Hi! So the tour is over. It’s been a blast. Thank you so much to all of you who came along to one/some of the gigs. I’m truly grateful.
I have a few tour T-shirts left over so if you fancy anything (half price) you can find them under the merch tab above.
I’ll try to do a ‘proper’ post about it when I have caught up with a few things.
Thank you again for your continued support!
Cheers Nick
High time for another tour seeing as the last one was two years ago!
These are all solo apart from the five band gigs in Glastonbury, Winchester, London, Worcester and Doncaster.
Still room for house gigs around these dates so if you fancy trying that do let me know. I’m happy to travel of course so they needn’t be near these places. 19th and 21st March are not available however due to a wedding and to Roystonbury’s Spring Ting respectively.
News of supports to follow…
All tickets under ‘Gigs’ above.
Hi, Here is my latest attempt at visual representation of my music. This tima a lyric video for The Half of the Moon feat. Dan Donnelly and Emily Larkin.
Here you go. A little video to accompany Maison D’Etre, featuring Vivien Scotson, from my latest album.
Hi, Hope all is well there.
Full disclosure: I’m only really posting here so that the March Tour isn’t the first thing you see when you visit. We’re nearly in the following March y’see and that’s just confusing.
Summer has been just lovely with the possibly obvious highlight being Beautiful Days Big Top appearance with the full band. Someone counted 28 people on stage in total – not at the same time – so it was quite the occasion.
Had a bit of a blip with getting bookings sorted this year, but slowly getting my stuff back together and will be booking something resembling another tour when I can.
Working on another animal for merch too so will let you know when that’s sorted.
Think that’s all for now really but hopefully see you around some time.
Cheers Nick x
Finally got round to putting on something resembling a tour.
Full details and links can be found at the ‘Gigs’ tab above.
See some of you out on the road!
Cheers Nick 🙂
Ow Dennie Rayne and the Jistal Parts is the new album by Nick Parker.
Only six and a half years after his last *proper* studio album Besta Venya, Nick has finally gotten around to releasing another. To be fair, the world did shut down for a few years, and with it, his inspiration.
Recorded by Jake Rousham down at Levellers’ Metway Studio in Brighton, the album features all the members of his band the False Alarms plus many special guests including Hannah and Abbe from Sound of the Sirens, Vivien Scotson, Emily Larkin, Flo Parker Bombosch, Martha Gilby, Dave Little, Neil Ivison and even an actual Leveller, Dan Donnelly, among others.
Some of these songs have been gigged over the last couple of years and some are new, and the album also includes a remixed and remastered version of (Not another one about) The Road which was released over lockdown and features the Housebound Folkband.
One of the songs is even older! After All, was written at the end of the 90s but was never released.
Tracklisting
Small Talk
Maison D’Etre
Living Again
Isolation Row
Don’t Play The Kerryman
The Half Of The Moon
After All
Incredible Machine
The Road (Resurfaced)
Aeroplane Incentives
Dolly Parton
You can buy the album on CD or vinyl from my shop HERE
If you prefer your music digitally you can get it from one of THESE PLACES
It’ll be available from digital platforms at some point over the next couple of weeks.
Hope you like at least some of it!
Cheers Nick
I had every intention of writing a lengthy piece about the European tour but I still don’t have the energy so this will have to do. First talked about in 2019 the European tour supporting Levellers finally came about this month, three years later. I won’t bother touching on the Brexit side of things because I find it so incredibly depressing to even think about. What I will say however, is that once we were on the mainland everything was as beautiful as it was in the beforetimes.
I won’t list all the good bits about each venue and city as it would take way too long and be way too boring to read. However I am incredibly grateful to all the promoters and the staff at Paradiso, Vera, Effenaar, Gloria, De Roma, Depot, Casino, Fabrik, Lucerna Music Bar, Columbia Theatre and CC Zwanberg for being so friendly and welcoming and making the long tour so pleasant for us all.
I want to thank Levellers’ crew (present and absent), Mark, Matt, Jez, Dan, Jon, Charlie, Simon, Pabs, Helena, Rob, Rich, Alex, Gaz, Kaleb, Bri, Steve, Phil, Libby, Fi, Dave and Laura for again being so welcoming and not once making us feel like we shouldn’t be there.
Thank you also to Anita van Lieshout and Bernard van der Berg for putting us up, and feeding us, for the first half of the tour, saving us a fortune on hotels!
Massive thank to Darren, who started out as ‘drive’ but within a couple of hours became the perfect roadie, always ready with the open duds to receive our instruments after the show.
Thanks also to Jo who joined us for a few of the gigs in the middle, helping out on the merch stand and sucking wax out of everyone’s ears (honest).
Penultimate thanks goes to my band mates Brad, John, Tom, Ben and Shane. Consummate professionals from start to finish and a joy to be on the road with for two weeks.
Lastly, thank you so much to those who came to the gigs, bought merch and generally made this all worthwhile. It really means a lot that after a few difficult years, you are still all going out to support live music. Hopefully see you again soon!
Cheers Nick
This beauty was first talked about in 2019 and for one reason or another – which I won’t go in to – it ended up being in 2022. Can’t wait to get out to Europe again and hear all those beautiful languages, eat all that beautiful food and meet all those beautiful humans.
See some of you there!
Tickets can be found HERE
