NICK PYNN : SESSIONS :

 

LOST & FOUND ORCHESTRA (STOMP) :
January/ February 2007 : Sellout shows at Sydney Opera House, Australia.
May 2006 : World premiere at the Brighton Dome.

THE COMEDIANS' THEATRE COMPANY, ASSEMBLY THEATRE & MARSHALL CORDELL UK :
2006 Edinburgh Fringe : Incidental music for Sam Shepard's 'True West' featuring Winner of the if.comeddie Award Phil Nichol and Tom Stade. Directed by Maggie Inchley.

CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN :
December 2007 European tour. Album 'The Voice of Love'.
September 2007 Shows in Portugal.
October 2006 : Shows in Toronto & Ontario, Canada.
November 2005 - September 2006 : 2 man tours of Germany, Holland, Belgium and Norway.
July 2005 : Wickerman Festival, Dumfrieshire.
April-May 2005 : Brighton Komedia.
April 2005 : Market Harborough with Jimmy Carl Black.
March 2005 : London Astoria.
October 2004 : French Tour.
UK gigs throughout 2004.
July 2003 : The Guilfest, with Love and Alice Cooper.
June 2003 : The Glastonbury Festival. (Screened on BBC 2).
October 2002 : Robert Plant 'Dreamland' tour.
The Pretty Things UK tour. 'Legboot' live CD. Engineered by Nick Pynn.
Sept  2000 onwards : Live performances in theatres and festivals.

BOOTHBY GRAFFOE :
February - March 2007 : Scottish Highlands tour no.2.
August 2006 : CD and forthcoming DVD release : 'Boothby Graffoe and the Following People'.
August 2006 : Edinburgh Fringe : 'Boothby Graffoe with Nick Pynn: Free U Win Tin'.
Guesting on 'The Boys are Back' with Boothby Graffoe and Antonio Forcione.
February - March 2006 : Tour of the Scottish Highlands.
Dec 2005 - Jan 2006 : Boothby Graffoe / Nick Pynn at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith.
Live Radio session on Radio 2 with Simon Amstell.
August 2005 : Edinburgh Fringe.
July 2005 : Guest on Radio 4 show : Boothby Graffoe in no particular order.
Summer 2005 : Shows in Brighton, Oxford and Belgium.

OTIS LEE CRENSHAW :
August 2004 : Pleasance Grand, Edinburgh.
October 2003 : Brighton Comedy Festival.
Live CD Release : 'How Do We Do It? Volume! CD' (Universal).
Recorded at Glasgow's Cottier Theatre.
May 2003 : The Cat Laughs comedy festival, Kilkenny.
January 2003 : The Live Floor Show BBC 2.
January / April 2003 : UK tour.
October 2002 : The Black Liars at Brighton Corn Exchange.
August 18-26 2002 : Edinburgh Assembly Rooms.
May / June 2002 : UK tour.
Aug 18-27 2001 : Edinburgh Assembly Rooms.
October / November 2001 : UK tour. Shepherds Bush Empire with Phil Jupitus,
Boothby Graffoe, and Robyn Hitchcock.
The Black Liars CD 'The Black Album'. Co-Produced by Nick Pynn.

STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL :
1990 - 1998 : Live & recording. Violin, electric & acoustic guitars, mandocello.
August 1998 : Edinburgh Fringe.
July 1998 : Danish Festivals.
March 1998 : 'Clive James TV Show', 'This Morning' with Richard and Judy.
January / March 1998 : 'Stripped to the Bare Bones Tour'.
August 1997 : Edinburgh Fringe.
June 1997 : Glastonbury Festival.
'Poetic Justice' - Tour 1996, 'Yes You Can' - Tour 1992/3,
'Victims of Love' - Tour 1990.
Nicky Campbell show Radio 1.
Mick Ronson Memorial Concert - Hammersmith Apollo, 1994 with Roger Taylor.

Steve Harley Recordings :
'Stripped to the Bare Bones' : Live & acoustic from the Jazz Cafe,
London (NMC Pilot43)  1999.
'Poetic Justice' : (Transatlantic TRACD242) 1996.
'Live at the BBC' : (Windsong WINCD073) 1995.
'Yes You Can' : (Food For Thought  GRUBCD28) 1993.

JERRY DAMMERS :
2005 : 50th birthday party.
Live reworking of 'Free Nelson Mandela' in Brixton, London.

TINA C :
Member of 'The White Trash' at Brighton Komedia 2000.

JANE BOM-BANE :
August 2005 : Edinburgh Fringe - both win 'Spirit of the Fringe' Awards.
July 2005 : 2nd London Cabaret Convention broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
May 2005 : Brighton Festival Fringe.
August 2004 : Edinburgh Fringe.
May 2004 : North Yorkshire Tour.
May 2004 : Brighton Festival Fringe.
August 2003 : Edinburgh Fringe.
July 2003 : Worthing Fringe Festival.
November 2002 : Lewes Live Literature Festival.
November 2002 : BBC Radio 3. 'The Verb' : Two tracks from 'Rotator' performed live.
August 2002 : Edinburgh  Fringe Festival 'Year of the Palindrome'. CD : 'Rotator'.
May 2002 : Brighton Festival. (Performing as above).

JUDIE TZUKE :

September 2002. Album tracks 'The Beauty of Hindsight', Big Moon Records.
Released 2003.

JUSTIN :
February 2002 : BBC 1 'Top of the Pops'.
January 2000 : London Weekend SMTV with 'Ant & Dec'.

B*WITCHED :
Spring 2000 : Video release: 'Jump Up, Jump Down'.
October 1999 : TVs : Late Show - Dublin.
December 1999 : The Rosie O’Donnell Show - New York.
November / December 1999 : UK  arena tour.

Musical Director and Composer for Same Sky Theatre and Arts Company :
Working with choreographer Charlie Morrissey on water specific dance events 'Flood' 1997. Commissioned by South East Arts for multimedia water event using  projections, fire sculpture and pyrotechnics. 'Pin Stripe Knee Deep' 1996. Dance performance in and out of the sea at  low tide.

SOLO RECORDINGS :

'In Mirrored Sky' : (Read more about the CD : click here).
(Roundhill CD43)  1995.
“......an individual take on folk music...Nick Pynn doesn’t stick to the harmonic conventions,bringing unusual instrumentation into the idiom...an individual voice...” Mark Russell,”Mixing It” , BBC Radio 3.

“Fourteen tracks display a range of music which is really imaginative...This album is a must for the stressed out layman as well as for stringed instrument players to check out”  Musician Magazine.

'Music from Windows' : (Read more about the CD : click here).
“...an acoustic guitar-based chamber music which immediately engages and maintains an optimistic tone throughout. He intersperses beautiful acoustic guitar instrumentals with string and wind ensemble pieces. At various points he touches on folk (The Whole Summer Long), the Nymanesque (Soul Doubt) and even a hint of McLoughlin (The Market and the Murder), whilst retaining a character of his own: the urgent 'Driftnet' ensemble piece contrasts well with the more reflective 'The Birdman' and the suite 'Flood', commissioned for a multimedia dance performance. The arrangements and musicianship throughout are exceptional and the themes never allowed to overstay their welcome. I look forward to Nick Pynn's future work." Steve French , Musician Magazine  - September 1999.

“Pynn weaves soundscapes that are at times forceful,and at other times melodic. Compelling, challenging, imaginative, and always interesting.” Dirty Linen  (US) April/May 2000.

'Afterplanesman' : (Read more about the CD : click here).
(Round 004)  2004.
Nick Pynn's third and latest solo album.
 
'The Devil’s Fiddler' : (Read more about the CD : click here).
(QED244) 1996.
Compilation of world fiddle styles    Last Re-release May 2001 on Castle Pulse PLS CD.

“What a showcase this is for Nick’s fiddling talents...tunes arranged  by Nick in his own special way...the eponymous final track is a fitting end to this brilliant disc.” British  Bluegrass News.
 
'Nick And Dick' : (Read more about the CD : click here).
1997. Multi-instrumental album. The acoustic collaborations of  Nick Pynn & Richard Durrant. “A really distinctive sound...a varied and exciting mix..you just have to buy this record.” British Bluegrass News.

Also with Richard Durrant :
'Fingers & Thumbs' 1997. Stringed instrument library album.
(Focus Music Library FCD 152).

'Celtic Grooves' 2001. Remixes of above (Focus Music Library  FCD172).
'Ungagged' 2000. Dulcimer & fiddle on track (Longman 032CDS).

March 2000 / January 2001 : BBC TV - Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea. Historical documentary about Blackbeard. Track used as incidental music.
 
Solo And Featured Brighton Festival Appearances :
2007 : 'Opaque'. Inlingua, Edinburgh.
2007 : 'Nick Pynn's Box of Acoustic Delights' Bom-Bane's, Brighton.
2006 : 'Afterplanesman', Inlingua, Edinburgh.
2005 : 'Nick Pynn's Box of Acoustic Delights '/ 'Jane Bom-Bane : The Hat Lady Sings'. Saxe Coburg St. Edinburgh.
2005 : 'Nick Pynn with Jane Bom-Bane'. 3'20:05320/05320:05'
2004 : 'Nick Pynn with Jane Bom-Bane'. 'Back-to-back'. Berlitz,
Edinburgh.
2003 : 'Music From Hotel Rooms, Forests and Submarines'. The Garage at St. Mark's, Edinburgh.
2002 : 'Jane Bom-Bane and Nick Pynn : Year of the Palindrome'.
Underbelly, Edinburgh.
2002 : 'Songs and Music for the Palindromic Year' with Jane Bom-Bane. Komedia, Brighton.
2002 : 'Drift' with Mark Allen, Tom Arnold and Kate Smith. Komedia, Brighton.
2001 : 'Continental Drift' with Mark Allen. Komedia, Brighton.
2001 : 'Other - World Music'. Komedia, Brighton.
1999 : 'Nick Pynn - solo'. Komedia, Brighton.
1998 : 'Music from Windows'.
1997 : 'Box of Acoustic Delights' . Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton.
London solo gigs at 'The 12-Bar, The Kashmir Klub and the Mean Fiddler'.

B.B.C. Drama series 'Holding On' :
Appearance as fiddle player in band. Shot at  Production Village, Cricklewood.

B.B.C. 'Blue Peter' :
Performing on matchstick violin!

Herbie Flowers :
Live and recording since 1992.
Guildford “Rockshop ” 1995.
HM Prison Highdown Rockshops 1997 / 2000.
London Roundhouse Rockshops 1998 / 1999.
Music Therapy in hospital school.

Paul Austin Kelly and Richard Durrant :
2004 : Unleashed on the British Isles.

Alekander Mezek :
2003 : Recordings : 'Tracks'.

Paul Francis :
2002 : Recordings : 'Pablo'.

The Life And Death Orchestra :
2001 : 'Songs For The Betrayed World'.
Performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2001, under the title of 'This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen'.

Ced Thorose :
2001 : Recordings : 'Diamondback'.

The Charlie Boston Band :
2001 : Recordings : 'Truths & Fantasies'.

Philippe Barnes :
2000 : Recordings : 'An Feochan'.

One Eyed Kings :
1999 : 'Somewhere To Stand'.

Beverley Martyn :
Live appearances 2001,1993-96.
Supporting on  Bert Jansch  shows 1995.
Album tracks and radio sessions.

The Two Cowboys :
July 1994 : 'Everybody Gonfi Gon'. Banjo mime on Top of the Pops.

Captain Sensible :
Live work with the 'Dr.Spacetoad Experience'.

Don Partridge :
December 2001 : Recordings : 'The Highwayman'.

David Jay :
Live and recording 1991.

Ray Campi :
'Tennessee and Texas' CD. 1987. Released 2004.
'What Have I Done?', 'Cherokee Boogie', 'I Saw Your Face in the Moon'.

The Famous Potatoes :
Live & recording 1984-1990.
Cambridge, Trowbridge  and Greenbelt  festivals. London Cajun Festival.
L.P’s on 'Waterfront' label - 'It Was Good for My Old Mother' (WF018).
'The Sound of the Ground' (WF028), 'Born in a Barn' (WF046).

Chambourcy & Captain Bird’s Eye :
Recorded T.V. jingles.

Brighton Little Theatre :
Theme and incidental music.

Corporate videos (T.D.Productions) :
Original music.

Rock : The Rough Guide 2004 :
Mentioned under Cockney Rebel.

Serious Pictures :
May 2005.
Appearance in Mercedes TV comercial.

 

 

NICK PYNN for sessions please contact :
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