Harry
Mark Christopher Judd,
commonly known as Harry Judd (born December 23, 1985 in
Chelmsford, Essex, England) is the drummer in the British pop rock/pop
punk band McFly, along with fellow band members Tom Fletcher, Dougie
Poynter and Danny Jones. McFly rose to fame after former band Busted
helped launch them by inviting them on tour in March 2004.
Harry Judd was born in Chelmsford, in
Essex, England. Judd is the youngest of three children, he has a
brother named Thomas and a sister named Katherine. As a young boy, he
enjoyed playing cricket, and riding a tractor around the family
estate. He was educated at Uppingham School, the school was also
attended by ex-Busted member Charlie Simpson, now lead singer with the
band Fightstar. Judd's brother, Thomas, was friends with Charlie
Simpson when they attended Uppingham. The public school was also
attended by Stephen Fry, Johnny Vaughan and also Elliot Minor members;
Ed Minton & Alex Davies
Judd started drumming at around the
age of sixteen, 2 years before he joined McFly. According to an
interview, he stated that he was self taught for a while then enlisted
the help of Nick Fance. Fance later became his first drum teacher.
Generally, he prefers not to sing in McFly, although when on tour he
once sang a version of 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias. He also played the
drums in Busted's music video for "Crashed the Wedding"
which was released in October 2003, before Island began generating the
buzz around McFly.
Personal
Life
Judd
has many musical influences and claims his favourite are Incubus,
Dashboard Confessional, Stone Sour, The Doors, Blink-182, The Used,
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and My Chemical Romance, with his all time
favourite song being 'Hey Jude'. He has three tattoos, including the
words "a tattoo" on his wrist, "bare" on his foot,
meaning bare foot and a small star imprinted on his wrist. The rest of
McFly have similar tattoos.
Judd lived together with the rest of
the McFly band members for two years before they moved to two separate
flats in 2005, where the band lived two members per flat for a matter
of months, when bandmate Tom Fletcher announced that he would be
moving into a house. Judd then bought a house in the same road as
Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter.
Judd
trained in England to run the 2008 Flora London Marathon in support of
Teenage Cancer Trust and BIRT (Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust).
When the band took a couple of months off in Australia, he continued
his training and encouragement of fans to donate through his website.
He completed the run in just under 4 hours.
McFly
Judd
is the drummer in Rock-pop group McFly, and has been playing the drums
since the age of sixteen. According to an interview, he originally
wanted to play the guitar but got bored of playing 'nursery rhymes'.
After the drummer in a friends band left, he took the instrument up.
As well as drums he can play the trumpet and took piano lessons, but
claims that he wasn't very good. In March 2006, Judd participated in
Sport Relief's 'All Out For India' where a team of celebrities
travelled to India as part of a cricket team, to help raise money for
children.
Judd
has also helped co-write several songs on the various McFly albums.
These songs include: "Met This Girl" (Room on the Third
Floor), "She Falls Asleep" (Wonderland) and
"Little Joanna" (Motion In The Ocean). Judd describes
himself as being thrown in at the deep end with lyric writing on the
first album as he'd never done it before, but describes it as being
'refreshing'.
Television
Appearances
In
January 2005, McFly guest-starred in an episode of the long-running
British drama series Casualty. In May 2006, they starred in the teen
comedy film Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine, which was
released in the US on 12 May 2006 and in the UK on 30 June 2006. They
played themselves in the film and the soundtrack featured a variety of
their songs from their first two albums. The band also recorded
another song, 'Just My Luck', which was to be included on the US-only
album release of the same name. McFly held a concert at the London
Hammersmith Apollo on 19 May 2005 which was used in the film. The UK
premiere of the film took place on 28 June 2006 in London.
