Nick Turner

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Nick Turner
Also known asNicky Turner
Occupation(s) Drummer

Nick Turner, sometimes credited as Nicky Turner, is a drummer who briefly played with The Raincoats [1] and became a founding member of The Barracudas. He left that band to help form The Lords of the New Church. [2] In August 2015 he was invited to play drums for the band 69 Cats, a group made up of members from bands including The 69 Eyes, The Cramps, The Rockats and others. This marked his first time playing drums live in 28 years. [3]

In 1993 Turner entered into a joint venture with I.R.S. Records, heading the new Shock Therapy label. [4]

Turner has been a technology innovator since late 1994 when he produced the first ever live video concert broadcast with a major label band on the Internet [5] and organized the first video 'fan' conference with members of the classic rock band, The Doors. [6]

He launched Rocktropolis in early 1995, one of the web's earliest music websites, 'rock n roll's first virtual city, [7] ' that received significant media attention. [8]

In the late 1990s he became a vice president at N2K. [9]

Turner's drumsticks were featured for 8 years in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the largest drumstick collections in the world. [10]

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