Charlie Collins

Drums, frame drums, vibraphone, waterphone, lamellaphones (mbira, kalimba, karimba, marimbula), darabuka, metal percussion,

Born Sheffield, UK, 1952. Playing drums age 11, improvised music 1969, RnB and free jazz through the ‘70s, and by 1978 was involved in the nascent "Industrial" scene, recording for cult labels Industrial, Fetish and Doublevision, and the first releases on the legendary Go!Discs.

Over the last 20 years he has toured and recorded throughout Europe, in regular groups and ad-hoc ensembles. He has received a number of awards for live performance and composition, worked with dance groups, taught improvisation at Nottingham Trent University and toured a live soundtrack to Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1920's masterpiece "A Page of Madness".

Since 2007 he has worked regularly with Sonny Simmons in his UK based quartet, toured with Ted Daniel and Michael Marcus and played with Rob Brown and Daniel Levin among others.

He remains one of a handful of musicians to have played Derek Bailey's Company Week and Top of the Pops (with Moloko).

www.myspace.com/charlievibe