This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Martin Gilks" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Martin Gilks
Birth name
Martin Richard Gilks
Born
(1965-03-02)2 March 1965 Stourbridge, England
Died
3 April 2006(2006-04-03) (aged 41) Tooting, London, England
Occupation(s)
Drummer, personal manager
Years active
1985–2006
Musical artist
Martin Richard Gilks (2 March 1965 – 3 April 2006) was an English musician. He was a founder member and original drummer for the Wonder Stuff, based in Stourbridge (West Midlands, England).
Gilks who was born in Stourbridge, was originally the drummer with the Midlands-based Mighty Lemon Drops before leaving in 1985 (allegedly sacked for not wanting to cut his hair), and later joined Miles Hunt, Malcolm Treece, and Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones to form the Wonder Stuff in March 1986. As part of the Wonder Stuff, Gilks went on to have a string of top-forty singles and an album as well as being voted the best drummer on the planet in an NME poll in 1989.[citation needed] The group split up in 1994.
He continued to work with Treece and Paul Clifford (Rob Jones' replacement who joined the Wonder Stuff in 1990) after the split under the name of We Know Where You Live with Ange Dolittle (formerly of Eat) on lead vocals.
Gilks left the group at the end of 1995 to join his brother "Tank" in forming Furtive Mass Transit Systems, a management company who would later look after Reef, Lowgold, Cable, A and Hundred Reasons. We Know Where You Live disbanded the following year.
When the Wonder Stuff reformed in 2000, performing five sell-out shows at the London venue Forum, Gilks also acted as the group's manager and continued to do so until a much-publicised split of the original members in 2004.
Gilks died, aged 41, on 3 April 2006, after losing control of his motorbike in London.[1]
^"Martin Gilks - Obituaries, News". The Independent. London. 6 April 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
Martin Richard Gilks (2 March 1965 – 3 April 2006) was an English musician. He was a founder member and original drummer for the Wonder Stuff, based in...
(1864–1944), baseball player Gillian Gilks (born 1950), badminton player MartinGilks (1965–2006), musician Matthew Gilks (born 1982), football player Gilkes...
2004, Hunt was informed that Gilks and Bell would no longer work with him, and thus The Wonder Stuff (in the eyes of Gilks and Bell) were defunct. As a...
who were also influenced by psychedelia. After losing original drummer MartinGilks (later to join the Wonder Stuff), the Drops line-up settled as Paul Marsh...
(Steeleye Span) Frank Gibson Jr. Peter Giger Michael Giles (King Crimson) MartinGilks (The Wonder Stuff) Pete Gill (Saxon, Motörhead) Aaron Gillespie (Underoath...
showcase gigs with the band's manager and former Wonder Stuff drummer MartinGilks on drums (and who described the band as "more punk than most of the West...
English model and actress 28 February – Norman Smiley, wrestler 2 March – MartinGilks, musician and band manager (d. 2006) 4 March Paul W. S. Anderson, filmmaker...
End of the World" 3:42 4. "Don't Let Me Down Gently" (see notes 4a) MartinGilks, Miles Hunt, Rob Jones, Malcolm Treece 2:25 5. "I Know You Too Well to...
ski accident in the French Alps. Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer. MartinGilks, 41, English musician, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle...
(born 1950), former footballer with 483 club caps, lives in Brewood MartinGilks (1965–2006), drummer of the British pop band The Wonder Stuff, grew up...
wasn't until early 2004, when Gilks asked Hunt to remove his gear from a lock-up, that Hunt understood that Bell and Gilks were not expecting to return...
Gillian Gilks at BWFbadminton.com Gillian Gilks at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com Gillian Gilks at Team GB Gillian Gilks at Olympics.com Gillian Gilks at Olympedia...
was launched in 2009 by Cambridge students Jack Rivlin, George Marangos-Gilks and Taymoor Atighetchi. The website was marketed as "Cambridge University's...
first since their 1994 breakup. Long-time members, violinist Martin Bell and drummer MartinGilks, left earlier in 2004; frontman Miles Hunt continued with...
There are three basic ideas to this technique as ultimately introduced by Gilks in 1992: If it helps, define your envelope distribution in log space (e...
Camilla Martin Nygaard (née Martin; born 23 March 1974) is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier...
Larcombe ^4 – Margaret Tragett formerly known as Larminie ^5 – Gillian Gilks formerly known as Gillian Perrin and the latest was changed to Gillian Goodwin...
doubles title at the prestigious All-England Championships twice with Gillian Gilks (1982 and 1984). Dew is also one of the most successful players ever in...
Global Information