1. Web search
When searching on the net I'm always stunned that my own self is scaterred into different names: Virtual Alien (MAIN), Virtualalien (in one word), Old Nick (3 albums of dark, baroque, classical music and A capella, Nick Peterson (as a director), Alien Virtual (the worst name) and there is one as a writer but not yet revealed.
Most of the albums are currently available but I'm working hard to ensure that all will be. "The White and Black Side" is scheduled to be re-released in October 08.
2. About E/S/T. The Game Show.
Short Synopsis "E.S.T" or the "Kelvin Game Show". The contestants will become patients and will be psychoanalyzed in the dark and are locked in a house for one month. The project is a journey into the brain of six contestants. Their state of mind is measured by 2 thermometers, one filtering the Kelvin degree and the other the EST degree, a mental state. The winner of this experiment is the contestant who will survive this ordeal.
First series has been nearly completed. Episodes 1-8. To be aired in 09.
3. Virtual Alien music defined...electronically.
Atmospheric
Trippy
Nocturnal
Hypnotic
Aggressive
Reflective
Ambitious
Melancholy
Autumnal
Poignant
"I can be any genre within my own. Despite popular misconceptions I'm not a Goth".
4. The Story of War of Love.
The best ever sold song by the artist. It achieved 4 M in sales figures. However this has been proven one the most impossible marketing and distribution operation in the history of the music industry.
When Virtual Alien was fifteen years old and recorded a demo initially entitled: 'War' it failed to entice the recording executives of the time. It took several producers and arrangers, amongst them Philip Adamir, Derek Garble, John Malkovich and Rick Mitra to re-record the song to the mainstream commercial Pop that it is today. But by lacking the support in the UK of key radio programmers a team of marketers decided to make full use of Virtual Alien's language skills and names.
"As the various singles have been scattered between many years and many countries, the song never went platinium anywhere. I'm not sure if I have to call this a flop or what? It was hard work and a bit silly at times. I wasn't even aware at the times that so many versions have been made and sold. I knew I recorded them but I had no control over it. It made one feels like a factory chain type of product with so many versions devoid of emotions as most were than as just quickly and as a joke. I believe there was a Spanish version: I sung a few words and someone else performed the rest. I have no idea what happened to it.
When I first retained control of all my recordings in 2000 ( I had to sue various people. It went on for 6 years). Most of it came bits by bits. In 2007 I discovered more recordings. I have always been very prolific but a lot of them is, well not very good".
War of Love became 15 (known) different singles:
1) War of Love by Virtual Alien (so far we all know)
2) War of Love (Dance) by Virtual Alien
3) War by Old Nick
4) WarWarWar (Alternative dance) by Old Nick
4) W.O.L. by Nick Peterson
5) La guerre de l'amour (in French) by Old Nick
6) A la guerre comme a la guerre (Dance Maxi version) (in French) by Old Nick
5) G.A. (in French) by Virtual Alien
6) Krieg und Liebe (in German) by Old Nick
7) Im Himmel (in German) by Virtual Alien
8) Im Himmel/Dance (in German) by Virtual Alien
9) Krieg und Liebe/TottenTanz (in German) by Old Nick
10) C'era una volta (In Italian) by Old Nick
11) C'era una volta/Dance (In Italian) by Vitual Alien
12) Peace Now (In Hebrew) by Nick Peterson
13) War of Love/Instrumental by Virtual Alien
14) La guerre de l'amour/Instrumental (in French) by Old Nick
15) Im Himmel/Instrumental (in German) by Virtual Alienversions)
In recent years 5 versions have been made available as ringtone/realtone/mastertone and videotone.
"That is so far what we know of it. No doubt there might have been other versions. I always have been a prolific worker but to that extent it was exploitation. During a period of five years I have been recording at least two songs every week"
"Not that I have been really paid or anything for it. When you start at 14, it is all very different. You are still a child and in this world children have no right."
5. Y2K Diary, DiaryUnlimited and the Edge magazine.
"In 1999 the Y2KDiary.com was launched. A new portal that commented on the internet culture designed by my great friend Tom Norwood and yours truly. Still alive to this day, a brand new site has evolved from it: DiaryUnlimited. Still at the trial stage it will include the Y2K Diary and everything else expected from a web portal and a networking site: the user will have control of their own diary and a powerful search engine".
"EdgeImageBank is an image bank, an off-shoot of The Edge magazine that I have once created in 1990 and lasted until 1995 with a circulation of 45 000 ex. every three months. The Edge was published in London and Sacramento in California. In 1995 I had enough of it and sold the title. EdgeImageBank and EdgeImageBank Pictures was launched soon after (my then film studio) but nothing much happened as I went back to college. I started at 14 in this business so I thought I needed some kind of education, what ever that was".
6. Interviews
" No. I do not give any interviews. The last time - a few years ago- I have been interviewed by a woman from The Times in London and she asked me so many stupid questions I was so angry. The whole experience put me off".
"I'm not considering any new offers. I've recently did a 'Questions and Answers' game with one of my producers to introduce The Memos a compilation of 30 or so clips for a DVD. This will be the last interview".
