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, Suede,

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). He is a founding member of the horn section Kick Horns.

Career

Lorimer studied the trumpet at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in

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. Lorimer, as part of the Kick Horns, toured the North America and the UK with

in 1989. World tours with

in 1993–96 and later a European tour for six months with the Clapton Band in 2006. He was a member of

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's ' Deep End' (1985), a short-lived supergroup founded by Townshend featuring

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. He toured through the 1980s and early 1990s with the Waterboys. Currently he is playing with Cotton Mouth, one of

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, Thailand's best blues rock bands, and Rolling Stones tribute band Midnight Ramblers, also based in Bangkok.

Select discography

*Baaba Maal - Firin’ in Fouta, Nomad soul *The Beautiful South - Perfect 10, Good as gold, Quench *Beyonce – Green light * Eric Bibb - Natural Light *Blur - Parklife, Country house, The great escape, Modern life is rubbish, Popscene *Boyzone – Picture of you *China Crisis -Working with fire and steel, Flaunt the imperfection *Erasure – The Innocents *Eric Clapton - From the cradle, Back Home *Deep Purple - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2000) *Dodgy - Good enough, Making the most of, Free peace sweet *Dr John - Anutha zone (Sweet home New Orleans, Party hellfire, Voices in my head, Look out) *Gabrielle - Give me a little more time *David Gilmour – About face *David Gray - Life in Slow Motion *Groove Armada - Vertigo (Pre 63/) *Geri Halliwell - Look at me, Bag it up, Schizophonic *Iron Maiden - Elected *Jamiroquai - Synkronized *Tom Jones - Reload, Carrying a torch *The Lightning Seeds - Sense *Michael McDonald - SoulSpeak *The Pretenders - Human on the inside *Primal Scream - Screamadelica, Dixie-narco e.p. *Finley Quaye - Sunday shining, Maverick a strike, Vanguard *Chris Rea - Auberge *The Rolling Stones - Steel wheels, Flashpoint *S Club 7 - Reach, Everybody wants you, Lately *Jimmy Somerville - Read my lips, Mighty real, Hurts so good, Too much of a good thing, Step inside *The Spice Girls - Stop, Too much *Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space, Electric mainline, Lazer guided melodies, Feel so sad *Stereo MCs - Connected, Deep down & dirty *Rod Stewart - A spanner in the works *Supergrass - Going out *James Taylor Quartet - Theme from Starsky and Hutch *Toploader - Onka’s big moka *Pete Townshend - White city, Face the face, Deep End live, Psychoderelict * The Waterboys - A Pagan Place, This is the Sea, Fisherman's Blues, Room to Roam, Book of Lightning (The Whole of the Moon.) *Westernhagen - Jaja, Krieg, Affentheater, Keine Zeit *Wham - Fantastic ( Club Tropicana) *The Who - Join Together

Others by country

*Germany – Die Fantastischen Vier, Udo Lindenberg, Nina Hagen, Extrabreit. Klaus Hoffmann *France – Lio, John Jaques Goldman, Ettiene Daho, Carmel *Spain - Danza Invisible *Scotland - Nazareth, Fish, The Proclaimers, Danny Wilson, John Martyn. *Ireland - The Pogues (without Shane MacGowan), Shane MacGowan (without the Pogues) *Wales - Cerys Matthews *England – The Levellers, Pele, The Pale Fountains, Bernie Marsden, Andy Fairweather Low, Bros, Dead or alive, Mel C, Lighthouse Family, Hard-fi, Public Image Limited, Duran Duran, Kim Wilde, Bruce Foxton, Richard Ashcroft, The Style Council, Holly Johnson, The Communards, Mr Blobby *Scandinavia – Ah Ha, Ace of Base. *Australia – Kylie Minogue, The Sunny boys *Brazil – Robi Draco Rosa *Japan – Nobohide Sake, Miss Honda *Africa – Papa Wemba, Miryam Mursall *America – Rufus Wainwright, Michael McDonald, Jay Owens, Ben Taylor

References

External links

# * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorimer, Roddy 1953 births Living people Musicians from Glasgow The Waterboys members Scottish rock trumpeters Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland British male trumpeters