Brett Wickens

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Brett Wickens is a musician and graphic designer from Burlington, Ontario, currently living in California, USA. He helped found Canadian band Spoons in 1979 and played on their debut single "After the Institution", released on Mannequin Records in 1980.

According to an entry at Discogs, this was followed with a collaboration with Roger Humphreys, "The Jovial Foresters" who "made one live performance, and produced a few unreleased songs in a prog-rock style."

More notably, these two then formed synth-pop group Ceramic Hello, releasing one album and a single.

Wickens then left Canada for England where he worked as a designer with Peter Saville Associates. During this time he worked on demos for an unreleased second album and released one solo 12" single, "Between Two Frequencies" / "The Harbour" with PiL's original bass player, Jah Wobble.

He was also associated with William Orbit and collaborated with fellow ex-pat Canadian Martha Ladly and Andy McCluskey of OMD on The Partnership. A demo of this remained unreleased at the time, but the title track was included on the German re-issue The Absence of a Canary v1.1.

Wickens is now working with Humphreys on a second Ceramic Hello album. ^[1]

He is Vice President & Creative Director of MetaDesign.