Nick\u2019s varied career began with music, first song festivals in his <\/span>hometown Rochdale, Lancashire and then with the band Sleeper\u2019s Den <\/span>formed at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He then joined the <\/span>Colorado-based Albany Bridge Band as lead singer and rhythm guitarist <\/span>shortly after University while visiting the USA. The death of his father, <\/span>when Nick was 21 years-old, made him rethink his future. <\/span>In the mid-1980s, now back in England, he pursued a career in <\/span>journalism because he \u2018wanted to have an impact, right wrongs, be <\/span>serious\u2019, eventually securing a position as an award-winning <\/span>environment and technology correspondent for The Times from 1989 to <\/span>2000.<\/span><\/p>\n
Nick was then lured to the UN Environment Programme headquartered <\/span>in Nairobi, by its then Executive Director, the former German <\/span>environment minister Klaus Toepfer who needed a British-speaking <\/span>press person after which he rose to the role of Director of <\/span>Communications and Spokesperson spearheading innumerable <\/span>campaigns on climate change to the loss of species to the green <\/span>economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cOh my love, can you hear the church bells <\/span>chime. As we go around the carousel, for one last time<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Nick\u2019s varied career began with music, first song festivals in his <\/span>hometown Rochdale, Lancashire and then with the band Sleeper\u2019s Den <\/span>formed at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He then joined the <\/span>Colorado-based Albany Bridge Band as lead singer and rhythm guitarist <\/span>shortly after University while visiting the USA. The death of his father, <\/span>when Nick was 21 years-old, made him rethink his future. <\/span>In the mid-1980s, now back in England, he pursued a career in <\/span>journalism because he \u2018wanted to have an impact, right wrongs, be <\/span>serious\u2019, eventually securing a position as an award-winning <\/span>environment and technology correspondent for The Times from 1989 to <\/span>2000.<\/span><\/p>\n
Nick was then lured to the UN Environment Programme headquartered <\/span>in Nairobi, by its then Executive Director, the former German <\/span>environment minister Klaus Toepfer who needed a British-speaking <\/span>press person after which he rose to the role of Director of <\/span>Communications and Spokesperson spearheading innumerable <\/span>campaigns on climate change to the loss of species to the green <\/span>economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cOh my love, can you hear the church bells <\/span>chime. As we go around the carousel, for one last time<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u2018Scientific reports can change the mind, but the arts can change the heart and the mind\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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Sparking climate action with music and the arts<\/h4><\/div>\n
In 2014, he was asked to join the UN Framework Convention on Climate <\/span>Change in Bonn, Germany as its Communications Director in order to\u00a0 <\/span>help Christiana Figueres and her team secure the landmark Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 for which he was the spokesperson. Throughout his career at the UN, Nick was always keen to bring the arts including music closer to the climate and environmental agenda by working with artists and promoting their ideas on climate change to sustainable development.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
A chance meeting<\/p>\n<\/div>
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Nick & Bernadette<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/h4><\/div>A chance meeting however in 2014 with Bernadette La Hengst via a new <\/span>initiative by Theatre Bonn\u2014the Save the World festival\u2014fully re-ignited <\/span>his own, personal, passion and to realize in part his teenage dreams.<\/span><\/p>\nFirst, this stretched to providing backing vocals as one of La Hengst\u2019s <\/span>fluid group of vocalists and guest musicians\u2014known as the Ladette\u2019s– on <\/span>Bernadette\u2019s concert tours.<\/span><\/p>\nInitially Nick laughed at the idea of writing new songs for his own album, <\/span>considering that most people would see the views of someone in their <\/span>60s, expressed through what many might deem a youth medium, amusing <\/span>and have everyone rolling in the aisles.<\/span><\/p>\nBut he changed his mind, decided that the way the older Nick saw the <\/span>world through his own lens of new songs and tall tales, might provide a <\/span>fresh perspective on common themes and emerging issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u2018Perhaps the ideas, sentiments, emotions and themes will <\/span>resonate across generations<\/span>\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
Making music, fighting climate change<\/h4><\/div>\n
Between writing songs and singing on tour with Bernadette, Nick is a <\/span>presenter and director of We Don\u2019t Have Time–a climate action platform <\/span>and digital broadcaster that attracts a multimillion audience in some 150 <\/span>countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
When not performing on TV or a stage, you will find Nick on the tennis <\/span>court in Rehberge Park, glued to football stream featuring his beloved <\/span>Burnley football club or chatting to regulars in the his new favourite pub, <\/span>the Vagabund Brewery in Wedding Berlin.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u2018Scientific reports can change the mind, but the arts can change the heart and the mind\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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Sparking climate action with music and the arts<\/h4><\/h4><\/div>In 2014, he was asked to join the UN Framework Convention on Climate\u00a0<\/span>Change in Bonn, Germany as its Communications Director in order to\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>help Christiana Figueres and her team secure the landmark Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 for which he was the spokesperson. Throughout his career at the UN, Nick was always keen to bring the arts including music closer to the climate and environmental agenda by working with artists and promoting their ideas on climate change to sustainable development.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
A chance meeting<\/p>\n<\/div>
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Nick & Bernadette<\/div>\n<\/div><\/h4><\/div>
A chance meeting however in 2014 with Bernadette La Hengst via a new\u00a0<\/span>initiative by Theatre Bonn\u2014the Save the World festival\u2014fully re-ignited\u00a0<\/span>his own, personal, passion and to realize in part his teenage dreams.<\/span><\/p>\nFirst, this stretched to providing backing vocals as one of La Hengst\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>fluid group of vocalists and guest musicians\u2014known as the Ladette\u2019s\u2013 on\u00a0<\/span>Bernadette\u2019s concert tours.<\/span><\/p>\nInitially Nick laughed at the idea of writing new songs for his own album,\u00a0<\/span>considering that most people would see the views of someone in their\u00a0<\/span>60s, expressed through what many might deem a youth medium, amusing\u00a0<\/span>and have everyone rolling in the aisles.<\/span><\/p>\nBut he changed his mind, decided that the way the older Nick saw the\u00a0<\/span>world through his own lens of new songs and tall tales, might provide a\u00a0<\/span>fresh perspective on common themes and emerging issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
‘Perhaps the ideas, sentiments, emotions and themes will <\/span>resonate across generations<\/span>\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
Making music, fighting climate change<\/h4><\/h4><\/div>\n
Between writing songs and singing on tour with Bernadette, Nick is a\u00a0<\/span>presenter and director of We Don\u2019t Have Time\u2013a climate action platform\u00a0<\/span>and digital broadcaster that attracts a multimillion audience in some 150\u00a0<\/span>countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
When not performing on TV or a stage, you will find Nick on the tennis\u00a0<\/span>court in Rehberge Park, glued to football stream featuring his beloved\u00a0<\/span>Burnley football club or chatting to regulars in the his new favourite pub,\u00a0<\/span>the Vagabund Brewery in Wedding Berlin.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>View Stories<\/p>\n<\/div>