The Pandemonium Drums

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The Pandemonium Drummers used four types of drums:

  • Plastic Bucket:
    A small paint bucket, played with normal drum sticks.
  • Metal Bucket:
    The metal bucket had a few nut bolts on the sides to imitate the sound of a snare drum. It was played with hot-rod-style green plastic brushes on the side of the bucket.
  • Bass Bin 1:
    A wide and short approx. 60 litre waste bin, played with normal drum sticks topped with blackened tennis balls.
  • Bass Bin 2:
    See image, a full 80 litre waste bin, again played with blackened tennis ball sticks. The tennis balls were screwed onto the sticks - early versions broke very easily, the final versions were fortunately very robust.
A six-point contact harness was used to make the drums mobile. The Bass Bin 2 type was probably the most difficult to march with, as it was quite painful on the knees unless waddling with the legs tilted outwards.