Nick Ward Blog

Well it’s mid-Feb already, Cadenza has been doing really well, I can’t tell you how chuffed I am with the response. When I started recording last summer I only intended to do an acoustic EP, but I guess I knew deep down that I had too many songs, so I thought what the hell….let’s do an acoustic album. I had been listening to a lot of acoustic stuff around that time…especially Nick Drake, Gillian Welch….Graham Coxon’s Spinning Top album….& also Damon Albarn’s The Good, The Bad & The Queen album, and though you cannot hear it I’m sure they influenced my writing around that time.
Writing can be a curse sometimes, but also cathartic…..so I’ve been writing again (actually I’m always writing!), and have reverted back to the electric guitar and the piano. I’m already excited about the way the new tunes are shaping up….hopefully I can unleash one or two on you at gigs this summer.

Here is another lovely review of Cadenza by a great site called Mojophenia. Check it out here

Please check out this wonderful review of Cadenza – HERE

So, 5 days before Cadenza is released & I’m getting the usual myriad of feelings about it.
Excitement, nervousness, worry, jealousy, apprehension….& lots more if I’m honest. I wish I could have planned some dates, or a tour, to coincide with the release, but it was not to be. But we’re working on it!
I don’t know if people listen to lyrics any more….actually listen…..but there is a lovely booklet full of the lyrics to these songs that comes with the cd, or digital booklet if download. I am quite proud of them so hope you get the chance to read them while listening.
Cadenza is a very different piece of work to Pink Bay or Outside Looking In….deliberately so. None of my song writing heroes wrote the same album twice…..& neither will I.
Writing & recording it was a joy…..I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Nick