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Safely hidden in their Noise Pop producing factory deep in the Welsh Hills, Steveless & Syd Howells create pop carnage using their collection of 'unusual' instruments obtained from car boot sales and a selection of rapidly decaying cassette four tracks.So far there has been...PLEASE IN THE NAME OF GOD STOP BEATING MY CHILDREN TO DEATH WITH YOUR GIGANTIC HAMMERS (FuKu, 2005)A MUCH GRIMMER PLACE THAN OBLIVION (FuKu, 2005)YO HO HO (a collection of Xmas treats) (FuKu, 2005)THE HAPPY MAN IS A CONTENTED FOOL (Fuku, 2006)TEETH LIKE TOMBSTONES, EYES LIKE COAL - Radio Wales Session (Fuku, 2006)I WAS A CAREER WAITRESS (EP) - Cherryade Radio Session (Fuku, 2007)They also 'played' (i.e. improvised every single song) Glastonbury Festival in 2005. To date, they have not been asked to return...all cd's available from us - usually free! (except yo ho ho which is sold out : however the two best tracks from this can be found on the rather wonderful album HAVE A VERY CHERRY CHRISTMAS from Cherryade Records - we're also on Volume 2 of this - and it's a very good album despite this fact).Their new EP is called 'STOLEN OWLS MAY DIE FEARS OWNER' and will be released by fab Bristol label, The International Lo-Fi Underground early in 2008 - buy it...it might just ruin your life.Steveless/Syd Howells...just like digital recording never happened.

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Member Since: 12/6/2005
Band Website: oh come on, we're still recording on cassette...
Band Members: Steveless/Syd Howells is, surprisingly, just Dan Newman and Syd Howells (despite occasionally sounding as if Genghis Khan and his hordes had just ground zeroed Whizzy's Guitar Emporium)
Influences: Nah, can't think of any. Sorry.
Sounds Like: Nothing you've heard this week, or next week or until we've sent you one of our cd's or you accidentally caught us on the radio and thought the radio had gone out of tune...
Record Label: FuKu
Type of Label: Indie

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The Happy Man Is A Contented Fool

Fresh from the October Xmas Song Fest, we reconvened in December 2005 to record our 3rd album (they're all short albums...low boredom threshold, we're on tablets and everything). Opening track '...
Posted by steveless/sydhowells on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:38:00 PST

Yo Ho Ho...A Selection of Christmas Treats...and A Very Cherry Christmas To You...

Having damaged our hearing whilst recording the previous album we decided that we needed to rein in our more 'apocalyptic' pop tendencies and agreed that our next mission would be to make a Christmas ...
Posted by steveless/sydhowells on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:48:00 PST

A Much Grimmer Place Than Oblivion

Our second album, 'A MUCH GRIMMER PLACE THAN OBLIVION' was recorded on a weird day in July 05. A collision of noise pop, sampled oddness and chaos. It disappeared almost without trace...ex...
Posted by steveless/sydhowells on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:01:00 PST

How we emptied Glastonbury 2005...

...Dan had been booked to play the Oxfam Tent at Glastonbury Festival and since I was working there, we accidentally ended up playing the first Steveless/Syd Howells gig (and as of the present, the on...
Posted by steveless/sydhowells on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:12:00 PST

Please In The Name Of God...

In the beginning there was.... a split single on Taffpop Records (thanks guys) of Run by Steveless and Eyes on Stalks by Photographed By Lightning (whom Syd was making a din with at the time). S...
Posted by steveless/sydhowells on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:24:00 PST