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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
A Poetic Pepysian Diary
Interview plus poems and photos.
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Nick Toczek
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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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Nick Toczek
- Dec 5, 2018
- 7 min
Pete
The late 1960s saw me leave our family home in Shipley, Yorkshire to take up a three-year stint as an Industrial Metallurgy student at...
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Nick Toczek
- Nov 12, 2018
- 5 min
Just Deserts
Here’s my third piece about the US tour I did with punk bands The Instigators and The Detonators in 1986. If you missed the other two,...
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