Nim Vind

Nim Vind
Background information
Origin	Vancouver, Canada
Labels	FiendForce Silverdust BEEF Nv Music
Website	www.nimvindmusic.com
Members	Nim Vind–Vocals and Guitars Anthony Kilz–Drums and Vocals Other Members Robbie K–Bass and Guitar Howie Wowie–Bass Ian Josephson–Bass Joseph Blood–Bass and Guitar

Nim Vind (born Chris Kirkham) is a Canadian solo musician/artist and songwriter. He describes his sound as "Music for Outsiders".^[1]

His music and art has no specific genre but is sometimes referred to as Horror punk.^[2][3][4] Nim is often compared to Social Distortion and Volbeat in press.^[5][6]

He has released three albums, The Fashion of Fear (2005) on Fiendforce Records and Nv Music, and The Stillness Illness (2009) on Silverdust Records and BEEF Records Inc/Nv Music, and recently a brand new album Saturday Night Seance Songs on House of Vind with distribution by Allegro USA. Seance features mixes from Jay Ruston and the legendary Todd Rundgren. Nim is currently managed by Jonny Zazula (Crazed Management, USA).

"Nim Vind" meaning

Nim Vind is a made up name^[7] out of a combination of sounds and symbols. Specifically it is to be thought of as a character's name. A definition of "Nim Vind" is freedom by insanity. "Nim" borrows symbolism from the acronym for the National Institute of Mental Health or N.I.M.H. "Vind" borrows symbolism from the word "vindication", representing justification against denial or censure. Another definition is "aNIMal VINDication". The idea is that the animal mind only recognizes a primal rule and isn't bound to, nor aware of social rule created by humans nor their law or command or conjecture.

History

Career and recordings as Nim Vind

Chris Kirkham recorded the first Nim Vind album The Fashion of Fear and signed with Germany's Fiendforce Records in 2005. He has been successfully touring annually since then in Europe, USA and Canada. His biggest show to date was "Pain Stage" at Summer Breeze Germany 2009^[8] to a sold out audience of 25,000.^[9]

Nim has appeared three times at the world-famous WGT Festival in Leipzig Germany, as well as Euro festivals such as Endless Summer, Sundown Festival, Wilwarin Festival, Undercover of Darkness, Rock My Ass and more. He was a headliner at Fiendfest Los Angeles USA, Ghouls Night Out New Jersey USA, plus appeared at Tiger Army's October Flame Festival Anaheim USA and more. He has toured and shared stages with Gary Numan, The 69 Eyes, Christian Death, Green Jelly, Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, Tiger Army, Balzac, The Misfits, Steel Panther, Filter, Skid Row, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, Michale Graves, Demented Are Go, New Model Army, Todd Kerns from Slash's band and Age of Electric, Blitzkid, and many others.^[10]

Nim recently released the follow up to Stillness Illness called Saturday Night Seance Songs. The new album was recorded in Vancouver with longtime friend/engineer Doug Fury at Fury's studio "Fortissimo Sound". Mixing was done by Jay Ruston (Steel Panther, Anthrax, Stone Sour, Meat Loaf), David Irish (X) as well as a new version of his popular track "Astronomicon" mixed by legendary producer/artist Todd Rundgren. "Astronomicon" was premiered worldwide by Alternative Press Magazine.^[11] The track "Master Spider" was premiered worldwide by BloodDisgusting.com - the world's biggest horror entertainment website.^[12] The album has recently been named "Album of the Year" by Rue Morgue Magazine - The world's biggest horror magazine.^[13]

Touring for Saturday Night Seance Songs so far has included a Halloween tour with Gary Numan,^[14] spring dates with Green Jelly^[15] Doyle,^[16] Halloween touring with 80's goth legends Christian Death, an return appearance to Summer Breeze German 2016 - 40,000 festival - plus a November tour with The 69 Eyes in Europe.

A return appearance at The Wave Gotik Treffen - biggest goth fest in the world - has been confirmed plus Mighty Sounds in Czeck Republic, An official video for "Renegades of the End Times has been posted. It was shot in Canada and Los Angeles USA. A fan video for "That Girl" has been posted and is a tribute to power girls of horror movies.

Previous band: Mr. Underhill

Chris Kirkham aka Nim Vind started his first band called Mr. Underhill. The idea for the sound of the band was to mix the dark art of Bauhaus with the catchy melodies and angst of the Misfits. It originally featured Nim Vind and two other players, but Nim's real life brothers Robbie and Anthony would both soon join. There are two Mr.Underhill EPs that were only sold at shows and speciality stores. The first was "Vamp", which leaned towards the Bauhaus/Bowie side of their sound. That was followed shortly after by the second EP "Phantasm Drive-In", which leaned more in a Misfits direction and was the beginning of Nim and his brothers finding their sound.

A 3rd album of lost material was recorded but never released to the public. However, as of Dec 25th 2013 it has been restored, remixed, and released as "Nim Vind and Mr.Underhill - The World through X-ray Eyes.^[17] Mr.Underhill gained a strong cult following thanks largely to word of mouth and websites like the original Mp3.com in which they were a prominently featured band.^[18] The brothers were represented by Entertainment Lawyer Jonathan Simkin. They were especially known for their eccentric outfits made up of giant black hair, long black coats and smeared black make-up, as well as their underground hit "Phantasm Drive-In".^[19] Mr.Underhill ended and two bands were formed being Nim Vind (Chris's band) and The Vincent Black Shadow (Rob).

The Vincent Black Shadow

Rob's band The Vincent Black Shadow incorporated the brothers and enjoyed success at major American radio with the single "Metro".^[20] TVBS, as it is referred to by fans, was managed by Jonny Z who signed Metallica,^[21][22] and completed back to back full summers of "The Vans Warped Tour", Joan Jett dates including sold out shows at Irving Plazy NY, a sold out Euro tour with Kosheen, a sold out Euro tour with fellow Canadian band Silverstein as well as live performances on Much Music, FUSE TV USA and others.^[23]

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Videos

Nim Vind has two official videos and many fan-made ones. The two official videos are "Killing Saturday Night", shot by Thomas Buchan and "The 21st Century" filmed live at the Summer Breeze Festival in Germany. There is a video for "In the Night" that is also considered an official video. It was shot live at the Royal Hotel in Vancouver at a Mr.Underhill show.

Nim Vind shot three live acoustic songs for a Halloween on-line special in 2009. The three songs were "Jackknife", "The Radio Active Man", and "Killing Saturday Night".

Fan videos for songs from "Saturday Night Seance Songs" are being posted at YouTube and include "Astronomicon", "Master Spider", and "ESP" and "That Girl"

Official Video Singles

References

External links

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• Official website