Nigel Foote
Singer-songwriter-guitarist
Nigel Foote is an Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist from the Blue Mountains of NSW. Nigel’s debut recording was ’Say No, Say No’, an anti-nuclear weapons song released in association with Greenpeace in 1986 – The International Year of Peace. Both songs on the single won songwriting awards, including a PATER International Broadcasting Award for Best Song about Peace and Mankind. Encouraged by the artistic success of the record, Nigel, previously a candlemaker by trade, released his first album, ‘Dangerous Game’, and became a full-time musician. Equally as passionate about composing guitar instrumentals as songwriting, Nigel also established himself as a teacher of folk-blues guitar. In 2006, Nigel released ‘Home by Dark’, winning the Folk Award in the Blue Mountains Music Awards in 2006 and 2007 for songs from the album. His latest release is ‘Back to the Streets’ (2025).
Back to the Streets
'Back to the Streets', was released on 6 August 2025 (Hiroshima Day) and is my latest anti-nuclear weapons song. I have gifted it to the anti-nuclear movement. Please share... it's free!
I wrote 'Back to the Streets' because nuclear weapons and radioactive waste are an ongoing threat to the future of the human race and all life on Planet Earth.
We have a moral obligation to Mother Nature not to bury radioactive waste beneath her skin – highly toxic material that will eventually escape its containment and poison the soil, watercourses and oceans for thousands of years.
Plutonium is one of the most carcinogenic substances known, and to leave it and other radioactive byproducts for future generations to deal with is totally irresponsible – a deadly hand-me-down and a crime against nature.
My song is a call to action, particularly in support of Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear history and ICAN’s current campaign to pressure governments to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Ban the Bomb!
Press / Reviews
“Nigel is very important in the scheme of things, a gifted songwriter who can communicate the world’s despair in wonderful songs – an imperative contribution”
— Dr Helen Caldicott (2025)
“We were thrilled that local musician Nigel Foote held his first public screening of his new anti-nuclear weapons song 'Back to the Streets' at the Peace Symposium on Aug 2”
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