Credit: Stewart Baxter
Fan of The Kaiser Chiefs? It doesn’t matter whether you are or not, but you may have an added interest into the band Everyone Says Hi. Wasn’t that a Bowie song? On Heathen? Maybe that’s where the band name comes from. Anyway, Everyone Says Hi is the new band of The kaiser Chiefs ex drummer/songwriter Nick Hodgson. There is a self titled album, due for release on the 4th of October. We look forward to it.
Everyone Says Hi sees Nick adopt the role of lead singer/guitarist/frontman, and brings together musicians Pete Denton on bass, Glenn Moule on drums, keyboard player Ben Gordon (ex-members of The Kooks, The Howling Bells, and Liverpool’s The Dead 60s respectively), alongside Leeds based guitarist Tom Dawson.
Nick has long been a songwriter in high demand. Since leaving his teenage band back in 2012, he has co-written for the likes of Dua Lipa, You Me At Six, Duran Duran, George Ezra, and Holly Humberstone, and collaborated on tracks alongside Mark Ronson, Kygo, and Shirley Bassey.
There’s a single out now, ‘Only One’. There is some live dates below.
On the siren-call of “Only One”, Nick explains:
“This was the first new song that came out of me for the album. Whenever I’ve written albums, they start with one song and when it happens I know that whether I like it or not, an album is happening.
“Only One is another love song essentially, but when I write a love song they’re not very romantic but more matter of fact. In this case I’m saying, I love it when you phone me up in the middle of the night, something that’s pretty inconvenient but because it’s a certain person, you love it.”
Everyone Says Hi Live:
21st October – Thekla, Bristol
22nd October – Heartbreakers, Southampton
24th October – Oslo, London
25th October – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
27th October – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
28th October – McChuills, Glasgow
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