Comedy - Acting, Writing and Watching in that order. Music. Listening, writing, singing and playing. Cooking and eating food. Manchester United. Ruthy.
Music
Oasis. Stone Roses. Doves. Supergrass. The Beatles. The Stones. David Potts. Astronaut Badger, Elbow. Badly drawn boy, The Smiths. I AM Kloot. Primal Scream, The Verve. Radiohead, The Bees. The Coral, The Charlatans, Foo Fighters, Chilli peppers, Kings of Leon, Bowie (Ziggy Stardust) Stevie wonder, old crooners, Simon and Garfunkel, Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Young, The Jam, The Kinks, The Who, The Faces, Happy Mondays, Bacharach, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, The Above and much more.
Movies
Lost in Translation. Sideways. Casino. Airplane. Happiness. The Long Good Friday. Magnolia. Donnie Darko. Rita, sue and bob too. A shot in the dark. The intelligence men. Superman. Man on the moon. The Truman Show. Anchorman.
Television
Alan Partridge. Look around you. 'Curb', Armstrong and Miller, The Second Coming, Big Train. Police squad. Scrubs. All Chris Morris stuff. Paul Calf's video diaries. All sketch shows ever made from Not the nine o clock news to Absolutley. Tommy cooper, Eric and Ernie. Porridge. The Two Ronnies. Cooking programmes. Documentaries. Football. Anything with girls aloud on.
Books
Catcher in the rye. Norwegian Wood (and other Murakamis) A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers, The Dirt (motley crue story), The bell and the diving butterfly. Playboy coffee table book. Rich Halls short stories. Screen Burn. The unbearable lightness of being. The Book of laughter and forgetting. The Reader. Jodie Marsh - Keepin' it real.
Heroes
My Wife. Superman, Eric Morecambe, Eric Cantona, Mange Toute (a frenchman, capable of eating anything from a transistor radio to a light aircraft) My mum, Ronnie Barker, Liam for hair and nonsense, Noel for tunes and sarcasm, Bowie for hair and make-up, Scrappy doo for bravery. Hugh Hefner for sheer gaul.
About me: I am Nico. I am a comedy writer and performer. I have written for amongst others, Armstrong and Miller, Kevin Bishop, and Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong.
I also love making and recording music. I did some stuff with a band called The Above, click on our page for a look
Here's my E4 'funny cut' showcase. Written by and starring myself as several characters. And a few other bits I've been involved with.
Who I'd like to meet: The Two Ronnies. The Two Erics (Cantona and Morecambe)
Mornin mr nico and mrs nico - happy March - bleedin eck where's the year flying too! Hope alls well and good and wicky woo as ever in the Tats land - Doms bday Thurs can't beleive he's a big boy now! So how's tricks and whats on the music and comedy front etc???
hey congrats on the engagement nico! meant to say ages ago, but somehow kept forgetting. that'd be the booze me thinks. hope all's sweet & dandy in your world x
Yo yo...how's engaged life treating you? I'm good...really busy, did I tell you I broke my elbow?? Been out of work for two weeks. Back tomorrow, which is a damn shame as I was really, really, really gettin used to the easy living! How's you? Any crack?
Recording for our first EP starts in early March. We would like you to help us decide which song to include as the sixth track. The two contenders are White shoes and Platform. About half way down our page we have a player with both tracks, have a listen and let us know which one you prefer, by voting on the poll underneath. We would really appreciate your input.
We've recently uploaded a couple of demo tracks. If you've got a minute have a listen and let us know what you think, would be cool to hear from ya. Keep rockin' & Happy Holidays!
Howz it goin' Nico? Good to see u an' the band on here. Still playing your CD u gave us. What goes on with you fella, still in the murky world of advertising?
hey nico gonna be in london at the end of the month, i think the 31st- nov 2nd then planning to stay for the weekend. gonna try and get scaredy cat sam to come down with me so would be good if we could all meet up?
hope your doing well and keeping out of trouble. much love xx
Fuck, I totally forgot to call you! Iwas in London the other week! But just a flying visit! Had an audition for the Donmare Warehouse! A play by Patrick Marber(Closer) with Rhys Ifans! It went well...a long shot but at least I did good!
Sooooooo are ya still happily in love and all that? Hope so!
