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Kevin Hewick

Watch your back .......... I'm not done yet!

About Me

NOTE:NEW WEBSITE AS OF OCTOBER 2006: www.kevinhewick.co.ukHEAR A COVER VERSION OF ANOTHER KH SONG "WIDE OPEN" PERFORMED BY YELLOWBELLY AT: www.myspace.com/gazbirtlesIf anything I prove that you can do still do it however old you are,there is life after 40..and the rest lol!These have been the best times of my musical life and the internet has played a big part in that,you yourself wouldn't be reading this were it not for the cyber revolution that has delivered artists to new audiences.We can now find each other,players and listeners,wherever in the world we are..I wrote the following a couple of years ago but it still holds true to this day:"I've been writing songs, on and off, for over 30 years, and performing them, off and on, for nearly as long. If I'd have followed the conventional path then I should have never started again after I stopped in 1984, a burned out commercial and artistic failure following my times on Factory and Cherry Red records. But, a few years later, not only did the will to do it come back, I was also a far better artist, with a far better grasp of melody, lyrics and performance. Today I still feel I have got some kind of passion and vision, constantly exploring new insights that I can express in my songs. I've always said that I try to fill a hole in music, doing something that isn't done by anyone else, that isn't catered for by the normal music biz. It's real, it's sincere and it's here, if anybody wants it..and if not I'm doing it anyway - I have to, need to..and, hopefully, I can communicate elements of both the personal and the universal..and..saying as that hole in music still needs filling I'd like to have a go at filling it.."The only thing I'd add to that today,in 2006,is I now realise that there's a lot of us are having a go at filling that hole in music,I feel part of a bigger whole,less isolated and insular than I was when I wrote the above.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/12/2005
Band Website: kevinhewick.co.uk
Band Members: Kevin Hewick. And sometimes Flash. And sometimes Flash, John & Kenton of ist in Hewist.And sometimes Flash,Atarimad and Beef as a total rocks off rock out covers band.The ultimate Kevin Hewick solo set is 3 hours long,4 even..30+,40+ songs and a few stories to go with them and some audience interaction..
Influences: This is a mixture of influences and things I am a fan of - I am first and foremost and always an ultimate music fan,total!From Led Zeppelin to Goldfrapp,from Sandy Denny to Lush,total!: Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Janis Joplin, David Bowie and Tin Machine and Mick Ronson, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Pete Townshend and The Who, Roy Harper, Patti Smith, John Lennon and The Beatles, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention and Fotheringay, Adrian Borland and The Sound, Johnny Cash, Nico, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, John Martyn, Rory Gallagher and Taste, Jackie Leven and Doll by Doll, Van Morrison, Bjork, Kris Kristofferson, Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, Laura Nyro,Tim Hardin, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Kirsty MacColl, Annette Peacock, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Buddy Holly, Marc Bolan and T.Rex, Robert Johnson, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, Eva Cassidy, Jeff Beck, Noel Coward, Nancy Wilson and Heart, John Coltrane, Judee Sill, Todd Rundgren, Jackie DeShannon, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Anne Briggs, Wendy and Lisa, Sophie Barker, Hank Williams, Shakira, Sonja Kristina and Curved Air, Robert Wyatt and Soft Machine, Bert Jansch, Tina Dico, Marvin Gaye, An Pierle, Billie Holliday, Beverley Craven, John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Gene Vincent, Chi Coltrane, The Passions, Billy MacKenzie and The Associates, Minnie Riperton, Muddy Waters, Lesley Duncan, Martin Carthy, Olivia Newton-John, Otis Redding, Peter Gabriel era Genesis, Roy Orbison, Dina Carroll, Suzanne Vega, Howlin' Wolf, Yvonne Elliman, Miles Davis, Sylvia Plath, Led Zeppelin, Lush, Cream and Jack Bruce solo and Eric Clapton solo and Derek and the Dominoes, Van Der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill solo, Abba, Joy Division, New Order, Little Feat, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Manic Street Preachers, Yes, The Like, The Buzzcocks, The Rolling Stones, early Queen, early Pere Ubu, Iggy and The Stooges, Kraftwerk, Def Leppard, Primal Scream, Free, XTC, The Doors, All About Eve, Ludus, Coldplay, Alice in Chains, Sing-Sing, Wire, The Grateful Dead, Gossip, St.Etienne, Roxy Music, PIL, Shakatak, Pet Shop Boys, U2, Crosby Stills and Nash, Maroon5, Goldfrapp, REM, The Band, Scissor Sisters, Young Marble Giants, Suede, MC5, Moloko, Section 25, Ultravox, Jefferson Airplane, Air, INXS, The Carpenters, The Innocence Mission, Gay Dad, Blue Nile, Durruti Column, Traffic, Beach Boys, The Watersons, The Cardigans, The White Stripes, Slade, Zero 7, Magazine, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Libertines, Arcade Fire, The Clash, Pink Strip....loads and loads of other things too..
Sounds Like: All of the above mixed up and condensed / compressed into one voice and a guitar.
Record Label: Pink Box,Sorted,Factory,Cherry Red
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Peter Hook & Kevin Hewick improvise live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLhUShAFu4 Hooky and I play as Phil Diggle paints in the foyer of Manchester Urbis at the midnight of the longest day of the year....
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:49:00 PST

New Hewick Album ’KEEP YOUR FLIPPED WIGS ON’ + Musical / DVD

My new album is now out on Pink Box Records, it's called  'Keep Your Flipped Wigs On' , consisting of the 11 songs I wrote for 'School of Hard Rocks' the musical with book by my old playwrig...
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:06:00 PST

10,000 Profile Views

Got to 10,000 profile views on here at last..and that honour went to.. HiSecurity Tickets.So there you go..
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:04:00 PST

Top 8..16..24..32..etc..

..or 40 ..and so on.. I can't have enough 'Top' places for my myspace friends.. and I'm very touched that I am on more 'Top's' than I can 'repay' on mine. So I guess I'll be rotating it more often tho...
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:23:00 PST

New KH website - www.kevinhewick.co.uk

At last,as of now there is a brand new,up to date Kevin H website - it's at: http://www.kevinhewick.co.uk It will have all the latest news/blog/music/videos/pics and links to all things KH related. Ho...
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:48:00 PST

Lennon Remembered

66 today.
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:10:00 PST

Cherry Red Downloads

Cherry Red Records now have a download shop and most of my studio tracks from the 1980s are on it at 79p a song. See www.cherryred.com/downloads and find me under K for Kevin in the alphabetical artis...
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:22:00 PST

3 shows/10 hours plus in Leicester in September

I will be doing three shows with a combined timespan of ten hours plus in Leicester in September:The Criterion  Millstone Lane on the 2nd (3.00pm-5.30pm),Out of the Vaults Wellington Street ...
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:01:00 PST

Happy Birthday Bethan Part 11

Happy Birthday Bethan Part 11 That can read as Part TWO or Part ELEVEN! X  
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:18:00 PST

1996 and 2006 KH on You Tube

See me age 10 years and lose my hair,some achieve clips made by  Dave Dixey of Sorted Records in 1996 and 2006:   http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Kevin Hewick&search_type=search_vi...
Posted by Kevin Hewick on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:31:00 PST