Nick Toczek's Blog

I was recently sent a detailed and well-researched set of questions by Klemen Breznikar, editor of the truly excellent Slovenia-based...

Cannibals of the Western World is the new single by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha. Taken from our recent album, Walking The Tightrope, it’s...

ARTISTS: Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha TITLE: Cannibals Of The Western World FORMAT: Download/stream single LABEL: Mutiny 2000 Records...

Tvins is a short (nine-minute) film about how the second world war impacted on the lives of two German Jewish teenagers, Hans and Fritz...

THE FIRST SINGLE FROM DEATH & OTHER DESTINATIONS: CARS IN CAIRO The first single from Death & Other Destinations, Cars In Cairo, is...

Walking The Tightrope, the second album by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha, is available as a limited edition transparent yellow vinyl LP and...

THE MOVIE, by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha, is the first single to be released from their new album Walking The Tightrope. 'Now, this is...

I'm doing Shadow Fest on Facebook from 7pm on the evening of 28 March... sharing the bill with some great performer-poets... Luke Tatty...

Poster for a short film we've made over the past few months. Based on family research that I've been doing, it tells the story of my dad...

ADVANCE COPIES AVAILABLE NOW! Walking The Tightrope, the second album by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha, is available as a limited edition...

Written and performed by Nick Toczek. JOHNSON AND COVID A hundred thousand dead and Johnson says he’s done his best. For the first five...

TITLE: Death & Other Destinations ARTISTS: Nick Toczek & Thies Marsen LABEL: Not-A-Rioty RELEASE DATE: 15 January 2021 ​ Completed in the...

This is the first in a series of blogs exploring the songs on the Shooting The Messenger album. Nick Toczek explores the origins of the...

This is the first in a series of blogs exploring the songs on the Shooting The Messenger album. Nick Toczek explores the origins of the...

Shooting The Messenger, the debut album by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha, is being released as a limited edition, heavyweight purple vinyl...

Interview plus poems and photos.

CORONA DIARY (Mutiny 2000 Publications) (136pp/£7.99) VOICES IN MY HEAD (Caboodle Books) (80pp/£5.99) Nick Toczek, has been a full time...

Here’s the fourth single taken from ‘Shooting The Messenger’, the seventeen-track debut album from my on-going working relationship with...

Here’s the third single from our album, Shooting The Messenger. It uses a lyric which I wrote specially for the album. The credits are as...

On Friday 13 March, shortly after the UK invasion by Covid-19 became a reality, I began writing one poem per day. I’m seventy in...