
with Fisher playing drums and percussion. At a second recording session, in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
' Henson Recording Studios
Henson Recording Studios
Henson Recording Studios was established in 2000 at the former A&M Studios. The remake of We Are the World was recorded at Henson Recording Studios in February 2010 to benefit the Haiti earthquake victims....
, Love also performed drums and it was during this session, on June 17, 2009, that Love announced that the album would be released under the name of Hole
Hole (band)
Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...
. In the following months, former lead guitarist Eric Erlandson
Eric Erlandson
Eric Erlandson is an American musician known as the co-founder, former songwriter and lead guitarist of alternative rock band Hole.-Early life and career:...
and former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
disputed Love's right to use the name of her former band, due to a contract Love and Erlandson signed in 2002 after the band's initial split. Despite ongoing disputes, Hole's reunion proceeded with Fisher on drums. The final recording sessions for the album were held at Electric Lady Studios
Electric Lady Studios
Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street, in New York City's Greenwich Village, is a recording studio originally built by Jimi Hendrix and designed by John Storyk in 1970...
in New York and although Fisher was the main drummer on all of the album's songs (except "Letter to God
Letter to God (song)
"Letter to God" is a song by alternative rock band Hole, written solely by music producer Linda Perry. The song was released as the band's sixteenth single, and third and final single from their fourth studio album Nobody's Daughter, on April 20, 2010, as a digital download...
"), Jack Irons
Jack Irons
Jack Steven Irons is an American musician who is best known as the original drummer of the American rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as the former drummer for Eleven and Pearl Jam. He has also worked with Joe Strummer and The Latino Rockabilly War, Redd Kross, Raging Slab, Spinnerette...
was also an additional drummer. On April 23, 2010, Nobody's Daughter was released as Hole's fourth studio album and the band also embarked on a worldwide tour. Fisher's first official appearance as Hole's drummer was on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band...
on February 12, 2010, performing "Samantha
Samantha (Hole song)
"Samantha" is a song by alternative rock band Hole, written by vocalist Courtney Love, The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and music producer Linda Perry. The song was featured on the band's fourth studio album, Nobody's Daughter, in 2010...
."