Shay Godwin

Shay Godwin is the newest member of the Thomas Nicholas Band. He is a professional drummer in Los Angeles. He is influenced by and has a great love for many styles of music. He has been fortunate enough to play with some great artists and musicians.

Recordings he has done include tracks for "J.B. and the Rebellion" (an independent jazz-funk release featuring members of Robert Walter's 20th Congress), Charlotte Martin's "On Your Shore" (RCA), and Arista artist Freeman. He has played on tracks heard in the movie "The Breakup" (Universal), as well as television shows, "Summerland" (WB), "Las Vegas" (NBC), and "One Tree Hill" (WB) and others. For those of you who use the "BFD" premium drum module software (I KNOW there are a lot of you out there!!), all of the brush samples you hear on the expansion package are played by Godwin. He also did tracks for Caren Manuel's "Eight O'Clock at the Shop", an album featuring some great talent including Al McKay of Earth, Wind, and Fire which is unfortunately currently unavailable due to legal matters.

Godwin also has experience with arena tours in the U.S. and Canada with Interscope artist Butterfly Boucher, one opening for Sarah MacLachlan and the other for Barenaked Ladies. With Butterfly he also did television performances including "The Late Late Show" (CBS), The Sharon Osbourne Show, and MTV's "Advance Warning". Not to mention, AOL Sessions Live and a live in-studio performance for KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic", both of which can be found on their respective websites.

In the past few years Godwin has made a few trips around the globe with Persian singer Siavash Ghomayshi. In which he played in England, Germany, Canada, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates as well as U.S. cities including L.A., where we have played repeated performances at Universal Amphitheatre and the Greek Theatre. Siavash has a large and fanatical fan base; the response of the 16,000-strong crowd last year at the KolnArena in Germany was quite shocking to Godwin. "I thought I was going to get blown over!!" says Godwin.