Our Friends Acoustic Gig

Administrator — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:39:20 +0100

Nik will be joining a host of artists to perform at Our Friends Acoustic on 13th May 2010 at the Indigo2, London.

“Our Friends Acoustic” Line-up

Andy Bell (Erasure)
Jimmy Somerville
Nik Kershaw
Howard Jones
Carol Decker (T'Pau)
Steve Strange (Visage)
The Christians
China Crisis
Cutting Crew

Nik on TV!

Administrator — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:20:12 +0100

Stop Press!

Friday 29th January – Nik will be in Dublin and playing on the Late Late Show hosted by Ryan Turbridy on R.T.E. 1 at 9.30pm!

Coming Soon.....

Administrator — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:44:46 +0100

COMING SOON
By popular demand.
'No Frills'

No-frills or no frills; is a term used to describe any service or product for which the non-essential features have been removed.

A solo acoustic album by Nik Kershaw.

1. Oh you beautiful thing
2. Have a nice life
3. Dancing girls
4. Somebody loves you
5. Lost in you
6. The riddle
7. Loud, confident & wrong
8. Fiction
9. Don Quixote
10. Oxygen

Happy 2010

Administrator — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

If I may begin with a rant. It's just taken my PC four and a half minutes to open Microsoft Word. I calculate that, by the time I reach my four score years and ten (bloody hell, that's only 18.5 years away) I will have spent 6.74 of them staring vacantly at a computer screen, waiting for the little hour glass icon to disappear.

That's almost enough time to make an album! So if you're wondering where my next collection of ditties is, ask Bill GatRead More...

Christmas

Administrator — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I am reliably informed that my last message was Christmas 2007. I am also given to believe that the distance between Christmas 2007 and Christmas 2008 is 12 months or, as we in the music business refer to it, one year. This is quite frankly unforgivable and you'd be perfectly within your rights to have me thrown to the dogs or, at the very least, stripped naked, covered in golden syrup and thrown to Nigella Lawson. First of all, my sincere apologies to the inhabitants of the village of LittleRead More...

November 2008

Administrator — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Please submit any questions for drum talk to drumtalk@shorthouserecords.com

I recently got my copy of the very fine "You've Got To Laugh" album and notice that you had Nick Beggs doing his thing with the Chapman Stick on some of the songs. Do you play 'The Stick'?

Nik: Only in the privacy of my own home. Beggs doesn't seem to care where he whips his out. (Actually, no I don't. There are far too many strings and the whole playing concept is alien to me. I'd fRead More...

December 2007

Administrator — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Please submit any questions for drum talk to drumtalk@shorthouserecords.com

Is it possible to release a Remix-CD with all the vinyl-extended-versions? What do you think about these remixes and the whole extended-mix-thing in the 80's?

Nik: It's possible, but I can't say I'd be enthusiastic about it. You write a song that's three and a half minutes long and that's how long it is... three and a half minutes. Then someone turns up and asks for a seven minute veRead More...

Lazy Boy

Administrator — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Have just finished applying a second coat of Danish oil to the floor of my garage conversion/potting shed/ recording studio. It doesn't sound like the most strenuous of tasks, I know, but I can't move my head to the left or walk upright and am currently unable to alight from my Lazy boy recliner without a loud, involuntary grunt. Those wandering, unprepared into earshot could be forgiven for thinking that Anna Kournikova had popped round for some Robertson's barley water and was in the procesRead More...

July 2007

Administrator — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Please submit any questions for drum talk to drumtalk@shorthouserecords.com

I've listened to your Human Racing album many times, and often I get a strong feeling of Stevie Wonder's influence, even in the way you sing. Is this true? A good example is the title song - it makes me think of the song 'Village Ghettoland'. Also (somewhat related), I maybe reading into them too much, but I also get the feeling of spiritual themes from some of your songs. If you were to describe your spiritual paRead More...

Iceland

Administrator — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100

For those few of you who haven't read the Iceland Review of 28th April 2007, you will not be aware of my recent trip to that magnificent country. My good friend Chesney (Hawkes) and his good friend Ginny organized a song writing retreat in a secluded hotel on the banks of an un-pronounceable Fjord very close to the middle of nowhere in the south west of the island.

On landing, as the plane emerged through the low cloud, you could've forgiven any one of us for believing we had arrived oRead More...

April 2007

Administrator — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100

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I wondered if there was any truth in the ironic rumour that Nik had used some of his royalty money, from the recent well-known sofa manufacturer's advert, to purchase a sofa from said vendor. If so, did he take up their offer of 5 years interest free credit, with nothing to pay for the first year?

Nik: No truth, I'm afraid

At some of yourRead More...

Birthday

Administrator — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Just a quickie to say THANKS for all the cards and greetings on the occasion of this, the first day of my 50th year (that means I'm 49, in case you haven't worked it out). I still feel like I did when I was 17...... KNACKERED!!!

January 2007

Administrator — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Please submit any questions for drum talk to drumtalk@shorthouserecords.com

What is your advice to budding songwriters like myself for getting involved in the music business? I don't know where to begin, and Chrysalis rejected my demo!

Nik: Ignore the rejection slip but keep it for framing at a later date (I've still got all mine). You have to believe that you have what it takes and keep plugging away regardless. Play your songs to everybody, no matter how mRead More...

Girded Loins

Administrator — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:00:00 +0100

ShortHouse Records HQ

Well, here we all are, loins girded. Assembled before me is a crack team of posters and packers, poised like Serengeti cheetahs waiting for the first stray Wildebeest to stick his head out from behind the water cooler.

All hands are on the ShortHouse deck. There's Maureen from accounts, Beryl the tea lady, Norman the doorman, Gina the cleaner and Edwin from personal grooming, all puckered up and ready for those first orders to come in.

Five dayRead More...

Shorthouse HQ somewhere in Essex

Administrator — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:00:00 +0100

Have just taken delivery of gazillions of copies of "You've got to laugh", all cellophane wrapped and shiny. You don't realize exactly what gazillions of Cds looks like until you're trying to climb over them to get to the toilet.

Laid end to end, they would stretch for quite a long way and back again; melted down and poured into a mould, they would form a full scale model of David Hasselhoff‘s ego; chopped, shredded and fried with a medium onion and a liberal sprinkling of Read More...

Edge of Cliff, somewhere in C Cork, Ireland

Administrator — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:00:00 +0100

01/09/2006

Lying on my front looking down at the Atlantic crashing against the rocks 150 feet below. Not a good place to drop my contact lens.

I love it over here, Ireland's a special place. I've been a frequent visitor ever since investing in a bit of property. You can drive for hours and not see a soul. You can also drive for hours and not see a road sign.

Watched a hurling match yesterday. Those guys are seriously nuts. For those of you who don't know, hurling is a croRead More...

August 2006

Administrator — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:00:00 +0100

Please submit any questions for drum talk to drumtalk@shorthouserecords.com

Is there any particular method as to how you arrange the order of the track listing on your albums?

Nik: There's no particular science to putting together a running order. It's a bit like constructing a setlist. You look at the pace and energy of the tracks and try to vary that a bit. Separate tracks with similar keys, guitar solos etc. Alternatively, you can stick them all in a hat Read More...

Blog entries from admin

Our Friends Acoustic Gig

Nik on TV!

Coming Soon.....

Happy 2010

Christmas

November 2008

December 2007

Lazy Boy

July 2007

Iceland

April 2007

Birthday

January 2007

Girded Loins

Shorthouse HQ somewhere in Essex

Edge of Cliff, somewhere in C Cork, Ireland

August 2006