I’m Damien Dockery, drummer, songwriter, and founder of BackFoot.
I’m from the midlands in Ireland, and started learning and playing drums in my teens. Started playing with local bands in my early 20’s, and continued for some years non-professionally with a variety of bands and varied musical styles.
Due to my main occupation, I moved to Budapest in the mid/late 1990’s. As I was working and travelling internationally, I had no opportunity to practice drumming or join up with bands. However, after about 10 years of fully focusing on the business world, I was missing music more and more.
I bought a drum kit and started on the road of returning to music.
I advertised in the local Budapest music scene as a drummer looking for bands to play with. I got practicing and playing gigs with bands here, thereby moving back into the magical world of music again.
Check out my next blog post to see what happened next…. 😊