Everything about Nick Saloman totally explained
The Bevis Frond is a
British musical group whose range covers hard edge to melancholy vintage
indie rock to poetic, "classic-rock" songcraft with a thick
Walthamstow accent.
Nick Saloman is the band's frontman and songwriter. They have recorded many albums out on various independent labels.
Information
Saloman was originally in a band known as the Bevis Frond Museum in the late 1960s and in 1979 was in a band called the Von Trapp Family. The Bevis Frond, however, was a one man band from the start with the release of a 250 copy pressing of
Miasma in 1987. Saloman's desire was to "record the kind of music I'd like to listen to...I wanted a
Hendrix/
Wipers,
Byrds sound but with a distinctly British feel." Subsequent albums were also recorded in a home studio until after the release of his sixth album,
Any Gas Faster, when he began to record in an outside studio. This is also the point that he began touring. Another 1990 album,
Magic Eye, was a collaboration with
Twink of the
Pink Fairies.
Early albums were usually entirely recorded by Saloman although most later albums have been recorded by the current touring band. For performances, The Bevis Frond usually has
Adrian "Ade" Shaw on bass. Bevis Frond material is typically released on Saloman's own Woronzow Records
label, and is frequently featured in the
Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine and accompanying records/CDs. The Bevis Frond also record with and write much of the material for US singer
Mary Lou Lord. The song "Lights Are Changing" was chosen for inclusion on .
Personal life
In 1991, Nick Saloman was a contestant on the UK television station
Channel 4's game show
Countdown. He is probably the nearest the show has come to having a 'celebrity' as a contestant outside of the occasional deliberate celebrity editions of the game
Discography (albums only)
» Note:There is some discrepancy across websites regarding the exact release order and year of release.
- 1987 Miasma Woronzow Records
- 1987 Inner Marshland Woronzow Records
- 1988 Auntie Winnie Album Reckless Records
- 1988 Bevis Through the Looking Glass Reckless Records
- 1988 Triptych Woronzow Records
- 1990 Any Gas Faster Reckless Records
- 1990 Ear Song (live) Reckless Records
- 1990 Magic Eye Woronzow Records
- 1991 New River Head Woronzow Records
- 1992 A Gathering of Fronds Reckless Records
- 1993 It Just Is Woronzow Records
- 1993 London Stone Woronzow Records
- 1995 Superseeder Woronzow Records
- 1996 Son of Walter Flydaddy Records
- 1999 North Circular Flydaddy Records
- 1999 Vavona Burr Flydaddy Records
- 1999 Live At The Great American Music Hall (live) Flydaddy Records
- 2000 Valedictory Songs Woronzow Records
- 2002 What Did For The Dinosaurs Woronzow Records
- 2004 Hit Squad Woronzow Records
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