Bill Nickson was born in Wirral in 1996 and raised up in this incredibly fertile breeding ground for bands and songwriters. His first early predilection was for pop punk, listening to the obvious stuff for someone growing up in the early noughties, like American rock bands 'Blink-182' and 'Green Day', whose seventh album 'American Idiot' was probably the reason he first picked up a guitar. His early influences were American singer songwriter Daniel Johnston and Brian Wilson of the 'Beach Boys' plus he also had a dose of older stuff as well with his dad playing the likes of 'The Kinks', 'The Beach Boys' and 'Pink Floyd', in the car. After his early forays into the nasal world of childish bedroom rock, he experimented with many musical mediums before finding his way back to the guitar. He says, "It was only just before I went to university in 2014 that I got into guitar stuff after doing electronic-y stuff for a while. I used to make really dream poppy, reverby stuff – it was a noticeable feature of the stuff I was making – and it was due to insecurity as well. I wasn't a singer, so I used to hide my voice a bit by drenching it with reverb. Through university I got a lot more confident and found the sound that I’m doing now." He told Bido Lito in 2017, "I record and produce all of my music myself at home and will probably continue to do so, mainly because I've always preferred the relaxed, natural methods of recording at home opposed to the time constraint of a studio. GoldMold Records are a really cool tape label based in Glasgow who released my 'Time' EP on cassette last year."
Broadening out to working with a band, June 2018 saw the release of his proper debut single on The Label Recordings, 'What To Say', which got a lot of people sitting up to take notice. He appeared at The Shipping Forecast in November 2018 with a swoony guitar sound and equipped with a Merseyside supergroup featuring 'Jo Mary's' Sam Warren on drums and Merseyrail Soundstation winner Dan Astles on bass.
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In January 2019 he was a special guest support for Pete Doherty at a sold out show at Hangar 34 in Liverpool following a triumphant show at the Getintothis' 2nd birthday Deep Cuts gig. Unassumingly his band took to the stage and after tuning up were straight into the trademark slacker college-rock sound. The influences are evident with more than a nod to Bill Ryder Jones and the crowd on the night were warmly receptive to an artist at the infancy of his career and creativity. The team at Bido Lito organised the Future Yard festival in August 2019 to bring together local, national and international artists to some of Birkenhead's most iconic spaces and hopefully the first step on the journey towards a new music future for the town. Bill posted on his Facebook page, "thanks to everybody who came down to see us at the town hall on Friday and stores on Saturday, it was a special weekend & I look forward to the next one!!" Bill released an EP, 'Grave Songs' in May 2021, he says, "5 songs from around the end of 2017 to the middle of 2018 recorded at a time while a lot was changing and I was still figuring some stuff out."
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