Zak joined fellow former Oasis drummer Chris Sharrock for a session alongside the Cavern Club’s Beatles tribute band: " I felt carried by the music playing Beatles venue"
Zak Starkey has said he felt he was “picked up and carried by the music” when performing at the Liverpool venue where his father, Ringo Starr, started out with the Beatles.
Zak joined his friend and fellow former Oasis drummer Chris Sharrock for a double drumming session on Saturday alongside the Cavern Club’s Beatles tribute band to play the group’s “holy music”.
The performance came ahead of him taking to the stage with his supergroup Mantra Of The Cosmos to play two sets on Sunday at the club which regularly played host to his father’s rock band during their fledgling years.
Zak said: “We set up two kits and we double drummed the Beatles show. It was amazing". “I’ve never been nervous in my life – I’ve been on stage since I was 12 years old – but it’s holy music. I know it, but I don’t know the drum bits… “But as soon as I walked on it was like being picked up and carried by the music.”
He said he was “freaked out” ahead of playing the show because he feels it is “not cool” to get Beatles songs wrong but looked forward to his gigs with his supergroup which consists of Happy Mondays stars Shaun Ryder and Bez and Andy Bell of Oasis/Ride on bass.
Zak who has drummed for The Who and Oasis, said the style of his new group is “completely different” and “unpredictable” because it is led by Ryder’s freestyle poetry.
The drummer praised the venue for allowing them to perform two shows on the same day, which enabled them to cover the costs of the crew and expenses to put on the gigs as a band not signed to a major label.
He feels more needs to be done to support smaller venues like the Cavern Club, saying: “It’s all right spending billions on great big arenas like they have in Manchester but no-one’s looking after little venues…
“Great big arenas are great for big, boring bands but they’re not for upcoming bands.”
One of the projects Starkey worked on with Ringo and Paul McCartney was a charity single for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity.
Starkey claimed the release of the song, which features a host of global stars including Sir Elton John, Billy Joel, Johnny Marr and Iggy Pop, has been brought to a standstill due to someone “withholding” the material.
“Someone is withholding one of the best tracks for me and I can’t say who it is,” he said. “The only people losing are teenagers with cancer. I can’t put it out until I get it back.”
Zak believes it would raise a lot of money for charity because they worked for three years on the song, which is a tribute to the music of late guitarist Marc Bolan.
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