"...the new short film explains what the band [Spinal Tap] has been doing with their lives lately. Nigel has been raising miniature horses to race, but can't find jockeys small enough to ride them; David is now a hip-hop producer who also runs a colonic clinic; and Derek is in rehab for addiction to the Internet."

That line from this story about Spinal Tap reuniting for one show reminded me of my band.  Yeah, we've been down in the "basement" for so long, I actually had to be reminded about my own band.  (Who, incidentally, was named after the lead guitarist of Spinal Tap, Nigel Tuffnel.)

But the truth is, we might not ever come back from hibernation.  Maybe we didn't eat enough salmon.  Maybe it's this damn global warming.  I don't know.

Missing all of you.

Patrick

Thanks to HannaH, Reeyotch, and a radomizer for coming up with some great Nigel slogans!  I've got to completely rethink Nigelshitake.

Have some slogan ideas yourself?  Post a comment and I'll add it.

Cheers, Patrick

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Despite claims, Nigel is one of Valley's best power pop bands
By Chris Hansen Orf, Get Out
September 6, 2006

With rock n roll being a playground for hyperbole and blustering braggadocio, it's refreshing to find a band with a sense of modesty. The headline on Valley pop/rock group Nigel's www.myspace.com/nigelmusic Web site states that the band is Probably the 8th best band in Arizona.

We have a pretty self-deprecating sense of humor, but we also think we're pretty good, explains singer/guitarist Patrick Sullivan. I think that anyone could name seven bands from Arizona that are better than us. But I'll bet they'd be hard-pressed to find more than that.

Bassist/vocalist Pete Blato De Souza is more succinct: I'm not into the whole low self-esteem thing I think were the best band in Arizona. Nigel will challenge any band to a Rock Off!

Joking aside, Nigel is certainly better than eighth on a list of Arizona's best bands a new self-titled EP contains six tunes brimming with catchy hooks and tight vocal harmonies surrounded by a booming rhythm section and heavy guitars and the group's songs (recorded and produced by Jamie Woolford of Valley alt-pop fave Let Go) are radio ready.

Together for just more than two years (We met at a Tupperware party, like all rock bands do, Patrick says), Nigel which also includes drummer Brad Mahoney and guitarist/singer Sean Gross took its name from Spinal Tap's rock guitar hero Nigel Tufnel.

I'd like to point out that we have armadillos in our trousers and our amps go to 11, says De Souza, referencing the film, and it's only appropriate as Spinal Tap was another band with not only the ability to rawk, but also a wicked sense of humor.

Nigel recorded its debut, Songs About Things, in 2004, but is more pleased with the new disc.

The new release is way better, mostly because I actually play on this one, laughs Gross, who wasn't with the band for the debut effort. Seriously, the presentation is so much better and we have come out of this a much better band.

And they have lofty goals.

How about being the seventh-best band in Arizona? says Sullivan.

I think we could even get back to being the sixth-best band, says Gross. If we tried really, really hard.

>> Nigel performs 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, at Real Bar, 5014 S. Price Road., Tempe. $6. (480) 897-1466 or www.myspace.com/nigelmusic

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The Joe Friday version:
It was hot.
It was loud.
The lighting was rad, except if you were sitting at the bar and they were shining right into your eyes. Sorry.
And there were nearly 250 people in attendance!!

Blato? Loved it.
sourceVictoria? Thank you sirs, may we have another and another and another?
Domo? Hell Jes.
Nigel? Still probably the 8th best band in Arizona. ;-)
Gooder? No, it actually doesn't get any gooder than that!

Thank you so much to everyone that came out of the woody-work for this show. You guys were fantastic and you truly made it our best show ever!

Special thanks to Brannon, Doug, Devin, Tom, Diane and everyone else at Last Exit that let the Nigel army invade the bar and take over for a night. We love the Last Exit!!

Pictures, sound bites, and fingernails to be posted soon.

UPDATE: Finally got some pics uploaded. Here's all the Nigel photos:

Here's Domo and sourceVictoria. (I think my photographer was too tired to snap any Gooder pics. Sorry boys.)

Cheers, Patrick

There's a bunch of "genius" Photoshop users out there. Seems a flyer war has sprung up for this Friday's show.

Brad's first salvo:


Angel at Track99 fired back:


Any other entries? Send me an email with your bulleting and I'll post them all on the blog here.

Cheers, Patrick

Feel free to try on anything you like.

Cheers, Patrick

By popular demand, Nigel will be throwing an all ages CD release party on Wednesday, August 2nd at the historical Modified in downtown Phoenix.

With XYZebra (from Phoenix, greatest band name ever!), Goldfish Don't Bounce (from Vegas, 4th greatest band name ever), and Sweater Club (from Portland, boring name like Nigel).

Click here to view the rest of the event info.

UPDATE: Leslie from The Modified wrote something nice about us. "NIGEL Self proclaimed, The 8th best band in Phoenix. All energetic harmonies." Thx Leslie. Can't wait to meet ya! :)

Nigel will be sharing the stage with the man that made us, broke us down, and then made us again, only to kick us in soft parts a few times when we weren't looking: Jamie Woolford of LET GO. (Jamie produced our newly released EP.)

The event invite for the show is here. Let us hear from ya.

Oh yeah...Jamie made, broke, made, and broke again Kingfish Fiasco when he produced their full length. It's sort of his style.

So both bands are going to be nervous to share the stage with such a golden rod...err, golden god. Yeah, that's it.

Cheers, Patrick

...until CD release party!!

We had our most awesome photo shoot ever tonight. And by awesome, I mean our first.

Get Out Magazine is doing a story about Nigel -- probably a cover story -- and they sent out a photog that had us posing like Motley Cru in the band room.

At first I felt like a dork because I wasn't sure how to look/pose. But he sorted of coaxed us into doing it the "right" way. So then I started to get comfortable and forget I was at a photo shoot. Then I realized I was posing like a metal singer and I started to feel like a dork again. I went back and forth between being Vince Neil and The Waterboy for about 15 minutes until he suggested we take some action shots. So we strapped on the gear and I just started jumping around (like normal, better) and apparently, he got some good shots. So I'm pretty sure that we're now like the 7th or 6th best band in Arizona.

Next, we get to be interviewed.

Cheers, Patrick



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Hey guys!  We've got a new MySpace look.  Going with the tan and green-ish in support of new CD cover.  But yes, we're still the same old Napolean "VOTE FOR NIGEL" Dynamite band.  ;-)