Steven Clark - singer and songwriter
My own songs range over many different subjects - all the way from the philosophical insights afforded by a pigeon, or the restorative properties of Our Other National Drink, to fury over the Iraq conflict and other lunacies of our time
My voice has been described, not unfairly, as being "able to bend the needle on a record player". (It was Ian Davison that said that). Guitar style? Hmm .. " a bit crap" describes it, I think. I play mandolin "a bit".
So, yeah, I have won the Girvan Folk Festival Songwriting Competition twice, but on the other hand, one of those years there was just me and a tone-deaf dog - and the dog's entry was called "My Pretty Budgie".
I've performed as a floor artist at the Star Folk Club, and at Stirling and Houston Folk Clubs (not as floor singer, because Houston don't have floor spots) , and I'm regularly to be heard at the Wednesday Singers Session (Unsaintly Singers) at Morrison's Bar on Clyde Street in Glasgow.
You can get to my website here: stevenclarksongs.me.uk
My song "Coming Home" has been recorded professionally by Ian Bruce as "Comin Hame", featuring on his album "Demon's Dance". You can listen to Ian's version at: Ian Bruce's Site . There's a review of Ian's CD "Demon's Dance" Here... . The review says (ahem) very nice things about my song (blush).It's also been arranged in a four-part version for Edinburgh choir Protest In Harmony, and is sung by the Eurydice choir.
I was born in 1957, but reserve the right to decline any more birthdays. I'm married and have two children who experience differing degrees of embarrassment about Dad's singing depending on whether I am in the supermarket when I do it. Born and brought up in Springburn in Glasgow, I have done more jobs than I can, or care to, remember.
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