NICKY

With NiCKY’s debut EP ‘by’, they step into the spotlight, evoking a dive bar with a solitary headliner …
’Closing Time’ era Tom Waits if he frequented Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club instead of 70s LA …
Intended as a theatrical suite, bookended by the rise and fall of the stage curtain, ‘by’ is imbued with
an intimate, dramatic sense of atmosphere, bringing to mind some hallowed nightclub headliner, all
sparkling sequins by candlelight. One of the exciting voices to emerge from Londons queer
performance scene, NiCKY sits between Anohni, Perfume Genius, Leigh Bowery + Bowie’s Ashes to
Ashes era. “a tour de force” hippo mag