Winchester Gig Guide
Willie Nile
Tuesday 19 October 2010 -- EVENT HAS PASSED
Venue: White Swan
Address: 84 Hyde Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7DW
Telephone: 01962 868144
Willie Nile 9pm. Free entry. Do not miss this chance to see such an amazing artist live in your local. Willie Nile is a songwriter's songwriter. No less a personage than Lucinda Williams has said of him "Willie Nile is a great artist. If there was any justice in this world, I'd be opening up for him instead of him for me." Lou Reed hails Streets of New York as "a great album", while Graham Parker calls it "a real gem - stirring melodies, passionate vocals, intriguing lyrics... every track a winner". Willie made his recording debut in 1980 when his acclaimed self-titled LP on Arista Records, following it a year later with Golden Down. He also opened The Who's North American tour at the personal request of the band. In 1982, he signed to Geffen Records but got caught in a record-biz limbo and didn't manage to release another record until 1991, when Columbia issued Places I Have Never Been. With the EP Hard Times in America in 1992, which became a cult favourite throughout Europe, Nile finally managed to jump off the major-label hamster wheel. Gathering together his resources over time, he managed to put out his first self-released album, Beautiful Wreck of the World just before the end of the century. Watch a video of Willie live in Lisbon on 5 September 2009 performing House Of A Thousand Guitars with a 40,000 audience at www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd9n0Wgj2d4. Visit www.willienile.com for more information.
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