1. Nick Nicely is best known for his 1982 single "Hilly Fields ".
10 Facts About Nick Nicely
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Nick Nicely was born in Greenland during a transatlantic flight layover and grew up in Hitchin, a town near London.
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Nick Nicely was a classically-trained keyboardist and it was with him that I started to do this abstract stuff when I returned from a visit to America in early 1980.
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Nick Nicely began recording the follow-up, "Hilly Fields ", in December 1980, but the recording process was slow and laborious, and Nick Nicely had to sell his personal possessions to pay for the studio time.
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Nick Nicely's work has been credited with inspiring several modern-day artists, most notably XTC's psychedelic offshoot band The Dukes of Stratosphear as well as the Bevis Frond, Robyn Hitchcock and Robert Wyatt.
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On 11 October 2008 Nick Nicely played his first ever live show, supporting friends and long-time supporters the Bevis Frond at the Luminaire in London.
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Since then Nicely has performed a handful of concerts, including the Green Man Festival in 2009, and, inspired by the surrealists, always wearing a veil.
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In 2012 Nick Nicely was invited to play two shows by Kasper and Herlinde Raeman, at Meneer Malasch and Wastelands Festival.
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In 2010 Nick Nicely announced that he was working on an album of new material, with the working title of Space of a Second.
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Nick Nicely collaborated with the band Unkle on a track titled "Puppeteers", recorded in 2009 during sessions for Unkle's Where Did the Night Fall album.