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SteptoeSound

Still Dreaming !

About Me

Paul "Steptoe" Riley is a musician producer born and raised in London. He started out as a guitarist/songwriter with South London reggae band The Redbeats before forming The Ardliners. He played and sang in the 1990s with a variety of bands including Tribal Union and Hotliners. Released a UK garage record "Just like this" featuring Glen Ford as part of Groovtex in 2004 and wrote the backing track for a re-mix of Geridu's "Must be the music" which was released in 2005 under the guise of Fluid House.Writes and performs with Chris "A-BB" Francis as Dubtwins Made several tracks earlier this year with London Diva, Ruby Red AKA Natalie Corbett, one of which (Can't protect yourself) I've posted here. 20-08-2006 Simply Everyone's taking cocaine , a poem by Murray Lachlan Young (www.myspace.com/murraylachlanyoung) set to one of my backing tracks. Murray has had his poems set to music before but I reckon this is one of the best. Trying to find a deal on this one. Anyone interested. I have already negotiated a deal with Universal for Murray's part and I am looking for the right outlet for this tune. Let me know. 10-09-2006 Friday Evening is another song featuring Ruby Red AKA Natalie Corbett on vocals. Busy for most of 2007 working on the now defunct "Steptoe & Carlene Graham" act. 5-09-2007 Inside Out is a remix of a Nel K Latin Jazz tune that has been given the Funky/Dub/House treatment. 23-1-2008 Currently writing songs for an acoustic album with Laura J Evans and playing guitar for some seriously talented Songwriter/vocalists.CHECK OUT JUMP RADIO .. .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/16/2006
Band Website: youtube.com/paulsteptoeriley
Band Members: STEPTOE & Carlene Graham
Influences:

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David Bowie, Nina Simone, James Brown, Bob Marley,Talking Heads, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Lee "Scratch" Perry,Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles,Roy Orbison, Israel Vibration, Al Green, The Doors, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, JS Bach, Beethoven, William Blake,Aldous Huxley, Albert Camus, Seamus Heaney, JG Ballard
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MY GAELIC/IRISH NAME

I've just found out the gaelic translation of my namePaul Joseph Riley= Pol Eosaidh O' Raghallaigh. I also discovered my ancestors were dispossesed of their land by that happy dude Oliver Cromwell and...
Posted by SteptoeSound on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:40:00 PST

CREDITS

JUST WANNA BE GOOD (video)Written by Paul Riley & Carlene GrahamVocals performed by CarleneFIXING (video)Written by Paul Riley & Laura EvansVocals performed by Laura J EvansMIDDLE OF JUNEWritt...
Posted by SteptoeSound on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:42:00 PST

POEM

I first heard this poem many years ago in a BBC documentary about Van Morrison's search for his artistic Roots. Van himself concluded that he came from the tradition of The Glens Poets. This poem by B...
Posted by SteptoeSound on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:48:00 PST

www.flickr.com/photos/paulsteptoeriley

Check out some of my pics over at www.flickr.com/photos/paulsteptoeriley
Posted by SteptoeSound on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:45:00 PST