Steve Gardiner

Steve Gardiner has been a driving force in the Canadian music industry as a songwriter, producer and arranger. He started out as a guitar player in a high school band called Sharp Edge and was promoted to the front man of this group, as he had the best singing voice of the three members. This started a long career of singing, songwriting and performance. Eventually Sharp Edge developed into Foreign Design, and then finally In And Out.
In and Out was successful in Canada and abroad. The group spent many years touring clubs in Canada and some parts of the U.S. During these tours, they independently released Emotional Politics, produced by Frank Levin, the first album written by Steve. Extensive touring and strong radio support in their hometown of Ottawa gained the band a strong following all over the world.
It was at this time that In And Out signed a major Canadian record deal with Hypnotic/A&M records and hit the record charts in Canada with their single "Empty House". This album was produced by Tom Treumuth. This self titled album written by Steve also produced a ..1 hit in Northern Europe with the song "One Life". That year, the Ottawa rock awards nominated Steve Gardiner as the Floyd Bell Socan Songwriter of the year as well as male vocalist of the year and "Empty House" was nominated as single of the year.
Steve was also inducted into the Cornwall Musicians Hall Of Fame for his contribution to Recording and Composition.
Steve and long time recording partner Mike Seguin, opened a studio and began producing, writing and recording a new album. A new group was formed as a result of these recordings and "Famous Jane" was born. With a Canadian distribution deal already signed with MaGaDa/Oasis, the album entitled "yellow" was released in Canada in February of 2000.
Steve took to the studio again, and recorded "Noah's Prescription", an album dedicated to his newborn son Noah. Steve says, "Music has always been my prescription to feeling better, and it was my hope that music would have the same effect on my son...thus the title "Noah's Prescription." This, his first solo album was quickly signed to Sour Music/Sony and released to Canadians on November 06th, 2000. Available for free dowload at the official American steve site: www.stevegardinerband.com.
Steve then took a one year break from his solo career to front the Ottawa band Thermocline, and they produced a recording that was never released entitled "Static Satellite". The band was fastracking until the untimely death of bass player Jason Young. This event marked a change for all members of Thermocline and Steve eventually went to Calgary to start work on a new solo CD album with Russell Broom and Bob and Clint Moffatt of "Same Same" fame.
Steve released the brand new solo album titled "Sonic Leveling". The album features guitar player / songwriter / producer Russell Broom, known best for his work with Jann Arden. Also on board for the recordings, courtesy of "Same Same" or " The Moffatts" were Clint Moffatt who did the bass tracks, and Bob Moffatt who did the drum tracks.These tracks are available online at www.Ebay.com BR
Steve is currently working on a new set of recordings that he hopes to have released in early 2007. Most of the songs were co-written with guitarist Casey Hanson. The tentative title for this album is "Hyper" and is a much heavier sounding album than SL. There will be a preview available on this site as soon as the mixes are complete. SteveGardiner.com | SteveGardinerBand Forums | SteveGardinerBand.com

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