The Drum Major

Age: 49
Gender: Male
Background: Upper Class


The drum major resents his upper class upbringing, growing up in London he used to walk through the working class towns as a short cut to the centre of town. He had a desire to be an artist being inspired by the abstract expressionism moment brought over from america. Due to his fathers power and wealth he was stationed in New York during the WWII, His Father Brought back many pieces of art from artists such as Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still ext as a show of  wealth.

 However he grew to feel that his upper class upbringing damaged his artistic integrity as he was unable to truly understand his time for what it was. his father would not allow him to mix with any one in a lower class then him, he was not allowed to go out to party's and to the Punk clubs that became popular in the underground in the 80's. His father was very physical with him and lived in fear of his father beating him and and his mother if he had done wrong. This violent attitude rubbed if onto him as an adult. After his dreams of being an artist and joining the underground moment of the 80's was literally beaten out of him, his father pushed him into the role of a drum major at the age of 21 after he'd finished studying history at university.

He has remained a drum major ever since, He has never actually gone to war. He now lives his life drinking away the reality of how much he hates his life and hangs around the estate as a desire to remove his upper-class label. Over time his anger with his life has over come him and the circle of beating continues, he was beaten so his father would get his own way, so now being an alcoholic he will be violent to get his own way.


The drum major abandoned his youth when his mother was badly beaten when his father found all his tapes in his room. she was had a broken rib and drum major a broken nose. his father would beat his mother because 'she was was a terrible mother that couldn't bring up a proper child'