About Me

Steveâ€™s first solo album in eight years, with a more stripped down, acoustic feel. New original songs and a rework of â€˜Crooked Manâ€™. Co-produced by Steve and Mark Tucker at the Presshouse Studio in Colyton.
ORDER THE NEW ALBUM FROM here

Steve Knightley Songbook 3

Order Steve Knightley's Songbook 3 from the Show of Hands online store now click here
The combined Songbooks 1 & 2 are also still available

Steve's Cruel River Tour Part 2

With supporting guest Jenna

Dates for early next year:
January 2008 THUR 24/01/08 ROYAL SPA CENTRE, LEAMINGTON SPA 01926 334418
FRI 25/01/08 BRIDGEWATER ARTS CENTRE 01278 422700
SAT 26/01/08 SHINING FRIENDS, LICKEY HALLS, BROMSGROVE 0121 445 2342
THU 31/01/08 THE MET,BURY 0161 761 2216
February 2008 FRI 01/02/08 ST PETERS CHURCH, MARLBOROUGH 01672 512465
SUN 03/02/08 HITCHIN FOLK CLUB 01462 812391
FRI 08/02/08 FALMOUTH PRINCESS 01326 211222
SAT 09/02/08 HAVANT ARTS CENTRE 023 9247 2700
SUN 10/02/08 BARNFIELD EXETER 01392 270891
SAT 16/02/08 ASSEMBLY ROOMS, DERBY 01332 255800
SUN 17/02/08 BUNGAY, FISHER THEATRE, 01986 897130
MON 18/02/08 NETTLEBED VILLAGE CLUB 01628 636620
WED 27/02/08 PACIFIC ROAD ARTS CENTRE, BIRKENHEAN 0151 647 0752
FRI 29/02/08 THE ANVIL, BASINGSTOKE 01256 844244
March 2008 SAT 01/03/08 WEST CHILTINGTON 01798 812661
SUN 02/03/08 PLOUGH ARTS CENTRE, 01805 624624

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Member Since: 4/16/2007
Band Website: showofhands.co.uk
Band Members:

About Steve
Steve Knightley's background provides all the ingredients for an itinerant West Country Celtic storyteller:

'I was born in Southhampton. My great-grandfather was a dockmaster and both my grandfathers worked in the docks. One of my grandmothers was Irish, the other Scottish. When I was five the family moved to Devon. I started playing the guitar and mandolin at fourteen and was soon performing in folk clubs and bars in and around Exeter'.

Knightley was first attracted to acoustic music after listening to early Baez and Dylan records. He began performing while still at school, eventually leaving to study politics and history in Coventry. Downes and Beer began using Steve's songs in their live shows and regularly stayed with him when they were in the midlands. Steve completed a postgraduate certificate in education at Sussex University and moved to London, where for six years he was involved in the mainstream music scene. He moved back to Dorset in the mid eighties and began supply teaching at a local school. It was here that he gave guitar lessons to Polly (PJ) Harvey. Steve worked with Phil from 1987 when Phil was still in the Albion Band, and later, in Show of Hands, Steve's own material was used more and more. He is a prolific and talented songwriter with an astounding voice ('...vast and windswept...' Q Magazine).
Record Label: Hands On Music
Type of Label: Indie