Focussing his music in theatre — where, as an actor-musician, he has written and recorded songs for shows — Up the Hill is Nick’s first album recorded, as it were, just as himself. It has a fun tone as well as something of a whimsical slant. It ranges from folk-style, through light swing numbers with echoes of the 1920s-30s to gentle satire and music hall. It includes two songs inspired by figures from Greek mythology: Charon and the other, lending the album title, Sisyphus.
All songs written and performed by Nick Murray Brown.
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Accordion, Mouth organ, Drums, Percussion & Synth.
Total run time: 74 mins.
Film preview of the tracks on the album
Music video – Skeleton in the Cupboard
Koh-i-Noor, a music video featured in The Little Cabaret of Suffragette, focuses on Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of Duleep Singh, the dethroned Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
A recording made a while after the song appeared in the actor-musician final year show, The Kinderman Affair, at Rose Bruford College, 1995.
Remembering Dennis and Bo.
