Back in stock and lower in price once more, we’ve featured several deals for this piece of kit over the last few months and shoppers have happily snapped them up with speed so if you fancy getting into the groove and channelling the spirit of Lars Ulrich you’d probably better get your skates on.

You can pick up the drum kit at The Hut for just £15.96 at the moment. The Listed price is, in fact, £17.73, but entering the code NWDCOL will help knock 10% off of the price.

• Click here to buy the EA Official Rock Band Drum Kit for £15.96 from The Hut

You get four pads, a kick pedal and two sticks for your money, and they all work fine although the build quality on thekick pedal is a little suspect. I boast a pair of clumsy size twelves at the end of my legs and, trust me, although the pads will take a hell of lot of punishment, the kick pedals can vary. It’s not quite as nice a product as Red Octane’s rig for GH: World Tour, but the that’s why Activision kept Red Octane.

Thankfully, though, the drums’ integration into the game is slightly superior to that in Guitar Hero. Whereas GH is more likely to make you feel like a six-stringed rock god than Harmonix’s effort with its forgiving note timing and subsequent swathes of solo notes, Rock Band nails the drums, offering exceptional like for likepassages that never feel stale, breaking them up with freestyle sections that adjust even the most inept performance to sound like a fill straight out of a Deep Purple track.

As for alternative hardware, well you could pick up the Mat Catz portable kit for a couple of quid cheaper, but without a stand they’re hell to set up in a way that won’t completely screw up your back. If you can spare the extra 2 or 3 pounds I’d go for this option. Stress relief has never been more fun!

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD

Peripherals can be expensive, yet another reason why Bobby Kotick will probably spend his eternity in the afterlife chained to a wheel, or more aptly tied to the summit of a mountain by a bungie cord that’s just too short to reach the fields of profit that lie at the mountain’s foot. No more so than the drum kits required to fully enjoy four player band-oriented mayhem, but the folks over at Sendit have a plan, and a fine one at that.

When I say plan, what I actually mean is that they’ve gone and gotten some stock in and priced it moderately fairly, meaning that at the moment you can pick up a sweet set of official Rock Band drums for just £18.89 which is over £1 cheaper than the last time we saw the set for under £20, which was a while ago.

• Click here to start channelling the spirit of John Bonham for £18.89 from Sendit

The drums are arguably the best part of the band experience for these games, they’re certainly the closest mirror to actually playing the instrument concerned (apart from singing of course), and they allow for all kinds of stress relief. Sort of. You see whilst fairly well made, the Rock Band set suffers from a few niggling issues, the most infamous of which is the tendency of the foot pedal to snap. The Guitar Hero set is far more sturdy, it must be said, although the integration of the hardware is more fun on the Harmonix games.

nevertheless, this is a cracking price for a pretty well constructed set. You can beat ten tonnes of crap into these things and they’ll still stand tall and proud, although you might want to consider investing in some pad silencers for the sake of your housemates if you don’t want to be set upon in the night.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD