‘The Big Day’ song

I composed this song at about the same time I wrote ‘Do You Love Me‘ when I was 15. I recorded it during my first year at University. Like the song ‘Upside Down’ I uploaded recently, I still feel that much more can be done with ‘The Big Day’ in regards to mixing. The main problem I have with it is that I don’t know exactly how it should sound, so I keep changing all the settings of all the tracks and the master mix to see if I prefer it or not. I could spend forever on this so I decided the last mix I’ve done is the final version and it is as good as it is going to get. If I re-recorded it I would take out a chorus or something because I feel it does get a bit repetitive at times. Anyway give it a listen below! 🙂

The song is about somebody who can’t sleep and is up all night worrying that something might go wrong at their wedding the next day.

Lyrics and music by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN) 2010
Lead vocals, Backing vocals, Piano and Synths by Oliver Daniel Nicholls
Lead and Rhythm Guitar and Bass Guitar by Michael Price
Drums by Mark Vincent
Recorded and Produced by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN)
(Drums recorded by Michael Price)

 

‘Upside Down’ song

This is one of a few of my own songs I recorded during my first year of University. I hadn’t had much experience mixing or recording at this point. The first song I mixed is a song called ‘I don’t really care’. I spent hours and hours mixing this one although it was all experimenting… I listened to it the other day and I can do a much better job of it now. I plan to come back to it at some point and start the mixing again from scratch. I still think ‘Upside Down’ can be improved but I can be too much of a perfectionist€¦ And there has to come a point where I sit back and say it is finished. So this is the final version.

The song is about somebody who was in a desperate situation in their life. However their world was turned upside down when they met somebody who brought them hope, and laughter too. They were brought out of their sadness and learnt to appreciate life again.

Lyrics and music by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN) 2010
Lead vocals and Piano by Oliver Daniel Nicholls
Lead and Rhythm Guitar and Bass Guitar by Michael Price
Drums by Mark Vincent
Recorded and Produced by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN)
(Drums recorded by Michael Price)

 

‘Do You Love Me’ music video

‘Do You Love Me’ is about unrequited love involving two teenagers, one of whom is desperate for his love to be returned. The band members represent his conscience getting him to try several different approaches but he still fails to win her heart. It was really fun to write and to film!

OllieDN – Do You Love Me music video

Video recorded and produced by James Quayle 2012, who has now gone on to run his own company Warpline Films.

Lyrics and music by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN) 2009
Lead vocals and Piano by Oliver Daniel Nicholls
Lead and Rhythm Guitar and backing vocals by Simon Nicholls
Bass Guitar and backing vocals by Lewis Spring
Drums by Leo Petrokofsky
Recorded and Produced by Alex Hehir

Actors:
Michael Jacobs
Rhianna Holdershaw

 

‘Do you love me’ song

The song ‘Do you love me’ is one of the very first songs I wrote with lyrics when I was about 15 years old. I thought I would come up with a song that has a serious and meaningful subject, but at the same time is fun and playful.

The song is about unrequited love involving two teenagers, one of whom is desperate for his love to be returned. The lyrics show this guys’s obsession with a girl he has a crush on but she does not love him back.

Lyrics and music by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN) 2009
Lead vocals and Piano by Oliver Daniel Nicholls
Lead and Rhythm Guitar and backing vocals by Simon Nicholls
Bass Guitar and backing vocals by Lewis Spring
Drums by Leo Petrokofsky
Recorded and Produced by Alex Hehir

 

Johnny Foreigner – The last Queens of Scotland music video

This is something random and fun that I got involved in at uni I thought I’d share. It was a project my mates did for one of their uni modules. The idea was to create a music video with very little time, no budget and hardly any previous experience. It turned out pretty well considering these factors!

Anyway the video is a song by Johnny Foreigner, an indie-rock band based in Birmingham.
‘The last Queens of Scotland’ is about a mad creature that enjoys killing bins, cutting their hearts out and doing some pretty weird things with it if you ask me! (I’m the bin in the video… Was very random running around a park in a sweaty bin costume that I couldn’t see out of all day…)

Video Directed and Produced by Matt Ainsley and Guy Crossley 2014
Music and Faces by Johnny Foreigner
Masked man played by Jamie Loyn
Bin man played by Oliver Daniel Nicholls