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Free concert in Stuttgart this Thursday 07.04
I’m playing in Stuttgart this Thursday evening - 20:00 at the Kleiner Schlossplatz behind the art gallery. Wrap up warm and byob. Entry is free and later Mo Klé is playing too. Details behind the image:
CD-r and digital download of 'The Groninger Museum' available now
The physical edition of the 23rd subscription release ‘The Groninger Museum’ is available now and throughout April. If you would like a copy of this please subscribe through my Bandcamp or Patreon site before the end of the month.
Spaces for this are limited as I make each copy myself. The discs are hand stamped and each typed sleeve personalised for you and this takes me a fair bit of time each month. Digital editions of each release are always available to subscribers but the CD-r edition is limited to about 30 copies.
Thanks to everyone who goes for these - I’m sending them out now and again at the end of the month for anyone new that signs up.
For more details about this release please click the cover image:
Concert in Aachen this Saturday
I am playing my first concert of 2022 and the first for me since last November. The longest break I've had between shows since 2008.
The event is at Überhaupt and will be organised with 3G rules, or as they write:
3G-Regel: Bitte Immunisierungsnachweis oder aktuellen Corona-Test (PCR < 48 Std., Schnelltest < 24 Std.) einschließlich Ausweis am Eingang vorzeigen.
I appreciate asking people to be in rooms with others might not be the most considerate thing to do but this date has been moved already and I can't imagine things getting much better soon. If you can make it and feel comfortable enough please join me but otherwise let's hope for more opportunities later in the year.
More details behind the links below and if you are a subscriber to my Patron or Bandcamp let me know and you get on the guest list.
Überhaupt website here
Überhaupt Facebook event here
Thanks all,
Stephen
'Giardino, January' out today for everyone
A new, little EP is out for everyone today - five songs recorded one afternoon by the fire in a little hut in the Remstal countryside near Stuttgart.
I Once Knew The Lowlands
When The Animals Follow The Gunshots
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
This includes very simple versions of three new songs, 'I Once Knew The Lowlands', 'Here Comes Your Son' and 'This Is How You Make It What It Is Not' that were originally on the 'Five New Songs' EP that was out in January.
Bandcamp Friday for Ukraine
Bandcamp Friday, a day where the platform waives it’s payment fees and 100% go to the musicians and labels is here once again. This time I’ve decided to donate any sales I get to United Help Ukraine in an effort to do something.
I feel very uncomfortable taking up space on social media to promote anything at the best of times but at least this way I feel it’s valid.
I have a lot of albums, singles, live recordings and EP’s on Bandcamp and I’m also discounting the option to buy the complete catalogue of over 80 releases by 75%.
I certainly don’t have a lot of money but I seem to have made a lot of music - please head over to my Bandcamp page and pick up something if you can.
Thanks everyone,
S
'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.
'Luck Is Cruelty On The Wind' (Cafe Feuerwache)
Live in Hamburg, last November. From the 'Cafe Feuerwache' release available tomorrow as a full quality digital download and limited handmade CD edition on Patreon or through my Bandcamp subscription.
'Five New Songs' out today
A set of new songs is out today. Recorded a few weeks ago and written in sporadic, fast moments - these are loose things that I tried not to over work or over think. Piano, electric guitars, percussion and various things mostly first takes and all this.
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
Look Out Kids
Bern
Here Comes Your Son
I Once Knew The Lowlands
Available as a full quality digital download or limited hand stamped, personalised CD-r edition through my Bandcamp or Patreon subscriptions.
Other songs I have will go with these and recording goes on towards a larger set that will be the next album. Hopefully soon-ish.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone,
Stephen
'Look Out Kids'
An EP, ‘Five New Songs’ is out this Sunday, the 6th of February to everyone subscribed to my Bandcamp or Patreon sites (Patreon subscriptions begin at just €3 monthly) and I have a new song ‘Look Out Kids’ from it for everyone now.
All these were recorded over the last couple of weeks and I’m very happy to share some new music with you all. More coming soon.
S
Available for everyone this weekend: 'Subscription Selection : ten songs from the first twenty months'
Available for everyone this weekend - a selection of music from the first twenty months of my subscription. I have over 34 releases available for everyone signed up, here’s ten songs from the things I make especially for them. I appreciate the title is not the snappiest but hopefully you get the idea (and perhaps subscribe).
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
New 'I Do Wrong' video from 'I Know What I Make Isn't Fine - The Winter Recordings'
Filmed in Berlin back in 2010, this is a new video for the newly mixed / mastered version of ‘I Do Wrong’ from ‘I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine - The Winter Recordings’ that’s out next weekend.
S
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine - The Winter Recordings
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine
Annabel
The Royal Canal
Boys, I Am Worried
You Are Better Than This
Song For A Coalman
Joe And Robert And Me And Mike
Song For Fee
Tom
Make A Dead One Of It
I Do Wrong
Portugal
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Suit Of Stones
Paper Birds
Here
Fair And Fine
You Belong To Me, You Do
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine (first take)
Number 20 in the monthly subscription releases coming 01.01.2022.
19 songs originally recorded in December 2010 for the album 'Winter'. 7 unreleased tracks, all songs remixed and remastered.
Available as a hand stamped CD edition with hand typed and personalised sleeves, linear notes and full quality digital download.
Digital download includes pdf with linear notes.
Physical edition available throughout January, digital anytime. €10 digital / €15 physical including postage anywhere at my Patreon or Bandcamp sites.
'I Know What I Make Isn't Fine' video
A new mix and master of all the songs recorded in December 2010 for the album ‘Winter’ is coming at the end of the month. 19 tracks, including 7 unreleased. Available on limited CD and full quality digital download through my Bandcamp and Patreon sites from 01.01.22.
More info and tracklist coming soon.
'November' now available
Here is the latest release - a fifteen track collection from the last few weeks of concerts and travels through Germany and Switzerland.
'November' is available to all subscribers at Bandcamp and to all on the €10 or higher Patreon tiers, both as a full quality digital download and limited CD edition. If you sign up now you'll be able to download this and about 30 other releases, over 20 of which are exclusive to subscribers.
Please consider supporting me in this way - I believe these recordings are from the last concerts I will get to play for some time and making these releases for people is a massive source of encouragement for me these days.
Thanks all,
Stephen
