aaamusic | On 16, Feb 2012

STEVE SMYTH

ENDLESS NOWADAYS, the single, March 12th

Live In London @ Boogaloo Bar, February 23rd

 

 

Steve Smyth releases his debut single, Endless Nowadays, on TeenAgeRiot Music on March 12th.  Following a recent homeland tour, this hirsute young Aussie, incredible live performer, and owner of a unique voice whose timbre can take him from be-gravelled blues-man to angelic upstart in the space of a stanza, will perform live in London ahead of the single’s release, with a date at the Boogaloo Bar on February 23rd and further dates to follow.  

 

Endless Nowadays is taken from Steve Smyth’s debut album, Release, available now digitally and set for full release this spring.

 

Upcoming Steve Smyth UK live dates run as follows, with more to be added soon, along with shows in Paris, Berlin and further afield.

 

Thurs   23rd     FEB     LONDON, Boogaloo Bar

Mon      12th      MAR     COVENTRY, Kasbah

Weds   14th                 LONDON, The Slaughtered Lamb (Physical Album Launch)

Thur     15th                  ST AGNES, The Taphouse

Fri        16th                  TRURO, B-Side @ Bunters
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About Steve Smyth…

Given that his early wanderlust was so strong that, as a child on family picnics, his family felt it necessary to tether him to a tree, it’s perhaps no great surprise that Steve Smyth would go on to become something of a wild rover.  Growing up and beginning a musical journey that brings him now to his own brilliant debut, Nirvana were an early guide.  His dad then brought him to the wonders of Neil Young, while a grown-up neighbour, spying the teenage Smyth’s enthusiasm, was to teach him all he knew about bluegrass, blues and country music.  Together, the pair would sit in the garden, drink vats-full of coca cola and, as Smyth remembers, “learn to sing from the heart, and LOUD.”

 

A process of musical discovery thus began, bringing artists from Sam Cooke to Tom Waits, Leadbelly to Dave Van Ronk, more Neil Young and (naturlich) Bob Dylan, into Smyth’s world.  Finishing an apprenticeship in carpentry at 21, the nascent songsmith went on to build and demolish, scrap and polish songs the way he had previously done houses, buildings, schools and furniture.

 

Steve Smyth hit the road, moved to London, and toured with Angus and Julia Stone, Avi Buffalo, Howling Bells (honey-voiced ‘Bells singer Juanita Stein guests on the album) and Ben Harper.  A convivial chap of boundless energy, his musical diversions to date have also included a collaboration with Sean Lennon and Operation Juliet, but it’s with his stunning solo work that he will become known to the wider world.