Lucius Borich (born 1971) is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer for the band Cog, and previously the drummer in funk metal band

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and in The Hanging Tree as well as

Floating Me Floating Me (sometimes stylised as FLOATINGME) were a progressive rock group from Sydney, Australia, featuring Lucius Borich from Cog, Jon Stockman of Karnivool and Andrew Gillespie, Antony Brown and Tobias Messiter from the '90s grunge/metal ...

. He currently plays and is working on new rock outfit The Nerve.

Biography

Lucius has been playing music since the age of 3. He was given his first drum kit by two of Australia's best known drummers from the 70's, Keith Barber and Johnny Dick. Lucius's father's band at the time was

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, with guest stars Doane Perry (Jethro Tull) and Richard Clapton, who invited young Lucius to play with them. At age 14, Lucius was given the opportunity to perform and tour around Australia with the Kevin Borich Express for a year. Shortly after, he left school and decided to pursue drumming full-time. He was then called upon by ex members Mark Evans (

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) and

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(

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), to join a Rolling Stones cover band, ''the Rolling Clones''. They toured for a year and a half throughout Australia and New Zealand, and for the next three years, Lucius continued to play with other bands. This experience gave Lucius a reputation as one of Australia's finest and flexible up and coming drummers. In 1998, he formed Cog with high school friend Flynn Gower. Later, Flynn's brother joined the band on bass,

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. Lucius has played on 2 albums for Cog, The New Normal (2005) and

Sharing Space ''Sharing Space'' is the second full-length album by Australian rock band Cog, released on 12 April 2008. The album was, once again, produced by Sylvia Massy in Weed, California. The album peaked at number 2 on the ARIA album chart. At the J Awa ...

(2008). He has also released a number of singles and EPs with the band including Just Visiting Part One (2002) and Just Visiting Part Two (2002). Lucius is the son of Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter

Kevin Borich Kevin Nicholas Borich (born 27 October 1948, Huapai, North Island, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter. He was the mainstay of the La De Da's, the leader of Kevin Borich Express, and a founding member of ...

, and has played on many of his albums,kevinborich.com.au
Sounds playing both bass and drums. Kevin is one of New Zealand and Australia's most respected blues/rock guitarists. His encouragement and involvement in the industry gave Lucius his first experiences. Kevin and Lucius appeared together in an episode of the comedy-drama TV series '' Willing and Abel'', in which Lucius played the regular role of street kid Parramatta Jones. Lucius, also took part in a very special tour in July 2009. Lucius joined forces with his father, the great

to perform on the ''Borich x Borich Tour'' with Harry Brus on bass. In April 2008, Lucius was featured in Australian drum magazine '' DRUMscene'' as the feature cover story. Later, he was invited to play on the ''DRUMscene Live Tour'' that also featured some of the world's most amazing and unique drummers. He performed in cities including

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and

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. In early 2009, he appeared in the Channel 9,

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opening segment, playing the drums alongside DJ Mark Dynamik, and with Cog's logo on the front of the bass drum. More recently, he has been working recording touring with

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and recording, releasing music with Juice, their latest release 2017 titled Signs. He runs the recording, production, and mixing studio, Studio101, in

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. In 2015, after a 5-year hiatus, Borich started recording and touring again in sold out shows across Australia with Cog.

Family

Lucius is the father of three sons, Zappa, Kyuss and the late Buddy Borich.

Equipment

* DW Collector's Series Drums &

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Cymbals: *Drums – Natural Eco-X Project Bamboo/Birch Shells **10x8" Tom **12x9" Tom **16x16" Floor Tom **18x16" Floor Tom **24x16" Bass Drum **14x6.5" DW Bronze Snare **12" Remo Roto-Tom *Cymbals –

**14" Dark K Hi-Hats **22" Dark K Power Ride **20" K Dark Crash **19" K Dark Crash **18" K Dark Crash **17" K Dark Crash **20" Oriental China **10" A Custom Splash **8" A Custom Splash **8" Ice Bell **22" Oriental Wind Gong *Electronics –

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**4x PD-8 Trigger Dual Pads **SPD-S Sampling Pad **FD-8 Hi-Hat Control Pedal *Lucius also used OTIS, DW 9000 Series Hardware, Zildjian, Schecter Guitars

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drum skins, JetCity Amplification,

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5B Sticks, PreSonus & RODE MICROPHONES.

Discography

Albums

*''

Album Signs (2017) *''

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'' (2011) *'' Cog

'' (Difrnt Music/

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, 2008) AUS#2 *''Cog The New Normal'' (Difrnt Music/

, 2005) AUS#19 *''Cog Just Visiting'' (

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, 2008) *'' The Hanging Tree

'' (1997) *''Juice'' Fractured (1996) *''Juice'' Wine Of Life (1994)

Singles and EPs

* ''Pseudo'' (2000) * '' Just Visiting Part One'' (Little Samurai/

, 2002) * '' Just Visiting Part Two'' (Little Samurai/

, 2002) * '' Open Up'' (Little Samurai/

, 2003) * "

Run Run(s) or RUN may refer to: Places * Run (island), one of the Banda Islands in Indonesia * Run (stream), a stream in the Dutch province of North Brabant People * Run (rapper), Joseph Simmons, now known as "Reverend Run", from the hip-hop group ...

" (Different Music/

, 2005) * "Resonate" * "Real Life" * "What If" (2007) AUS#45 * "Bird of Feather" (2008)

Videography

* "Paris, Texas" (2002) * "Open Up" (2003) * "My Enemy" (2005) * "Run" (2005) * "What If" (2007) * "Bird of Feather" (2008) * "Are You Interested?" (2008)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Borich, Lucius 1971 births Living people Australian heavy metal drummers Musicians from Sydney 21st-century Australian drummers