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Steve

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About Me

I play the drums for the 60s tribute band The Overtures, and touring theatre company, The Bootleg Sixties Sight and Sound Show. The Overtures have played pretty much all over the globe now..Highlights: London Palladium, Drury Lane Theatre, supporting Blondie, Squeeze... - Elvis Costello's wedding at Elton John's house, and a couple of years later we played at Elton John's wedding too. I'm left handed (sinistral to you). See our web site www.theovertures.com and our myspace site (beautifully maintained by the wonderful Joanne Rishton xx) www.myspace.com/theovertures
Below you should hopefully see my lovely cat, Spoons. Enjoy.
Here's a very brief summary of my drumming career:75-76 Granite, 76-79 The Ordinarys, 79-80 The Action, session in Frankfurt, Germany,80 Simon Tedd (Scardanelli), 80-81 The Klick/Le Clique, 81-84 The Ordinarys, 1982 - Dennis Greaves (Nine Below Zero), X Revue, The Exceptions, 1983 - The Bullettes (with John Dalton and John Gosling X The Kinks and Eddie Phillips X The Creation), Hush Hush with Alan Lee Shaw, EQ, with John-Paul Miller and Simon Bailey, Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, Dark Lady (with Henry Cluney X Stiff Little Fingers), 85- Steve Griffin 'A Distant Relative', Maximan with Mark Rutherford (Jimmy The Hoover), Hard Rain till 1989, 89-91 The Green, 91 till present day, The Overtures.


My Interests

Comedy, Music, History, Film, Documentaries, Photography, PhotoShop, Ufology, Nostalgia... Real ale/beer...oh, and gardening when the weather's fine!

I'd like to meet:

Jim Lovell, Michael Collins, Ron Sexsmith, Ringo Starr, Zac Starkey, Stuart Copeland, Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Greg Hemphill, Ford Kiernan. Not Necessarily it that order!

Music:

The Who, The Jam, The Kinks, The Byrds, The Creation, The Pretty Things, The Move, Nine Below Zero, The Police, Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, Elvis Costello, The La's, Cast, World Party, Supergrass, Teenage Fanclub, Grand Drive, Fountains Of Wayne, The Killers...Motown stuff, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Sandie Shaw, Peggy Lee, Dusty Springfield, Twiggy, Duffy, Ron Sexsmith, The Argonauts, The Checks, The Killers, Royworld, The Quo, AC/DC... etc

Movies:

In The Shadow Of The Moon, Bad Day At Black Rock, It's A Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, The Defiant Ones, Apollo 13, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Network, Mary Poppins.

Television:

A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Alan Partridge, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, Still Game, Chewin The Fat, League of Gentlemen, Third Rock From The Sun, Goodnight Sweetheart, Dad's Army, Life On Mars, Ashes To Ashes, X Files, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Dr. Who, Extras, The Office, Coast, Horizon

Books:

A New Guide To Rational Living, Fiction -Perfume - Patrick Suskind, Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy. Non-fiction - 'Why Aren't They Here?' -The Question of Life on Other Worlds, Surendra Verma, The Life and Times of Winston Churchill.

Heroes:

My Dad, Martin Luther King, Jr., Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Carl Sagan, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Hicks, Stephen Fry, Keith Moon.