Rowland Rivron

Rowland Rivron
Born	Rowland J. Rivron 1958 (age 58–59) Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Spouse(s)	Monica Appleby
Children	3

Rowland J. Rivron (born 1958) is a British musician, writer, and television presenter.

Rivron played the comic character "Dr Martin Scrote" on the Jonathan Ross chat show The Last Resort, the later appeared on Night Network's Bunker Show. This became a series for Channel 4 called Set of Six about Scrote and his brothers. In 1989 he and Jools Holland starred in The Groovy Fellers. In the early 1990s he presented his own chat show, Rivron, in which Rivron, his guests and the entire set floated on the River Thames. Rowland also made an appearance in the children's schools Series Cats' Eyes.

Rivron toured briefly, playing drums for Transvision Vamp in the late 80s. Rivron played drums on Fat Les's 1998 single "Vindaloo". As one half of the band "Raw Sex" (with Simon Brint), he also featured regularly on BBC TV's French and Saunders show.

Rivron featured on drums in the "Sophisticated Fool" song and "All We've Got To Do Is..." song from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, also on BBC TV. He was a contributing writer to Rhythm, a UK drumming magazine, and is a regular guest on Jools Holland's BBC shows, in which he once demonstrated a square snare drum made by Robert Daniels. Rivron appeared on the children's TV programme Blue Peter at age 15, playing the drums.

For eighteen months Rivron drummed for Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. He is now playing with the Idiot Bastard Band with Adrian Edmondson, Phill Jupitus and Neil Innes.

...
Wikipedia