Brian Niesz

How many years of experience in the business? — 7 Years

What is your primary job in The All Night Party? (musician, recording engineer, numbers guy, etc.) — Recording, mix, and mastering engineer.  I dabble it other media types (video + photography), and also am a hobby musician.

Where are you from? Where have you lived and for how long? – Cincinnati, born and raised – Sycamore High School then CCM at UC.  Moving to Austin TX.

Give one interesting or quirky fact about yourself (do you have six toes, collect vintage peanut butter jars, etc) — I have blue eyes, despite both my parents having brown eyes.  Both my grandmothers were blue-eyed.  Apple-nerd. TV-junkie.

Where do you get your best ideas? (from singing in the shower, working in the yard, listening to fave tunes, etc)Usually from troubleshooting.  My best ideas are usually creative solutions to problems or issues.

What is your favorite band? — The Rolling Stones

What’s playing on your iPod right now? — Quest For Fire

Favorite thing in Cincinnati? (food, store, location, park, quirk of the city, etc.) — Northside

Favorite local music venue?Northside Tavern

Favorite food? Ice Cream

Favorite drink? — Pepsi

Nicknames? — bniesz (“bee-neese”)

Secret fact about you that no one knows? — I have a hard time throwing away old electronics.  I have 5 (at least somewhat) functional Macs: my first mac is still up and running: a 7-year old Titanium Powerbook.  I have a new 17″ MacBook Pro,  an iBook that’s hooked up to my TV, and two BlueBerry iMac that just look pretty – although they do boot up.