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"As well as making music i love to take photos, click below and leave a comment, some of my recent work with fellow photographer 'Katie Doolan', there will be a website up soon with more of my work"
Hello there, my name is 'NICK J.TOWNSEND', I'm known for many different things, mainly my MUSIC, some TV, I do a little freelance PHOTOGRAPHY, i've been involved in a few FILM projects, i like ACTING in films and enjoy improvising when possible, i have been an EDITOR for 3 different magazines including 'NICK THE MAG'(2005-07), 'PMT' (2002-05) & 'GET FUNKED' (2001).I am now co-editor of LinkQ Magazine (2008)
I write music and call it Weak13, the music first became known as an underground band started by myself 13 weeks before the millenium, and designed to exist for 13 years after the millenium. The music by 2012AD will be the biggest anti-music industry act in the history of mankind. Weak13 plays every form of music, I exclude no one. There is a song for everyone. Grunge, techno, Thrash, Rock, Metal, Hip Hop, Death, Emotion, acoustic or anything else. I exist to please. BUT there is only ever 1 defined sound,
the sound of Weak13.....me
I have released several underground magazines in the UK and parts of europe such as 'BAN(ne)D magazine', 'Get Funked', 'P.M.T. magazine' and currently 'Nick The Mag'. Each magazine has become bigger and bigger and has increased in readership. 'Nick The Mag' has 15'000 readers. I have been organising music events in my hometown for 4 years too and gave birth to 'Redwoods Rock night', Kidderminster Rock Festival 2003-7 (Townhall) and DY10 underground night (2005).
I'm a guitar player/vocalist but I'm mainly a songwriter and I call the music 'Weak13'. I write the tunes and promote everything myself with help from many friends. As Weak13 I work with 'XANDER' (2nd guitarist), 'SHELL' (bass), 'Rob' (drums) Matt Tarbuck aka NEUTRON TEARS (fantastic sound engineer) and a horde of other people that I like jamming with.
Music keeps me going.
My favourite music is a difficult question.
I love pretty much anything played with passion.
What about me though? OK. I was born with a disfigurment on my head, a birth mark, I was bullied till the age of 13, then I had surgery that year to help remove the mark, it was a success. I was a normal boy again. Then people wanted to know me, the same people that used to pick on me, and I thought to myself "what a bunch of c*nts". I'd become normal in other people's eyes but I was always normal, always tried to do the right thing.
Well i'd make um all pay, one by one.
I shaved half of my hair off at the millenium as a protest to society and have kept it that way ever since. My hair is a unique protest. I came into this world a freak, i intend to die that way too. There, that deep enough? Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, I used to live in a 13-letter town called Kidderminster in the UK.
That's where I was born.
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Katie Doolan (my partner) does most of my photosAbbi is a great tattoo artist and a fantastic personMy mate Corina is a great artist, check her out.
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