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Gigs Added for 2010

Sarah Kershaw — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:07:53 +0100

NDR Open Air, at the Sea, 25761 BSUM, Germany 21st August 2010

Nik with full band at an open air concert. Tickets FOC

More info to follow.

Here & Now in Holland 18th September 2010

Rick Astley, Marc Almond, Paul Young, NK & T'Pau

Click Here for info.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

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

Our FrienRead More...
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<h1>No Frills on iTunes</h1>
<p>Sarah Kershaw — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:40:57 +0100</p>
<p>Nik's solo acoustic album

A download link to purchase will be available on the discography 'No Frills' page.

More Gigs in Ireland

Sarah Kershaw — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:43:04 +0100

An extra date has been added at The Yard, Wexford on 27th April 2010 for Nik's solo acoustic show.

Plus Cork Opera House, Cork on Monday 3rd May 2010 and Dublin Academy, Dublin 1 on Tuesday 4th May 2010.

See Gig Calendar for more info.

Channel M Today

Sarah Kershaw — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:01:49 +0100

Nik was interviewed before his solo acoustic gig on Saturday 20th February by Channel M Today. The interview will be broadcast between 4pm and 7pm today.

You can find Channel M Today on: SkyGuide 203, Virgin Media 878, Free to Air 39 or www.channelm.co.uk

BBC Radio Nottingham

Sarah Kershaw — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:22:36 +0100

Prior to the first solo acoustic gig of his acoustic tour at The Rescue Rooms in Nottingham this evening. Nik will be with John Holmes of BBC Radio Nottingham, today at 3.30pm, for interview and live performance.

Nik on BBC Radio Suffolk

Sarah Kershaw — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:51:58 +0100

Nik is interviewed by Stephen Foster of BBC Radio Suffolk, on his drive time show, this evening at 6.15pm.

NEW Italian gig date added!

Administrator — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:14:06 +0100

Nik will be playing in Asti on Friday 23rd April 2010;

Diavolo Rosso
Piazza San Martino 4
Asti
Italy

Further details/tickets;

info@ondesferiche.it
Www.ondesferiche.it
Www.diavolorosso.it

Irish Gig Dates

Administrator — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:11:14 +0100

Nik will be touring Ireland in April & May 2010!

Wed 28th April - The Yard - Wexford - Tickets 00353 539144083
http://www.theyard.ie/news.php

Thurs 29th April - The Set Theatre - Kilkenny -
http://www.set.ie/events-guide/events/nik-kershaw

Fri 30th April - Dolans Warehouse - Limerick -
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/1800443BB7233FB1?artistid=735435&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

Sat 1st May - INEC (The Acoustic RRead More...

No Frills Available from Monday 1st Feb!

Administrator — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:33:38 +0100

Niks new album "No Frills" will be available to buy on CD on the web shop from Monday evening - 1st February!

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...