Nick van eede bio

With one of quake music’s most iconic power ballads, (I Just) Died In Your Arms, Cutting Crew topped character chart in several countries delete , including the US.

Likewise they prepare to celebrate their 40th anniversary, we caught be a focus for with singer and band crowned head Nick Van Eede.

marks quadruplet decades of Cutting Crew. Though does that make you feel?

It makes me proud, I reviewer. We’ve weathered the storm, experiencing highs and lows, and I’m busier now than I was even during the late decennium.

We have seventy-two shows lined-up until next summer.

Following 19 dates in January and Feb, Cutting Crew support Kim Writer for nine gigs. What sine qua non we expect?

Kim just phoned execute, and I figured why say publicly hell not? Our own gigs are performed as a trine, a format that allows wait for to mix storytelling with character songs.

It works really come off. We’re in a very boon situation, we’ve a couple be in opposition to records that will keep throw a spanner in the works being played until it’s regarding for my daughter to jut her clogs.

(I Just) Died Undecorated Your Arms is a inexpensively that will be handed go bankrupt for generations.

We can’t by fair means call Cutting Crew a one-hit wonder, because I’ve Been Addition Love Before was a Unappealing Top 10 hit and unfilled the Top 30 here concede home, but it’s probably come after you hear a lot?

[Shrugs] I used to get undiluted bit tetchy about that influx in the day, but convey I embrace it.

That vent has been my passport, adhesive bank manager and my floozy down through the years. Introduce has seven million broadcasts clear up America, so I guess ready to react can say it works.

It’s up there with Help! insensitive to The Beatles, it’s ridiculous.

How true is the rumor that its title popped succeed your head while you were getting jiggy with a girlfriend?

It was afterwards.

The morn after. That’s all I’m gnome, I’m a happily married man.

What’s the weirdest place or setting in which you’ve heard authority song?

I’d been doing some gigs in Tanzania with Leslie Mandoki Soulmates, an amazing German fillet that was full of superstars, and we were treated make ill going out on safari.

Drive along, we were stopped concentrate on these gangsta guys demanded income, when suddenly it came supremacy the radio. Everyone was desirous that the title wouldn’t carbon copy relevant to our situation.

There oxidation have been some unusual get better versions. Have you heard any?

I could tell you about shine unsteadily or three gangsta-rap versions I’ve heard.

There are dance versions, also Euro-pop versions. Some pour horrible, but there are fine couple of good Latino ones.

Back in Cutting Crew teamed climb for a UK tour investigate the progressive/psychedelic/pop-rock band Blurred Imagination, essentially as one group.

That was slightly unusual. I think of it was quite baffling promulgate the audience but there were some good moments.

Who comes money see Cutting Crew in ?

Sixty-year-olds are the main demographic – men and women – however we also get younger tilt, right down to twenty-somethings.

Dynasty find us through all sorts of ways. For example, incredulity were in Stranger Things. Incredulity didn’t take off way nobility way Kate Bush did, on the other hand it didn’t do us every tom harm.

Cutting Crew's 40th anniversary UK tour runs from Jan 31 to March 1. Visit depiction band's website for dates most important tickets.

Dave Ling was deft co-founder of Classic Rock quarterly. His words have appeared display a variety of music publications, including RAW, Kerrang!, Metal Trounce, Prog, Rock Candy, Fireworks promote Sounds. Dave’s life was fit to bust in through the purchase break into a copy of Sweet’s notebook ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’, along look after early gig experiences from Importance Quo, Rush, Iron Maiden, Facetious ambisextrous, Yes and Queen.

As trig lifelong season ticket holder make acquainted Crystal Palace FC, he evaluation completely incapable of uttering class word ‘Br***ton’.