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Nick Steed

About Me

Musician/songwriter/Composer from Stockport, a small town near Manchester UK,Have been playing keyboards for 26 years also play /bass/sax/flute and sing lead and backing vocals. The style of music i write in varies alot depending on what ideas flow in my head, rather than just sticking to one style of music and becoming 'typecast " in that particular style..., i enjoy jazz funk style the most and equally enjoy performing in that style of music on stage. Slow Ballads seem to be a lot in my head of recent and lyrics i also write , all recordings and instruments(except guitar) are performed by myself. Here are some independant views on my music:Finalist in the VH1 international songwriter of the year 2008, with the instrumental 'Sientalo'.'Beautiful music, written and performed by someone who knows how music should sound and be played, keep up the good work Nick You have a special talent' GORDON HASKELL(UK No.1 hit How wonderful you are)'The vocalist sort of sounds like a lot of different singers, he has his own unique feeling and sound as well, and that adds a great quality to the perfromance. I like this." BROADJAM REVIEWNUMBER 10 in the TOP TEN JAZZ FUSION CHART FOR THE NUMBER 'Sientalo'Previous local bands include: Funkybanana fourskins/Hocus Pocus/The Perferations,Steedydan(yep tribute band to ..hmm guess)/Ten Sumners Tales(Sting Tribute) help out with Manhud/8 Ball Blues Band/Golden Torch/The Tomorrows/The Blues Blasters, and anyone else that runs short of a Blues/jazz/funk, piano/hammond or generally sound fx cheese merchant, also worked /supported George Melly Jazz Quartet, Jools Holland, Takka Boom, Phil Cool, The Temptations.All Songs have been written and performed by myself and performed by loads of geezers... enjoy..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/08/2006
Band Website: this one..
Band Members: Got my own gear and transport, i also own/ride/ motorbikes extremley fast, sometimes ending in tears and expense, but hey its fun at the time.
Influences: Steely Dan, ToTo, Sting, David Sanborn, Branford Marsalis, Zappa, George Duke, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Burt Bacharach, J.S.Bach, 10cc, Gerry Rafferty, the Police, Focus,yes, Prog rock, ELP, etc Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, various other from Classical to Rock also like Faithless, Hybrid, Various D&B funky house etc for those clubbing nites!!
Sounds Like: Tricky one.... Varying Styles so i suppose Sting to SteelyDan
Record Label: SteedMusic
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

You Don't love me 'Sax Mix'

'You Don't love me' music by me , Lyrics and vocals by Sharon Stanton, Gonna do a few versions of this tune, heres the sax mix..other stuff in the pipeline, watch this space
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:25:00 GMT

NEW Dance track

Check out new dance track 'You Dont love me', lyrics and vocals by Sharon Stanton
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:26:00 GMT

New film score soundtrack'Battle of the sea horses

Just written and recorded new 'action film' soundtrack named 'The battle of the sea horses'enjoyNick
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:20:00 GMT

Writing film score for new film ’Thrall’

Busy in in first stages of writing the Orhestral score for horror film 'Thrall' starring Iam Boyle from 'Spooks', one of two films im commissioned for, watch this space.
Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:20:00 GMT

Sientalo

Remixed version of my tune sientalo....ooo yes
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:17:00 GMT

SONGS FINISHED AND REUPLOADED

RE done both songs by adding acoustic guitars and drums etc should be right now...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:33:00 GMT

NEW SONG "Hanging On’

new song ive just written , very rough mix atm, gonna redo some bits but here is an idea of what its likelaters
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 13:41:00 GMT

NEW SONG ’I WAS WRONG’

Hi all, just written and produced this song with my new gear, fastest ever tune ive ever written with lyrics in my life all done and dusted in a day, very slicey wrists ballad based on a guy with a ga...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 15:44:00 GMT

FOR SALE....

Digidesign Mbox2 with all software plus dongle, and Protools 7.4 le and a shhitload of plugins(bomb factory etc) selling due to upgrade going cheap £150 and its yours.
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:46:00 GMT

New kit and new studio in the air..

Just upgraded my kit from Pro tools which i never got into, to my new Mac and Logic 8 to keep the Nord company, which i can say is fackin ace!!, also working on some plans for the studio that im build...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT