Gary Crowley Presents an Evening with Nick Heyward

Celebrate the start of summer when one of pop's finest songwriters, Nick Heyward, joins Gary Crowley for another of his ever popular Q&As…on a Sunday!

Nick will follow this with a live set with his acoustic trio.

Sunday 1st Mary 2022 at 7:30pm

Tickets: £25

With a LUCKY GOLD SEAT prize…

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NICK HEYWARD

Creatively ambitious from the start, 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 top ten singles 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. The album went Gold with three top 20 singles, "Take That Situation", "Blue Hat for a Blue Day", and "Whistle Down the Wind", which was featured on the soundtrack to 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 the burgeoning alternative scene in the US and had Heyward touring the country with the likes of The Lemonheads and Tony Bennett. The follow-up, Tangled, was more pure power pop and lead to Heyward signing to Creating Records for his final album of the 90s, The Apple Bed.

The critically acclaimed Woodland Echoes, Heyward's most recent release on his own Gladsome Hawk label in 2017. The next one is on the way with the writing and recording process shared on Patreon.

GARY CROWLEY Gary Crowley is an English broadcaster, TV presenter and DJ. While still at school in the late 1970s Gary Crowley founded the new wave fanzine "The Modern World" interviewing many of the most significant bands of the day including The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Jam. On leaving school in 1978 Crowley took up a junior position at Decca Records before joining the staff of the NME, taking over from Danny Baker as the telephone receptionist at their offices in Carnaby Street. At this time the weekly music paper was at the centre of the post punk explosion. Crowley's knowledge and passion for music attracted the attention of broadcasters and in 1982 he was hired by London's independent commercial station Capital Radio, and aged 19 became the youngest radio DJ in the UK. Throughout the 1980s Gary Crowley became a prolific broadcaster / promoter, hosting regular club night where he showcased many prominent chart acts at early points in their career, including The Style Council, The Bluebells, Wham! and others. TV presenting followed and he was the main face on programmes such as Earsay, Revid, Poparound and The Beat through the 80's and 90's. Gary has worked within the music industry in many guises but his true love and passion is radio broadcasting. He continues to present the Saturday early evening show on Radio BBC London. This year saw the follow up release "Gary Crowley Lost 80s 2" to the acclaimed Top 40 compilation 'Gary Crowley's Lost 80's' which again is another eclectic collection of under the radar gems from major 80s names as well as those who got away. A long time champion of new music, he's given many new bands/artists their first taste of radio exposure, with the likes of Suede, Dodgy and Bush in particular all going into bigger and better things. Fortunate to have met a lot of his 'heroes' and make friends with a few, as Gene Hunt once said in Life On Mars "he's got more fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course!".