Two new live dates for Nick and Nasty Habits!

 

Friday 5th April – “EXPLOSIV” , Graz, Austria

 

Saturday 6th April – “DIE BÜHNE“, Purkersdorf, Austria

 

Nick & Nasty Habits will be supported by the Austrian band RESTLESS BONES at both venues.

 

Peter has sent us a video that promotes the two dates:

 

We’re glad to inform you that Nick Simper & Nasty Habits are to release a new live album titled “Live An’ Nasty” on vinyl very soon.

 

It’s the first album with new vocalist Attila Scholtz, who has worked with the likes of Jon Lord and Ian Paice before.

 

It will be a limited edition set of 150 pieces on purple vinyl and 350 pieces on black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve and with 180 g vinyl. The tracklist is a mixture of Nasty Habits songs and Mark 1 Deep Purple tracks.

 

Titles are: Joke / Emmaretta / Cold / Please Don’t Go / Why Didn’t Rosemary / Help / Lalena/ Hush

 

The record will be out on May 19th. It is only available on the Nasty Habits homepage. www.nastyhabits.eu

 

 

 

 

The album release concert will take place on Sat. 23rd June in Vienna at the REIGEN, where the LP was recorded too. www.reigen.at

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liebe Freunde!

 

Gleich zwei Gründe gibt es,um sich am 23. Juni im REIGEN, Nick Simper & Nasty Habits anzusehen.

 

Erstens wird die neue LP der Band ” Live An’ Nasty” präsentiert. Ein Vinyl Gustostückerl die in limitierter Auflage von 500 Stk erschienen ist. Die LP wurde 2017 im REIGEN mitgeschnitten und ist das Erstlingswerk der Band mit dem neuen Sänger Attila Scholtz. Die LP wird exklusiv beim Konzert erhältlich sein und nach dem Konzert von der Band signiert.

 

Zweitens wird es ein spezielles ” 50 Jahre DEEP PURPLE ” Programm geben.

 

Das Gründungsmitglied und Bassist NICK SIMPER und die Band werden erstmals das legendäre Erstlingswerk von DEEP PURPLE ” Shades Of” live spielen.

 

Ich hoffe ihr habt Zeit und feiert mit uns den 50er .

 

Rockigen Gruss

 

Peter Brkusic

 

 

 

Peter has announced two new Nasty Habits gigs for 2017:

 

10th March 2017 – “EBOARDMUSEUM” Klagenfurt, Austria
11th March 2017 – “Reigen”, Vienna, Austria

 

 

 

 

Nick will be playing three gigs with Nasty Habits, featuring their new singer Attila Scholtz in September:
	3rd September – The Reigen, Vienna 4th September – Kielce ROCKugaFestival, Kielce city, Poland 10th September – Fellstock Festival, 9754 Steinfield, Carinthia, Austria

 

Peter Brkusic from Nasty Habits has supplied us with a brief history of their new singer:

Attila Scholtz was born in Budapest, Hungary on 7 June 1973. He took two college degrees in teaching English as a foreign language, but he has always been more attracted to the stage than to schools. He formed his first band at the age of 14, and besides learning to play all the basic “rock instruments”, he soon started focusing on singing. His voice has been classically trained since 1995. In 2003, he was awarded “Singer of the Year” at the award show organised by Hungary’s biggest rock club, Wigwam. He has also learnt to play latin percussion and he’s a keen harmonica player. As a founding member and key figure of the Foundation for Hungarian Rock Musicians, Attila worked a lot for years to help young musicians get along in the weird world of music business.

 

He is most well-known, however, as founder and leader of Cry Free, the Hungarian Deep Purple Cover Band, one of the most authentic tribute acts in the whole world, looking back onto a 20-year career, during which they have given more than 500 shows in 8 countries, sometimes playing to thousands (their audience record: 9000 people). When the band celebrated Deep Purple’s 40th anniversary in 2008 with a huge concert, the members of the “real” Deep Purple welcomed them in a video message that they had recorded just for them beforehand.

 

Cry Free is perhaps the only tribute band in the world who have played with three original members of the group they represent on separate occasions. Perhaps the most outstanding of all these collaborations was the one with Jon Lord (R.I.P.), as the legendary keyboardist/composer toured the world playing his extraordinary show with some of the best symphony orchestras and conductors, and Cry Free. Until the great maestro’s untimely death, Attila and his band accompanied him on stage 14 times in 4 different countries, reaching as far as Asia.

 

Apart from Jon Lord (and other rock legends such as Ken Hensley of Uriah Heep and Bobby Rondinelli of Rainbow/Black Sabbath), Cry Free have also performed with founding Deep Purple members Ian Paice and Nick Simper. During the Simper collaboration, the bass player’s own band, Austrian musicians Nasty Habits made a mental note that singer Attila Scholtz may be of good use for them in the future. And indeed, when original NH singer Christian Schmied couldn’t make it to their Russian tour early 2015, they brought in the Hungarian singer, who came to the rescue. A few months later he was announced as an official member, and now the new Nasty Habits line-up complete with Attila Scholtz is awaiting a handful of shows this autumn with Nick Simper on board again, of course.

The brand new studio album “De La Frog Conspiracy” by NICK SIMPER & NASTY HABITS is out now. This is Nick Simper´s first studio album in 18 years! 11 new original songs, contemporary rock in the classic line-up at its best. Copies signed by Nick Simper for 15 Euros only available from Nasty Habits. Send an email to nasty.habits@chello.at for more details.
To mark this historic event, Nick will be re-uniting with Nasty Habits for a gig on 16th May 2015 at Vereinshaus, 6811 Göfis, Austria.

 

Photos from the Vienna date – click here.

Photos of Nick and Nasty Habits in the recording studio, September 2012. Click on either of the pictures to see the full set.