The Mint
6010 West Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 323.954.9400

The Haircuts are myself, Rick Musallam, and Mike Keneally and we will be playing all kinds of music, celebrating the holiday season and in that celebration spirit the gig will also be a toy drive. Bring an unwrapped toy and let’s give this holiday season.

The show will start at 8pm and here is the line up:

Heather Stewart – 8:00 PM (Acoustic Set)

Steel Toed Slipper – 8:30 PM

The Haircuts – 9:15 PM
Featuring:
Mike Keneally ( Frank Zappa , Joe Satriani , Dethklok , Robert Fripp )
Rick Musallam ( Gwen Stefani , The Roots , Carly Simon , Mike Keneally Band )
and Nick D’Virgilio ( Tears for Fears , Genesis , Kevin Gilbert, Spock’s Beard )

Cover is $10

Come on out and hear some really great music, make some kids happy, and have a really great time on a Tuesday night. It will be a blast!!!

It is very hard for me to write this, but as all good things come to an end at sometime or another, unfortunately I have to tell you all that my time with Spock’s Beard has come to a close.

As you may or may not know, for almost 2 years now I have been working for Cirque Du Soleil on the touring show TOTEM. Traveling a bit of the globe with my family on an adventure that has been great, but also very tough. Great because I am finally able to fully support my family with this very unstable life I chose as a musician, but also very tough because this job has made it hard to do other things and the main thing is Spock’s Beard.

For the first time in 20 years I had to miss shows when the band played a few festivals this past summer. Needless to say it was very, very strange not being there. I have been trying to land a permanent resident show for next year which would leave me a little more time to tour with SB but that has not happened yet and I don’t know when exactly that will happen. I recently signed for another year with Cirque because I cannot just get up and quit until something else can takes its place. I am sure you all understand that I have to take care of my main responsibility and that is my family. Spock’s Beard has never been the main money maker for me, or any of the other guys in the band. We have always had to do other things to supplement our incomes and for me now the other thing just happens to be Cirque.

The Spock’s guys want to keep moving forward and it is just Murphy’s Law for SB that everyone else is totally available to tour at the moment and I am not. For many years, I was available for anything but we couldn’t tour as much as we wanted because of other schedules. Now with my job it doesn’t look like I am going to be available anytime soon. I totally understand where the guys are coming from, wanting to tour and make new albums and I have too much respect for them and SB to say that they cannot keep going without me. The guys are eager to keep the ball rolling, and as hard as that is to imagine without me I give them my blessing fully and wish them nothing but the best in whatever they do.

I have had the best time and have made some of the best music of my career with Dave, Al, Ryo, and Neal and will take those memories with me for the rest of my life.

This is not to say that I will never play with the guys again. If all of the stars align in future and I can do something I surely will but for now the guys will be going on without me and I humbly ask all of you SB fans that have been nothing short of amazing, to keep the flame burning for them.

SO for my future, even with the crazy schedule of my Cirque job I have still been able to release a new solo EP “PIECES” recently and even did some solo shows. Those things are easier for me to do because I can do those within the areas that I am living at the time and I am planning on many more solo gigs in the future so keep an eye and ear out for those announcements. I will be going back to London at the beginning of 2012 with Cirque and during that time I will be able to get back down to Rob Aubrey’s studio to do some more sessions with the great BIG BIG TRAIN and even try and finish a project that got started a number of years ago now called “PULSE” with Mike Holmes of IQ fame. I am also writing a lot for more solo music of my own.

Thank you to my family. Your support has been my rock for many years now, I know that will always be there and I am so thankful for that.

Thank you to all of the great guys who have crewed for SB over the years and have gone way beyond the call of duty to get us on and off stage. Especially Rob, Olly, and Tommy. I will for sure miss touring with you guys.

Thank you to the promoters and venues that have opened up their stages to us.

Thank you Jimmy Keegan for holding down the fort while I was up front and kickin ass for SB over the years.

Thank you to all of my amazing endorsement companies.

In closing, THANK YOU to all of the Spock’s Beard fans out there who have given us so much amazing and heart felt support over the years. We could not have done it without you all. It has been an amazing journey for me and I will never ever forget the great times we have shared together.

It’s time for a change…

Nick

I am very happy to announce the return of the mighty HAIRCUTS! Playing on December 13th at :

The Mint
6010 West Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 323.954.9400

The Haircuts are myself, Rick Musallam, and Mike Keneally and we will be playing all kinds of music, celebrating the holiday season and in that celebration spirit the gig will also be a toy drive. Bring an unwrapped toy and let’s give this holiday season.

The show will start at 8pm and here is the line up:

Heather Stewart – 8:00 PM (Acoustic Set)

Steel Toed Slipper – 8:30 PM

The Haircuts – 9:15 PM
Featuring:
Mike Keneally ( Frank Zappa , Joe Satriani , Dethklok , Robert Fripp )
Rick Musallam ( Gwen Stefani , The Roots , Carly Simon , Mike Keneally Band )
and Nick D’Virgilio ( Tears for Fears , Genesis , Kevin Gilbert, Spock’s Beard )

Cover is $10

Come on out and hear some really great music, make some kids happy, and have a really great time on a Tuesday night. It will be a blast!!!

There will be some food and drink along with birthday cake. It will be a nice way to start out the week.

I hope to see you all there!!!

NDV

Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff
2980 Treat Blvd
Concord, CA 94518
(925) 825-5410
Monday, December 5 · 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Emperor’s Clothes

City Of The Sun

With that being said I have the next best thing and that is some videos of the show. Alexis B.C. shot the whole show and I have picked some of the best moments. Realize that sound is from the board but it came out pretty darn good and even with a few sketchy moments here and there it doesn’t make any difference because the energy and fun level were so high that night, and it definitely comes across on the videos.

I am going to be putting up 2 different vids every week for the next 3 weeks and feel free to share them with all your friends.

The first two vids are solo material.

#1 is THE RIVER IS WIDE from my first solo release KARMA

#2 is BEAUTIFUL from the new EP "PIECES"

Like I said, stay tuned for more next week. The guys rocked the Spock’s Beard material.

On these songs you will see :
NDV
André-Philippe Pouliot – KEYS
Francis Villeneuve – BASS
Gabriel Cyr – GTRS
Alexandre Hudon – DRUMS

Take care everybody!!!
Nick

Thanks to all who have purchased the PIECES EP. I thank you all for the support! I would love to perform some of these songs in a live setting and am working on a show or two while I am in Toronto. I will keep you posted. Remember, when you order PIECES, please allow ample time for them to get to you; I sign the discs and ship them from Canada to my distributor in California and then they get them shipped to you.

Stay connected with me on FaceBook and Twitter for daily anecdotes and updates. I will be posting new video and audio on this site in the coming weeks so stay tuned…

Rock!!!
Nick

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I am doing a gig in QUEBEC CITY, CANADA on the 26th with my good friend Alexandre Hudon to celebrate the release of this new music. Alex has put together a great bunch of musicians to rock the night away. We will be doing songs from the EP, Spock’s Beard, and a couple fun covers as well. Check out the flyer below. It is in French but don’t fret if you don’t understand. All you need is the address, date, and time and we’ll do the rest. Come on out for a night of fun music!

I hope you enjoy this new music.
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ALL THE BEST!!!
Nick

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