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EINDHOVEN
Newly discovered live recording of a concert at TAC, Eindhoven on the 4th of March 2011 now out for Bandcamp Friday.
Available as a full quality digital download and perhaps soon as a limited, hand stamped CD-r if anyone would like that.
Annabel
Boys, I Am Worried
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine
The Royal Canal
Suit Of Stones
I Do Wrong
Song For Fee
Paper Birds
Song For A Coalman
You Belong To Me, You Do
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Free download - 'Leave Well Alone'
It's my birthday - my last album 'Leave Well Alone ' is free / pay what you like for a few days. Click the image for it - please grab and share away.
'KIEL' free download and limited CD-r now available
A recording from my concert at Prinz Willy in Kiel, Germany on the 25th of November is now available for everyone through my Bandcamp as a full quality download and also as a very simple, physical edition on CD-r.
This was a nice evening for me, with a quiet audience and a great sound in the little place. I worked on the recording the past weekend and I think it turned out ok, perhaps the best sounding concert I've had for a while.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Lover O Lover
Deserter
So Long Song
I Do Wrong
Here
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Work With This
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
Paper Birds
We Swam A Little Song
FREITAL II
My recording from my concert at the Spielbühne in Freital, Germany on the 4th of November 2022 is available through Bandcamp and on Patreon now.
The download is free / pay what you like and the simple, CD-r + download edition is limited to just 50 numbered copies and is €10 plus postage. I’ll send them out when I'm back from some concerts in a week and they look like this:
This was a long concert over 2 sets and I cut some tracks from the recording due to some issues with the signal I had from the mixing desk. I also played a couple of songs in the room which are missing, you can imagine.
Anyway, it runs like this - just about squeezing onto a single CD-r.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Paper Birds
Here
The Hills Are Alive
We Swam A Little Song
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
Free download and Horns Erben in Leipzig this week
I’m returning to Leipzig this Wednesday night for a concert at the beautiful Horns Erben. To celebrate, for this week only I’m making the recording of my first concert there available for free / pay what you like.
17 songs from September 2017, including a bunch of things I don’t normally play. Grab it below and please share this with anyone you think might be interested in this stuff.
If you would like to come to the concert, tickets are at https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/44717 and the Facebook event is here. I have a few guest list places so why not drop me an email at thegreatpark@icloud.com and I’ll pop you on there.
Thanks all,
Stephen
'I Was In The North Before The Fall' (Speicher, Husum 25/09/21)
Photo by Z13 Fotografie
Posting this as a request for photographer Tim who was at this concert in Husum last September.
Fair warning - lengthy introduction.
Free birthday download
Here’s a free / pay what you like download of my last album ‘Work With This’ because it was my birthday yesterday. No chance to post it then so it’s a little late. I’ll keep it like this for a couple of days so please go and grab it while you can.
Hope everyone else had an enjoyable start to the new year.
Stephen
Free download of 'DESI'
A six song recording from my recent concert at DESi in Nürnberg is now available as a free download to everyone on my mailing list and to all Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers. It’s also available to buy through Bandcamp.
I’ve put the form for the newsletter below. I post once a month maximum and have a few other releases that are available to everyone there. I get that it’s a bit old fashioned but it’s nice to feel like I’m speaking to the people that are wanting to hear from me and not just shouting arrogantly into the void.
31.07.21 DESI, Nürnberg, Germany
The Royal Canal
I Do Wrong
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn't
Hove Beach and Eggshells
Lover O Lover
So Long Song
I’ll send an email out tonight with a link to download, and if you miss it drop me a line and I’ll add you to the list and I’ll make sure you get another.
Of course, everyone signed up to my Patreon or Bandcamp subscriptions get all the new music I make and release anywhere so there’s that too. I’d be super happy if more people decide to support me this way as it’s the absolutely one of the best sources of encouragement to me these days.
This was a spontaneous, relaxed evening and I’m happy to share music from it with you.
Cover photo by https://www.instagram.com/lea_laerm/
Schangnau
A recording I made in a tiny chapel in Switzerland with Binoculers way back in 2010 is now available to listen and grab over on the Woodland Recordings Bandcamp page. It’s free / pay what you like.
Nadja and I were on tour a lot back then and on this day we were driving from Bern to Luzern and passed this beautiful little place along the fairly scenic way. I sat a mic on a pew and we played for about an hour before hopping back in the car and carrying on. Was a nice little pause.
Free 'September 2020' compilation now available
A new 10 song compilation of songs from last month’s concerts is now available as a free download to everyone signed up for my newsletter here.
when i was away (rostock)
i was in the north before the fall (rendsburg)
down down down (rostock)
pure black coal (rostock)
polly vaughan (berlin)
fold culinary (hannover)
make each other anew (copenhagen)
it don’t stop the bleeding (rostock)
barbara allen (rendsburg)
so long song (berlin)
From a crowded, smoky bar in Hannover through a rainy garden in Rostock and finishing up in a backyard in West Berlin, this was a strange but hugely enjoyable set of concerts at a time when the chance to play in front of people is a rare thing indeed.
Thanks to everyone who made it possible despite everything.
To all on my old fashioned mailing list - I hope you enjoy it and big thanks for sticking with me.
Stephen
'Hinterhof' released and 100% of any of my digital sales at Bandcamp today will go to charity
Today is Bandcamp Friday and, like the last couple of months, Bandcamp are waiving their fees for the day. That means that 100% of all digital sales goes to the musicians and labels. This month I’m donating all of what I earn this way to ActBlue, who are helping over 70 community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organisers. Their website is here.
Please remember this is for digital downloads only and here’s a big button to click through. Away you go:
I already posted a song from the ‘Hinterhof” album and wrote some words about the whole thing last week. Here’s the post.
SUPER GOOD ADVICE last week (free download)
Recorded at one of three little backyard concerts I got to play last Thursday afternoon in Nürnberg, here’s a free download of SUPER GOOD ADVICE:
This was obviously a rare chance these days to play songs in front of an audience and was a lot more fun than it could have been - many thanks to Simone and Daniel for their help on the day. More information about their ongoing series of concerts is here.
I recorded all three sets and have put together a 10 song collection which will be available as a free download at my Bandcamp page in a couple of weeks. Please check back for that or remind me if I seem to have forgotten.
A Carrion Call (free download)
‘A Carrion Call’ was written last week, recorded the same evening and currently available to download for free from my Bandcamp page here.
Stay well everyone,
Stephen
‘Now Wash Your Hands’ now free
My 2011 album is now free to download because of you know what. Here.
I’m still in Switzerland after a week of cancelled shows and with more ahead seemingly not taking place.
Stay safe everyone and let’s see us soon.
Stephen
Free 'Autumn 2019' compilation now available
The third in the series of exclusive releases for subscribers to my newsletter is now available here. Recorded over a couple of months at concerts at the end of last year this is a mixed collection of songs in very different rooms. Goes like this:
song for fee
06.11.19 prinz willy, kiel, germany.
if you build it they will come
27.10.19 el lokal, zürich, switzerland - with sophia basler.
it don’t stop the bleeding
30.11.19 ut connewitz, leipzig, germany.
suit of stones
28.10.19 house concert, luzern, switzerland.
pure black coal
07.12.19 jaz, rostock, germany.
song for a coalman
28.10.19 house concert, luzern, switzerland.
winter
06.11.19 prinz willy, kiel, germany. song by the diamond family archive.
understudy
27.10.19 el lokal, zürich, switzerland.
lover o lover
24.10.19 house concert, heidelberg, germany.
what you fear to be the end comes around
02.11.19 house concert, basel, switzerland.
bad roads ahead
07.12.19 jaz, rostock, germany.
you are more needed here
08.11.19 ruhrwerkstatt, oberhausen, germany.
super good advice / stretch acrobatic
21.09.19 desi, nürnberg, germany - with stefanie vivian void. stretch acrobatic is by vivian void.
we could have, we should have, we didn’t
21.12.19 café mainheim, nürnberg, germany - with stefanie vivian void.
so long song
06.11.19 prinz willy, kiel, germany.
And for a taste, here’s the messy surprise VIVIAN VOID mashup at their 10th anniversary back in September:
‘Autumn 2019’ is completely free to download - I put a password in my newsletter and if you’ve signed up but somehow missed it then drop me a line.
As I wrote earlier this week, things will change around here soon but I’ll keep writing the newsletter and making things especially for those people that have signed up for it. Anything to keep me from feeling pressurised to update my Facebook page. My word.
Be well and thanks.
Stephen
Free download - 07/12/19 Rostock
Here’s a quick reminder in case anyone has missed it - the recording of my recent concert up in Rostock in the north of Germany a couple of weeks ago is available as a free download on my Bandcamp page right here.
The concert was a pleasure to play - was very quiet and dark in there and I kept mostly to the heavy stuff, including a cover of ‘Winter’ by The Diamond Family Archive and one or two things I rarely feel like going through.
Thanks to Marv and everyone at the JAZ for the invitation and the hospitality.
More music coming from me after this in between week we have now. Hope you’re all doing well.
Stephen
Last concert of the year and new free download
I’m playing this Saturday evening at the Café Mainheim in Nürnberg - a label night in a way. Vincent von Flieger and special guest cause she’s in town Julia Laura are also there and we want it dark as it gets so please bring candles. It’s free to get in but there’s no entry without a candle and we’ll start early so everyone can play long and slow.
Also, later tonight or tomorrow I’ll release a free download of a recent live album from Rostock recorded two weeks ago. Find that on my Bandcamp here:
Have a lovely weekend
Stephen