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Steven McKay

About Me


Born and raised on robbery, Steve is a true believer in the craft of pop songwriting. His songs are like old pals catching up over a beer on Saturday night in your hometown.
He is currently working on a follow up to 'Whistle', released in 2007 on Put On Your Drinking Cap Records.
The new release should be ready in September 2009 and will be released on Fuzzy Logic Recordings

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2006
Band Website: currently n/a
Band Members: Steve McKay
Influences: XTC, Genesis, Madonna, Prince, Stan Rogers, Leo Kottke, Bruce Peninsula, Thom Gill.
Sounds Like: Your foot on my heart.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

IGNITE!

I used to be into Metal and I miss the kind of song titles that you can get away with when you write metal/punk songs (ie. Blackened, Frayed ends of sanity, basically all of the songs on '...And Justi...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:51:00 GMT

100 MILE MUSIC #2: The Bicycles, The Magic, Matt Paxton

Needless to say I am pretty excited about the stacked bill that I just put together for installment #2 of 100 MILE MUSIC.The Bicycles (www.thebicycles.ca)The Magic (www.myspace.com/themagiclove)T...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:34:00 GMT

100 MILE MUSIC

It has become apparent that people don't know what I'm talking about when I say '100 MILE MUSIC'. Well here is a bit of an explanation.You see there is this group of people out in British Columbia wh...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:41:00 GMT

recording

I am officially recording some stuff this week with a buddy - Leon Taheny - over at Angles Up studios.  I couldn't have scheduled it better, because I just came back from a tour with Bruce P...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:30:00 GMT

update

So Here is the latest update on what is going on: 1) I have a job that suffocates me a bit and so I don't post a song a week like I used to.  At some point, that will change and I will ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:52:00 GMT

andys house.

...when I was 15, I had a summer job as a pool attendant.  Pool attendants are not the same as lifeguards - you just clean the pool and make sure kids don't run on the deck, etc.  In fact, y...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:40:00 GMT

I long to take some time off

I woke up today and realized that I spend all of my time focusing on music and that the well is dry.  That may not be true, but it feels like it. Then, I came to work and talked to a couple colle...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:12:00 GMT

steve plays his hits

If you look down at the upcoming dates section of this site, you will notice a regular onslaught of steve shows in the future.  Well, actually only a couple are strictly steve shows...many are up...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:58:00 GMT

whistle up on cbc radio3

About a year ago, I put together a compilation of tracks I had recorded while living in Kingston, ON.  It was really not meant to be an album - each track was a rough sketch of an inkling of a fr...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:47:00 GMT

Bruce Peninsula - Eye music feature

so... Bruce Peninsula is doing pretty well right now...to quote a source of recent controversy in the band, West Side Story, "something's coming, I don't know what it is, but it is going to be great."...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:04:00 GMT