Music
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 and wrote the theme tune for LWT drama London's Burning.
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 program Blue Peter at age 15, playing the drums.
For eighteen months Rivron drummed for Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
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