Nick Laird-Clowes is a musician, most famous for his membership as the lead singer and one of the principal songwriters for the band called The Dream Academy. His most famous songs from this classic era include "Life in a Northern Town", "The Love Parade", "The Edge of Forever", "This World", "Indian Summer", "Power to Believe", and "12/8 Angel. " He was also a presenter for the first series of the Channel 4 music show, The Tube.

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  • Nick Laird-Clowes is a musician, most famous for his membership as the lead singer and one of the principal songwriters for the band called The Dream Academy. His most famous songs from this classic era include "Life in a Northern Town", "The Love Parade", "The Edge of Forever", "This World", "Indian Summer", "Power to Believe", and "12/8 Angel. " He was also a presenter for the first series of the Channel 4 music show, The Tube. He was a member of "Alfalpha" and "The Act" which pre-date The Dream Academy. Laird-Clowes also descended deeper into drug abuse, finally getting clean during a stay at a Himalayan monastery. His solo album Mona Lisa Overdrive was released under the name Trashmonk in 1999 under Alan McGee's famous Creation Records then subsequently rereleased a few years later with two exclusive tracks ("Mr Karma" and "Fur Hat") under the reinvented PopTones label, again by McGee. A friend of David Gilmour, he co-wrote several lyrics on Pink Floyd's album The Division Bell. As Trashmonk, he opened for some of Gilmour's performances in the early 2000s. In recent years, he has been heavily involved in movie soundtracks, producing the score for The Invisible Circus, was the musical consultant for The Dreamers (he can be seen in a DVD extra featurette about music from the film), and was responsible for Fierce People, a 2005 film starring Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland. Nick Broomfield's hard-hitting film Battle for Haditha - premiered at the London Film Festival in 2007, also featured a Laird-Clowes soundtrack. In June 2009, he scored Broomfield's agitprop documentary for Greenpeace, A Time Comes, featuring the single Mayday. He is currently finishing a second solo Trashmonk album due for release in 2008 on his own label..
  • Nick Laird-Clowes nascut el 5 de febrer del 1957 a Londres, Anglaterra, és un músic conegut per ser el líder, cantant i un dels principals compositors del grup The Dream Academy. També va treballar a la sèrie de televisió The Tube i va fer un àlbum en solitari anomenat Mona Lisa Overdrive que el va treure amb el nom artístic Trashmonk el 1999. Amic de David Gilmour, va coescriure un bon nombre de lletres per a l'àlbum The Division Bell de Pink Floyd. Com a Trashmonk, va obrir diverses de les actuacions de Gilmour en els primers 2000. Últimament ha treballat en diverses bandes sonores de pel·lícules com The Invisible Circus, també ha treballat com a consultor musical en diferents musicals. També treballa en el segon disc de Trashmonk.
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  • Nick Laird-Clowes is a musician, most famous for his membership as the lead singer and one of the principal songwriters for the band called The Dream Academy. His most famous songs from this classic era include "Life in a Northern Town", "The Love Parade", "The Edge of Forever", "This World", "Indian Summer", "Power to Believe", and "12/8 Angel. " He was also a presenter for the first series of the Channel 4 music show, The Tube.
  • Nick Laird-Clowes nascut el 5 de febrer del 1957 a Londres, Anglaterra, és un músic conegut per ser el líder, cantant i un dels principals compositors del grup The Dream Academy. També va treballar a la sèrie de televisió The Tube i va fer un àlbum en solitari anomenat Mona Lisa Overdrive que el va treure amb el nom artístic Trashmonk el 1999. Amic de David Gilmour, va coescriure un bon nombre de lletres per a l'àlbum The Division Bell de Pink Floyd.
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