Hello. I am Nico.

This is my old fashioned personal website where I publish creative things. It’s deliberately a bit messy and chaotic because that’s where the good stuff hides.

rage

New and sexy things

• My latest essay is here: Yes, I have been rollerblading a lot
• My now page
• Latest snaps: Days, in 35mm slices or see all on the snaps page or on my pixelfed.
• Music chatter is here
• Car photos and chat is here.
• New album out now: go here and buy it.

It is the first release on my new label hyperdoom

hyperdoom

or maybe

hyperdoom

Current projects

• Make new house good
• Beacon (software project for my company)
• New music will be even more hyper and more doom
• Still refining the insane distortion effect, new and unique and different to everything ever before

roar

Things I do

Snapping and scribbling about cars has been a part of my life since first hitching a ride to the British Motor Show in 2000. My lockdown podcast on car culture and sim racing was picked up by a leading e-sports organisation. I’ve attended national level events in a professional capacity. For a while I had a collection of world records in Forza Horizon but lately I’m more into Dirt Rally 2.0. I wish they would update the Lydden Hill layout with the Nitro Rallycross changes! Motoring based stuff is over here.

Nico Beastie Boyce

I started making music playing slow-and-low jams at parties in old Cornish farm buildings with millennial long-haired skate punk trash buddies in pre-YouTube times. You can hear me on Bandcamp or search for me in your music streaming app of choice. I primarily play the electric upright bass.

My album and live reviews and also interviews have been published online and in print under various pen names. I have had the privilege of meeting most of my musical heroes and experiencing far more live performances than I could list or remember. There’s some noise and nonsense here.

I’m getting into painting but it’s hard to kill my inner critic. I use spray cans on wooden boards. It takes a lot of patience. I’m still developing my plans with this but there is an ambition to do some sort of exhibition within the next year or so.

skull

Best way to get started is to open the paint and slap it down on the surface.

Frug.

Designing and prototyping analogue audio circuits, primarily guitar effects, is something I need to find more time for. I have been testing a novel and unique distortion unit which is capable of a huge spectrum of new sounds. I will write more about that as the project progresses.

Deltastring

I also do CX consulting and Zendesk implementations and integrations, so if that is what you are interested in please head to Deltastring.