Born in West Yorkshire in the early 1993, Conor showed an interest in drums from an early age. At the age of about 3, Conor’s favourite hobbies were banging on biscuit tins with chopsticks and listening to Led Zeppelin CD’s, and proceeded to get drum lessons from the age of 4, now at the age of 17, he has a fiery passion for drumming and plans on playing for the rest of his life.

Conor started gigging with Trip-hop outfit Cool Piano Roll when he was 14 years old, and considers this as his first “proper” band, the band won a Battle Of The Bands in 2008, and Conor picked up the award for best drummer of the competition. Since then Conor has played in many local, national and international bands, big and small, worked with various theatre companies playing drums for various musicals, done several tours across Europe and generally had a lot of fun doing what he loves the most, drumming.

By the age of 15, Conor had already developed a reputation as one of the loudest, and most exciting up and coming drummers in the area, known within local venues as “that drummer that doesn’t need micing up” due to his loud Bonham-esque technique. However, in late 2008, Conor turned his drumming focus towards jazz, and started to play with Northwest jazz heroes Brian Acton and Chris Flaherty,

In 2010, Conor read an advert for a Prog-Rock band needing a drummer in Leeds, and after a furious day of learning some songs, writing out lead sheets and an audition, got the place as the Drummer for Guy Manning, continuing on from drummer Dave Albone.

Conor uses a Mapex Orion and Premier Soundwave drums, Paiste 2002, 3000 and Signature cymbals, Pearl drum pedals, Vater sticks, Remo drumheads and Premier hardware.