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Listen to: 'While I Was Sleeping' (28/10/23 Zucker, Darmstadt)
Click through to listen to a song from my concert on Saturday.
'Waldheim' - 12 songs from a recent radio broadcast is out now
Number 37 in The Great Park's monthly subscription releases is out now. ‘Waldheim’ is twelve songs from a live radio broadcast in the garden of the Waldheim Wangen restaurant in the hills outside Stuttgart.
Available as a hand stamped CD-r edition with hand typed and personalised sleeves, linear notes and full quality digital download.
The Bandcamp digital download includes photos from the concert and a pdf with linear notes.
Physical edition available throughout September, digital anytime.
€10 digital / €15 physical including postage anywhere at Bandcamp or Patreon.
'The Woods Were Full Of Them' (06/07/23 Waldheim Wangen)
Here's a song from this week’s lovely evening up in the garden of the wonderful Waldheim Wangen courtesy of Rakete. Thanks to them for the invitation and for everyone involved. More music coming this weekend to my Patreon.
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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Katharinenruine recordings on my Patreon and Bandcamp
Soundboard / microphone recordings from last week’s concert at the Katharinenruine in Nürnberg have now been uploaded to my Patreon and Bandcamp subscriptions. Two are up already and two more are coming in the next couple of days.
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Perhaps there’s more from this special show I can share too but I’ve been fairly sick since the show so my concentration and productivity isn’t what it could be. I’m hopefully on the mend.
'The Hills Are Alive' live at Cafe Feuerwache, Hamburg 20/06/22
Photo by https://www.instagram.com/idaorloff/
I started playing this long song again, here it is in Hamburg last week.
I’m releasing the complete concert from this night as a limited CD and full quality download for subscribers to my Patreon or Bandcamp. Please consider doing that via the links below. Each month I make a new release - new recordings, unreleased material or live recordings and this is the 25th.
Julia Laura 'It Don't Stop The Bleeding' cover
Here’s Julia Laura playing a cover of my 2019 song ‘It Don’t Stop The Bleeding’ live at our concert at the Babylon Kino in Fürth last Friday. A long day with setting up the new sound system but later on this lovely evening with many friends and heavy music. Thank you to Julia and to all who came down and stayed down to listen.
Julia has much more music on her Bandcamp here and I urge you to go listen.
I’ll have songs from my set from this night to share here or over on my Patreon in a day or two as well.
'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.
'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
'FÜRTH' double disc and download now available for everyone
My recent concert at the Badstrasse in Fürth is now available as a 17 song download or double disc physical edition to everyone at Bandcamp or through my Patreon subscription.
This was one of the most enjoyable concerts I've ever played and certainly my favourite show of 2021 so far.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Down Down Down
Hove Beach And Eggshells
Lover O Lover
Deserter
Pretty Peggy-O
I Do Wrong
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Song For A Coalman
If I Have To Walk All The Way To England
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn't (with Stefanie VIVIAN VOID)
Super Good Advice (with Stefanie VIVIAN VOID)
Lord Franklin
So Long Song
Paper Birds
We Swam A Little Song
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'Work With This' from Speicher, Husum last weekend
Here’s the first song from my long set at the wonderful Speicher up in Husum on the north west coast of Germany last weekend. I’ll probably put together a collection from this evening for my Bandcamp and Patreon pages in the next few days as I remember it being a nice concert.
I’m just home after other enjoyable concerts at the beautiful Buchhandlung Blattgold and Prinz Willy’s lovely little bar in Kiel. In between I spent most of the week on the little island of Bornholm in between Sweden, Denmark and Germany. No concerts played there sadly, but some writing and much fuel for further songs.
Big thanks to everyone who came out and helped. Later this month I’m in Karlsruhe, Freiburg and then Ulm. Anyone up for coming along please get in touch.
More to follow then,
Stephen
FREITAL now out
A set of songs from my recent concert at the Spielbühne, Freital on the 21st of August is now out.
I played outside the theatre to a quiet but super friendly crowd - was a lovely visit. I played two sets, lots of songs and this is a selection of most. I edited out some of my excessive talking, and a couple of technical sound issues with a few of them.
The Royal Canal
Down Down Down
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Pretty Peggy-O
Luck Is Cruelty On The Wind
We Make Our Own Fun
Barbara Allen
Super Good Advice
Lord Franklin
So Long Song
Good Night
We Swam A Little Song
I’ll have it on this site very soon, but in the meantime it’s available at Bandcamp here.
Recordings from Freital on my Patreon.
I’ll be posting live recordings from my recent concert in Freital on my Patreon page over the next few days. It was a lovely night and I played a bunch of things I don’t normally play. Some new songs from the last few albums and a couple of folk covers, including something I never tried before. Please consider supporting me there - it’s just €3 a month and there’s much exclusive music from me uploading already, with more coming all the time.
The photo above is by ankola007 from the night.
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/
Live tracks on Patreon
I’ve been uploading single tracks, especially recent live recordings over on my Patreon page for the last few weeks. Today there is a version of ‘The Royal Canal’ from last Saturday’s concert in Nürnberg up here. I’ll follow with more in the next week.
Finding it fun to share things every few days - I would really appreciate it if you considered signing up there to hear this stuff. €3 a month will get you started and it means a lot to me to make things for those that are listening.
Thanks all, have a good weekend.
Stephen
'Schloss' EP this weekend
As well as making a monthly full release each month, I’ve been going through recordings and images and posting a few times a week to my Patreon.
This weekend I’m making a simple EP ‘Schloss’ also available to download there. Four songs recorded live in front of a tiny audience in various rooms of the Schloss Hünegg in Thun, Switzerland on the 7th of September 2019.
Subscription to Patreon starts at just €3 a month and everyone will be able to download this as well as lots of other things I’m finding and making these days.
I also have a subscription over on my Bandcamp and anything posted to Patreon goes there too. Massive thanks to everyone already into all this, means the world these days.
'Gostenhof' now available
The 11th in my series of monthly releases since the start of the lockdown is available now through my Patreon and Bandcamp subscriptions.
'Gostenhof' is a recording of an 8 song set played at the Gostner Hoftheater last February and is out now as a digital download and handmade CD edition to my Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers.
The track list for 'Gostenhof' runs like this:
It Don’t Stop The Bleeding
The Royal Canal
I Was In The North Before The Fall
Pure Black Coal
Lover O Lover
Winter (song by The Diamond Family Archive)
SUPER GOOD ADVICE
So Long Song
Here’s the first song of the night over on the Youtube:
‘Gostenhof’ is also available through my Bandcamp subscription, of course. Find details about that here:
'If I Have To Walk All The Way To England' live in Karlsruhe
The one and only performance of this song is up on my Patreon page now, seemed somehow fitting for these days. Find it with other special recordings and releases here.
Photo by Gudrun from the year before.
Random cover version - 'Blind Willie McTell'
I am trying to organise a bunch of old hard drives and folders of music and I found this Bob Dylan song, played spontaneously for Markus at a concert he organised in Düsseldorf at Butze back in 2017. I mean, it’s not very good but I stopped at it this afternoon so here it is.
Perhaps the rest of the concert could go up later, remember it being a fun night.
Anyway, reality check:
Since I heard this song years ago it’s been on my mind and in my orbit somehow - I’m always interested in hearing different versions and interpretations and could speak about it for hours with anyone that’s daft enough to appear interested. For one of my favourites here’s an almighty roar through it in Brixton some years ago. I was lucky to be at the incredible Shepherds Bush Empire and Hammersmith concerts the previous nights, but sadly missed this one.
And Freddy Koella on the electric guitar my word, what imagination and arrogance for the thing. Great.