How a spaced\u002Dout song crafted in the pandemic doldrums sent singer\u002Dsongwriter Nick Durocher on a flight to rock ’n’ roll stardom
Finally, just a few weeks ago, TALK landed an Oct. 13 gig at the Troubadour, the legendary Sunset Boulevard nightclub where generations of singer-songwriters have been launched to stardom and Sir Elton famously performed his first U.S. show in 1970.
“I have a younger brother named Nicholas,” Ben says in the video. “I get worried about him when we go outside to play in our front yard. I’m worried he’ll run for a ball and get hit by a car before I can stop him.” “I just loved hockey,” says Durocher, on the phone from his new place in Los Angeles during a day off between recording sessions for the album.Article content
Brother Ben, as it happens, became a theatre star at the Canterbury arts high school in Ottawa before embarking on a successful career in New York as a Broadway actor, puppeteer and puppet maker with shows such as Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and Avenue Q.Cindy Beauchamp and Sandy Durocher welcomed son Nick home to Stittsville in March 2020 after the global pandemic was declared. He later sat on the edge of the bed in his old basement bedroom and composed his hit song Run Away to Mars.
Nick joined the school’s competition choir, Storm Surge, run by Britton. Then there were some coffee shop acoustic shows along Main Street in Stittsville, a few local gigs with a short-lived rock band called the Rogues that Nick formed later in high school.Article content His LinkedIn page — untouched for years now, but still up on the web — declared a new direction in his life: “I decided to part ways with music as a profession and focus all my energy on growing businesses through social media and e-commerce stores.”Article content
He took another round of guitar lessons, this time with Dan Hay of the well-known, local folk-rock band Amos The Transparent, who had previously taught Riddell. The pandemic stalled their momentum, but the success of Run Away to Mars has changed everything for TALK and his bandmates. “It was surprising to us when Nick decided to become a frontman,” she says. “He was a bass player, right?”
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