Steve started his musical career at the tender age of 12 playing rhythm guitar with the 'Oi' punk band Standard Issue, supporting Strontium 90 at the Frogmore Community Centre in Hampshire, England. He went on to play more regularly with the politically charged Lost Cause, who, eventually as a three piece went on to play many gigs including supports with punk stalwarts Disease.The next band, Function, a psychedelic pop outfit, Steve was the songwriter, guitairist and lead singer. They went on to record one album 'Lounging On My Sunbed' released in 1983, while Steve was still just 15. They regularly sold out shows in his adopted home town of Guildford.By the age of 17, Steve left school and started Steel Bill & The Buffalos. The harder edged psychedelia of the band saw them achieve wider success, joining the revitalized psychedlic scene of the time - playing gigs in London and all over the south of England with The Ozric Tentacles, Zodiac Mindwarp, The Cardiacs and The Magic Mushroom Band. They released one EP and and a live album on Space Pig Records.In 1988, Steve left to travel through Asia - a move that saw him end up in Australia in 1989 to find work. Completely broke he answered an advert in the local music paper for a singer in a newly forming Doors tribute band. Being completely conversant in The Doors legacy he answered the ad, despite being an extremely skinny 22 year old with a shaved head.The Australian Doors Show went on to perform over 1200 shows in nearly 8 years together, playing in 14 different countries all over the world. High points for the band were headlining the Brixton Acedemy in London, regularly selling out Glasgow Barrowlands and The Olympia in Dublin and three sell out shows at the 3,000 capacity Lucerna Opera in Prague, owned by the Czech President Vaclav Havel.During this time, Steve continued writing and performing with a number of different bands - The Game Show Hippies, Thumper, Absinthe and The TempeRaries.Steve recorded his debut solo album with producer Rafael May through 2000/2001, returning to the UK to release 'Too Fast To Live, Too Slow To Think' there. Steve spent 2002 in Europe, playing gigs at clubs and festivals - including a triumphant return to The Guildford Festival.Steve returned to Australia in 2003 to release 'Stolen Goods' through Vitamin Records and has been performing regularly as a soloist all over Australia and Europe since.He is currently recording his second solo album 'Where Did Everybody Go?' for Code One, as well as recording and gigging with The Sins - www.myspace.com/thesinsaus - and singing with the successful high energy soul revue Johnny G & The E Types.In the past 10 years, Steve has also forged a career in key roles at events and festivals - leading to involvement in The Glenworth Valley Festivals, Sydney Olympic Live Sies, Peats Ridge Festival, Cockatoo Island Festival and his current position as creative director of The Great Escape Festival.
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