Everything But (Nick Burbridge, read by Paul Moriarty)
 Paul's acting career is failing fast as he struggles with his new roles of stepfather and househusband. When Lisa falls dangerously ill at school, relationships are put to the test. 
First broadcast 28th March 2001 on BBC Radio 4.

Everything But

As We Forgive Those (Nick Burbridge , read by Denys Hawthorne beneath Brighton's West Pier)
Two people with damaged lives try to find redemption by the decaying pier that knows only too well how they feel.
First broadcast 10th May 2001 on BBC Radio 4.


As We Forgive Those

Rough demo (recorded with iPhone) of a track from the forthcoming album Resolved.

Song of an Outcast (Rough Demo)

Another Song (Rough Demo)

"Another lo-fi iPhone song, as a kind of impulse or response: 'Asylum', from Claws and Wings - in the style it was written in" - NB.

Asylum (2015 lo-fi solo version)

Dirty Davey is thirty this year. Here's a rough and ready version recorded on an iPhone, to remember how the song first came to life...


Dirty Davey (Acoustic 2015)

A lo-fi iPhone recording of 'Prisoner' by Nick and Molly Burbridge, originally from The Enemy Within, written almost as long ago as 'Dirty Davey', and also covered and performed live by The Levellers.

Prisoner (Acoustic 2016) - Nick and Molly Burbridge

'Another Song' is the first track from 'Resolved', the forthcoming album from Nick Burbridge and Tim Cotterell. It is dedicated to Maggie Boyle, as is the whole album. Nick and Tim are joined on this track by Philippe Barnes on flute. 'Resolved' will be released on OTF Recordings very soon.

Another Song (for Maggie Boyle)

'Song of a Partisan' 
A stand-alone piece, from Resolved, by Nick Burbridge and Tim Cotterell, soon to be released on OTF recordings.
'Brilliant' - Jeremy Cunningham (Levellers)

Song Of A Partisan

Resolved

Song of an Outcast

Unreleased demo of a Nick Burbridge / Jeremy Cunningham track. This track has now been re-worked and re-titled and will be on the forthcoming McDermott's Two Hours album, as 'Firebird'.

Afterglow (unreleased acoustic demo)

Taken from 'Gathered' by Nick Burbridge & Tim Cotterell, released March 2012.

Song Of Sisyphus

From the McDermott's Two Hours Vs Levellers album World Turned Upside Down released 2000 (Hag Records)

Harry Brewer

Taken from the McDermott's Two Hours album The Enemy Within 1994 CD release (Hag Records)

Darkness and Sail

Nick Burbridge is an Anglo-Irish writer and musician based in Brighton, England and married with three children. He has been active for over twenty-five years as a poet, playwright, novelist, documentary, short story and song writer. His writing is characterised by a commitment to the dispossessed, undertaken without profit, and in relative obscurity.
 

His short stories and poems have appeared in literary journals, and on BBC Radio, and he has had three poetry collections published. A non-fiction work, with ex-military intelligence officer Fred Holroyd, War Without Honour, was launched at the House Of Commons and caused significant political disquiet, while his novel Operation Emerald, under the pseudonym Dominic McCartan, also proved controversial.
 
In 1986, as singer-songwriter, he co-founded McDermott's Two Hours (see their myspace page), a band that 'cut the mustard' (Q Magazine), and earned a reputation as one of the best live acts of its genre.Their album The Enemy Within (Hag CD2) has become a folk-rock classic. One track, 'Dirty Davey' was covered by The Levellers on their eponymous album. Later collaborations between the two bands produced four albums of Nick's songs: World Turned Upside Down, Claws And Wings, Disorder and Goodbye To The Madhouse; also a unique recording of poetry, music and effects, All Kinds Of Disorder.
 
Nick is writer-in-residence with Tommy McDermott's Theatre (founded 1989), a Brighton-based company dedicated to producing politically informed and dramatically inventive work, which draws on a wide range of local resources. It has collaborated with the Soho Theatre Company, The Common Sense, and youth and college drama groups in the area. TMT has been responsible for several successful Brighton Festival productions, outreach work and community projects. Nick's work has also featured regularly on BBC Radio 4.
 
For all his tireless creativity, Nick has for years been an outspoken sufferer from endogenous depression, and this has been a major factor in both his narrative concerns, and limitations in realising his work. Poetry, songs and short plays of critically acclaimed calibre are still produced at regular intervals.
 
Available now - 'Anticlockwise' is available now from all the usual digital outlets.

This page is run by Simon Adlington with input and the full agreement of its subject.
 

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