It was a shock to the british progressive rock scene when Peter Nicholls decided, in the summer of '85, to leave IQ, the band he recorded two stunnning albums with and after just three years.
But it didn´t took Nicholls long to find another musical home. The second half of that year he spent with his collaborateurs of newly formed Niadem's Ghost, writing songs and performing the first concerts in Manchester and London's notorious Marquee Club.
Not exactly progressive rock, strongly influenced by New Wave music, Niadem's Ghost built up a strong following right from the start. Their first album, In Sheltered Winds, showed great potential. Nicholl's fragile voice and the driving drums of Brain Grantham from punk band Slaughter And The Dogs fit together perfectly and soon Niadem's Ghost were voted 18th best band by the readers of Sounds magazine.
Although their live shows got better and better attented and the album sold well in UK, Germany, Benelux and the US, the band split after the release of the cassette album Thirst in 1987.
Not only for fans of IQ, the reissue of both releases on one CD in 1992 was a perfect opportunity to get hold of the complete work of a band that stand for the urban spirit of mid-eighties british independend bands.
