Grammy nominated/Multi-Million sellers who spawned classic hits
(I Just) Died in Your Arms and I've Been in Love Before are currently promoting their latest album,
Grinning Souls.
Welcome to the OFFICIAL Cutting Crew website.
CONTACT: cuttingcrew2008@gmail.com
"as fragile as Damien Rice, as honest as REM and as stirring as Starsailor...Cutting Crew live is the big surprise of the year" FutureRock @Downtown/JKH
"Simply blinding band with those great hits we all forgot we knew and, remarkably, even better current crop of new songs" 5* KPLT/Live Current Scene (LCSinc)
Apologies to you all about the website not being very up to date. we are undergoing reconstruction and soon will have new shop page and loads of new songs and old rare demoes for you. plus some super new photos an youtube links. thank you for your patience. the my space link is the most actively updated forum for you to see... so click on the link at top of main page.
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LATEST NEWS HEADLINES:
Over the past 6 months Nick has made a wonderful new friendship with an Italian singer/writer who is simply a genius of energy and ideas and dedicated musical excellence. Her name is Sandrina Sedona and they have collaborated on the musical piece from the (last Cutting Crew album) Grinning Souls.... "Lauren's Theme"
It is a classical/instrumental piece that Nick wrote as he felt the lyrics for the original "song" were too raw and upsetting to include in a rock album. Sandrina pounced like a cat and translated his original text and has sung the melody in Italian..she arranged and edited and basically breathed so much new life into this gorgeous melody. The track below is only a demo at the moment but the reactions we have received have been so strong that we will try to offer it to one of the crop of new young classical vocal groups/soloists in the world. Wish us luck and thank you Sandrina!!
Find below the song:
Nick sings in Augsburg (25th October) alongside Bobby Kimball of Toto/Kim Wide/Roger Hodgson of Supertramp. What a dream gig eh? We wil try to get some video footage for upload later on but for now here is a photo of Nick with Bobby and Roger and the fabulous Kim before the show In Germany last month.
It's not often I feel the need to immediately write something on the site but I HAD to say how sad I was to hear of the passing of Rick Wright of Pink Floyd. Every song I ever wrote was influenced by his chords and movements in their arrangements.....a complete master of understatement as Roger and Dave took centre stage he ploughed on with the coolest Hammond tones and all kinds of cutting edge sounds and experiments. I saw the band a few times including the premier of 'Shine on You crazy diamond' at Wembley Arena in Quadrophonic. A true master lost so far too early. Nick van Eede
Find below some fun pix from Ina of Nick and Gareth on stage in the past summer with Katrina (Katrina and the Waves)
and Paul Young and Alannah Myles:
We've just received a photo of Nick in his first ever band US with old pals George Brinkhurst
on Bass and Steve Boorer on Drums. We guess it is circa 1972.....how cool?
Nick has recently signed an endorsement deal with Freshman guitars based in Glasgow.
Sean Kelly has been building a great roster of Freshman players including The Kooks, Sandi Thom and Kelly Clarkson. See the range at: http://www.freshmanguitars.co.uk/
IMPORTANT:
Due to continued technical problems with our Shop site providers we are not using them as the point of sale but will dispatch any cds/t-shirts/files direct from CC HQ. Just place your order in the email. Thanks.
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Amazing news from the Cutting Crew HQ!!! They have signed a record deal for the USA and Canada with Spectra Records. This means the Grinning Souls album is available from the streets of San Francisco to Saskatoon!!!
Nick is writing songs for the new album and hopes to record later this year.
He also signed up for a quick 8 day tour of the UK on the latest Here and Now package in May alongside cc guitarist, gareth moulton, old pal Paul Young and new pal Martin Fry of ABC….see banner at my space page!!!
He says he agreed to join the tour for 2 reasons…paul young would be in charge of back-stage catering and that he recently found a huge flightcase of original t-shirts from the 80’s and thinks it would be a good chance to get shot of them……….haha!
Fantastic Aussie band ACID EYELINER have recorded a brilliant cover of (I Just) Died in Your Arms. It truly rocks and we wish Lukey and the band every success. Click here to visit their site!!!
Listen to hour long interview with Nick live on radio in Edinburgh last year. Some real revelations and lots of laughs.
Right Click on link and choose Save Link to download : Interview with Nick Edinburgh Spring 2006
We expect you have all heard the fuss about MIKA and his song, Relax, Take it Easy...how it sounds remarkably close to the Cutting Crew epic. Let's just say all has been resolved and CC will be covering it in the new tour shows...hahaha!!!
In case you'd forgotten the old chestnut.....here's a link to the US version of (I Just) Died in your Arms.
Died In Your Arms Video 1987 (USA)
For all those able to tune into German TV station WDR then:
CC live at Rockplast will be broadcast at 00.30 am until 2.30am on Monday, January 29th 2007. So go to bed Sunday night and watch in early hours of Monday morning...don't miss this great gig!!!!
Nick flies to Salzburg, Austria to perform with Symphony orchestra in Alps on 21st Dec. Beautiful new arrangements of Died in your Arms and I've been in Love before.
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Just heard that the brilliant bar in Barbados BAY BISTRO on the St. Lawrence Gap has named their new special cocktail after Nick's favourite tipple when on de island and the song that was played endlessly on local radio..it's called a GETUPANDGETOVERIT!!!!!!
To listen to all tracks from new album just simply go to the MUSIC page above and click on samples!!!!
Click on link below to see a short video (WINDOWS MEDIA FILE) of introduction to Died in your arms live at Hamm festival this summer. Be patient, this may take a while to load!!! Enjoy.
Full series of fabulous gig photos/ backstage fun and on the road stuff/weird archive photos.
Click here on www.xpress-mm.com/CC for a look!!!!!!
Here are some fine examples from Missy in Florida, Daniella in Berlin, Micaela in Turin and Lars from Helsinki.
Listen to Nick playing live radio broadcast of Died in your Arms/CC live in Germany playing un-released song Mother's Little Angel at MYSPACE link. Also find these tracks for download at our SHOP page along with a rare album Nick sang guest vocals on..SWAMP!!!
Also the only album ever released by Nick's former band THE DRIVERS!!!! SHORT CUTS..we have had so many enquries about this so hopefully this will keep you happy for now...plus..some un-released demoes too.
Just received a very rare cd copy/dub of Nick B-side when he was in his late teenz recording with Chas Chandler. Click here to hear HOLD ON TO YOUR HEART. hold on to your heart
The Cutting Crew CD is available at our SHOP & at Amazon or i-Tunes worldwide. Also in all good record stores IN EUROPE and USA
and from the record label www.hypertension-music.de
BBC RADIO 2. SEPT 16th: Nick sings and larks around on comedy/spoof/radio music show hosted by the inimitable Roland Rivron...who plays drums in the show's band.
Listen out for Nick singing excerpts from Sound of Music as showstopper amongst many others.....honest!!!
Nick flew, with guitarist Gareth Moulton, to Tanzania/Zanzibar on 18th August for a charity show on 22nd.
It was organized by the Aga Khan Charity/United We Care.
Click here for short clip of one of the Tanzanian acts on the show!! africa 101
We have a new German based associated website for all the fans there....contains quizzes/mailinglists/reviews. Come and visit at www.cutting-crew.eu
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We truly hope you enjoy this new site as it welcomes in a new chapter for Nick in his third decade in the biz. Check out the songs/tour dates/reviews/photos/sign our guest book and most important we hope to see you again soon in your part of the world, as the band will be singing the old faves and the latest from this album.....plus some ABBA and REM and Alanis??????????
Look out for upcoming gigs on TOUR DATES menu..they are flooding in as we speak!! November tour...German TV and UK radio.
Thanks to all the fab fanz for giving the band such a truly brilliant time on the road ....you know who you are...they were extremely emotional & raunchy tours...glad you were there in your thousands.
For all those interested in CC archives and all activity/discography/past gigs/pix then please go to Tom Gilmore's excellent site www.tgilmore.com/cc
A very special new addition to the site is the introduction of a good pal from USA who was a massive fan of Kevin MacMichael. His name is David Monti and he has designed some guitar picks/plectrums in a beautiful memorium to Kevin. They are made with Kevin's signature/life span and Cutting Crew logo on the item. They are available from him directly and ALL proceeds will go to the Nova Scotia Lung Association. This is a truly generous gift that you may want to donate to. I have one brilliant design and Cadence, Kev's daughter proudly owns one too. We are very happy to promote this worthy cause. He can be contacted at dmonti@rbhs208.org and will take care of all arrangements. Thanks to you Dave and all those who get involved. Nick.
