Nick Hodgson, ex-baterista dos Kaiser Chiefs, faz hoje 37 anos

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Nicholas James David Hodgson (born 20 October 1977) is a drummer, backing vocalist and lyricist, formerly of English indie band Kaiser Chiefs.

He attended St. Mary's Menston with Nick Baines and Simon Rix. He then went onto Trinity & All Saints University College in Horsforth, Leeds where he studied Media. He later met Ricky Wilson and Andrew White (Whitey) at a mod night called Move On Up at The Underground in Leeds. Together they formed Runston Parva, later to be called Parva and now Kaiser Chiefs.

Together with bandmate Ricky Wilson, Nick started the Leeds club night Pigs "to give us something to look forward to" and after giving the rest of the band a mix CD with songs he had been playing at Pigs, they formed Kaiser Chiefs, scrapping all their old songs and changing "the way we play, the way we dress, basically everything we could change without changing... our faces"

Hodgson announced via his Twitter account on 4 December 2012, that he had left Kaiser Chiefs to concentrate on other projects. Since then, Hodgson has refocussed his attentions on the studio. In an interview with NME, he spoke of his decision to split from the band, stating that "It was obvious really, because they know I love the studio and I love writing and I’m not mad about touring. I loved touring at some point, but I didn’t love it all the time and I didn’t love it as much as everyone else."

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