Is Nick Hemming's Ivor Novello-nominated song any good?

Fragile, restrained and beautifully orchestrated, Nick Hemming's The Last of the Melting Snow stands up to anything fellow nominees Coldplay and Elbow have writtenIt's the kind of thing that only happens in the movies. A warehouse worker with a broken heart writes a song in a fug of vodka-fuelled inspiration and the world, just like in a Richard Curtis film, sits up and pays attention. So goes the story behind 35-year-old Nick Hemming's Ivor Novello nominated-song The Last of the Melting Snow. ...

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