Kamakura
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Kamakura is the band formed by Nick Calvert and Mick Dorey. With roots stretching from the Punk movement in the late 70's through the New Romantics of the 80's and Indie of the 90's Kamakura's music is not only highly original but totally unique.
They have been described as Pink Floyd meets The Smiths. The powerful lyrics and strong guitar driven vocals of Nick Calvert blend seemlessly with Mick Dorey's exquisitely rich counter melodies and sublime piano style. They are a song writing partnership to listen out for...Band/artist history
Nick Calvert - Guitar and Vocals
Nick Calvert joined the 'Sirens' during the heady musically eclectic days of the 80's. They immediately jetted off to Los Angeles to record an album for Burman and Buziack, managers of The Alan Parsons' Project. The band split up a year later as they were 'Home Sick' and Nick went back to London and worked in multimedia - that's videos to you.
Nick found that he had hidden talents in multimedia and even to this day, cannot resist dabbling in 'Web site building'. During this time Nick co-edited '32 Not Out' a film about the Beirut hostage John McCarthy.
In 1985, he moved to Germany to set up a production company called 'Skyline' and 'Skyline Studios' were responsible for a respectable percentage of the German 'New Wave' music, sweeping the country at that time.
In the early nineties Nick worked in film and video again and 'Breath of Life' was nominated for a BAFTA in '92. He also worked on many other British successes including 'Personal Services' and others, the titles of which he forgets because the music was calling.
In 97 Nick re-joined Mick Dorey to form the pop band 'Kamakura' and moved to the south coast. They have perfected the music, financing themselves, writing film soundtracks (Fanny Hill, Lily Savage, etc). They now have a collection of songs that are truly world class and are just about to launch them onto an unsuspecting public.
Mick Dorey - Producer, Keyboards & Vocals
Mick trained and sang as a chorister at St. Paul's cathedral in London. From the age of thirteen he worked to pay for piano lessons. At the age of seventeen he signed publishing with Chin & Chapman and a while later sang harmonies on Blondie's 'Eat to the Beat'.
He was a founding member of 'The Intellectuals' who changed their name to 'Wang Chung' just after Mick left to form 'Mick Dorey and The Sirens', with old friend and guitarist Dave Eppel.
'Mick Dorey and the Sirens' signed to Illegal Records and released their first single 'Paranoia Station' (produced by Dave Tickle with the help of Crowded House drummer and bassist) to rave reviews. Mick was lauded by 'The Melody Maker' as 'the face of the eighties'. Paul Hammond joined to play Drums. Their second single 'It Really Doesn't Matter' was produced by Jean Jaque Burnell (The Stranglers).
Mick then signed to 'Queens' management company. This was a major mistake. The bands name was changed to 'Toltex 9' and the single 'Coal Fires and Semaphore' was released by EMI. Though it received good reviews and a lot of radio play it was never pushed in the shops, and there was no tour support. Mick and Dave were destroyed.
Starting again as 'The Sirens' with guitarist Mike Gatehouse and drummer Nick Calvert wasn't easy. Publishing was signed to Berman & Buziak and tracks for an album for MCA were recorded in Los Angeles. This fell through, and the band split.
Mick and Nick moved to Koln (Cologne) in Germany and built 'Skyline Studios'. After a year and a half of producing music for the New Wave of German music, they returned to the UK. Mick started to work writing music for film and television.
Now Kamakura is kicking it off again!Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes! Anywhere we can.
Your musical influences
Everything!
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