Nick Allbrook
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nicholas Allbrook |
| Born |
23 November 1987 (age 29) Subiaco, Western Australia |
| Origin | Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Genres | Psychedelic rock, funk, alternative rock, neo-psychedelia, glam rock, hard rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, flute, drums |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | Modular Recordings |
| Associated acts |
Pond Tame Impala Allbrook/Avery Mink Mussel Creek Peter Bibby |
Nicholas "Paisley Adams" Allbrook (born 23 November 1987) is an Australian psychedelic rock musician, singer, songwriter. He is best known as frontman of Pond, and a member of musical duo Allbrook/Avery. He was a touring member of Tame Impala before leaving the band in 2013.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, Allbrook grew up in Fremantle for the first 4 years of his life. He then moved with his parents to Derby, a town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where he lived until the age of 12. After spending 8 years moving around the Kimberley, Allbrook moved back to Perth where he spent the majority of his teenage life. Whilst living in Derby he attended Derby District High School.
Allbrook has a brother and sister, both "quite a bit older."
During the main part his life in high school, music never came up as an interest for Allbrook. He was focused on skateboarding from year 8 to year 11, then become invested in Soccer. Towards the even of year 12 he made friends with another student and started listening to music. At about the same time, his parents bought him a guitar, and he began to attend lessons with a local Perth teacher, though he has stated that he was "awful" at the time.
In 2007 he bought a flute off eBay, and figured out how to play by himself using the internet.
Whilst beginning to play in a school band with his friends, Allbrook was interested in and listening to a lot of The Who and Led Zeppelin. It was around this time that he started to write his own songs, but he did not begin to record his own music until a couple of years later when he had a tape recorder.
in 2005 Allbrook's first serious band, Electric Blue Acid Dogs, formed out of his and his friends' interest in alternative music. To begin, the lineup was Allbrook, and his two friends Steve and Nathan. They performed blues covers and recorded songs on tape recorders. Later, the band were forced to change their name to Mink Mussel Creek enter in band competitions due to the drug reference ("Acid"). At the same time, they recruited Sam Devenport to be their drummer.
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