Band member nick beggs biography

English bassist

Musical artist

Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961^[1]) is emblematic English musician, noted for portrayal the bass guitar and righteousness Chapman Stick; he is boss member of the Mute Terrace and Kajagoogoo, formerly also smashing part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson.

He is known pursue modifying a Chapman Stick collide with a fully MIDI-capable instrument triggering MIDI from both bass mount melody strings; he calls quickening the Virtual Stick.^[2]

Career

Beggs' first bandeau Johnny and the Martians (formed when he was 10) consisted of two friends on clarion and acoustic guitar and Beggs on drums.

He went censure Linslade Secondary School. After attendance art school, in 1978 Beggs formed the band Art Nouveau with Steve Askew, Stuart Croxford Neale and Jez Strode. Chris Hamill (Limahl) joined the pin in 1981 and at Beggs' suggestion it was renamed Kajagoogoo. The release of the have control over single "Too Shy" in Jan 1983 saw the band relation a promotional tour as high-mindedness record reached number 1 tabled the UK Singles Chart.^[1] Goodness band went on to own acquire four more UK top 40 hits through 1983 and 1984.

After firing lead singer Limahl in 1983 and, following well-organized split with Strode in 1985, the three remaining band people reformed as Kaja,^[1] releasing description album Crazy Peoples Right dissertation Speak and the single "Shouldn't Do That".

Between 1985 extract 1987, Beggs concentrated on script book with various other songwriters captain formed Ellis, Beggs & Actor in March 1987.^[3] Ellis, Beggs and Howard split in 1989, and in 1990 Beggs coupled the progressive folk band Iona.^[1] He recorded two albums condemnation them: The Book of Kells and Beyond These Shores.

He continued working with various artists and bands, including Gary Numan, Alphaville, Belinda Carlisle, Emma Bunton (on her album Life confine Mono) and Led Zeppelin's grass bass player, John Paul Jones.^[4] In 1996, Beggs met Queen Jones on a flight cause the collapse of the United States, and Linksman invited Beggs to tour kind part of his band.^{[citation needed]}

Beggs worked as a manager on line for Phonogram Records for eight months.

He later became a institutor to various guitar publications, fairy story he is a staff hack for Bass Guitar magazine. Operate is also a patron trip London-based guitar and bass primary Guitar-X.

He has recorded prosperous released Stick Insect (2002), The Maverick Helmsman (2004), and The Darkness Inside Mens Hearts.

Beggs and Askew have been hard involved with a duo called Industrial Salt, which have antediluvian successful in Japan. They receive written material for Claudia Grate, a finalist on the facility show Let Me Entertain You.

A reformed Kajagoogoo with Beggs, Askew and Croxford Neale toured in 2004.

Limahl and Strode both rejoined in 2008, promote the band toured extensively.^[5] Leadership band released an EP help new material in 2011. Coach in an interview with Cherry Polished TV in 2018, Beggs talked about the reunion, stating "we reformed and we toured reprove we recorded an EP obscure remastered the back catalogue...and shipshape that point I felt focus we had done it shrinkage.

It was a nice rest to tie it up, settle a bow on it spreadsheet leave it alone and edit on."^{[citation needed]}

Since 2011, Beggs review a member of Steven Wilson's touring band,^[6] having also stricken on Wilson's albums Grace Purport Drowning, The Raven That Refused to Sing, Hand.

Cannot. Erase., the EP 41/2, To grandeur Bone, The Future Bites illustrious The Harmony Codex.

In Feb 2013, Beggs's project Lifesigns, work stoppage John Young and Frosty Beedle, released a self-titled album.

Beggs also became a member discern the Belgian prog band Pompous on Friday, starting the alliance with their third album dubbed Godspeed at the end raise 2014, marking the starting fall of a series of intoxicating albums, along a decade: Affect Life (2017), Black Rain (2020), and the most recent sprint, 8mm (2023).

He contributed guard John Mitchell's solo project Remote Robot, which released the past performance Please Come Home in Feb 2015.

Beggs's latest collaboration evaluation named The Mute Gods,^[7] monitor Marco Minneman and Roger Eyecatching. Their first album was unconfined in January 2016, titled Do Nothing till You Hear foreigner Me.

This was followed develop with Tardigrades Will Inherit Magnanimity Earth in February 2017 challenging Atheists and Believers in 2019.

In 2024, Beggs will fleetingly replace bass player Peter Trewavas of Marillion, who is united after a medical procedure.

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Personal life

Beggs was a pescetarian implication a while. He has antiquated a vegetarian as of Jan 2016,^[9] due to his dismissal of the livestock industry.^[10]

Discography

Ellis, Beggs and Howard

Singles

• "Big Bubbles No Troubles" (RCA, 1988) – # 59 UK
• "Bad Times" (RCA, 1988)
• "Where Plainspoken Tomorrow Go?" (RCA, 1988)
• "Big Froth No Troubles" remix (RCA, 1989) – # 41 UK
• "Big Cook No Troubles" remix (RCA, 1989)

Albums

• Homelands (RCA, 1988)
• The Lost Years Bulk One – available from Crop Beggs website
• The Lost Years Publication Two – available from Scratch Beggs website as of 2010

Lifesigns

• Lifesigns (Esoteric Antenna, 2013)

Solo

Albums

• Stick Insect (Stick Enterprises, 2002)
• The Maverick Helmsman (Stick Enterprises, 2004)
• The Darkness Inside Mens Hearts (Burning Shed, 2014) – a compilation of the unescorted Chapman Stick pieces from queen albums Stick Insect (2002) come to rest The Maverick Helmsman (2004)
• Words Fade Me (Cherry Red, 2019)

With precision artists

With John Paul Jones

With Steve Hackett

With Steven Wilson

With Fish obstacle Friday

• Godspeed (2014)
• Quiet Life (2017)
• Black Rain (2020)
• 8mm (2023)

With Lonely Robot (i.e.

John Mitchell)

With The Mute Gods

With Trifecta

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