Nick Hodgson

Nick Hodgson
Birth name	Nicholas David James Hodgson
Born	20 October 1977 (1977-10-20) (age 34) Leeds, England
Genres	Indie
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Drums, vocals, guitar, bass guitar piano, flute
Years active	2003–present
Labels	B-Unique
Associated acts	Kaiser Chiefs
Website	www.kaiserchiefs.co.uk

Nicholas James David Hodgson (born 20 October 1977) is the drummer, backing vocalist and principal song-writer of English indie band Kaiser Chiefs.

He attended St. Mary's School, Menston with Nick Baines and Simon Rix. He then went onto Trinity & All Saints University College in Horsforth, Leeds. There he studied geography. He later met Ricky Wilson and Andrew White (Whitey) at a soul night at Move On Up underneath the T&C in Leeds. Together they formed Runston Parva, later to be called Parva and now Kaiser Chiefs.

Together with bandmate Ricky Wilson, Nick started the Leeds club night Pigs "to give us something to look forward to", and after giving the rest of the band a mix CD with songs he had been playing at Pigs, they formed Kaiser Chiefs, scrapping all their old songs and changing "the way we play, the way we dress, basically everything we could change without changing... our faces"^[1]

Trivia

• Attended high-school with Sean Conlon from Five.
• Has been most recently seen to play Gretsch Catalina Club Mod drums.
• Also plays guitar, bass, flute and piano.
• Played drums with Franz Ferdinand and a dozen other drummers at T in the Park and Reading festival in 2006 as part of the drum epic 'Outsiders'.
• As well as singing backing vocals he also sang lead vocals on Boxing Champ (from Yours Truly, Angry Mob) and Remember You're A Girl (from Off With Their Heads), the last verse of Good Days Bad Days, as well as co-lead vocals on Spanish Metal (from Off With Their Heads).
• He is known to be the "Camp" member of the band and has described himself as "I'm the camp one, not like Mr Humphries though, just clean"("Kaiser Chiefs - Culture Show 2005")
• He worked with Duran Duran and producer Mark Ronson on the Duran Duran album All You Need Is Now, co-writing the track "Too Bad You're So Beautiful".

References

1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuogJB9cikM&feature=related

External links

• Nick Hodgson at the Internet Movie Database

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