Steve played drums in his own amazing and unique style on

The Dangerous Lilos
The Return of the Dangerous Lilos
The Shivering Dog

and most recently on

A Warning which was released on the 1st April 2017

Steve….

“Piano, Hammonds, Moogs……….that’s what I really wanted to play when I first got into music and was totally consumed by it. But after 3 years of lessons I was never going to be Keith Emerson or Rick Wakeman surrounded by Moogs, grand pianos, harpsichords, laser harps, teleharmoniums, Theremins and Mellotrons…………..but before I became totally defeated in my pursuit of music playing a friend of my Dad’s gave me his old drum kit and an Ajax cymbal. It was basic but the best thing in world to me. I taught myself to begin with, whilst having the piano lessons and listened to and played along with my growing record collection. Eventually I graduated to a six piece purple Premier kit and lessons. This gear was my kit for the next 10 or eleven years and 9 or 10 bands, from rock to punk to alternative-progressive-country-concept-pop-soul.

Playing in bands is a funny thing, there are many highs and even more lows, especially in the early years during the pursuit of a wider audience and stage for your talent and the songs that you get so precious about. There are the great gigs, the appalling gigs, the gigs you can’t remember and the ones you can’t/rather forget, the record companies who love your stuff who then treat you with astonishing apathy, the cold, damp, flooded, leaky, electrical death-traps of rehearsal rooms, the managers who have so little idea of your art and the business put together that we’d have been better off with a doll’s head running shop!

Then you get older and wiser, your playing changes, and it really feels even more fun than ever to be playing still, there are your band mates and friends who you grew up with and the truly wonderful and hilarious stuff you still get to do because you’re still in a band dude!

I still gig regularly with my blues band and really enjoy the live experience, we have some regular venues that are just totally fantastic rock out shows. It will never make me rich but ultimately pays the cost of the new kit and all the other bits and pieces that the drum companies think we cannot live without.

TDL has been a studio project for a few years now and we are developing a live set that is sounding both original and exciting, we should be gigging later this year. Watch this webspace!”

Steve played for many years with the Grey Cooper Blues Band but left earlier this year.

He is currently playing with Blast Lane, blues rock with Chilo Angelini and Allen Walton.