Artist description Australian folkster and self-confessed psuedo virtuoso guitar/voco, Nikki Madden writes songs whose characters emerge suprised and naked in the ozone-depleted 21st century. Featuring off-the-wall guitar picking and lyrics salvaged from a social workers shredder, and an expressive musical style with roots in the folk, jazz, world, contemporary-unplugged genres, Nikki says her song themes still gravitate towards the primitive favourites - love lost, love simply mislaid and sudden fabulous wealth. Her grin-and-bare-it take on the intimate art of acoustic guitar and voice is finding a warm welcome from audiences already pulling on their psychic shades in the bright millennial dawn.

Music Style contemporary acoustic

Musical Influences The Fuggs, Peggy Lee, Billy Bragg

Instruments acoustic guitar

Albums 'Next of Skin', '7 Songs Live'

Press Reviews "Out of the phantom zone rides Nikki with a guitar, some offbeat songs and a few agricultural implements. A product of the suburbs but has more in common philosophically with Mose Allison, Tom Lehrer, Dan Hicks or even Frank Zappa. Classically trained originally, Nikki has a guitar chops that are a cross between Barney Kessel and Paul Simon, with a bit of Joni Mitchell thrown in. Her solo CDs are full of delicious licks and subtle and sly digs at a culture of having and gettingmore, of not caring whose little sand castle goes down in the wash of your jet ski."(www.bmff.org.au) "Exceedingly witty songwriter hits home with lines such as "Where there's a will there's a lawyer." Madden possesses a follow-if-you-can vibrato that won't sit still but the lyrics are the real draw here. Intelligent, acerbic, and impishly clever."(music.lycos.com)

Location Sydney, NSW - Australia

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