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Steve Ison

The stars are never really distant..

About Me

I'm a solo bedroom recording artist recording on an 8 track and love all creative song based music.Don't like to be limited by genre,but i'm probably acousticelectricpsychedelicfolkpop i guess if its gotta be narrowed down..

I live in a 24/7 fantasy music bubble in a flat in Birmingham UK and like going for long walks in the sunshine making up songs in my head.. when i'm not sitting at the computer surfing and getting red eye..
I used to play rythm guitar and sing in a band called Special Needs and am part of a wonderfully fun lofi acoustic duo called The Davies Ison Project .

My first solo album 'The Stars Are Never Really Distant' released Dec '06 Its available to BUY from .. or to download from ..
THE MUSIC IS THE MESSAGE...THE MUSIC IS THE MESSAGE..THE MUSIC IS THE MESSAGE...

Keepin' it unreal...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/7/2005
Band Website: steveison.com
Influences: The Beatles , David Bowie , The Kinks sss , Nick Drake , Love , Francoise Hardy , Chris Bell , VashtiBunyan , Nick Lowe , Los Shakers , Harper Stephens , Mira Gem , T.Rex , Tyrannosaurus Rex , Velvet Underground , Nic o , Margo Guryan , Tropicalia ,Os Mutantes , Fred Neil , Caetano Veloso , Forest , The Byrds , , The Association , The Beach Boys , Big Star , Bob Dylan , The Left Banke ,Rolling Stones(Brian Jones 60s period), The Zombies , Gilberto Gil ,GalCosta ,Mott The Hoople, Syd Barrett , Daughters Of Albion , The Happies , Jonathan Richman ,Dusty Springfield, Sufjan Stevens , Dono van ,Skip Spence , Nirvana (60s) , Tommorow , Rainbow Ffolly The Mamas And The Popas, The Turtles , Stephanie Kirkham , The Cookies, Chris Bell ,Thoughtgang ,Matt Gangi ,The Freeborne ,The Nazz ,Harry Belafonte ,Wicker Man Soundtrack ,Pussy , Rufus Wainwright, Marianne Faithful ,Sandie Shaw ,Petula Clark ,Cilla Black , Billie Davis ,BrigitteBardot , Elliott Smith ,Gillian Hills ,Holland/Dozier/Holland, Geraldine ,Annie Philippe , French Pop Dream ,Erik Saint Laurent ,Les Baxter , Orange JuiceFence Records ,Devendra Banhart ,The Cowsills , Neil Young, The Syn Neil Diamond,Buddy Holly, The LOving Spoonful ,The Everly Brothers ,New York Dolls ,Simon And Garfunkel ,R Dean Taylor,The Monkees, Forever Amber ,Tintern Abbey ,The Millenium ,The Herd , Astrud Gilberto ,The Attack ,The Yardbirds ,The Chocolate Watch Band , Harry Chapin, Portugese Nuggets ,Linda Perhacs ,Sylvie Vartan ,Neighbourhood Children ,KarenDalton , ,The Doors , Billy Fury ,Clothilde ,Marie La Foret , Jacqueline Taieb , David Cassidy,Johnny Cash, Abba, The Shin s s ,Patsy Cline, The Idle Race ,Jackie De Shannon ,Mamma Cass ,Jason Crest ,Boeing Duveen And The Beatiful Soup ,Skip Bifferty ,Nilsson, The Smiths, The Galaxy 6 ,Queen, Jimmy Webb, Al Green, Ben Folds ,The Grass Roots ,Looking Glass ,France Gall ,Joe Meek , Al Stewart,Traffic, Ron Dante ,The Wombles ,Shockin g Blue ,X Ray Spex ,The Poppy Family ,Spizz Energi ,Jona Lewie ,H P Lovecraft ,Love Sculpture ,Leonard Coh en ,The Phantom Family ,The Freeborne , Alex Chilton,Chris Bell, Jane Birkin ,Diane Denoir ,The Faces ,David McWilliams ,Marmalade ,The Temptations ,JimiHendrixPuppini Sisters ,Fiona Apple,Pavement ,Flaming Lips , Tender Slider ,Bukka White ,The Great Society ,The 23rd Turnoff , World Party ,Jefferson Airplane ,,Tir Na Nog ,Bert Jansch ,Pentangle ,Spirogyra ,Mason Williams ,Floribunda Rose/Scrugg ,Mori Schinni ,Tangerine Zoo ,, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Portugese Nuggets ,Linda Perhacs ,Sylvie Varton ,The Neighbourhood Children ,Cat Stevens ,KarenDalton ,Focus s ,David Essex , Wyclef Jean, The End ,The Fifth Dimension , The Fifth DimensionStrawberry Alarm Clock ,The Who , 10cc ,Harry Belafonte ,Leadbelly , The Libertines , The Animals,A Teardrop Explodes, The Free DEsign Kites , REtro polka ,The Moon ,Darondo ,Fern Knight ,The Doors ,The Divine Comedy ,Honeybus ,Blind Faith ,Chrysalis ,Roy Orbison ,Lee Hazelwood ,Luigi Tenco ,Saint Ettiene ,Orange Juice , Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Sparklehorse, Julie London ,Wreckless Eric ,Jobriath , Jo Jo Gunne ,Wire ,Chopin , The Supremes,Eddie Cochran, Tom Jobim ,,Chico Buarquede ,Geraldo Azevedo ,Sergio Mendes , Motown, 49th Parallel , The Fire ,The Aerovons ,The Tages ,Elma Gantrees Velvet Opera ,Nancy Priddy ,Claudine Longet ,The Poets ,Andwella's Dream ,Second Hand , Aretha Franklin,Spoon , Kaleidoscope The Four Tops, America,The Moody Blues, TheRutle s , Red Snakes ,Bango ,Neil Innes ,Israel Kamakawiwoole ,Mira Gem ,Etta James ,The Lemonheads ,Aphroditie'sChild ,Spirit , Bright Eyes, Bacharach/David, Blondie, Melody Gardot , Orange Bicycle The Carpenters,Iggy and the Stooges, Victoire Scott ,Michel Orso ,PP Arnold ,Joanna Shimcus ,Alain Stefan ,Ennio Morricone ,John Shuttleworth ,The Police, Grandaddy , The Coral ,Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley,Jimi Hendrix, The Cardigans ,Badfinger ,Melanie Safka ,Bread , Jimmy Cliff,Late 60s-early 70s reggae,Serge Gainsbourg, Blossom Toes ,Air, Nick Cave,Saint Ettiene,The Buzzcocks, Skip James ,Nirvana ,Jacques Brel, The RaspberriesDavid Essex ,Colin Blunstone ,Apple ,The Creation , The Smoke , Ian Brown, Elton John(early stuff) , West Side Stor y The Cocteau Twins,The Clash,Curtis Mayfield, The Pretty Things John Martyn,Gordon Lightfoot, Dantalians Chariot , Lee Hazelwood ,Nancy Sinatra ,The Shangrilas ,Eddie Cochran ,Roy Orbison ,Will Oldham , The Divine Comedy,Crosby Stills Nash, The Specials ,Acid House Kings ,The Beat ,Billie Holiday ,The Carpenters ,Buffalo Springfield , Neutral Milk Hotel, Locomotive ,Magic Carpet ,Diabolus ,Sailor ,The Shirts , Erik Sarte, The Replacements, Captain Beefheart , Nick Lowe ,The Adverts ,Andy Williams , TheJam ,Squeeze ,The Rubinoos ,Cat Stevens ,The Teardrop Explodes ,Rita Heyworth ,Marilyn Monroe ,Pixies , The Specials, ,Lulu ,Harry Chapin ,Cockney Rebel , Richard Anthony ,Claude Francois ,The Jackson 5 ,Neil Diamond ,Mary Poppins , Ivor Cutler ,, Madness, The Sweet , The Breeders , Roxy Music ....and probarbly a 1000 others i've forgotten..I can like almost anything if its creative-and (preferably) has a melodic sensibility..
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My Blog

British 60s Psyche-Pop on Myspace

Lots of great 60s psychedelic music i've discovered over the past year on myspace.Lots of great bands with great songs i've never heard of before 'cos they're not that well known and thought i'd share...
Posted by Steve Ison on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:26:00 PST

Jimi Hendrix-A beautiful soul

Was just thinking about Jimi Hendrix and what a beautiful soul he was..Apart from the fact he was by far the most effortlessly natural rock performer ever-dazzlingly transcendent yet sensual and earth...
Posted by Steve Ison on Thu, 31 May 2007 05:23:00 PST

LOVE

Los Angeles 60's group LOVE..What an amazing,magical band! I've just been listening to their music again for maybe the first time in 5 years and am totally obsessed.Incredible mysterious,bizzarre song...
Posted by Steve Ison on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

A Song A Week

Just started a song a week idea with my friend and brilliant musician friend Harper Stephens..I always write loads'n' loads of half baked 'tunes',most without words-and get bored and go onto the next ...
Posted by Steve Ison on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:15:00 PST

Special Needs!

Bingo Barrington one of the singers in  Special Needs has just set up a page for us..This band was started in 2000 and sort of drifted into R.I.P 18 months ago,leaving an album of unreleased song...
Posted by Steve Ison on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:56:00 PST

The Homemade Hit Show..

My song 'I Know A Good Thing' with me talkin' about how i wrote/recorded it has just been featured on a great  podcast,The Homemade Hit Show  # 24 with  guest d.j Hugh Hamilton An exce...
Posted by Steve Ison on Sat, 13 May 2006 07:22:00 PST

50 songs by June..

Feb 9th...Started a new project on Jan 26th with a garageband artist called Steve April from California.. I mentioned in a message to him that i found it easier to write tunes than words..So he sent ...
Posted by Steve Ison on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST