About Major Baldini

Having played drums for many years, I moved into writing, recording and production about 10 years ago at Big Wav Studios. New material continues to grow with ongoing artist collaborations.

I also offer remote mixing and mastering services, and I'm always interested in hearing from artists who'd like to record any of my songs.

History

My first gigging band was Chalice in South East Kent in the mid to late 70s — an original prog-rock band who supported Atomic Rooster. This was followed by Coffee Shop, another original band who supported Level 42 in the early 80s.

I then moved to London and worked with Pete Mitchell's band alongside Ian Gardener, and got to know the London circuit well playing with The Finals, a Norwich-based pop band. I continued on the London and Home Counties circuit with 45 South supporting the Nashville Teens, before reuniting with Ian Gardener and his band The Wierd.

After that run with original bands, I joined the excellent covers band The Dragonflies. When that folded, I co-founded Peach, who regularly played the Walkabout bars through the 90s.

Through Peach I met a lot of great musicians and went on to play with the very funky and soulful American artist Alix Anthony, and with Masashi Hara's London version of the five-album Japanese high-energy blues-rock power trio Georgie Pie.

Around 2006 I co-formed the Jam-Pact rhythm section, who I still work with. I've been fortunate to work with LeBurn Maddox, Ed Hudson, TJ Johnson, Papa George, and Mick Rogers of Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

For many years I ran two Jam-Pact jam nights a week, as well as playing with The Steve Whalley Band, Shifty Little Sister, Martin Wulfrun-Taylor, and numerous dep gigs.

More recently, I wrote, recorded and produced my latest album The Big Divide, featuring numerous guest artists. Previously I co-wrote and recorded Shining Star, which features some of London's finest players — I'm on drums and vocals on some tracks. I also played drums on Tim Rice's promo songs for From Here To Eternity, and on the title track of Chas Cronk's acclaimed album Liberty.

You can hear a selection of my music on my YouTube channel — it's split into chapters here:

▶ Watch My Music Collection on YouTube

I was also extremely fortunate to play with The Steve Whalley Band at the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza 2025:

▶ Glastonbury Abbey 2025 - Live

Huge thanks to the many wonderful artists who have helped me on the road, past and present.