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Nick Knowles

Postby drakula63 » Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:36 pm

Seriously, some (most) of the customer reviews are comedy gold... :lol:


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Kind-Peo ... knowles+cd
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby Allclaphands » Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:56 pm

This was how his singing was described by the following person from the 'Mirror'

Lorraine viewers in disbelief as Nick Knowles performs new single live 'like a drunk at a Christmas party'

The DIY SOS presenter has swapped makeovers for music and released his debut album
Some people like to ROCK, Some people like to ROLL, What do YOU like to do?
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby JimN » Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:35 pm

That's a nice J-200.
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby drakula63 » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:55 pm

Of all the reviews, I think THIS is my favourite...

I bought this to play in the background on Bonfire night for my frightened dog,after 10 minutes he was scratching at the back door to go out and spent the rest of the evening happily sat in the garden watching the displays.


And these are good too...


Nick Knowles is a musical genius! He appears to have found a new key in the music scale. If you play this album backwards it sounds better!


I was sceptical when I heard the Don of DIY Daytime TV was releasing an album, but I shouldn't have doubted the musical genius that is Nick Knowles. Not for many years (probably since I first heard Lennon and McCartney's Across the Universe) have I been stopped dead in my tracks but the sheer power and beauty of music. Forget DIY on a budget television broadcasting, this is Nick's true vocation in life.

Track opener Every Kind People brings a glorious Caribbean lilt to a gloomy Monday morning, and lets face it, whilst grammatically incorrect, it does take every kinda people to make the world go 'round. I think the UN should adopt Nick's version as their anthem.

Nick invokes the spirit of the Walrus of Love next for 'You're The First, The Last, My Everything' which is as breathtaking as you could imagine, covers of 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'Smile' follow sung in Nick's own inimitable style.

The album closes with 'What a Wonderful World', and though it could be suggested this is a slightly unoriginal, even cliched choice, I believe Nick is asking us to consider the good around us, and bask in the beauty and wonderment of the human race and this beautiful planet we call home.

I'm sure many folk would suggest Nick sticks to the day job, but with a collection of work this good, I urge other daytime DIY TV personalities to put down the hammer and pick up the harmonica.



Its been reduced by £4 since I got it which is annoying, but I don't regret buying it for a second. I'll do a little taster review of the first few tracks to give those reading this an idea of what to expect from this seminal album.


Track 1 - Nick gets off to a strong start here with 'every kind of people', setting the scene and easing you in like a considerate and skilled lover. He readies you. He welcomes you.

Track 2 - A frankly sterling rendition of Barry White's 'You're The First, The Last, My Everything'. Almost Shatner-esque in its delivery at times. Nick is ramping up and its a pleasure to be a part of.

Track 3 - The highlight for me. An astonishingly powerful performance of 'Your Body Is A Wonderland', positively brimming with eroticism. It is evident Nick has pleasured dozens of women to this song, and you can't help but envy them.

Track 4 - 'Make you feel my love' - Nick continues the erotic adventure, again demonstrating his value as a lover. Although this song I feel highlights the power he can bring to the sexual realm. There is a raw visceral feel here that builds upon the foundations laid in track 3 and it is deeply moving.


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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby drakula63 » Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:06 pm

This one is a classic...


I haven't had good relations with my neighbour Andy since moving in 7 years ago. He's a right-wing thug with 2 pit-bulls (I'm a leftie), he voted leave (me, Remain), he buys the Sun and hates foreigners and women (I have a foreign girlfriend). We've had nothing but anger and hate off him.

That was until I bought this album.

I was just 3 tracks in when there was a knock on the door, it was Andy, stood there in his West Ham shirt, shorts and flip flops, tears streaming down his face. He slowly shuffled towards me and put his arms around me. We held each other weeping until Your Body is a Wonderland faded out. He just looked into my eyes and mouthed 'sorry' I told him everything is going to be OK and quietly said 'it's just so beautiful'.

Since that moment Andy's completely changed, he's helping out with my missus down the Polski Slep and gets us round for home-grown beetroot and vodka nights in his garden-shed pub - all while listening to Every Kinda People of course. The St George cross in his garden now flutters gently alongside another, an EU flag with Nick's face superimposed on, surrounded by the stars.



I must first declare that I didn’t by this CD myself; it was in fact a gift from my ex-girlfriend. We’re currently going through a somewhat awkward separation after she ‘approached’ me with a screwdriver (DIY enthusiasts will be interested to learn that it was a rather nifty cushion grip PH 2PT X 150mm Philips) and then “accidentally” drained the brake fluid from my car. I cannot go into any more detail as the court case is imminent. But, on my last visit to HM Prison Holloway, ‘Mad Mandy’ (not her real name) handed over the Knowles CD with an enigmatic glint in her eye which pierced the depths of my humanity. I was touched. This was clearly a small step towards reconciliation and I rushed home (not in my car) clutching the thoughtful gift in trepidation and anticipation in equal measure.

‘Mandy’ and I would often listen to music together whilst sharing a crate of premium lager and explore all the latest strands of popular and underground culture. So, it was with huge excitement that I unwrapped the Knowles CD and lay back. After an absorbing forty minutes or so I attempted to recall the last time I’d experienced such a deep, momentous and cataclysmic inner-body upheaval…turns out it was when I passed a kidney stone!

Knowles has re-written the rule book. No, I’d go further, he’s thrown it away together with the HB pencil perched on his ear. Move over Beethoven, the way music is taught in our schools now requires serious reconsideration.

The core brilliance of this CD lies in the fact that Knowles is cleverly toying with us. He is goading us to listen beyond the obvious distractions of the melody and chord constructions. This is only truly revealed by pressing ‘Pause’ at any stage during Knowles’ masterpiece.

Once you enter Knowlesworld and morph into his mindset it exposes infinite possibilities. I began the exploration by placing the CD on my turntable and tentatively lowered the stylus. OK, you lose the vocals and, well, all of the music too but in some ways it improves the whole experience. Some might call it a huge relief but, being a disciple of Knowlesworld, I call it genius!

My journey didn’t end there for, being a child of the era of hidden messages whilst playing rock albums backwards, I nervously turned the disc anticlockwise. Knowles, of course, didn’t disappoint. In a devil-like voice “B&Q are rubbish” is clearly audible and, now under his complete mind control, I rushed into Wickes and spent an absolute fortune.

I concede now that there is absolutely no point whatsoever in Led Zeppelin reforming. Knowles has, whilst not exactly raising the bar, fixed it (using a spirit level presumably) on another plain in a parallel musical universe and other ‘slebs’ can only follow.

Amazon, you need to reassess your 1-5 star rating system. Knowles is off the scale.



The most inspirational voice in modern music, and the best album next to The Beatles - Greatest Hits Of The Beetles. This album helped me through the hardest time in my life, i was a suicidal mess, lost my job and my wife, my dog passed and I lost my left arm in a sexual related accident, but I found this god send of an album. As soon as I put it on and heard Nicks spine tingling voice I knew, life is good, it's time to sort out this wreck of a person I had become. Since this albums release, I have a new job as a executive loan manager, before I was a shelf stacker at my local Tesco, I have met a wonderful woman called Laronda who is the light of my life, and have plans to travel the world, spreading news about this SPECTACULAR album, visiting the poorest countries of the world, armed with this superb masterpiece hoping to achieve world peace with it. Thank you Nick for the gift of life, and helping me sort out mine. Life is good.



I met Nick Knowles in Green's pie shop in Barrow in Furnace once. He was alright. Quite engaging and chatty. He was on his way to Muncaster Castle to see the Owls and to travel on the miniature steam engines in Ravenglass. Jessica his very attractive partner at the time loved the pies and was enjoying a meat and potato one. He even told a joke- what does a pirate say in his 80th birthday? Hi matey! (I'm eighty!). Don't buy his album though. It's gash.



My father was in a coma until I played this by his bedside in faint hopes of rousing him

he's dead now

thanks Nick




Sorry to be relishing these witty and merciless put downs of an artiste's 'music', but I get quite angry when genuinely talented singers/songwriters/musicians struggle to earn a living and never get close to a record deal, and then talentless clowns like Knowles get a deal and loads of exposure simply because they are already famous for something else. Next thing you know, Adele will be presenting a DIY programme and showing us all how to use a spirit level and an angle grinder and do a bit of grouting.
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:12 pm

Well I couldn't get onto Spotify, but managed to find a couple of his 'songs' on YouTube.

Thirty seconds of each was enough.

Utter drivel.
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby drakula63 » Sun Nov 26, 2017 12:27 pm

Uncle Fiesta wrote:Well I couldn't get onto Spotify, but managed to find a couple of his 'songs' on YouTube.

Thirty seconds of each was enough.

Utter drivel.


30 seconds? That was either very brave or very foolhardy. I only managed 10 seconds before I started to bleed from both ears and nose and had to smash the computer and call an ambulance. I'm still feeling a bit iffy.

His album entered the charts at 92, I believe, and then dropped out.

The people have spoken. As it were. Let's hope he won't be 'singing' again!
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby Gary Allen » Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:51 pm

Sounds like a bad Leonard Cohen tribute act singing love songs, still...hope it does well for the crimbo.
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Re: Nick Knowles

Postby drakula63 » Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:32 pm

Gary Allen wrote:...hope it does well for the crimbo.


Don't say that... he'll record another one!

I don't think it has done, or will do, well. It has already dropped out of the top 100 album chart and that was after one week at 92. My guess is it sold about 1,000 copies. So that'll be about 1,000 unwanted Christmas presents in the bin by Boxing Day.

The guy should just stick to what he does... putting up shelves. I bet heads are going to roll at the record company!!!
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