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Having discarded any thoughts of composing or playing with bands since my mid twenties it has taken me twelve years to bring me back to the point where I found myself picking up a guitar again.
As an active member of the Thanet (Kent, UK) music scene with “The Playing Field†between 1988-1995, I became increasingly tired of local apathy towards anything that didn’t fit local venues insistence on “Guns and Roses†cover bands. The energy required to continually push your own material gradually took it’s toll and with work and college commitments, “The Playing Field†played their last gig in the winter of 1995.
With equipment sold, and feeling totally burnt out, I was happy to simply walk away and no longer considered myself to be a guitar player.
In the Autumn of 2006, something changed.
A chance conversation with a friend led me to discover the music of people such as Azure Ray, Micah P Hinson, and Bright Eyes. With renewed interest and energy, I was suitably inspired.
No longer carrying the burden of trying to write, compose or play in order to please others, and having discovered the opportunities that sites such as My Space offer, I refound my desire to play.
With an original intention to record an EP by early 2007 it’s seems that this will be put on hold, as I concentrate on new material that will continue to be recorded simply and with the few resources that I have available to me.
All songs posted here are all demos (some more polished than others!) but it’s my hope to enter a “proper†studio as soon as I am able.
I have no desire to make any “great statementsâ€, or to try to be or sound like anything other than what I am. How can I be something that I am not?
All songs are recorded simply and with honesty.
Stephen x