PizzaExpress Live (Holborn)

Nick Heyward returns to celebrate a year that began with 4 sell-out shows at PizzaExpress (two with Spandau Ballet’s Steve Norman), followed by joining his band Haircut 100 for a BBC Radio 2 Piano Room session and a sold out reunion show at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, myriad solo festival dates and a hugely successful tour of the UK and Ireland with Haircut 100 – their first in over 40 years!

Join Nick for an end of the year celebration with musicians, Andy Treacey (drums), Samer Sharawi (bass) and Adam Phillips (guitar). He’ll be playing songs from across his entire 40+ year career with a peek at new material and maybe even a Christmas song or two!

Exclusive, very limited ‘Soundcheck Experience’ available to witness Nick and his band perform the last two songs of their soundcheck ( please arrive at 5.40 pm for this) followed by photos and an autograph.

Creatively ambitious from the start, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, Nick Heyward, began his career as the songwriter and frontman of Haircut 100. Marrying Chic with The Monkees, they rode the post-new-romantic-funk-wave of the early 1980s burning brightly, but briefly. Following four UK top 10 singles, “Fantastic Day”, “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)”, “Love Plus One” and “Nobody’s Fool”, and their debut album, Pelican West, going platinum, the band parted ways.

North of a Miracle, Heyward’s first solo album saw him working with The Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick to craft pop landscapes incorporating full orchestra, a jazz band and catchy pop-funk all knitted together with top-flight songwriting that was featured in John Hughes’ classic film, Sixteen Candles.

Continuing to record through the 80s, Heyward found his stride again with 1993’s From Monday to Sunday. Lead single “Kite” took off in America’s burgeoning alternative scene, reached #4 in the Billboard Alternative Chart, and found Heyward touring the country with the likes of The Lemonheads and Tony Bennett. The follow-up album, Tangled, was more pure power pop and lead to Heyward signing to Creation Records for his final album of the 90s, The Apple Bed.

Critic’s favourite, Woodland Echoes (2017), Heyward’s most recent release saw him return to touring with shows in the UK, USA and Japan.

Band Line Up

Nick Heyward (guitar)

Andy Treacey (drums)

Samer Sharawi (bass)

Adam Phillips (guitar)