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An intimate evening of live music with the legendary Nik Kershaw and band
Nik Kershaw grew up discovered his love for music at a young age, first picking up a guitar when he was 15 as a result of watching a TV documentary on David Bowie. Other early influences included such diverse artists as T-Rex, Deep Purple, Simon & Garfunkel and Genesis. Several local bands later and after three years working as a civil servant, he grabbed the opportunity to turn professional, serving his apprenticeship playing guitar in jazz fusion and functions bands.
He signed with MCA Records in 1983 and in the same year, "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down" was released for the first time, reaching a respectable No.47 in the UK charts ( achieving a rather more respectable No. 2 when re-released the following summer). This was followed in January 1984 by "Wouldn't It Be good" which languished gracefully at No.4 in the UK charts for five weeks and was to break Kershaw worldwide. The seminal “Human Racing” album was released in March and achieved platinum sales in many territories. He managed to squeeze in two European tours, four more hit singles and another platinum album (“The Riddle”) before the end of the year.
1985 saw three hit singles, tours of Europe, Canada, Australia, the States and Japan and an appearance at "Live Aid". He was to record two more albums with MCA, “Radio Musicola” and “The Works” before leaving the spotlight in 1989 to focus on songwriting and production.
The 90s saw him working with the likes of Cliff Richard, Bonnie Tyler, Lulu, Ronan Keating, Jason Donovan, Nick Carter, Michael W Smith, Connah Reeves, Colin Blunstone, Petula Clark, Gary Barlow, The Hollies, Let Loose and Imogen Heap. Most notably, he penned and co-produced the ubiquitous “The one and only” for Chesney Hawkes.
His sabatical was briefly interupted to work with Tony Banks (Genesis), and to record a self penned duet with Elton John for the great man’s “Duets” album. He returned to making his own records in 1998 with his fifth studio album “15 Minutes”, on Eagle Records. This was followed by the equally well-received “To Be Frank” (2001), “You’ve Got To Laugh” (2006) and the solo acoustic “No Frills” (2009).
“Ei8ht” followed in 2012 and produced the singles ‘The Sky’s The Limit’ and ‘You’re The Best’. His most recent album “Oxymoron” was released in October 2020.
Throughout his career, Kershaw has attracted praise from such legends as Eric Clapton and Miles Davis and has been nominated for four Brit Awards. Elton John famously described him as being “the best songwriter of his generation”.
VIP MEET AND GREETS
Meet and greets with Nik Kershaw will take place between 6.30pm-7pm, these tickets include the pre-show meet and entry with a standing ticket to the event. General admission doors open from 7pm.
WITH SUPPORT FROM TJ WALKER
TJ Walker (actually Tom Walker but had to change his name due to the more famous singer who wears a wooly hat and leaves his light on) is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Shoreham by Sea. His music credits include BBC 6 Music, Radio 1, Virgin Radio and LBC. He also had music in a Gary Oldman film, has written TV themes for prime time shows on ABC in Australia as well as writing music for Trinity College London's Acoustic Guitar Syllabus. He recently released his 2nd album and was recently featured as "One to Watch" in Maverick Magazine (The biggest international Country Music magazine).
His career highlight was playing a Led Zeppelin song to an audience including Jimmy Page. When Tom met him afterwards and apologised to for him having heard his own riffs played to him he said, "It was quite good actually." He will be playing an acoustic set with virtuosic guitar playing and looping (which he's been doing longer than Ed Sheeran, although Ed has been slightly more successful) he can make one guitar sound like a band!