http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/ The official blog and news rss feed from Andrew Nicholsons Music Website Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:32:23 GMT Hi! With the completion of a further three songs; "My City of Ruins", "This Hard Land" and "Stolen Car" I have now finished the Springsteen cover album and all the songs have been uploaded to this site. Yup, I do realise that I stole the "Lost Highway" title from Bon Jovi. However I think what is presented here is sounding quite coherently and starting the album with "Racing in The Start" and ending with "The Promise" just cries out for a title like that in my opinion. For any cd copies (taken directly from the raw recordings) you can contact me directly. Hope you will listen. Peace to all! Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#34 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#34 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:45:15 GMT Another instrument to add to my collection. I bought the Alesis Controlpad a few weeks ago. It's quite a nifty percussion controller and allows me to play the drum tracks live now, which is quite cool. Good value for around 100 quid. Peace, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#33 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#33 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:34:22 GMT Happy New Year to everyone passing by! Another "lost" album uploaded: "Another Universe". This time it's an experimental bunch of songs which I recorded back in 2002/2003. Some of the tracks are trance/dance influenced and others more mellow. You can check it out in the album/cd section. There's a new play button next to each album so you can play each album by itself with the mp3 player. All the best and peace to all in 2008 and beyond! Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#32 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#32 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:27:19 GMT First off Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Some things I will be posting on the site in the new year: -Thunder My new solo project which will feature 12 songs. -Some Full band Springsteen covers (Darkness on the Edge of Town / Stolen Car / This Hard Land) - Full band Jim Steinman covers (Out of The Frying Pan / Objects in the rear view mirror /) + Hopefully some Roxette covers! All the best and Peace!, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#31 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#31 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:36:56 GMT Simple music video I did with some photos I made from an Ice Sculpture exhibition in March 07 in The Netherlands. Check it out in the Music Videos section... Peace, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#30 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#30 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:04:30 GMT See my YouTube channel or the music videos section here on the site for some new videos including the following; "Cry To Heaven - Bat out of Hell Reprise" - Basically the same acoustic version on piano I recorded a few weeks ago. "Traffic Cone Girl" - Song I wrote in 2002 and performed live a few times. "Darkness on the Edge of Town" - Not the songs of Springsteen album version I'll be doing but merely a quick live version on guitar "F*cking Drums" - A song I wrote as a joke when I was in a band back in 2003. The drummer came up with the chorus line and I just took it from there. "It's all over now" - Brand new song I wrote over the past week. Basically about love breaking up but I guess it can be used as a metaphor for anything when you miss somebody so not necessarily pure love I think. Peace, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#29 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#29 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:58:23 GMT ..Up on YouTube and my site. I recorded the music straight to computer this time and synced it with the film which makes it sound a LOT better. Some more music videos hopefully later on in the week. Peace, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#28 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#28 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:05:59 GMT Hey, Still busy with more changes on the site. I've set up a YouTube account where I will upload some music videos from time to time. I'm also including these in a new section on the site here under music videos. I've uploaded a new version of Bruce Springsteen's "The Promise". Still one of my favourite songs. Peace, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#27 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#27 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:31:17 GMT Well after tinkering around on the piano a bit I ended up recording my version of "Cry to Heaven", a Jim Steinman song which appears on Meat Loaf's "Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose" album. I added a few parts from the original "Bat out of Hell" song which I think fits quite well. So since I've got 4 Steinman tunes now it's probably only right to put them on a single album at some point. Although these are all ballads at this stage I do intend to record Steinman songs like "Out of The Frying Pan" and "Rock and Roll Dreams come Through". I'm still busy with the Springsteen songs, so it looks like that project will be finished early 2008, after which I will start work on my on bunch of songs again. I should hopefully get round to completing the Steinman songs album in 2009! So enough ideas to keep myself going musically in the mean time. Peace and all the best, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#26 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#26 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:35:18 GMT I've always liked this gorgeous song by Bruce Springsteen and for the last few years I'd been playing it on guitar now and then. Only a few days ago I had a go with this song on piano and thought it sounded good so I practiced it a few times and here is my version. Next stop: "Darkness on The Edge of Town". Keep rockin' and peace, Andrew http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#25 http://www.andrewnicholson.co.uk/news.php#25