Nick Toczek's Blog

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...

FREE SINGLE DOWNLOAD! FORMAT: Download only single TITLE: When We Men Talk ARTISTS: Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha LABEL: Mutiny 2000 Records...

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...

DEBUT ALBUM FROM NICK TOCZEK & SIGNIA ALPHA Released seconds after midnight on 1 January 2020, Shooting The Messenger is the first album...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

Thies Marsen and I are pleased to announce the official release of our first joint album...

In September 1968, days before my eighteenth birthday, I moved out of my parental home in Yorkshire and into digs in Birmingham. Thus...

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...