Steve has a wealth of experience spanning over 25 years, he started at CBS studios working with & engineering for many punk bands of the day such as The Clash, The Jags, The Vibrators and The Drones as well as pop act Sailor - produced by Bruce Johnson from The Beach Boys
Bruce was to play an important part in Steve's early career, culminating with Steve producing an album for The Beach Boys several years later. Frustrated as an engineer, and encouraged by Bruce Johnson, Steve began writing and producing his own tracks. Securing a publishing deal with Rondor Music, he purchased one of the very first Linn drum machines with the advance. At the time, Steve was recording with The Angelic Upstarts whose manager, Tony Gordon, had been approached by a new band called Culture Club. Steve hooked up with the band and recorded some tracks. Virgin picked the band up and the rest as they say is history!
Steve produced all of Culture Club's classic hits and the bands' first three albums, which included the multi platinum "Colour by Numbers". Culture Club has sold well over 20 million records worldwide and 'Karma Chameleon' still remains one of Virgin's biggest ever selling singles.
Since then Steve has worked with a wide spectrum of artists and composed a number of film scores. Artists he has worked with include The Beach Boys, Deniece Williams, China Crisis, Gary Moore, Ziggy Marley, Louise, The Creatures, Lemmy & Motorhead, David Grant, Quarterflash, Westworld Mis-teeq and 911. He also produced the platinum album by Honeyz entitled "Wonder No 8" including the hit singles 'Finally Found' and 'End of the Line' Always happy to explore new avenues Steve was developing a new Russian artist called Alsou with Simon Napier-Bell when her manager entered the song they were working on as Russia's entry for Eurovision 2000. It won all the local heats and achieved second place that year. Steve was awarded with a Platinum disc as the single went on to become Russia's biggest selling record of all time.
2005 started with Steve being asked to produce the official Charity single "Grief Never Grows Old" for the Tsunami disaster. The single not only contributed to the fund but also provided an opportunity for Steve to bring together a number of fantastic artistes many of whom he had worked with in the past including Brian Wilson, Boy George. Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunell, Gary Moore, as well as vocal legends Robin & Barry Gibb, Russell Watson Steve Winwood, Cliff Richard and Jon Anderson. The single also featured performances from Kenny Jones, Bill Wyman, Rick Wakeman.
The single was released 24th January 2005 and entered the UK chart at No.4 and was No.1 in the UK independent chart.
In order to meet the needs of current bands, artists and the new crop of exciting and vibrant independent record labels, Steve has developed a sophisticated recording environment which caters exactly for those needs
He is currently working with several very exciting new independent acts.
Steve has won a number of prestigious awards including BPI Producer of the Year, Musicweek Top Singles Producer and a Grammy for his work with Deniece Williams. The album he produced for The Kings Singers was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for best classical crossover album.
Steve is a regular guest speaker at various pro-audio seminars for companies such as Yamaha, Tascam, Korg, Apple Computers. Including regular recording & production master-classes at the Apple store in London. He is also a Director of the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters - the UK's only membership organisation representing the interests of all music creators.
Yamaha have approached Steve to join Chris Martin & Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe to judge their talent competition Make It Break It. This competition appeals to young musicians and song writers who are passionate about making music. It encourages them to look at the music business as a whole. As part of the competition they are judged as an all round talent in songwriting, performing and have to provide a full and detailed business and marketing plan for the release of their CD.
Steve has also appeared on many radio and TV programmes including BBC TV's 'Get Your Act Together' presented by Ronan Keating and guest appearance on the panel of "Star For A Night". Steve has also presented a music Technology show for Sky TV. Among his many radio interviews, he is a regular guest on BBC's 6 Music.
Steve is the author of the Hit Kit Published by Dorling Kindersley. Working closely with the publishers Dorling Kindersley, Steve developed the Hit Kit - all you need to know to record a hit in your bedroom. This became a huge best seller.
Steve is also the author of the "the Art of Downloading Music", (second edition) Published by Omnibus Press.
Steve is currently recording and producing a documentary series about Record Production for BBC Radio 2, he is also in the middle of producing the winning band from Radio 2's/PRS Demo to Limo event. Both projects will be broadcast this year.
