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Jimmy

jimmynicholson

About Me

Hello, I'm Jimmy.In my spare time I play guitar and sing in this band - Ghosts Of Jupiter

The rest of the time I'm a freelance Sound Engineer, and I spend my time either on tour, working for a local PA company - JSS Audio , or in a recording studio.

Here's some of the bands I've worked with on tour:

Calvin Harris
Editors
Infadels
Amplifier
Aereogramme
Oceansize
Rico
X is Loaded
Million Dead

Check out my pictures page for some pics from various tours & festivals, plus some of me being drunk.

My Interests

Playing/Writing/Producing/Recording/Listening to music.

Taking Guitars apart and never getting round to putting them back together.

Live concert production and Front-Of-House mixing.

Trying to learn to speak a multitude of European languages and wishing I'd paid attention in school.

Theoretical Physics & the origins of the Universe.

Air Drumming.

'Classic' literature.

I'd like to meet:

This guy:

They don't like to broadcast the fact, but the web server's that run the 'itunes.com' online store are running Sun Solaris 8, and NOT Mac OS X........

Music:

My 5 'most recently played' albums look like this;

Sparta - Threes
Bjork - Vespertine
Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control

Movies:

Danny Boyles 'Sunshine' is the best new film I have seen in a long time. Truly breathtaking.

Television:

Over the last week I have caught a few minutes here and there of the following programs:

Loose Women
The Paul O'Grady Show
That one about celebrities training dogs

I wanted to put my foot through the television.

Books:

I'm currently 100 pages away from the end of Herman Melville's epic Moby Dick.

"An awe that cannot be named would steal over you as you sat by the side of this waning savage, and saw as strange things in his face, as any beheld who were bystanders when Zoroaster died. For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books."

Heroes:

Muhammad Ali.

Neil Young.

David Attenborough.

My Blog

Heroes & the Human Condition

I read one of those quiz's in a blog last week. One particular question posed was "What do you hate?" - and the answer went something like this; "people who call astronauts and the like 'Heroes', what...
Posted by Jimmy on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:52:00 PST

Broadband Internet and the death of music

From when I first remember really getting 'into' music; listening to my dad's tapes in his car, recording 'pirate' radio station 'Atlantic 252', getting my guitar teacher to copy Guns & Roses albums f...
Posted by Jimmy on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:17:00 PST

Moscow, culture shock, the after effects of a communist state, and a lot of drinking.....

So, last weekend I went to Moscow. I was supposed to be working, but a chain of events conspired to prevent the show going ahead. So we went and got drunkerd and did touristy things instead. Here's a ...
Posted by Jimmy on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:08:00 PST