The Nice
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New to the Charts: Top Team Gives P.P. Her Debut
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
P.P. ARNOLD, from Los Angeles, makes her NME Chart debut this week with 'The First Cut Is The Deepest' (Immediate), aided and abetted by a talented team ...
Marriage Before Twenty Should Be Illegal says P.P. Arnold
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 3 June 1967
"SOMEBODY," SAID dusky and delightful P.P. Arnold, "should ban marriage before the age of 20. I got married when I was 16. Who really knows ...
Various Artists: Seventh National Jazz And Blues Festival, Windsor
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
I've got those Seventh National Jazz And Blues Festival blues ...
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds, the Nice, Granny's Intentions, Ten Years After: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 November 1967
A STRANGELY mixed bag of performers at London's Saville Theatre on Sunday. There was Irish folk, psychedelia, a few lights, a bit of hip wiggling ...
Jimi Hendrix, The Move, Amen Corner, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967
HUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and trouble, and wowee Jimi Hendrix! The Hendrix-Move tour thundered off on its trip round Britain with a deafening start at London's ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 July 1968
NICE ARE now one of Britain's top groups, ranking with Cream and Jimi Hendrix's Experience. And as Cream aren't working and are on the edge ...
The Nice, Traffic, Pretty Things, the Action, Eyes: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 August 1968
"ALL THIS needs is for John Peel to appear with three loaves and five fishes and he could feed the ten thousand," said an observer ...
Traffic, Nice, Junior's Eyes, Pretty Things: Hyde Park London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
Such a NICE day in the park ...
NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
8th National Jazz & Blues Festival: Lazy Sunbury Afternoon...
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 17 August 1968
PLAGUED BY DISASTER AND COUNTLESS SETBACKS, THE SUNBURY FESTIVAL PRESENTED SOME OF THE BEST MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVER SEEN. RM WAS THERE. ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
Music triumphs, despite rain, accidents and the rockers ...
Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 17 August 1968
LEONARD BERNSTEIN IS NOT PLEASED WITH 'AMERICA' ...
Richard Green goes afloat with Nice
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 September 1968
And nearly goes down with them! ...
The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968
THIS SECOND Immediate album by the Nice, is not only a vast improvement on their first, but a major breakthrough in pop group experimentation. In ...
The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 16 November 1968
"THAT'S NICE". "That's Nice". That is the new LP from the Nice, Ars Longa Vita Brevis, and whichever way you say it, it's very good. ...
The Nice: Whitla Hall, Belfast
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 November 1968
BELFAST'S annual music festival, organised by Michael Emmerson of Queens University, was opened by the Nice in a highly successful "pop" concert at the Whitla ...
The Nice: Will Nice Get Lost Among The Commuters?
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 March 1969
WILL BRITAIN'S heaviest group, the Nice, conquer America? After the Cream and Jimi Hendrix, the Nice must be our most spectacular band and well in ...
Interview by Miles, International Times, 25 April 1969
This interview is transcribed from a tape recorded conversation done at my house in Westminster. It has been edited for grammer and coherence only. Lee ...
The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 30 April 1969
ANYONE WHO can explain how The Nice have managed to remain obscure for so long gets my nomination for The Paul Williams Rock Intellectualization Award ...
The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 14 June 1969
WHAT MAY HAVE turned potential Nice freaks off last year was the group's decision to precede their ritual cataclysm 'Rondo' with a set that consisted ...
Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, The Nice et al: Bath Festival, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
A ZEPPELIN attacked the City of Bath on Saturday, and gassed 120,000. Airship Commander Jimmy Page kept the most fearsome dirigible in progressive blues aloft ...
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 5 July 1969
"WE DO NOT want anyone in this country to think we are skipping off to America and forsaking our British fans," explained organist and showman ...
The Nice, Blodwyn Pig, Ten Years After: Bath Festival, Somerset
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 July 1969
RICHARD GREEN says ROCKING NICE HIT ...
The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 26 July 1969
ARS LONGA Vita Brevis is an incredibly good album, probably one of the best to have been released in the last few years; certainly one of ...
The Nice: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Profile by Mark Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969
THE NICE are the most successful British group to have achieved fame without a single in the top ten. The future is surer for them, ...
The Nice: Nice (Immediate mono and stereo IMSP 026; 38s. 6d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 August 1969
NICE WORK AND YOU CAN GET IT ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 29 August 1969
THE NICE just keep escalating from strength to strength, their reputation solidifying as their incorporation of classical phraseology (sometimes admittedly borrowed wholesale) becomes even more ...
Bob Dylan et al: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 September 1969
200,000 roar approval including John, George, Ringo and wives! But Dylan didn't quite sink Isle of Wight, reports Richard Green ...
Nice: Good Music & Showmanship Is Their Formula For Success
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
MUSICAL COMPETENCE and showmanship rarely go hand-in-hand. At least, if they do, one often takes precedence over the other and the overall effect is one ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 17 October 1969
THE NICE are one of the few different groups on today’s pop scene, centering their music around the keyboard work of Keith Emerson. They use ...
The Nice: Tear Gas, Stones and Broken Heads...
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 18 October 1969
A NICE WEEKEND BY RICHARD WILLIAMS! ...
The Nice, King Crimson: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 25 October 1969
THE NICE are an incredible band. At every one of their concerts there's always something new; something which only the Nice can do. ...
A Nice A Week: 1 — Keith Emerson Wants Classical Music To Survive
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 November 1969
ONE OF the highspots of Keith Emerson's career occurred only a fortnight ago, when the Nice played with the London Symphony Orchestra at Croydon's Fairfield ...
The Nice: Ungano's, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 29 November 1969
Nice in Mixed Bag at Ungano's ...
RICHARD GREEN spends a hectic weekend with NICE In Paris
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 31 January 1970
WHAT DO you have to do to have 'Granada' sung in your left ear by three Spaniards at 5.30 on a Sunday morning and a ...
The Nice, Yes: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 February 1970
IT WAS an emotional as well as a musical triumph when the Nice took London's Festival Hall by storm on Saturday. A feeling built up ...
The Nice: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 February 1970
NICE VERSATILITY IS LIMITLESS ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Fusion, 6 March 1970
The Nice are perhaps one of the most controversial groups on the pop music scene today. Praised by many for relieving us from the excesses ...
Nice and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
NICE UNITE CLASSIC AND POP FANS ...
The Nice: Five Bridges (Charisma, stereo CAS 1014; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
End of Nice ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Here Comes Another Orgasmic Peak
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 31 October 1970
KEITH EMERSON is, to say the least, very upset at the release of old Nice tapes currently flooding the market. ...
Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, February 2014
Davy O'List was in with the in-crowd — a prog prodigy in The Nice, a founder of Roxy Music, the proud owner of Judy Garland’s ...
see also Emerson Lake & Palmer
see also T-Bones (U.K.), The
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