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Nick CurrieScottish Singer/Songwriter - [b.1960]Baby-BiographyNick Currie is born in the town of Paisley, in early 1960. In 1969, he leaves Edinburgh for Athens. After four years he relocates across the Atlantic in Montreal. Returning to Scotland, at eighteen he begins studying literature at university in Aberdeen. In 1981, Currie leaves to found 'The Happy Family', a group including three ex-members of the band 'Josef K'. Their debut album, 'The Man On Your Street' is released by 4AD the following year. Subsequently he returns to academic life, graduating with first class honours in 1984. Moving to London, Currie re-invents himself as 'Momus' and, in 1986, releases the album 'Circus Maximus' on él Records. In 1987, Momus signs with Creation Records. He releases three further albums in the 1980s followed by a compilation, 'Monsters Of Love', in 1990, all to critical acclaim. The 1991 Momus album, 'Hippopotamomus', sees a move to a stripped-down electronic sound and overtly prurient lyrics. A press backlash is coupled with a threat of corporate litigation over the 'Michelin Man' track and the record's sleeve design. The track is deleted and the album re-packaged. In 1992, Momus releases two musically divergent albums, plus a book of lyrics entitled 'Lusts Of A Moron'. Parting with Creation Records after 1993's album, 'Timelord', Currie travels to Japan - a country with which he nurtures a mutual love affair. In 1994, he marries his Bangladeshi girlfriend Shazna and moves to Paris, where he develops an increasingly futuristic cosmopolitan sound. Since the mid 1990s, album releases include 'The Philosophy Of Momus', 'Ping Pong' (marketed as "futuristic vaudeville"), 'The Little Red Songbook' ("analogue baroque") and 'Stars Forever' (a collection of thirty commissioned musical portraits conceived to help pay more legal bills). Phespirit's HeroAs one often finds with great intellectual and artistic conceptualists, it is not possible to sycophantically fawn over the full canon of Nick Currie's work. But it's very very close.
Currie is a culture hero. Nick Currie is Phespirit's hero for 'The Animal That Desires'; for 'Murderers, The Hope Of Women'; for 'Marquis Of Sadness'; for 'A White Oriental Flower'; for 'Bishonen'; for 'Good Morning World'; for 'David Hamilton'; for 'Enlightenment'; for 'Summer Holiday 1999'; and for 'Tender Pervert'. Nick Currie is Phespirit's hero for 'See A Friend In Tears'; for 'The Guitar Lesson'; for 'Pornography'; for 'La Catrina'; for 'The Cabinet Of Kuniyoshi Kaneko'; for 'Hotel Marquis De Sade'; for 'Rhetoric'; for 'The Rape Of Lucretia'; for 'Ballad Of The Barrel Organist'; and for 'Slender Sherbet'. Nick Currie is Phespirit's hero for 'Cibachrome Blue'; for 'The Poisoners'; for 'Streetlamp Soliloquy'; for 'The Age Of Information'; for 'Born To Be Adored'; for 'The Ultraconformist'; for 'Closer To You'; for 'The Charm Of Innocence'; for 'Lucky Like St Sebastian'; for 'The Sadness Of Things'. Nick Currie is Phespirit's hero for ..... [ More Momus ]
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