NIK WYMER

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A retrospective

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Celebrating 50 years of music and remembering a time and life of a man who helped to lay the building blocks of a creative movement of the early sixties in Great Britain, which is very much alive in the foundation of 'Brit Pop' bands and other modern music genres today.

 

This story is about Suffolk’s very own singer songwriter, Nick Wymer who made his debut in the early sixties first, with the band called Nick & The Nomads later changed to Nix Nomads.

Nik was one of the very few of that time in Ipswich, Suffolk to make a record deal with a major label at a time of the British Pop invasion.

 

The band entered a competition in 1963 and were signed to HMV with a single,’Your Nobody Til’ Somebody Loves You” HMV B side - ”She’ll Be Sweeter Than You”, which has been subsequently a British Rhythm & Blues classic /collectable now and can be found on at least 20 compilation CD’s in the U.S to date.

 

Nik and the band toured up and down the country headlining the big clubs like the ‘Top Ten Club’ in Hamburg and around Europe shortly after The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

 

Later in 1964 Nik left the Nomads to pursue his career in London and was to join a band already established to Decca Records called ‘The Fairies’ who’s singer had crashed the van whilst drunk. The Fairies were swiftly dropped by Decca.

 

Nik joined The Fairies in their hour of need and recorded two singles 'Get Yourself Home/Don’t mind' Their second single was a commercial affair but had a Fairies arrangment of 'Baby Don't' on the B-side on Nix Nomads label HMV. Both singles were promoted with tours of the whole U.K with Nik driving the Bedford van with band to places such as Scotland, the midlands and venues as far as even Wales.

Later on that year Nik was introduced to Jimi Hendrix by the ‘Fairies’ manager at 'The Sgt Peppers Club'.

 

Shortly after 'The Fairies' split up, Nik joined ‘Them’ After Van Morrison left the band and started a tour with ‘Them’ singing classics like ‘Hear Comes The night', ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ & ‘Gloria’ after a few months of playing with this great band they were asked to change the band name to 'Some Of Them'  the classic songs were working well for Nik and with constant live exposure on the scene was soon spotted by A&R man Jimmy Page from ‘Immediate Records’ and later recorded sessions with Jimmy and also the fantastic Jeff Beck.