Nick Magnus likes Kayak

In 2009, the Genesis fansite ‘Genesis-News’ interviewed English musician Nick Magnus. Nick was –amongst other things- the keyboard player in the band of ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. When asked about his work in the studio with Hackett, Nick came up with some nice Kayak promotion!:

Q: What are your memories of being on tour or in the studio with Steve in the late 70s?

Nick: (…) and then we recorded “Spectral Mornings” in the January of '79 in Holland, in Visselord Studios (sic) in Holland. That was a fantastic experience. It was such a great building anyway, it was this lovely open-plan building – it was like an in-door street with in-door telephone boxes, and the studios going off the street. One of my favourite bands of all time, Kayak – do you know the Dutch band Kayak?

Q: No.

Nick: You don't know Kayak? Aaah, you should! Get the whole back-catalogue and stuff, it's great. It's fantastic. I've always been a big Kayak fan. They were recording an album called Phantom Of The Night in the next door studio to us, so I was going „Ooooh! It's Kayak here, wow!“ So we got to meet them. It was like a recreational time.

Nick Magnus, Kayak fan,  in 1978

Nick Magnus homepage: http://www.magnus-music.com/home.htm

Thanks to Mike Jones for finding this interview!