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David Webb obituary


Other lives: Talented drummer who played in different bands and genres all over the world including the US, Australia and Cambodia

An incomplete survey from some of his music friends brought up 27 band names, including Burn, Cambodian Space Project, London City Brass, the Devout Sceptics, the Loose Arrangements, Bo Derelict and the Buster Cornelius Quartet. His determination made all those who knew him into a kind of family – bound together by arguments over time signatures, tuning, deviations from the recording, and about whether it was too late for one last one. Born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, Dave was one of the three sons of Gwendoline (nee Middleton), an infant-school head, and Stanley Webb, a welding contractor, and attended Thomas Sumpter comprehensive school in the town.

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