Nick Battle has enjoyed a long and varied career in the music industry. He was in 70's rock band After The Fire, worked at IRS records in the 80's as an A&R man (his first top 10 hit was the novelty record by Karel Fialka) ‘Hey Matthew’.
He was a record plugger from 1988-1993 and his clients included George Benson, Sir Cliff Richard, Ronnie Wood, Take That, Clannad, & Paul Hardcastle among many others.
In 1993 he helped start the music publisher Windswept Pacific Music Ltd and introduced Simon Fuller (his former client) and the Spice Girls to the company. At the height of the company's success they enjoyed 44 top 40 hits in one year with a team of just two creative staff.
He has had his songs recorded by the actress Jane Horrocks, Sir Cliff Richard and Phixx and written with Gary Barlow, Tony Swain, Chris Eaton & David Grant.
As an Executive Producer in the noughties he has made records with Russell Watson, Michael Ball (four albums) the Honeyriders and Engelbert Humperdinck. Both Michael and Engelbert also recorded Nick's songs.
He is in demand as a great judge of the popular song and has served on the Ivor Novello's committee as well as the MPA Pop Publishers committee and was also hired by Simon Cowell to provide invaluable research to the Syco group of companies.
Between 1993-2003 his first wife fought a ten year battle with cancer and this has led to him founding the Gravel Road Trust a registered charity for carers, and patients dealing with long term illness and also the bereaved.
In 2008 he wrote his autobiography, 'Big Boy's Don't Cry' and subsequently two more books The Daily Male 1 & 2 followed. He has featured as a special guest on Aled Jones ‘Good Morning Sunday’, has presented the BBC’s ‘Faith In England’ podcast as well as hosting BBC Three Counties programme,’ Melting Pot’ for a month earlier this year. He is regularly featured on BBC local radio stations as a music business pundit. More recently he has featured on The Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 talking about music, sex and celebrity. He has his own radio show, ‘Men @ Work’, Saturday nights 8.00pm on Premier on national DAB/Sky 0123/Freeview and MW across the capital.
At present he runs a small music publishing company, manages the record producer Kipper (Sting- Brand New Day/Sacred Love etc) as well as the actress Elizabeth McGovern’s band, Sadie & The Hotheads. He is currently working on the second novel of ‘The Billy Fidget Chronicles’ with Eric Delve for Hodder & Stoughton (working title, 'The Billy Fidget’s Last Stand’).
He is passionate about radio, music and the written word and he lives to create and communicate.