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Nick Toczek
Jan 15, 20212 min read
New LP out now! Death & Other Destinations.
TITLE: Death & Other Destinations ARTISTS: Nick Toczek & Thies Marsen LABEL: Not-A-Rioty RELEASE DATE: 15 January 2021 Completed in the...
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Nick Toczek
Dec 9, 20202 min read
Shooting The Messenger: No Messages
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...
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Nick Toczek
Dec 9, 20203 min read
Shooting The Messenger: The Voices In His Head
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...
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Nick Toczek
Oct 10, 20202 min read
Limited Purple Vinyl Release of Shooting The Messenger!
Shooting The Messenger, the debut album by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha, is being released as a limited edition, heavyweight purple vinyl...
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Nick Toczek
Sep 14, 20201 min read
A Poetic Pepysian Diary
Interview plus poems and photos.
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Nick Toczek
Sep 10, 20202 min read
TWO NEW BOOKS OF POETRY OUT NOW
CORONA DIARY (Mutiny 2000 Publications) (136pp/£7.99) VOICES IN MY HEAD (Caboodle Books) (80pp/£5.99) Nick Toczek, has been a full time...
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Nick Toczek
May 3, 20202 min read
Double A-side free download single - This City
Here’s the fourth single taken from ‘Shooting The Messenger’, the seventeen-track debut album from my on-going working relationship with...
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Nick Toczek
Apr 4, 20201 min read
NO MESSAGES by Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha – free download single.
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...
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Nick Toczek
Mar 24, 20203 min read
MY CORONA VIRUS POEMS
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...
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Nick Toczek
Mar 6, 20202 min read
FREE SINGLE! When We Men Talk - from album Shooting The Messenger
FREE SINGLE DOWNLOAD! FORMAT: Download only single TITLE: When We Men Talk ARTISTS: Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha LABEL: Mutiny 2000 Records...
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Nick Toczek
Feb 27, 20201 min read
My new book – Voices In My Head – is out!
It’s my first collection of poetry for adults in 22 years. I’m really pleased with how it looks. Caboodle Books have gone for an...
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Nick Toczek
Dec 31, 20192 min read
Shooting The Messenger - New album out now!
DEBUT ALBUM FROM NICK TOCZEK & SIGNIA ALPHA Released seconds after midnight on 1 January 2020, Shooting The Messenger is the first album...
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Nick Toczek
Dec 9, 20191 min read
Ahoy, Shipmates! Download only single, with Thies Marsen
Here's the cover of the download-only single 'Sea Shanty' by me and Thies Marsen... my lyrics and vocals, his music and arrangement. It's...
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Nick Toczek
Nov 13, 20191 min read
The Voices In His Head - Download only single, with Signia Alpha
‘The Voices In His Head’ is the debut download-only single from Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha. The song is based on a close friend of mine...
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Nick Toczek
Sep 2, 20191 min read
Vive Le Bavariations! Review of The Bavariations Album in Vive Le Rock
It's now a couple of months since Thies Marsen and I released our debut album, The Bavariations Album, and the reviews are beginning to...
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Nick Toczek
Jun 24, 20193 min read
A Story That Makes The World Seem Much Smaller
One of my hobbies is researching family history. The death of my father in August 2012 prompted me to start finding out about his German...
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Nick Toczek
Jun 12, 20194 min read
GOING DUTCH
In September 1983, I did a manic drug-and-alcohol fueled ten-day Dutch tour with Leeds punk-rockers To Be Continued. After I’d done my...
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Nick Toczek
Jun 4, 20191 min read
THE BAVARIATIONS ALBUM - OUT NOW!
Thies Marsen and I are pleased to announce the official release of our first joint album...
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Nick Toczek
Feb 7, 20194 min read
BOILING AND FRYING
In September 1968, days before my eighteenth birthday, I moved out of my parental home in Yorkshire and into digs in Birmingham. Thus...
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Nick Toczek
Jan 23, 20195 min read
PRUDENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
I had my first slim pamphlet of poems published in 1972 by Aqulia. A couple of dozen more followed over the next two decades, all from...
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