My Name is Stephen Lucas, though just about everyone calls me Steve I started out as a singer then picked up guitar, piano and a few other bits and pieces over the years. I was the frontman for X, Bigger Than Jesus, Groody Frenzy, The Pubert Brown-Fridge Occurrence, Empty Horses, Double Cross, The Feel, Harold Holt & The Sharks to name a few. and currently co fronting Neon &Venom with Joey Bedlam
I have recorded and released the following
With X; X-Aspirations, At Home With You, Live At The Civic, X and More, X Live At The Basement . all being LP records or CD's. Live At The Basement was a double Album. Most of these LP's are available through AZTEC MUSIC.
X also released a 5 track EP called I LOVE ROCK N ROLL and a vinyl EP HATE CITY. Other albums I have recorded are A ONCE AND FUTURE THING, KILLER VISION, ALL TOO HUMAN, BREAD AND WATER, BOUGHT AND SOLD, DOUBLE CROSS and the yet to be released CHANGE POISON, MAKE MEDICINE.
Their have been singles from various bands as well
MOTHER / HALF WAY ROUND THE WORLD. I DONT WANNA GO OUT / WAITING. THE CITY SONG / MR. ANFENGERS PUTRID FISH More will bubble to the surface of my mind as time rolls by, but these will suffice for now.
I have been to Nepal to help raise money for cancer treatment for the indiginous population. I have toured the West Coast of America as well as touring extensively around Australia. I have been blessed with a wonderful life full of wonderous adventure! Below are some reviews / article that may provide insight and amusement to you, the reader
KATHMANDU
I was invited, along with a group of other musicians to perform at a free open air concert. we set out to raise awarness as well as much needed money, medicines and medical equipment. It had a huge impact on my life. Please check out Love , Hope and Strenghth site, they need and deserve all the help and support that they can get I have seen the world with new eyes and it is affecting me deeply and most profoundly. The following is an account by music journalist and all round great guy Paddy Donovan.
By PATRICK DONOVAN MUSIC WRITER
Durbar Square is an unlikely place to stage a rock concert. A world heritage site, containing two temples and the wedding cake-like Royal Palace, it is a bustling epicenter of the Nepalese capital, teaming with buzzing motorbikes and hawkers peddling everything from fairy floss, kebabs to silk scarves.
The heart of the city, four main roads jut out like arteries while the city reverberates outward in concentric circles. And there, right in the middle of it all, is Melbourne musician Steve Lucas, standing on stage resplendent in white tuxedo jacket and tartan pants, long wavy hair flowing in the warm breeze, opening the Everest Rocks concert to help raise money for a local cancer hospital for the Love, Hope, Strength foundation. Lucas is performing his song Dont Cry No Tears. Written by his old band X, it has become an all-too-regular lament played at funeral services held for some of Australia's most respected musicians in the last few years. Standing on this make-shift stage, Lucas is the last man standing.
He is the only surviving member of X after the recent deaths of the bands bassist Ian Rilen and producer Lobby Loyde. Lucas was originally intending to be spending this weekend with Rilens family at Torquay for the scattering of the enigmatic musicians ashes. But he decided playing this concert in Nepal was a more poignant opportunity to pay respect to his fallen peers. As he pleads they cant take our love away, the pain on his face and in his rich voice is palpable. As are his nerves. Originally when he was asked to play, the concert was going to held in a smaller indoor venue to about 800 people. Days before the concert, Lucas was told it would be the biggest performance of his career, in front of 15,000 Nepalese. They are just the ones present. The concert is also shown live on local television, and a pod cast of the concert is beamed out on the Love Hope strength website, which has already attracted five million hits from around the world. Back at the square, Lucas returns to the stage for an all-in encore with local and visiting American and British musicians. They perform a rousing rendition of Love Hope strength, the recently written foundations anthem.
Standing next to Lucas on stage is musician Mike Peters, member of Welsh band The Alarm, a two time cancer survivor and co-founder of Love, Hope strength. There are also members of 80s British pop band The Fixx, UK Squeezes Glenn Tilbrook, Slim Jim Phantom - the legendary drummer with rockabilly band the Stray Cats and Nick Harper, son of folk luminary Roy Harper.The are beaming as they sing. Partly in the knowledge that this is the final act of a six month journey that saw them overcome pain and difficulties to climb 5,650 meters to the base camp of the worlds highest mountain, Mt Everest, to perform the worlds highest rock concert. They have helped the locals by fitting out a state-of-the art cancer treatment centre and have shouted a positive message from the top of the world that not only medicine, but positive thinking, will power and love, hope and strength can make a difference.
OLD NEWS FLASH!!!! AZTEC RECORDS is following up the re-release of X's blockbuster 'At Home With You' with a remastered and mind blowing re-release of one of Australias most influencial recordings. yes, the immortal 'X-Aspirations'.
New booklet, new pics and a previously unreleased version of 'Mother' produced by Todd Hunter. UNBELEIVABLE!!! The band will be doing launches around Australia through February and March
