Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey: I felt carried by the music playing Beatles venue
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Drummer Zak Starkey has said he felt he was “picked up and carried by the music” when performing at the Liverpool venue where his father Sir Ringo Starr started out with the Beatles. Starkey joined his friend and fellow former Oasis drummer Chris Sharrock for a double drumming session on Saturday alongside the Cavern Club’s Beatles tribute band to play the group’s “holy music”.
The performance came ahead of him taking to the stage with his supergroup Mantra Of The Cosmos to play two sets on Sunday at the club which regularly played host to his father’s rock band during their fledgling years. Reflecting on playing Beatles hits in the venue, Starkey told the PA news agency: “We set up two kits and we double drummed the Beatles show. It was amazing because I was shitting it.
“I’ve never been nervous in my life – I’ve been on stage since I was 12 years old – but it’s holy music. I know it, but I don’t know the drum bits…. “But as soon as I walked on it was like being picked up and carried by the music.”. He said she was “freaked out” ahead of playing the show because he feels it is “not cool” to get Beatles’ songs wrong but looked forward to his gigs with his supergroup which consists of Happy Mondays stars Shaun Ryder and Bez and Andy Bell of Oasis/Ride on bass.
