# Tom Morley > Rockstar Activator - Website: https://tommorley.com/ --- ## Pages - [Home](https://tommorley.com/): Former drummer of Scritti Politti, Tom Morley uses music & humour to unleash our inner rock star, helping build strong & solid teams along the way. - [About](https://tommorley.com/about/): Co-founder of Scritti Politti & percussionist for David Bowie & Madness, Tom knows a thing or two about generating extraordinary energy in no time. - [AI Teambuild](https://tommorley.com/teambuilding-copy/): Team building is about providing a safe environment in which people feel able to take risks. Tom's sessions, with music & laughter, do exactly that. - [Bowie Beats](https://tommorley.com/bowie-beats/): BOWIE BEATS is a brand new offer from Tom Morley. More info coming soon. - [Contact](https://tommorley.com/contact/): Get in touch with Tom for speaking opportunities or send him a message here. - [MISCHIEF GENERATION](https://tommorley.com/mischief-generation/): Welcome to MISCHIEF GENERATION. This is a preview of Tom Morley's book of the same name, to be published in 2024. - [Press Kit](https://tommorley.com/press-kit/): Find all the resources to satisfy all your print, stage and online media needs here. - [Remix](https://tommorley.com/remix/): 7-Step REMIX Process "A take away that will last a life time. How I wish I'd discovered this for my team twenty years ago." Paul Culleton. J&J HR Director The... - [Speaker](https://tommorley.com/speaker/): Team building speaker - as a musician who's worked with the likes of Bowie, Tom brings a unique perspective on team building to his keynotes. - [Teambuilding](https://tommorley.com/teambuilding/): Team building is about providing a safe environment in which people feel able to take risks. Tom's sessions, with music & laughter, do exactly that. - [Testimonials](https://tommorley.com/testimonials/): “Our people loved it, and they're STILL talking about it!” Find out what Tom's clients have to say about his work. - [Tom's Art Gallery](https://tommorley.com/art-gallery/) - [VIRTUAL](https://tommorley.com/virtual-team-icebreakers/): Bring teams from different backgrounds & locations together in no time with Tom Morley's energetic, music- and humour-filled virtual team icebreakers. ## Topics - [Podcasts](https://tommorley.com/category/podcasts/) - [PRIVATE](https://tommorley.com/category/private/) ## Optional - [Make One Up!](https://tommorley.com/2020/05/29/make-one-up/): It’s 1980 and we’ve just played our first number. I'm on stage at the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town. While the crowd is applauding I look down at the set... - [Serenading Serendipity](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/12/serenading-serendipity/): Our neighbour's daughter is looking sad. I take my drum and over the garden wall, play her a song incorporating her name. She's delighted. Her Dad comes out and we... - [Life In The 80s](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/11/life-in-the-80s/): David Bowie puts his head around the door of Studio One, "I need one of you for some hand claps on a new song". - [How To Meet The Queen](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/10/how-to-meet-the-queen/): Cancer. Thirteen. I get 'shielded from the pain' and don't get to say goodbye to my Mum. My Gran, who lives next door, dies of cancer too, three years later.... - [Amy. Her Story](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/10/amy-her-story/): Amy. She's blind, deaf and four years old. To be honest I'm not qualified for this gig. I haven't trained as a teacher and this is my first ever drum... - [Beneath the Disco Ball](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/10/disco-ball-business-model/): Shattered glass is flying across The Camden Palace foyer in London. Grimacing bouncers have me in their sights. Suddenly I'm pushing backwards through the expectant clubbers on the steps and... - [Spring Forward](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/09/spring-forward/): I'm losing it with a boy in today’s school drumming session. It's most unprofessional of me but I'm going to make sure he never does this again. It's a mixed... - [Favourite Birthday Present](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/08/favourite-birthday-present/): Someone just asked what's my favourite birthday present ever? It's 2006. Two friends are driving Dawn to their house to get dressed on the way to her mystery Birthday Party.... - [Odlum House Of Grass](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/06/odlum-house-of-grass/): I reach for my drum. It all seems too formal. We're a predominantly white group of delegates politely handing over an envelope of cash tips to a black group of... - [Andy Warhol NYC](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/04/andy-warhol-nyc/): Andy Warhol. Our handshake is ice cold. This isn't a metaphor, his eyes are warm but we've both been clutching our champagne flutes too hard. Little Nell's isn't the biggest... - [Are You The Captain?](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/03/are-you-the-captain/): Eric Clapton turns up at Prince's after-party at The Kensington Roof Gardens. I've never quite 'got' the blues before, even though I've been a lifelong Hendrix fan. We've all read... - [Watching The Detectives](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/02/watching-the-detectives/): Elvis Costello comes over to our table, "Pete. We're on." Pete Thomas and I were at school together, along with Andrew Ranken from The Pogues. We all grew up to... - [Dancing With Boy George](https://tommorley.com/2022/07/01/dancing-with-boy-george/): Boy George says, "It's easy to talk to you now we've danced together. I used to think you were too cool to speak to, even though we were always bumping... - [My Big Break](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/30/my-big-break/): Lee Mack is headlining tonight. "Let's hear it for Tom Morley" says the MC as I step on to the stage. Three other comedians have gone before me and I'm... - [Having A Voice](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/29/having-a-voice/): Annie Lennox adjusts her pillow, closes her eyes and says, “I’m so glad we can do this now Tom, I thought I might have to book in advance”. I've become... - [Scritti Politti](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/28/scritti-politti/): Green insists I go to the library and look up Marcel Duchamp. - [UBUNTU vs PowerPoint](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/27/ubuntu-vs-powerpoint/): Private jets are bad right? Paris gigs are best reached by Eurostar but this particular client is in a hurry and has lined up further events in Germany, Spain, Italy... - [Backstage Slammer Nights](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/26/backstage-slammer-nights/): Craig Revel Horwood praises my songwriting. "Janine got a standing ovation Tom, did you know? Your song is so emotional and it really suits her voice". We're backstage at Miss... - [Banged Up Drummer](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/25/banged-up-drummer/): Because of the way I look I'm crying. My tears are flowing for deeply personal reasons but I'm also crying for my country. Our country. I'm crying for our future. - [Peace One Day](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/24/peace-one-day/): Jeremy Gilley from 'Peace One Day' jumps out of his black cab looking as stylish as ever. I see him through the gleaming front doors. This guy's energy is something... - [Emma Thompson Asks](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/23/trick-is-the-wrong-word/): Emma Thompson asks, "How will you get everyone up and moving Tom?" We're backstage at The Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square. "I'll use the same trick I used at... - [The New Artists](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/21/the-new-artists/): Podcast person. “So, how did you two get together?” - [Jamie Wheal YouTube](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/20/jamie-wheal-youtube/): I love doing this and seeing what insights I wake up with. - [The Hypnotist](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/18/the-hypnotist/): Jacqueline the Hypnotist: So, you have enormous earning potential but you’re always broke. What’s that all about? What’s your first memory of money? - [Those Pesky Kids](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/17/those-pesky-kids/): A frowning child is insisting I pay to get in, even though this is MY Circus. Time is tight and there’s no time to argue so I search in my... - [Here Come The Drugs](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/16/here-come-the-drugs/): It’s tempting to define us by the way we dress, the music we listen to and the bars we go to, but to get to the heart of it we’re... - [Iris Eye](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/15/iris-eye-2/): My 88th Birthday. July 23rd 2042. Our friends and family are visiting us at 'Ubuntu Uplands', the country estate Dawn and I designed, built, and now use as our base... - [Walking The Talk](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/14/walking-the-talk/): Getting dressed for our date she found herself choosing the outfit that she thought I'd like, rather than the outfit she'd like. That was a deal breaker for her. Even... - [Dancing. What Took You So Long?](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/13/dancing-what-took-you-so-long/): Tom: Once I’ve got them singing I’ll invite some of them on stage to dance. - [The Hero's Journey 2022](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/12/the-heros-journey-2022/): I'm smiling, they're laughing. Fifteen of us.  - [The Rewards of Being Flexible](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/10/the-rewards-of-being-flexible/): "Yes! Robert the unbeaten champion. Better luck next time Tom!" - [Scritti Personali](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/09/scritti-personali/): As we move from being an indie rock band to a mainstream pop group Green's answer to today's journalist, in answer to the question, "What influenced the band's name?" is... - [The 7-Step REMIX Process](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/08/the-7-step-remix-process-2/): So, let’s have a bit of a recap. - [Black Tie White Lie](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/07/black-tie-white-lie/): Sunrise champagne is being passed between us on Waterloo Bridge. We've been up all night and we're still partying. Fifteen strong, we're a band of sisters and brothers taking a... - [Hit Everything](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/06/hit-everything/): Hit everything. Create chaos. Promote pandemonium.  - [The Singer The Drummer and The Bishop](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/05/the-singer-the-drummer-and-the-bishop/): Gareth Malone, The Bishop of St Albans and Tom Morley walk into a bar. - [Sketching Upside Down](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/04/sketching-upside-down/): It's Spring 2019 and a friend of mine has just come back from a half term holiday with his family. - [Did You Bring The Blindfolds?](https://tommorley.com/2022/06/01/did-you-bring-the-blindfolds/): "Shhh, not here... " I say as the dancer I’ve booked shows me her spangly outfit in the lobby of the Istanbul Hilton. Thirty minutes later we're in the stationery... - [Inner PowerPoint](https://tommorley.com/2022/05/31/inner-powerpoint/): Getting dressed for our date she found herself choosing the outfit that she thought I'd like, rather than the outfit she'd like. That was a deal breaker for her. Even... - [Our Big House](https://tommorley.com/2022/05/01/our-big-house/): The lights hit me on stage in Birmingham, I've been invited to speak at a housing conference.  - [Follow The Leader](https://tommorley.com/2022/04/01/follow-the-leader/): I really miss Green. You don’t know what it’s like. When you grow up with three older brothers who know everything you need to find a replacement fast when you're... - [Laying Down Tracks](https://tommorley.com/2022/03/19/laying-down-tracks/): Green, Niall and I are bringing the walls down. It's 1978 and we've been rehearsing a song called "Pressing Plants" upstairs in our rehearsal room. But I'm not talking about... - [Dark Night of the Soul](https://tommorley.com/2022/02/01/dark-night-of-the-soul/): It's February 2008 and I'm crashing while the economy crashes around me. These days they say, “He’s got mental health”. My wife is away and, unbeknown to her, the doctor... - [Autotelic-Exotelic Survival Guide 2020](https://tommorley.com/2020/09/14/autotelic-exotelic-2020/): %%sitename%% - [The 7-Step REMIX process](https://tommorley.com/2020/08/06/the-7-step-remix-process/): The 7-Step REMIX Process - [Re: Engagement](https://tommorley.com/2020/06/16/re-engagement/): The buying of an engagement ring has to be a special moment. Our challenge is to provide that 'magic' with social distancing in place. - [We, the handful.](https://tommorley.com/2020/06/04/we-the-handful/): A few of us, a handful maybe, feel as if we’re benefitting from lockdown. Our work was changing anyway and we’re used to living hand-to-mouth. So we don’t feel it... - [Delightfully Random Origins of Creativity](https://tommorley.com/2020/05/28/the-origins-of-creativity-2/): A polymath, on waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this Mark Twain quote under one of his LinkedIn posts, added by a friend, might immediately think... - [Re: Baby and Bathwater.](https://tommorley.com/2020/05/21/re-baby-and-bathwater/): They say you shouldn’t but I did. Thirty years ago. - [Rebel Wisdom](https://tommorley.com/2020/05/14/rebel-wisdom/): We call our top room, overlooking a leafy bend in the Thames, ‘The Crow’s Nest’. It’s a good place to dream about new horizons. I must have fallen asleep on...