- Born
- Birth nameNicholas John McCabe
- Nick McCabe was born on July 14, 1971 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Sliver (1993), Java Heat (2013) and Nowhere (1997).
- Psychedelic guitar effects
- Lead guitarist for The Verve from 1990-1995, 1997-1998, and 2007-2009.
- Met Richard Ashcroft at Winstanley College, who described his music as sounding like 'a whole other universe'.
- Was going to be a quantity surveyor before joining The Verve.
- He is the son of a bus driver father and a social worker mother and has two older brothers, Alan and Paul.
- I don't even like guitars! I like synthesizers. I try to do it my own style, just wanting to make the guitar sound more like a synthesizer.
- [asked what it was that inspired him to become a guitarist] That was me, I just got a guitar, and I could play a few things on it, and I liked messing with it, and I liked making my own things up.
- [on working as a quantity surveyor] I hated it. I used to sit there all day scribbling in my pad thinking about guitar sounds.
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