Nick McCabe

Nick McCabe (* July 14 1971 in St Helens, actually Nicholas Joseph McCabe ) is a British musician and producer. He is best known as a founding member of the North British band The Verve. He plays synth guitar and is active both as a producer of English young rock bands as well as in the field of electronic music.

  • 3.1 1992-1997
  • 3.2 1997-2001
  • 3.3 2002-2007
  • 3.4 2008 et seq
  • 5.1 Nick McCabe
  • 5.2 projects

Style

Characteristic of Nick McCabe is the extraordinary way of playing the guitar. He plays rhythm completely independent and uses multiple echo and feedback effects that it can concertieren simultaneously. At Verve times was noticeable that he seemed Shoegazing typical motionless on the stage because he was a huge field of pedals and stomp boxes ( a single effect for the electric guitar, which is activated via an oversized button with your foot ) for his synthesizer and effect devices operated while the strings brought with hands to blades. Owen Morris, the producer of The Verve album " A Northern Soul" and the first two Oasis - plates once said, mutatis mutandis, about him, it was remarkable to watch him play guitar and listen to his guitar runs and soundscapes have its own soul. He is also out of conviction reasons hard to persuade her to repeat a sound and sound sequence ..

Career

The road to Music

Driven by his great idol John Martyn took Nick McCabe one day the guitar in his hand and quickly realized that it did not appeal to the simple chord playing and Saitengezupfe. He was rather fixated on effect equipment and synthesizers that he did not want to be controlled via keyboard but electric guitar. The problem was that he lacked money for the necessary equipment, so he took care of an external possibility of a game. Finally, the opportunity to attend a school in Wigan, a few miles from St. Helens gave away to practice in a music room.

The Verve

Richard Ashcroft One day in 1989 passed by this room and heard McCabe playing. As he was about to start a band, this chance encounter on cue came, especially as he was impressed by his way of playing. Shortly thereafter, McCabe permanent member of The Verve, which he was consistently up to the first isolation in 1995. The growing tensions between the two egos led to the divergence of the band. However, Richard Ashcroft asked him one and a half years later return to The Verve and he followed this request. In 1997 he succeeded with The Verve, the single Bittersweet Symphony and the album Urban Hymns worldwide breakthrough. But McCabe's growing enthusiasm for electronic music in particular was not shared by Ashcroft. Although he was able to place "Deep Freeze" a completely original song as a hidden track on The Verve's hit album " Urban Hymns ". The vision of conflict between Ashcroft and however it was eventually one of the main reasons for the second separation by The Verve.

McCabe left the band surprisingly during the European tour in the spring of 1998, which The Verve the last of their scheduled four performances could no longer perceive in Germany. So far, however, it is unclear to what extent he zukehrte the band freely out the back. Rise to speculation gave an interview with the American indie pop fanzine Excellent online that is operated by the administrators of the most famous and oldest Verve fan page, the Verve Universe. After denials against the British New Musical Express and other newspapers and magazines, Nick has explained in this controversial interview in 1999 his followers - until the end of 2002 EMI agreed to the publication of the interview.

McCabe as a solo musician and producer

Since the end of The Verve Nick McCabe preferably remains in the background and the electronic music has prescribed. After the official split of the band on 28 April 1999, he had, however short again teamed up with Simon Jones, Simon Tong and an unknown drummer and, inter alia, a contribution to the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Iain Banks ' " conspired " contributed. He then moved with his wife and daughter to Spain in late 1999 and worked from there with various French electric projects such as Mellow or Neotropic and with the DJ and producer David Kosten and Photek. 2000/ 01 he has produced with Riz Maslen, a French artist, the film "An Ambient Road Movie " and especially the soundtrack. The music was released under the title " La Prochaine Fois " Riz Maslen 's project on " Neotropic " ( Ninja Tune). Since his return to Britain in 2002 he mainly deals with the production of English -coming bands.

His first experience as a remixer and producer collected McCabe already Vervezeiten. On the B-side to A Northern Soul, there are already several remixes from him. After his debut as an independent producer when mixing and preparing the debut EP of the beta band during the first Verve separation phase (1995-1996) these were taken by Parlophone under contract and finally placed three albums successfully in the top 20 in the UK album charts. The Nova Saints, he works closely together since 2005 and produced their debut. 2006 saw McCabe for a song with the band on stage and gave after eight years of absence his live comeback with the synth guitar. In addition, McCabe hired with the production of remixes such as for the single " Freedom Fighters " by The Music. 2004, he has met with the construction of a shared songs with John Martyn a dream.

Comeback as a sideman

In 2007 it came to the reunion of The Verve, which McCabe published in 2008 an album and two singles. Since 2009 he runs with bassist Simon Jones ( The Verve ), violinist Davide e- Rossi ( Goldfrapp ) and drummer Mig Schillace ( Portishead ) his new band project The Black Ships. In 2011 she gave her first live concerts and published as a teaser for the debut album in May, the Kurofune EP. The short game disk contains exactly one 25 -minute song with experimental song structures which, folkadelischen violins, psychotic - noisigen guitars and electronic samples fed from melancholy trip-hop elements. For the album, the project collaborated with different singers, but also Rossi takes every now and then the microphone in his hand. 2012, the band has renamed Black Submarine.

Discography

1992-1997

  • Verve - The Verve E. P. (1992)
  • Verve - A Storm In Heaven (1993 )
  • The Verve - No Come Down (1994 )
  • The Verve - A Northern Soul (1995 )
  • The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)

1997-2001

  • The Beta Band - Champion Versions E. P. (1997)
  • Mellow - Instant Love E. P. (1999)
  • O.S.T. Iain Banks ' " Complicity " (2000, 2 Tracks with Simon Jones)
  • Neotropic - La Prochaine Fois / An Ambient Road Movie (2001)

2002-2007

  • Faultline feat. Nick McCabe - Last Broadcast ( Published 2002/2004 on "Your Love Means Everything" )
  • John Martyn feat. Nick McCabe - Walking Home ( Released 2004 "On The Cobbles " )
  • Nick McCabe vs. The Music - The People ( Released 2004 on "The Freedom Fighters " -EP)
  • The Heavy - In The Morning E. P. (2005, produced by Nick McCabe )
  • The Nova Saints (previous name: Spencer ) - The Draft EP (May 28, 2007 produced by Nick McCabe, incl remix by McCabe )

2008 ff

  • The Verve - Forth (2008)
  • The Black Ships - Kurofune EP ( 2011)
  • Charley Bickers - Our Frail Hearts (2012 )
  • Lowline - The Howler EP ( track " Bury My Soul", 2013)
  • O.S.T. for " Java Heat - Island of decision" (2013, 4 tracks with Black Submarine )
  • Black Submarine - New Shores (2014)

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