Nick Corbin

Nick Corbin is an East London-based singer, songwriter and co-founder of soul specialist label Big AC Records, raised on the rare record collection of a father with an obsessive love for the genre. That upbringing runs through everything he does — hailed by The Guardian’s Tim Jonze as having “an innate understanding of classic soul songwriting.”

Originally from East Sussex, Corbin founded New Street Adventure as a three-piece while studying at the University of Birmingham in 2007, taking the band’s name from Birmingham’s New Street railway station. Signed to Acid Jazz Records in 2013, the band released two acclaimed albums — No Hard Feelings (2014) and Stubborn Sons (2017), the latter earning four stars from Q Magazine. Q’s Paul Moody memorably described him as “a mod Mike Skinner,” with comparisons to Paul Weller made frequently throughout the band’s career.

After pursuing his solo project — debut album Sweet Escape (2020), produced by Gavin Monaghan at Magic Garden Studio in Wolverhampton, and acclaimed by Craig Charles on BBC 6 Music and Robert Elms on BBC London — Corbin reunited New Street Adventure for a UK tour in Autumn 2024 marking the tenth anniversary of the debut album, reissued on limited edition coloured vinyl by Acid Jazz. 2025 saw the long-awaited third New Street Adventure LP, with a string of tour dates including their biggest headline show to date at London’s Scala.

A natural fit for the Monks Road Records family — a songwriter and label-builder who believes, as deeply as anyone on this roster, that soul music made with craft and conviction will always find its audience.