Nick Stephenson (singer/guitarist) Dynamic performer/singer/songwriter playing everything from Beatles - Winehouse

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2x 45 minute sets with 20 - 30 minute break£450
2x 1 hr sets with 20 - 30 minute break£550
3x 45 minute sets with 20 - 30 minute breaks£650
3x 1 hr sets with 20 - 30 minute breaks£800
4x 1 hr sets with 20 - 30 minute breaks£1000
My prices will include travel expenses if over 50 miles from Norwich NR4 7QJ

About / Biography

Nick Stephenson is a brilliant acoustic artist and dynamic Norwich based entertainer.
Armed with a catalogue of around 300 covers, Nick's repertoire consists mainly of 50's, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s Classic Pop/ Rock/Folk. He has a powerful voice, unique guitar style and performs with a warm, personable approach that really connects with the audience, making you feel involved.

Nick has 14 years experience as a professional musician and has played at Weddings, Parties, Pubs, Clubs, Corporate Events and Festivals including Glastonbury and The Isle of Wight and has supported Toploader, Toyah Willcox, Wild Willy Barret, The Staves and Adrian Edmondson.
He has appeared on BBC 6 Music's 'Memory Tapes' with Lauren Laverne. He also runs three London based, musical walking tours centred around the life of David Bowie.

Nick has his own Fishman SA220 Solo Performance PA System, which will cater for audiences of up to 400 people.
Nick will learn two additional songs at no extra cost (please specify what the songs are before booking) He will also play music between sets free of charge for any occasion and will perform his original songs if requested.

Reviews (27)

There are currently 27 user ratings for Nick Stephenson (singer/guitarist)

AVERAGE RATING

10 / 101

Location

Based in Norwich, Norfolk

Will travel up to 500 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 500 miles)
pink circle = free travel (up to 30 miles)
Please note that the circles shown on the map are calculated "as the crow flies". By road distances may vary, so please get in touch for an accurate quote.

50's & 60's Artists

Chuck Berry, Johnny B Goode

Chuck Berry, You Never Can Tell

Little Richard, Long, Tall Sally

Ben E King, Stand By Me

Otis Redding, Sitting On Dock Of The Bay

The Platters, Only You

The Temptations, My Girl

Everly Brothers, Bye Bye Love

Everly Brothers, Dream Dream Dream

Everly Brothers, Let it be me

Everly Brothers, Wake up little Susie

Jonny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues

Jonny Cash, Ring of fire

Jonny Cash, The Man Comes Around

Buddy Holly, Rave On

Buddy Holly, Peggy Sue

Buddy Holly, Oh Boy

Buddy Holly, Everyday

Buddy Holly, That'll be the day

Buddy Holly, Heartbeat

Buddy Holly, Raining in my heart

Elvis Presley, That’s alright momma

Elvis Presley, One Night

Elvis Presley, Blue Suede Shoes

Elvis Presley, Hound Dog

Elvis Presley, Suspicious Minds

Elvis Presley, Heartbreak Hotel

The Animals, House Of The Rising Sun

The Beatles, Norwegian Wood

The Beatles, A Hard Days Night

The Beatles, Get Back

The Beatles, I’m So Tired

The Beatles, I Should Have Known Better

The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Beatles, Till There Was You

The Beatles, Here Comes The Sun

The Beatles, Something

The Beatles, You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

The Beatles, A Day In The Life

The Beatles, Day Tripper

The Beatles, Love Me Do

The Beatles, You Won’t See Me

The Beatles, I Saw Her Standing There

The Beatles, All My Lovin

The Beatles, Help!

The Beatles, She Loves You

The Beatles, Hey Jude

The Beatles, Here There And Everywhere

The Beatles, Lady Madonna

The Beatles, Tell me what you see

The Beatles, Can't buy me love

The Beatles, Let it be

The Beatles, Yesterday

Roy Orbison, Oh Pretty Woman

Tom Jones, It's not unusual

Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline

Van Morrison, Moon Dance

Van Morrison, Brown Eyed Girl

The Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin

The Beach Boys, God Only Knows

The Kinks, Sunny afternoon

The Kinks, Days

The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks, Do You Remember Walter?

The Who, Pinball Wizard

The Who, My Generation

The Who, Substitute

The Who, Behind Blue Eyes

The Who, Baba O'Riley

The Who, The Seeker

Righteous Brothers, You’ve lost that lovin feelin

The Rolling Stones, Jumping Jack Flash

The Rolling Stones, Brown Sugar

The Rolling Stones, Honkey Tonk Woman

The Rolling Stones, Wild Horses

The Rolling Stones, Sway

Jackie Wilson, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher

Led Zeppelin, Whole lotta love

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit

Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone

Bob Dylan, All Along The Watchtower

Bob Dylan, Girl From The North Country

Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A’Changin

Bob Dylan, Simple Twist Of Fate

Bob Dylan, It Takes A lot To Laugh Takes A Train To Cry

Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue

Bob Dylan, You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Bob Dylan, Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright

Bob Dylan, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

Bob Dylan, Buckets Of Rain

Jimi Hendrix, Hey Joe

Jimi Hendrix, Foxy Lady

Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing

Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer

Simon and Garfunkel, Sounds Of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel, Kathy’s Song

Dusty Springfield, Son Of A Preacher Man

Joni Mitchel, A Case Of You

Joni Mitchel, River

Joni Mitchel, Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchel, All I Want

The Doors, Break On Through (To The Other Side)

The Doors, Light my fire

Fairport Convention, Who knows where the time goes?

Fairport Convention, Fotheringay

Fairport Convention, Farewell Farewell

Fairport Convention, Genesis Hall

Fairport Convention, Meet On The Ledge

Fairport Convention, Come All Ye

Tim Buckley, Happy Time

Tim Buckley, Buzzin Fly

The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Waiting For The Man

The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Perfect Day

70's & 80's Artists

David Bowie, Ashes To Ashes

David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie, Heroes

David Bowie, Drive in Saturday

David Bowie, Life on Mars?

David Bowie, Space Oddity

David Bowie, Starman

David Bowie, Queen Bitch

David Bowie, Kooks

David Bowie, Quicksand

David Bowie, The Jean Genie

David Bowie, The Superman

David Bowie, Five Years

David Bowie, Moonage Daydream

David Bowie, Rebel Rebel

David Bowie, Diamond Dogs

David Bowie, All The Young Dudes

David Bowie, Suffragette City

David Bowie, The Man Who Sold The World

David Bowie, Lazarus

David Bowie, Blackstar

David Bowie, Always crashing in the same car

David Bowie, Fantastic voyage

David Bowie, Loving the alien

David Bowie, Let’s dance

David Bowie, Quicksand

David Bowie, Suffragette city

David Bowie, Boys keep swinging

David Bowie, Word on a wing

David Bowie, Hang on to yourself

Full David Bowie albums:

David Bowie, Entire 'Space Oddity' album

David Bowie, Entire 'The Man Who Sold The World' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Hunky Dory' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Ziggy Stardust' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Aladdin Sane' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Diamond Dogs' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Young Americans' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Station To Station' album

David Bowie, Entire 'Scary Monsters' album

Elton John, I'm Still Standing

Elton John, Rocket Man

Elton John, Your Song

Elton John, Tiny Dancer

Elton John, Crocodile Rock

Elton John, Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters

Big Star, I’m In Love With A Girl

Aztec Camera, Somewhere in my heart

Michael Jackson, Billy Jean

Bill Withers, Ain’t No Sunshine

Bill Withers, Lean On Me

Bill Withers, Just The Two Of Us

Bob Marley, Concrete jungle

Bob Marley, No Woman No Cry

Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Bob Marley, Three Little Birds

Bob Marley, Is This Love?

Cat Stevens, Moon Shadow

Cat Stevens, Father And Son

Cat Stevens, Wild World

Paul McCartney, Put It There

Paul McCartney, Little Willow

Paul McCartney, The Songs We Were Singing

Paul McCartney, Calico Skies

Paul McCartney, Every Night

Paul McCartney, Flaming Pie

George Harrison, My sweet lord

George Harrison, I’d have you anytime

John Lennon, Working class hero

John Lennon, Mother

Billy Joel, Vienna

Billy Joel, She's Always A Woman

Billy Joel, Piano Man

Stevie Wonder, Superstition

The Bee Gees, Stayin alive

Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

Willy Wonka/Gene Wilder, Pure Imagination

Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run

Don Mclean, Vincent

Paul Simon, Kodachrome

Paul Simon, American Tune

The Eagles, Take It Easy

The Eagles, Hotel California

James Taylor, Country Road

James Taylor, Fire And Rain

James Taylor, Sweet Baby James

James Taylor, Steam Roller

Elvis Costello, Human Hands

Elvis Costello, Alison

Elvis Costello, No Action

Elvis Costello, Man Out Of Time

John Martyn, May You Never

John Martyn, I Don’t Wanna Know

John Martyn, Solid Air

John Martyn, Over The Hill

John Martyn, Spencer The Rover

Neil Young, Ohio

Neil Young, Down By The River

Neil Young, Old man

Neil Young, Don’t Let It Bring You Down

Neil Young, The Needle And The Damage Done

Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young, Tell Me Why

Neil Young, Ambulance Blues

Neil Young, For The Turnstiles

Neil Young, Helpless

Neil Young, Walk On

Neil Young, Cinnamon Girl

Richard Thompson, End Of The Rainbow

Richard Thompson, I Want To see The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson, Walking On A Wire

Richard Thompson, Vincent Black Lightning 1952

Richard Thompson, Down Where The Drunkards Roll

Richard Thompson, Withered And Died

Richard Thompson, Beeswing

Richard Thompson, When I Get To The Border

Nick Drake, Pink Moon

Nick Drake, Northern Sky

Judee Sill, Crayon Angels

Stealers Wheel, Stuck In The Middle With You

Jimmy Cliff, I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come

Fleetwood Mac, Dreams

Roy Harper, The Same Old Rock

Prince, Purple Rain

Eric Carman, Hungry Eyes (from Dirty Dancing)

Paul Young, Whereever I lay My Hat (That’s My Home)

Eric Carmen, Hungry Eyes (from Dirty Dancing)

The Human League, Don't you want me

Yazoo, Only You

Simple Minds, Don’t You Forget About Me

Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen, Hammer To Fall

Queen, We are the champions

Queen, Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Queen, I Want To Break Free

Queen & David Bowie, Under Pressure

Kate Bush, Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush, Cloudbusting

Squeeze, Up The Junction

Squeeze, Labelled With Love

George Michael, Faith

George Michael, Jesus To A Child

George Michael, A Different Corner

George Michael, Father Figure

U2, Beautiful Day

U2, Where The Streets Have No Name

U2, With Or Without You

U2, The Sweetest Thing

Eurythmics, There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Tom Waits, Alice

Tom Waits, Clap hands

Tom Waits, Jersey Girl

Tom Waits, Heartattack And Vine

Lionel Richie, Stuck On You

Marvin Gaye, What’s going on

The Pogues, Dirty Old Town

Frankie goes to Hollywood, The Power Of Love

The Fureys, Belfast Mill

Magnet, Corn Rigs

90's to Present Artists

Harry Styles, As it was

James Bay, Hold Back The River

Future Islands, Seasons (Waiting On You)

Radiohead, Airbag

Radiohead, Creep

Radiohead, High And Dry

Oasis, Don't look back in anger

Oasis, Wonderwall

Oasis, Live Forever

Blur, Tender

Blur, End Of A Century

Blur, This Is A Low

Blur, Beetlebum

Amy Winehouse, Back To Black

Amy Winehouse, Love Is A Loosing Game

Amy Winehouse, Valery

Crowded House, Don’t Dream It’s Over

Crowded House, Fall At Your Feet

Crowded House, Weather With You

Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah

REM, The One I Love

REM, Everybody Hurts

REM, Loosing my religion

Extreme, More than words

Wilco, Jesus etc.

Wilco, Handshake drugs

The Shins, Pink bullets

The Shins, Young pilgrims

Metallica, Nothing Else Matters

Metallica, Enter Sandman

Green Day, Time Of Your Life

Seasick Steve, Started Out With Nothing (And I Still Got Most Of It Left)

CHRISTMAS SONGS:

John Lennon - Happy X-mas (War is over)

Wham - Last Christmas

Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

Wizzard - I wish it could be Christmas every day

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

One parking space required. This is unless the venue has a PA system and is accessible via public transport.
Only one power socket required.


Do you provide sound and lighting equipment?

I have my own PA system but no lighting equipment at present.


What information do you require about a venue?

I need to know any directions that will help me find the venue and find the right place to load in my equipment. It's always useful to know where to park and/ or parking availability.


Can you provide a Spotify/DJ service before and between your sets?

Yes, I'm happy to play music from Spotify/ Youtube before, after and between my sets. I'm happy to choose the music myself or let the client choose the music.


What do you need in terms of your set up?

I only require one plug socket and a good amount of space for a one man show.
There needs to be enough room for a speaker, a mic stand, a small table and guitar stand.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best gig you've ever done and the best venue you've ever played at?

There are too many great gigs to choose from but one of my definite highlights in my career was playing at the Isle of Wight festival 2014. The vibe and the audience response was just incredible that day and many fans were gained just from one performance. An incredible feeling!


Which artists have you been most influenced by, who is your favourite artist and what is the greatest song of all time?

David Bowie is a huge inspiration to me, not just as a musician but as an artist/ cultural icon in general. Freddie Mercury for his vocal delivery, his songwriting and the way he worked a crowd, he was unbeliveable! As a guitarist my biggest influence is definitely Pete Townsend with his flamboynat, inventive style, especially on acoustic guitar. Singing influences include soul singers like Stevie Wonder, folk singers like Sandy Denny, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and I think perhaps my biggest singing influence is John Lennon with his raw, emotional approach. The greatest song of all time? It's very hard to choose but 'Life on Mars?' by David Bowie is certainly up there. Today anyway...


What's your previous experience and how did you start gigging?

I started gigging when I was 16 years old, my dad used to take me along to an open mic night where I grew up in St Albans, Hertfordshire nearly every Sunday night. From there we started finding other nights to visit. I have been in numerous original bands since 2003, I have been writing music and covering classics for as long as I can remember, released albums, EP's, played at music venues and Festivals both big and small since I was 19. I have been a professional musician since 2010 and have performed at countless parties, weddings, corpirate events, pubs, festivals, care homes... The list is endless! I love life on the road and I love performing. Some my favorite gigs have been quite unusual but lots of fun. For example I played on this party bus going round London for someones birthday. It started at The Ritz and went all around London where everyone sang the whole time, taking in the sites and getting into the music. Just a wonderful experience!


What's your favourite type of event to play at?

I love so many diffent types of event but birthday parties and weddings are amazing as everyone is just so happy to be there, especially when everyone lets their hair down and dances towards the later half of the evening. I get so into creating a vibe and great atmosphere because if you give it your all during a performance, you usually receive that happy energy back from the crowd. It's like a dance, it works both ways and everyone leaves feeling great!


How would you describe your sound?

My sound is highly energised, dynamic and passionate and often grabs audiences attention quickly.
My musical style is a mix of acoustic folk/rock/pop that emcompasses driving, exuberant acoustic guitar playing and commanding, melodic vocals.

My song choises range from Billy Holiday to Metallica!

I cover a wide range of popular music and always try to challenge myself - Queen, David Bowie, Beatles, George Michael, Harry Styles, Led Zep, Elton John, The Who, Amy Winehouse, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Buddy Holly, Bruce Springsteen... there are too many to mention!


What music brings out the best in you as a performer

I would have to say classic rock n roll from the 60s and 70s is right up there and it's really the songs that have a bit of a kick to them really get me going. So that could be music by The Who, David Bowie, Queen, Bob Dylan and The Beatles thst are huge 'energisers' because those artists still excite me. This excitment usually transfers over to the audience which is why I play stuff like this at the start of my sets.
I am also a huge lover of 1980s pop songs. For me, it was the best era for the pop single because so much of it was soulful or unashamedly theatrical. Prince and George Michael are two of my favorites and usually get a good reaction because I love singing those songs!

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

Set up time is 10 minutes
2X 45 minute sets with a break. Set lengths usually are flexible (can sometimes go to 60 minutes per set) particularly if everyone is having a great time!


Are you happy to perform outside?

Absolutely provided there is some kind of overhead protection for electrical equipment if I am amplifying.


Do the clients have a say in what you play or is it a set repertoire list only?

I can learn specific songs before the event provided I am given enough notice to learn those songs. I have worked stuff out on the spot before if it's simple enough. The clients are welcome to pick a set list from my repertoire or let me choose the music for them.


How do previous clients most commonly describe your performances?

High energy, great at reading the room, very profesional. Looking at my reviews, I've had 'incredible' and 'amazing' used again and again which I am very grateful for! I've had stuff like 'His song selection was fantastic and his vocal ability meant he nailed every song'. It's always amazing to get this kind of feedback and it really keeps me going as a musician.


How many sets do you play?

Clients usually ask for 2 - 3 sets that are about 45 minutes each. I will happily play up to 4x 1 hour sets for events that take up an entire day or I can come along and just play a few songs for any occasion.

Recent Clients

Nick Stephenson (singer/guitarist) has performed for these clients:

Rachael Meenan "Nick sang at our sons Christening in October 2014 - he gave an outstanding performance and made the party one to remember! He was really friendly and sociable and even helped take a group photo! I wouldn't hesitate in recommending Nick as he really made our party!"

Kathryn Palmer "A truly professional, breathtaking and spine-tingling performance. Nick was amazing at our wedding celebrations"

Stuart Groves (Shout About London) "Brilliantly received, energetic performance from Nick"

Roger King "As someone who has spent a lifetime performing music, Nick was the obvious choice for our wedding celebrations in 2015... Quality, with great original songs and covers"

Venues

Nick Stephenson (singer/guitarist) has performed at these venues:

Venues

The Clapham Grand, St John's Hill, London

Plug, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield

The Alban Arena, St Albans

Bar Fly, Camden, London

Festivals

Glastonbury Festival

The Isle of Wight Festival

Secret Garden Party

Standon Calling

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