Gig news!

A gig you say? An actual live performance of music in front of an audience?
Is such a thing possible?
Yes indeed it is!
On the 5th June, we'll be supporting FIR at the Samuel Worth Chapel in Sheffield.
It's a lovely venue and should be a cracking night, but it's also pretty small so you'll need to be spritely with the tickets.
I say 'we' above because fortunately I'll be joined by Alex the Crazy Dane on guitar and Dr Jones on cello. Which means we'll sound good.


The venue: https://gencem.org/venue-hire/the-samuel-worth-chapel/
FiR: https://www.fir.band/

EDIT

And here's the link for tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sheffield-general-cemetery/the-samuel-worth-chapel/fir-wolfman-and-the-laterals-and-drew-stephenson/e-ddpdej

The Lockdown Sessions Vol.2

 Not a lot to say on this really, here's the other half of the lockdown sessions from last year.

The Lockdown Sessions Volume 1

I've been distracted by a couple of other projects recently, and wrestling with some of the longer term affects of C-19 I think as well, but I've finally got round to pulling together the audio from the live sessions earlier this year.

So here is week one of the lockdown sessions:

https://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/album/the-lockdown-sessions-vol-1

Volume 2 will follow in due course.

The Lockdown Sessions 2

Here we are, suckers for punishment, and back for another round of songs.
Same deal as last time, one take, 'as live', one per night for the rest of the week.

Session 8 - Northshoremen

Session 9 - White Tigers

Session 10 - OK

Session 11 - The Map

Session 12 - Shadowbones

Session 13 - Stressed

Session 14 - A Prologue and Sweet, Sweet Oblivion

The Lockdown Sessions

I'm recording a song a day, as requested by friends, as-close-to-live-as-my-kit-will-allow every day this week and pushing them straight up to social media.

Here's yesterday's and today's. I'll build this blog post with each one as they arrive...

Session 1 - The White Tower

Session 2 - Road Song

Session 3 - Welcoming Arms (sorry about that chord!)

Session 4 - The Winter King

Session 5 - Eden's Grace

Session 6 - Only a Small Step

Session 7 - Cirencester and Words

All quiet on the southern front...

It's been quiet on here, sorry about that. But stuff is happening. Slowly.
Things have been a bit difficult on the non-music front recently but hopefully they'll be settling down over the next couple of months.
But we've still been practising, sporadically, as a band, and we've got a cracking gig on Friday night (tickets here: https://www.seetickets.com/event/dan-webster-band/the-crescent/1291379?fbclid=IwAR0IoqXk3Q3ICWBY5fE2MAsm74ex1r9Sp_wohyUI2-DgRrKdWJefWEhHgys) and I'm about 90% there on the next solo EP.

Shall I give you a spoiler? Why not, it's going to be called, "The Dead Detectives Club."

Gigs! Gigs! Get your gigs here!

A number of you have asked about what gigs we've got coming up (no really, literally more than one has asked!), so here's the current plan:

18 August - The Barbican, York. B-Fest, opening the afternoon session. Beer and music, what's not to like? http://www.yorkbarbican.co.uk/whats-on/b-fest-18/

8 September - Norton Indoor Bowling Club, Malton. Malton/Norton Charity Musicfest. Solo set from Drew. Bit of bass work supporting this charity event.

26 September - Can't tell you yet, it's a secret, Central York. Whole band set @6pm. Make it your business to be in town.

TBC - The Mended Drum, Huby. A full evening with The Southern Wild, who could say no? https://www.themendeddrum.com/

2 December - The Winning Post, York. Full band set with Dan Webster. More details nearer the time. http://winningpostyork.co.uk/

Solo gig at the Basement

On Thursday night I will be doing a solo gig at The Basement - Live Music & Comedy Venue. It's a singer-songwriter evening with Dan Webster, Rich Hardcastle from Karno's Circus, Chris Mather from The Savoy Ballroom and Carol Henderson.
The music will start around 8:30ish and we'll be going round in a circle taking turns with the songs. It'll be £4 on the door.
The challenge is what songs to play!
I've made a shortlist:
Stressed - http://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/track/stressed
The song of the henchman - https://soundcloud.com/blinddrew/the-song-of-the-henchman
A ballad of installations
The White Tower - http://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/track/the-white-tower
Not like this (a brand new song - about death of course)
6 Monkey Song
Ok (also known as the dead girlfriend song) -http://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/track/ok
Goodnight - https://soundcloud.com/blinddrew/goodnight
The engineer
No dreams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoZ9NxWf_E&list=UUKZj0zfIVJjYdcX8DHnwqRA
so if there's anything you particularly want to hear, shout out in the comments.

Here's the link for the gig:https://www.facebook.com/events/518235204945473

Full Band Gig!

A gig you say?
A band you say?
What's all this about then?

Yes indeedy the band has its first gig. We'll be supporting The Dan Webster Band and Vesper Walk at The Woolpack on Wednesday 23rd July.

We're working on a couple of approaches for the band; some gigs will be with a full drum kit and electric geetars and amps and all that stuff, some will be stripped back with a cajon and acoustics. York's music scene being what it is* I expect we'll be doing a lot more of the latter.

This gig will be of the stripped back variety and we're currently working on a set list that should give a nice mix of some new songs, some old songs and a couple of re-worked ones.

Finding places to play original music in York is not the easiest thing nowadays, and this will be one of the last gigs that the Woolpack puts on. That's a shame but all the more reason to come down.

So we've got some songs, we've got a gig, but of course we're still working on a band name. Any suggestions? Pop 'em in the comments.
Stay well
Drew

* I'm not having a dig at the York scene by the way, we have an excellent crop of acousticky-type musicians in York and a lot of venues and pubs who support them. Trying to get a full band gig of original music means a lot fewer options though.