Steve Kelly

Location:
Llareggub, Wales, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Folk / Alternative / Other
Label:
Endless Records
Type:
Indie
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If you enjoyed the ten songs here then perhaps you would like to listen to the songs on my other pages:



Steve Kelly Cinders
These songs have been compared to Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, Ray Davies, John Cale, Al Stewart, Richard Hawley, Noel Harrison, Robert Wyatt, Robyn Hitchcock & The Moody Blues
Steve Kelly Rox
Featuring songs from Bedrock - comparisons with The Kinks, The Beatles, Love, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake
Steve Kelly PushingThese songs have also been compared to Nick Drake, Bob Dyaln, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, John Cale, Ray Davies, Al Stewart, Richard Hawley, Noel Harrison, Robert Wyatt, Robyn Hitchcock & The Moody Blues
The Further
Garage / pysch influences - Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Doors, 13th Floor Elevators, The Seeds, Jefferson Airplane
Why not give Kristen Westhoven's 'If Only You Could See What You Hear' radio show a listen as she often plays my songs and always presents a great mix of music ? It goes out every Friday evening 8-10pm Eastern Standard Time. Here's the streaming link:
Portsmouth Community Radio WSCATo listen to Steve Kelly, Isobell Campbell, The Waterboys, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Gene Loves Jezebel, Hotel Alexis, Jonathan Richman, Bright Eyes, The Clientele, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings Of Leon, Patti Smith and many, many more.



THE STEVE KELLY STORY SO FAR
A Muswell Hillbilly boy !!!!
He was born in Alexandra Park Nursing Home, North London in 1954 and lived in Hornsey for 2 years before his family moved eastwards to Essex.
Steve's memories of the 1950s include the death of Buddy Holly - starting school - steam trains - his first tricycle - and his parents rock 'n' roll party's.
In 1963, with the advent of The Beatles he began to buy weekly music papers and became aware of the music associated with the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968). Thus began a lifetime admiration for the work of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan.
He remembers the 1960s clearly, which of course means that he wasn't there - so he must have one hell of an imagination. Sometimes he mutters on about England winning the World Cup - but that can't be right - THAT must have been a dream - but then what isn't ?
Although always interested in politics and current affairs it was the miners' strike and the abolition of the Greater London Council during the mid 1980s that greatly politicised him. As a result he became involved in local politics for a number of years.
Between 1995 and 2002 he drifted into professional archaeology, the highlight being a co-authoured book 'Tower of London New Armouries Project' (published in 2006). www.amazon.co.uk/London-Armouries-Project-Archaeology-Occasional/dp/0904220362
Steve rarely ventures forth from his lair apart from occasional forays to the living rooms and kitchens of unsuspecting victims.
Somewhat miraculously (considering that he suffers from stage fright, can't sing, can barely manage more than three chords and can't remember the lyrics to his songs) he performed several times at the very wonderful Catweazle Club in Oxford during 2000/2001. Stunned silence all round!
After being run out of Oxfordshire Steve skulked off to the equally wonderful Carmarthenshire - to keep ahead of the pack he has recently relocated to Ceredigion.
He'll run out of land if he moves any further westwards !!!! and this year he has been slaughtering his songs at live performances around the local area to general ridicule and abuse . pub landlord have found that he is very useful for clearing the bar at closing time
A once upon a time archaeologist and full-time vegetarian (or vegehairian, as he likes to put it), Steve has played at numerous digs (yes digs, not gigs) across England (hello Eton, Witley Court, Bicester, Reading and various places in Kent for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link excavations) where people were very kind and fed him tea, biscuits and assorted chemicals in an effort to keep him quiet. It was not for the want of trying that they failed.
Steve has been married since 1972 and has four children and seven grandchildren.
Incredibly he has seventeen albums to his name, all of which have sold in ridiculously small quantities. Undaunted, or to be more accurate stubbornly, Steve is now working on his eighteenth album provisionally titled 'Made In Wales'. My grandfather George Sidney Gray, in Hong Kong, during WW1.



My grandmother Hilda Gray (nee Field).
Steve at London Zoo, 1972. Two Leos - nice manes !



Spent a night on the streets of Soho queuing for this ticket (1978).



A sublime evening.
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