NEW EPISODE: Blur Drummer Dave Rowntree
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Joining us a couple of days after his 62nd Birthday is one of the icons of BritPop. As the drummer in Blur he had a front row seat for the 90s music scene, and thankfully he had the forethought to photograph a lot of it. Now collated into a book 'No One You Know' he's in a nostalgic mood, and in our conversation we reminisce on Smash Hits, life before camera-phones and that time Blur played the first gig on Mars... no really!
It's a fascinating chat, and if Blur's music has played a part in your life - drop us a note to let us know what you thought of the episode - you can email hello@whitewinepod.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asked its guest three thought-provoking |
| 0:06.1 | questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest today is a qualified solicitor, a pilot, a soundtrack |
| 0:12.6 | composer, an animator, a former Norfolk County Councillor, and for more than three decades now, |
| 0:19.1 | has been Blur's drummer. As polymaths and multi-hyphenots go, |
| 0:23.6 | he is up there with the very best of them. His CV speaks of a curiosity and an intelligence |
| 0:29.2 | that you don't often find from those who inhabit our charts. And now he's added author |
| 0:34.4 | as a string to his bow, the publication of his photography book |
| 0:37.7 | charting the rise of the early days of blur, whilst they were on the road and, well, very much |
| 0:43.4 | on the rise. Born in Essex back in 1964, his mother was a musician and his father a sound |
| 0:49.1 | engineer. And despite a brief career as a computer programmer at Colchester Council, |
| 0:54.5 | music was always a plotline in the story of his life. |
| 0:58.8 | Blur's rise in the 1990s wasn't just the story of a successful band. |
| 1:03.5 | It was and remains a cultural phenomenon. |
| 1:06.4 | He's a total renaissance man, so let's dial him in. |
| 1:09.6 | It's Dave Roundtree. |
| 1:18.2 | Belated happy birthday returns, by the way. |
| 1:22.9 | Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah, no, I'm fine. I'm absolutely knackered, actually. |
| 1:31.3 | Two shows yesterday and back to back. So the whole day was a scramble. So yeah, I'm paying for it today. At 62 you've just turned, is that right? That's right. I know. It doesn't sound like me. |
| 1:38.7 | When you said 62, didn't even twig what it was you were talking about. Bizarre to think I'm 62. Absolutely bizarre. It's kind of rude, isn't it, how life creeps up on us? Because I'm just, you know, I'm the same. I look at my passport and I go, I can't, what? I had to Google myself once in a fit of perimenopause day to understand how old I was and I was disgusted that |
| 2:02.0 | I was two years older than they actually was going around telling people I was a year out for |
| 2:06.4 | several years because you just stopped caring don't you totally yeah there is that as well |
| 2:11.6 | a year younger and yeah quite embarrassing really when I found out I'd been lying about my age. |
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