Nick Seymour
| Nick Seymour | |
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Seymour of Crowded House
Barcelona, October 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nicholas More Seymour |
| Born |
9 December 1958 Benalla, Victoria, Australia |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Alternative rock, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer, painter |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, backing vocals |
| Years active | 1979–present |
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Nicholas More "Nick" Seymour (born 9 December 1958, Benalla, Victoria) is a musician, painter, and record producer. He is the founding mainstay bass guitarist in the Australasian rock group Crowded House; and is also the younger brother of Mark Seymour, singer-songwriter-guitarist, of another rock band, Hunters and Collectors.
Nicholas More Seymour was born on 9 December 1958 in Benalla to Frank and Paula Seymour – both were teachers. He has two older sisters, Hilary and Helen, and an older brother, Mark (born 1956). Helen was later a music teacher, and Mark became the founding lead singer-songwriter-guitarist for Hunters & Collectors. His mother encouraged all four children to learn musical instruments and sing. When he was a young boy they toured country Victoria, as the Seymour Family Singers. In 1972 the family moved to Melbourne, where he attended Yarra Junction Primary School. He taught himself to play bass guitar. After finishing secondary education he studied Visual Arts at a tertiary institute.
Seymour was a member of various local bands, starting with The Glory Boys in 1979, then The Romantics in the next year, and Scratch Record Scratch. In 1981 he joined Plays with Marionettes on bass guitar; which had formed in 1980 with Robin Casinader on drums, piano and Hammond organ; Edward Clayton-Jones on guitar and vocals (ex-Fabulous Marquises); and Hugo Race on lead vocals and guitar. The group performed an "aggravating style of jazzy no-wave noise" and broke up in February 1984. Their recordings include one side of a shared single, "Witchen Kopf" (1982), and "Hellbelly" which appeared on a various artists' compilation, This is Hot (1984). A briefly existing group, The Horla, were formed by Seymour (ex-Bang); Casinader; Clayton-Jones and Brian McMahon on keyboards but disbanded by the end of 1984.
Seymour also worked as a set designer of films including, The Leonski Incident (1984), and on the TV series, Carson's Law. At the end of 1984, Seymour auditioned as one of "a long line of bass players" to become a founding member of The Mullanes alongside Neil Finn on lead vocals; and Paul Hester on drums (both ex-Split Enz). He had played to a taped series of tracks previously recorded by Finn and Hester. The group formed early in the next year and included Craig Hooper on lead guitar (ex-The Reels). Hooper left the group and remained behind in Melbourne when the remaining trio travelled to Los Angeles to start recording sessions, where they were renamed, Crowded House.
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