An Evening With Nik Kershaw will be a chance for fans to hear all the eighties hits and more in an intimate acoustic setting with three screen projections onstage to illustrate the music.
It is Nik onstage with a guitar and a microphone and a few video screens, telling tall tales and playing a few tunes and having fun. He even take questions from the audience in the show. And what has been the best question asked so far?
“Its great when the questions are funny cause you don’t have to do any work. Funniest question was – If you and Howard Jones were to have fight – Who would win?” laughs
Of course with Howard being a buddhist, he isn’t allowed to hit me back!! So it is a bit of a no-brainer really!! laughs.
The name Nik Kershaw is synonymous with the eighties. ‘Wouldn’t It Be good’ spent five weeks at No.4 in the charts in 1984. The Bristol born singer/songwriter/guitarist became a hit across Europe and Japan with his album ‘Human Racing’ and further hits ‘I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down’ and ‘The Riddle’.
1985 saw three hit singles, tours of Europe, Canada, Australia, the States and Japan and an appearance at Live Aid.
Nik is in the middle of writing and recording an album of new material due for release in 2018. He left the spotlight in 1989 to focus on songwriting and production penning ‘The one and only’ for Chesney Hawkes. He has collaborated with Cliff Richard, Bonnie Tyler, Lulu, Ronan Keating, Jason Donovan and Elton John.
Nik stepped away from writing for others as he grew tired of the pressures of writing homogenous, bland lyrics.
“I had to change the way I wrote to write songs for other people. You have to be quite generic when you are writing songs for other people. not writing for anybody in particular.
“Lyrically it is quite ambiguous, anybody can sing these, all about love and loss and all that sort of thing.
“I found I was writing songs that were personal to me and the only one that could sing them was me. And I just got back into doing that. It gives you a freedom that you just don’t have when you are writing or other people. You got one person to please and that is you.”
Nik Kershaw’s ‘The Riddle’ is the song that is the most covered in his discography. He has heard club versions, elevator music versions and even a version by James Last of his songs.
“Its flattering if someone does a cover of my songs. I don’t get precious about it.”
Nik Kershaw plays University Concert Hall this Friday October 6.
