- Born
- Nicknames
- Old Nick
- Virtual Alien
- Nick Peterson is a British artist who launched his space persona of Virtual Alien "V.A." and Old Nick at the age of 14 in the late eighties. He has released 24 albums and film soundtracks (Old Nick, War of Love, King of the World, LouDMouth, Red by..., Speed of Light, Remove Your Face)
After returning to further education in the nineties he achieved a BA in English Literature and Drama and an MA in Interactive Multimedia in 2000 at the University of the Arts London. He ventured into the noble Art of directing interactive feature films and documentaries from 2001.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Alex Altman
- His single "Devil's Life" (1989) received a phenomenal amount of airplay in supermarkets, hospitals and radios in most French speaking countries. Half the song is in French with sampling from the film: Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) "The Devil's Envoys" by Marcel Carné. A film set in the Middle Ages and shot during the Nazi occupation of France. The main lines written by the poet Jacques Prévert goes: "I'm the devil, so true that I'm here, there and everywhere all at the same time".
- He is Scottish, British from his father and of Swiss Sephardic Jewish Italian descent from his mother.
- Has used the pseudonyms of Virtual Alien, V.A. and Old Nick.
- When he was 14 he run away to London and barged in to the offices of six different A&R men from different record labels. When 5 turned him down the one who said yes asked his father to come and sign the contract within 3 days. His father was unavailable and his mother came and sign the contract on his behalf.
- One of his names as an artist and alter ego Old-Nick Old Nick is one of the five devils in Jewish and Christian beliefs.
- A film is a series of images and sound. It's a statement. It conveys a message that is supposed to create a reaction. As long as I have something to say I will say it using this medium and in my own way and in a monochromatic or in a multicolored form.
- Music is an art form. It doesn't have to be big and commercial. It's the ability of one human to feel alive and communicate this sentiment to another (human or animal). It's just something that one does.
- In my latest album Remove Your Face my singing in the title track has been described as a 'group of headless chickens shrieking and feeding inside a farm' adding 'somewhere, anywhere like Ohio'.
Yes, spot on! That's precisely what it was. The story of the song is about a farmer in Ohio. What's wrong with farming in Ohio? - The hardest part of the media and show biz world is to ignore everyone because everyone will ignore you.
- I cannot call myself an artist but a content creator. I do not direct films I process files into an interactive presentation. I want to trigger a reaction: positive or negative, as long as I can move or shake an audience.
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