Op vrijdag 26 november 2004 vindt in Almelo een festival plaats rond Nick Drake. Hier wordt dan op bijzondere wijze herdacht dat hij 30 jaar geleden is overleden. Er zullen optredens zijn van o.a. Bernard Brogue, Massey Parr,Johan Leugs en Hielke de Boer.
Het festival vindt plaats in Hof 88 en begint om 20:15 uur.
Nadere informatie is te verkrijgen bij Henk Lammers (0546) 829949

In de nacht van 25/26 november 2004 wijdt de concertzender een hele nacht aan Nick Drake van 0:00 tot 8:00 uur .

Nick's Quest

Nick's Quest is a temporary project to bring live performances of Nick Drake's music.
Nick Drake was a singer/songwriter who made only 3 records, namely:

Five Leaves Left (1969)
Bryter Layter (1970)
Pink Moon (1972)

which were of timeless quality. Unfortunately it was no commercial success during his lifetime, but his records are still available. It's remarkable that in the nineties his songs enjoyed a growing popularity.

At this point the songs which are performed by Nick's Quest are mainly from the albums 'Five Leaves Left', 'Pink Moon' and Time of no Reply (the "fourth" album, which contains leftovers from studio-sessions and homerecordings).
It began with a recording session on September 8^th 1999, before a live audience, of which some fragments are here below.
Because I do not agree artistically with these recordings, plans are made to make new recordings in the studio. This will happen before the end of 2002.
Songs that will certainly appear on this CD are listed below. The soundfragments are taken from the live-performance. Though of poor quality, it might be interesting for the real aficionado's. But still it's a good example to hear that I try to get as close as possible to the original. In this case, I don't believe in making 'my own interpretation'.

Road
Clothes of Sand
Which Will MP3
Rider on the Wheel
Harvest Breed
Parasite MP3
Ride
Three Hours
Things behind the Sun
Gold (Peter Blegvad)

As you see, some songs are by other singer/songwriters. As Nick said: If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine, these songs are added to say something more about the person Nick. I found it more convenient to tell something about Nick in this way, more than telling about it (if you like to read the story, buy the biography by Patrick Humphries).

I like the idea of letting more people enjoy Nick's music. Besides, it's a challenge for a guitar-player to perform these songs. His righthand-technique is as advanced as is demanded from a classical player. The rytmh feels very natural, but when you try to count it, you sometimes get confused. In my opinion, Nick raised the standard of popular music.

Surf to one of these for more about Nick Drake:
The Nick Drake Files
With very much information and tabulature

Nick Drake Admiration Page
A fanpage

Magazine: PYNK MOON
A quarterly Nick Drake fanzine from Jason Creed

The OLGA archive
TABS and .CRD-files of thousands of artists

CDNOW
On this site you can find all of Nick's records

TABULATURE Nick played in a lot of alternate tunings, which you can find on the web (see above). However: it's terrible if you want to play the songs live. I solved this problem for a few songs, so you can play them without risking your strings all the time and, that's important, without losing the Drake-sound.
PARASITE is a song that I could not 'translate', but I saw some other tabs (Chris Healey, Harlan Thompson) that didn't describe the fingerpicking the way I think it should be, so I included that one too.

These are xxx.doc files. To view and print them you should set the page-preferences at A4 landscape before you open the files. Maybe you have to correct the left/right margins also. Then it should all be in the right place.

HARVEST BREED
PLACE TO BE
RIDE
PARASITE

D A D G B E
D A D G B E
D A D G B E
C G C F C E

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