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Back in 2001 four of us wanted to play ska music and founded The Nice Guys. This all started with the first two recordings, 'Ska Party' and 'Toepe Len'. We only used Drums, Keys, Guitar and bass-guitar. These songs were very basic and 2tone-oriented. From that day on we moved more and more towards a traditional style of ska and reggae, adding horns, turning the keys into a decent Hammond and piano, using upright bass, and now we’re a band of 9 musicians. Since 2010 we've been playing in this same line-up. Spring 2013 we went to Majestic Studio to record 7 new songs. The people at Majestic were excited and offered us a recorddeal to release this mini-album on their label. In august 2013 we were proud to present our ep “Sweet & Dirty”. To release this album with a big-bang, we had the opportunity to share stage with The Skatalites, the day before our official release party. February 2014 the Pirates Crew Soundsystem released a 7" to celebrate their 10th anniversary with Collieman + Saimn-i and Blackout JA. Both of the songs had the intrumental of Touched By a Stranger performed by The Nice Guys as backing. June 2014 we went back into the Majestic studio. We recorded 14 songs and in november 2014 the full album “Rude On Friday” was released. For the vinyl-lovers we even made a special limited edition coloured viny, which was a succes! Ever since those recordings we've been playing at a lot of nice festivals and big stages, such as Copacobana Festival, Pole Pole Festival, Trefpunt Festival, Charlatan Ghent, Reggae Geel, ... .

For now, we keep working on new stuff for the upcoming gigs. So for every nice stage you know, we're always available to ratify your line-up!