Richard Colburn (born 25 July 1970) is the

drummer A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drums. Most contemporary western bands that play rock, pop, jazz, or R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeeping and embellishing the musical timbre. The drummer's ...

of the Scottish indie band

Belle & Sebastian Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Glasgow in 1996. Led by Stuart Murdoch, the band has released eleven albums. They are often compared with acts such as The Smiths and Nick Drake. The name "Belle and Sebastian" comes ...

. Before he joined Belle & Sebastian, he used to sell

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s on match days outside

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and studied Music Business at Stow College. Appears as: "After bonding in an all-night café in Glasgow in January 1996, Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David teamed up with drummer and percussionist Richard Colburn – a fellow student of the Stow College Music Business course from Perth who used to sell pies on match days at Celtic Park." He drummed on early

Snow Patrol Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish–Scottish Rock music, rock band formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland. They consist of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (musician), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, ...

sessions and is one of the founding members of

The Reindeer Section The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. Lightbody describes the band's sound as "pretty much all very slow, quiet, folky-typ ...

Personal life

Colburn is from the Scottish city of

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. His grandfather was fellow musician

Bill Wilkie William Wilkie MBE (6 January 1922 – 1 May 2017) was a Scottish musician and businessman. He was regarded as a leader of Scottish accordion music and, in 1949, established the All-Scotland Accordion & Fiddle Festival (now the Perth Accordion ...

."Obituary: Bill Wilkie, master of Scottish accordion music played for prime ministers and with the stars"
– ''

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'', 26 May 2017

References

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