Nicholas Joseph Offer (born 1972) is a
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...
–based musician. He is best known as the vocalist of the
dance-punk
Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk) is a post-punk subgenre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the disco, post-disco and new wave movements.Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984. Simon Reynolds.Faber an ...
band
!!!, which he helped form in
Sacramento, California
Sacramento ( or ; ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat, seat of Sacramento County, California, Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento Rive ...
, in 1996. Offer played bass and keyboards for the electronic band
Out Hud
Out Hud was an American electronic music, electronic band formed in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area of California and later based in New York City. The band consisted of guitarist Nic Offer, bass guitar, bassist Tyler Pope, cello, ...
from 1996 until 2005.
Nic is noted for his energetic dancing while performing in a pair of blue
shorts
Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called "shorts" because they ar ...
which have been described as "
hot pants
Hotpants or hot pants are extremely short shorts. The term was first used by ''Women's Wear Daily'' in 1970 to describe shorts made in luxury fabrics such as velvet and satin for fashionable wear, rather than their more practical equivalents t ...
", "short shorts", "
swim shorts" and "
pool boy shorts".
Footnotes
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External links
Nic Offer Interview at A.V Club website
1972 births
Living people
American rock singers
!!! members
21st-century American singers
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