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Nick Beggs
Beggs in 2010
Background information
Birth name
Nicholas Beggs
Born
(1961-12-15) 15 December 1961 (age 62)
Origin
Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England
Genres
Progressive rock
art rock
hard rock
Celtic rock
new wave
pop rock
synth-pop
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Bass
Chapman Stick
vocals
Years active
1978–present
Member of
The Mute Gods
Ellis, Beggs & Howard
Formerly of
Art Nouveau
Steven Wilson band
Steve Hackett band
Iona
Kajagoogoo
Website
nickbeggs.co.uk
Musical artist
Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961[1]) is a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of the Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson. He is known for modifying a Chapman Stick into a fully MIDI-capable instrument triggering MIDI from both bass and melody strings; he calls it the Virtual Stick.[2]
^Larkin, Colin (1997) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0159-7, p. 270-271
^"Nick Beggs: Prog & Proud". www.bassplayer.com. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
calls it the Virtual Stick. Beggs was born on 15 December 1961 in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. His parents were Herby and Joan Beggs, and he has a younger sister...
originally known as Art Nouveau, a four-piece avant-garde group, with NickBeggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Croxford Neale on keyboards...
are an English progressive rock supergroup uniting NickBeggs, Marco Minnemann and Roger King. Beggs approached King—with whom he had worked as part of...
band agreed that Limahl should be fired. As recounted years later by NickBeggs and other Kajagoogoo members on the VH-1 program Bands Reunited, the actual...
returning NickBeggs, however he was replaced by Swedish guitarist Roine Stolt in 2015 who stayed into 2016, he was replaced by NickBeggs for his third...
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam John Balance of Coil and Current 93 NickBeggs (Kajagoogoo, Ellis, Beggs & Howard, John Paul Jones, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Iona...
Riccardo Romano - keyboards (2018) Luís Jardim - percussion (2022-2023) NickBeggs – bass guitar, backing vocals (2024) Studio Albums Script for a Jester's...
members included drummer Marco Minnemann, bassist and backing vocalist NickBeggs, guitarist Aziz Ibrahim (First European leg only), John Wesley (First...
Lifesigns album in 2008. In 2010, John was joined by longtime friend NickBeggs on bass, Chapman Stick and background vocals, and by drummer Martin "Frosty"...
admiration for him, including Les Claypool of Primus, Colin Hodgkinson, NickBeggs, Al Barrow of Magnum, Dan Briggs of Between the Buried and Me, Zach Cooper...
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Nightwhale". Blabbermouth. November 16, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2023. Yopko, Nick (February 7, 2024). "Subtronics Announces Title and Release Date of Sophomore...
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Car, an opera of minimalist composer Stefano Ianne with Ricky Portera, NickBeggs (Kajagoogoo), Mario Marzi, Terl Bryant (John Paul Jones/Led Zeppelin)...
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