Yard Gavrilovic is a drum-tech who worked with artists like Zak Starkey. In an interview on mikedolbear.co.uk he reveils:

"I played drums in bands from the age of 16 and played ‘til I was about 24 and stopped playing due to a severe lack of talent and money. As I’d trained as a carpenter & joiner, I carried on with my building business as I’d got 3 sons by then. My wife’s brother Andy Barnett joined Urchin as replacement for Dave Murray as he’d left to join Iron Maiden in ’78 followed by Adrian Smith’s departure in 1980 to rejoin Dave."

He spent a long time with Eric Clapton, The Who, The Lightning Seeds, FM, Skin and Annie Lennox. The skills one need to become a drum-tech? Yard:"Just paying attention to detail really. You have to try and eliminate any problems before they arise - especially in front of 30,000 fans where you don’t want to look stupid. The crux of the job is to prepare everything so that the drummer can just concentrate on playing and you do the rest. You have to be calm, love travel, be serious about your gig without being anal and have a sense of humour as you’ll need it." Yard's son Martin Gavrilovic is also working as a drum-tech.