Nick Corr
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Nick Corr is co-founder, with Mick Thomas of Australia's Croxton Records. Founded in 1999, the label provides a home for a select group of criminally underrated acts, with the house ethos a mixture of country and roots, folk and rock.
Croxton's first release was a compilation from Austin legends The Gourds, followed by releases from The Dunaways, James Stewart, Nick Barker, The Prayerbabies, The Drowners, Git, The Re-Mains, Marcel Borrack, Dan Warner, Sarah Carroll, The Underminers and Young Modern plus Mick Thomas and The Sure Thing and various live recordings, theatre, film and online projects like The Tank and Dust On My Shoes.
Croxton Records has developed a distinctive label aesthetic with its roots in the narrative traditions of folk and country music, plus a healthy dose of modern pop smarts thrown in. This strongly melodic personal storytelling is the common road travelled by all of Croxtons artists - from the dusty, hell-for-leather outback inhabited by The Re-Mains to Sarah Carrolls classic country bars and bedrooms to the back alleys of Marcel Borracks inner city, they are real, honest, poignant and often political stories told by the cream of Australian songwriting talent.
Nick was also a sometime DJ for Melbourne independent radio station 3RRR - mostly hosting the alternative-country Twang programme, and filling in for then program manager James Young on his drive-time programme.
Nick was also involved in some online music journalism, acting as Australian correspondent for US Addicted to Noise and All Music Guide. He was also heavily involved with assisting Brian Wise with the launch and initially running of an Australian version of Addicted To Noise www.addicted.com.au
In 2005 Nick appeared as a contestant on the SBS music triva program RockWiz and dominated the episode - including, in one memorable moment, beating guest performer Martha Wainwright to a question that she was in fact the answer to.
