Toby Toman, is a drummer who played with various British bands including

The Nosebleeds The Nosebleeds are a punk band formed in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England in 1976. The band is well known in modern rock history for the later successes of its individual members, notably Morrissey (the Smiths), Billy Duffy (the Cult), and Vi ...

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, and Primal Scream, working often with German singer

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, known for her role with

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, while she was living in

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, England through the 1980s.

Biography

Toman born Philip Tomanov,

Wythenshawe Wythenshawe () is a district of the city of Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, Wythenshawe was transferred in 1931 to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s. With an area of approx ...

, one of four brothers. There he attended school with Ed Garrity and Pete Crooks, with whom he shared musical interests. These three formed Wild Ram, which evolved into Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds, shortly after guitarist

Vini Reilly Vincent Gerard "Vini" Reilly (born 4 August 1953) is an English musician and leader of the post-punk group the Durutti Column. He is known for his distinctively clean, fluid guitar style, which stood out from his punk-era contemporaries in its ...

joined. Although known in the Manchester area, they only released one single "Ain't Bin to No Music School", in 1977. After the release of the single, Garrity and Reilly left the band, being replaced by Morrissey (later

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singer and successful solo artist) and

Billy Duffy William Henry Duffy (born 12 May 1961) is an English rock musician, best known as the guitarist of the band The Cult. Early life Duffy was born and grew up in Manchester. He has Irish and Jewish heritage and ancestry. He began playing the g ...

(later of

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). The new band split up shortly afterward. After The Nosebleeds dissolved, Toman joined Ludus, led by singer and design artist Linder Sterling. By 1980, Toman was working again with his former Nosebleeds bandmates, Pete Crooks and Vini Reilly in

, a band led by Reilly, releasing their debut album, ''

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''. Shortly thereafter, he left The Durutti Column and Ludus, worked briefly with

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, then worked in the backing bands for

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and

, playing drums on the song "Procession" from the eponymous single, performed by the band alongside Nico. He worked for more than five years on subsequent Nico discs, including the ones which the latter made with

as backing band; Toman joined that group by the time. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Toman played with Primal Scream notably on their most successful albums, '' Screamadelica'' and ''

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''.

References

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