Last year John Digweed told us he's no Superstar DJ - how about the other half of Bedrock? Check Wikipedia and you'll find Nick Muir is a musician, composer and electronic music producer. "He is most well known as one half of the production team Bedrock, which consists of himself and DJ John Digweed, although he has enjoyed not inconsiderable success as an artist in his own right." The latter is certainly true, and Nick told us all about it. And more!
Read about his work with Johnny Hallyday below, how he feels about new bands like Justice and what he thinks is the future of DJing. And yes - he also mentioned something about upcoming Bedrock stuff ;)
Most people know you today as Digweed's Bedrock production partner. Why did you decide to concentrate on studio work?
“Well, because it was what most interested me and I felt that in order to do it justice I needed to focus on it. A large part of a DJ's job is travelling and when I started producing there was not the possibilty of working on the road with a laptop, so I elected to stay in the studio. Also, I was used to playing piano and keyboards on-stage with bands, it just didn't feel like the decks were my 'instrument' if you know what I mean. What I wanted to do most was write and produce. So I did.”
In the eighties you've toured intensively with French rock and roll legend Johnny Hallyday! Tell us a crazy story back of those days!
“That was so much fun. I was in my early 20's and all of a sudden I was playing in one of the biggest stage shows ever. The light show for that production was at that point the biggest that had ever been. It was insane! They had to build an electricity sub station in the grounds of the arena especially for the show - I kid you not!
The company who provided the lights were English, Light and Sound Design and I got on really well with the guys who maintained it all on site. One day we came in early and rigged up my piano (It was full size grand) with a harness attached to motors in the roof - we put fireworks on the legs of the piano and a harness on me too then at a pre-arranged point in the middle of a number, the fireworks went off, and the piano with me still playing it got hoisted 20 feet in the air! You should
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