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Chris Maitland (born 13 May 1964) is an English drummer. Maitland was born in
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, England. After being the drummer for
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on their Autumn 1993 tour (and playing on two tracks on their ''
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''
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), Maitland was asked by the
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's
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to join his other main project, the
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. He remained the band's drummer until February 2002, when he was dismissed and replaced by
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. He played on the debut album by Blackfield in 2003, sharing drumming duties with
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. Harrison has described Maitland as a great drummer. Between 2004 and 2005, Maitland was a member of the progressive rock supergroup Kino. Throughout his career, Maitland has been involved with many West End
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, and from 2005 onwards, he has been playing
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s on the '' Mamma Mia!'' International Tour. Aside from these links listing professional drumming engagements, having trained at the Mackenzie School of Speech & Drama and taken
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examinations regularly since the age of eight, between 1985 and 1993 Maitland became involved in theatre at Cambridge as an actor. Also during this period he built up a practice of private percussion pupils and from 1989 took on various posts as a professional drum-kit teacher. As an actor, he has played a wide variety of roles, including Shakespearean roles. In February 2009, it was announced that Maitland would play drums on
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's latest project, Guilt Machine. On 17 April 2011 in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, Maitland was supposed to reunite on stage with former fellow Porcupine Tree's bass player
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and no-man's singer
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as part of the Memories of Machines project (a collaboration between Bowness and Giancarlo Erra of Nosound). However, the concert was eventually called off. In 2013 he joined as guest drummer with band Nosound for their studio album ''Afterthoughts''.


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Official webpageOfficial Porcupine Tree website
English rock drummers Progressive rock drummers English male drummers 1964 births Living people Musicians from Cambridge Porcupine Tree members Blackfield members Kino (British band) members {{UK-drummer-stub