“…and this year’s Godlike Genius Award goes to…”
It’s strange to look back now, but this was taken onstage at The New Continental, Preston, at a tribute gig to the genius that was – and forever is – Tim Smith of The Cardics. I’m with Andy Powell, showing off one of his great new instruments, the RockStick, that I’d just manage to demolish in the course of a particularly hard played version of “RIse”, the breathtaking PIL tune. A couple of months later, we’d be business partners in our own rock bar. Funny how things work out, eh?
One of the greatest venues to play in the country, the great Blues Bar, Harrogate, April 2017.
Tastefully riffing at the Ferret, Preston. Solo gig, March 2014. Pic by James Brunton at This Parallel photography.
The first contestant to ever appear on Countdown while wearing a hat, 15/01/2014. Despite the protestations of Rachel Riley, Susie Dent, and Helen Skelton, I wasn’t allowed to wear my cowboy hat during filming, for technical reasons. You’d think I’d have got “Canoeing”, wouldn’t you?
…especially since I’d been doing THIS a couple of weeks earlier. Greeting some fellow admirers of our nation’s glorious waterways on the world’s first tour by pedalo, a rainy Saturday morning, September 2013
Cheers Everybody! Here’s the great crowd at our gig at 53 degrees in Preston, 25/07/2014. Taken by piano virtuoso and fellow Hostage, Rich Ilott.
“But Nick… this IS my best side”. Unhelpfully assisting quartermaster Nick Duffy at the Ferret, March 2014. Pic by James Brunton.
Opportunist selfie with the wonderful Helen Skelton, in the Countdown Canteen, 15/01/2014.
Recording “Bonedaddy” in the studio at UCLAN, under the watchful eye of Mr Andrew Glassford of Glassdelta recordings, July 2013