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NEW ALBUM RELEASE Forever Records who released Steve's last 2 albums are now proud to announce the release of his 6th album ' TAKE A LOOK AT..........'
The album is a sparkling new sixteen track CD containing beautifully edited and remixed versions of some of Steve’s finest works so far including Blue For You, A Thing For My Head, Broken, Lazy Blue, Thin White Dove, Love Is A Crazy Thing, What Have You Got To Lose and many other great songs.
LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY TOUR
Acoustic Tour Dates : February 2009 - July 2009
22 Jul 2009, 21:45 - The Blue Bell Cottingham Hull
17 Jul 2009, 20:00 - King Billy Springboard Cottingham
07 Jul 2009, 20:00 - The Processed Pea with Christine Collister The Light Dragoon, Etton
28 Jun 2009, 14:00 - The Green Dragon Festival Welton
18 Jun 2009, 22:00 - ’Stripped’ at the Wellington Inn Hull
31 May 2009, 15:15 - Tues. at The Tap/Cott. Springboard Festival Hull
31 May 2009, 14:00 - Hallgate/Music HQ Hull
28 May 2009, 21:00 - The Big Coffee Hull
14 May 2009, 21:00 - St. Johns Hull
16 Apr 2009, 20:15 - Adelphi Club De Grey Street Hull
10 Apr 2009, 20:00 - Hallgate Tavern/Music HQ
09 Apr 2009, 21:00 - The Bay Horse with Sarah McCluskey and Val Marshall
08 Apr 2009, 21:00 - The Ringside/Music HQ Hull
13 Mar 2009, 21:45 - The Hallgate Tavern, Cottingham Hull
03 Feb 2009, 21:15 - The Tap and Spile Pub Hull
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LATEST RADIO PLAYLISTINGS FOR LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY 7 songs from the album are already getting radio play!
Stella And Joe, Make It Sting, Paradise Life, Chasing Rainbows, Lazy Blue, Primitive Strike and So Hard To Stop Loving You. Stations are: Offshore Music Radio · U105 (Northern Ireland) · Heartstrings Radio (Canada) · Demo Radio (San Francisco) · 3Westtv (Calgary, Canada)· Alooga Radio (Germany) have added Lazy Blue and Chasing Rainbows · North America Broadcasting (NAB) · Easy FM (Australia) · Ellinikos FM (Greece) · Unheard Music (NY, United States) · BRFC Radio (UK)
LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY - RADIO PROMOTION CAMPAIGN
Offshore Music Radio, the worldwide internet radio station that loves to play the music featured by the offshore radio stations populating the coast of the UK and Europe in the 60s, 70s and 80s are promoting Steve’s latest CD Album LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY to their listeners all over the world.
One of their top presenters Rodney Collins hosts a great Radio show, he has a wonderful sense of humour, a fantastic knowledge of music and the music business and presents his radio shows with a unique warmth which brings his listeners close. He likes Steve’s music and is introducing him to a wider audience. Rodney is including a one minute commercial featuring song clips from the Album Love, Hope And Glory on his shows. The show is heard in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada and Australia 5 times a week. Also Rodney Collins has featured 2 tracks from the CD, Stella And Joe and the bonus track included on the current Limited Edition of the Album Chasing Rainbows. If you enjoyed the programmes from the pirate radio ships such as Radios Caroline, London, 270, City, Scotland, Nordsee, Veronica, Laser 558 and Atlantis etc, then you will enjoy listening to OffshoreMusicRadio
RODNEY COLLINS - PROFILE
Rodney Collins has worked in the media since the mid 1960’s, including management posts at ATV, Pye Records, Billboard inc, BBC Radios 1 & 2, Radio Luxembourg and as Managing Director of several local radio stations in the British Isles. His media career began on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 and including acting as a producer for the Jimmy Young Show between 1971 and 1974.Later in the 1970s Rodney moved to Radio Luxembourg as News Editor and was responsible for helping set up their Atlantic 252 station. It was there he did the first European TV interview with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Not wild about the European Community, there was one sticky moment when he had offered her a bottle of Perrier water to drink, only to be told she was not going to touch it as it was French! He also spent time as News Editor at Record Mirror, Associated Television, Pye Records and at the BBC as Publicity Officer at Radio One and Radio Two. In 2002 he hit the national headlines when he played a rare 12-minute long private recording by Frank Sinatra, then in his 70's, reading the "Soliloquy" from the musical "CAROUSEL". A great friend for several years was US star Gene Pitney. Rodney produced his last three CDs before Mr. Pitney died in 2006.
LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY is the title of Steve’s new 14 track album of original songs, all written, performed and produced by Steve. The album also features the brilliant keyboard player Paul Rogers who has worked with Mick Ronson, Simon Townshend (The Who), and Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin).
FURTHER RADIO PLAYLISTINGS FOR SHE’S IN LOVE Heard recently from the PRS (Performing Rights Society) about many more radio playlistings of the song She’s In Love. It recently featured on TMCentury HotDisc (HU200648) along with The Beatles, Pussycat Dolls, Razorlight etc. and is predicted to be a future hit. We were aware of downloads from iTunes from all over the world, including the U.S., Japan, Canada and Australia and now we have found out that it has been played on many more UK Stations including BBC stations Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northampton, Suffolk, Essex and of course the Janice Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland.
WORD GAMES ALBUM Persuaded by hugely respected music industry veteran Dr. Jeffrey Kruger (Founder of London’s famous Flamingo Club and Chairman of TKO Music Group) to collaborate on an album of cover songs Steve recorded and produced Word Games, a collection of 12 great songs written by proven writers and lyricists (Billy Myles, Ray Griff etc.) showing Steve’s unique talent for sensitive interpretation. Cover albums can be a difficult balance, an artist has to strike the appropriate respect for the original whilst stamping their own unique style on the final sound. Steve manages this beautifully and some of the tracks on the album have already achieved worldwide chartlistings (#5 in the UK Independent Hotdisc) and airplay.
ACOUSTIC TAKES TOUR
Acoustic Takes Tour: October 2005 - May 2006 Thursday 4th May 2006 at the Bar 1 Twenty, Castlegate, Huddersfield
Wednesday 3rd May 2006 at The Tigers Lair, Anlaby Road, Hull
Wednesday 5th April 2006 at The New Adelphi Club, De Grey Street, Hull
Tuesday 28th March 2006 at the Tap and Spile, Spring Bank West, Hull
Sunday 19th March 2006 at The Lincoln Imp Hotel, Scunthorpe
Wednesday 15th February 2006 at the the New Adelphi Club, De Grey Street, Hull
Thursday 19th December 2005 at the Wellington Inn, Russell Street, Hull
Thursday 8th December 2005 at The Cavern Club, Liverpool
Sunday 4th December 2005 at The Linnet and Lark, Princes Avenue, Hull
Monday 30th October 2005 at the New Adelphi Club, De Grey Street, Hull
Monday 24th October 2005 at the New Adelphi Club, De Grey Street, Hull
Monday 17th October 2005 at the New Adelphi Club, De Grey Street, Hull
Sunday 16th October 2005 at the Springhead Pub, Aston Road, Hull
Monday 10th October 2005 at the New Adelphi Club, De Grey Street, Hull
Sunday 9th October 2005 at The Linnet and Lark, Princes Avenue, Hull
For details of current and future live performances please Click Here
LIVE ON DOWNTOWN RADIO
Steve was invited to the studios of Downtown Radio, Ireland's biggest independant radio station to be interviewed by top DJ Johnny Hero. Steve performed Love Is A Crazy Thing from his Album The Start Of The End Of The World live on the show. Mr Hero asked Steve if he would like to return to Northern Ireland one day and play some live dates. Maybe Steve could travel over with guitar in hand and play some live dates.
THE CAVERN CLUB Liverpool - Steve was invited to appear at this the most famous club in the world. He played solo with acoustic guitar on a bill with three other acts performing a 40 minute spot of his own songs plus a version of Jealous Guy as a tribute to John Lennon on the 25th anniversary of the ex-Beatle's death.
SAVED BY RAIN The song was inspired by Steve's stormy ocean voyage across the Irish sea to Belfast for a live interview and performance during which his dread of being shipwrecked was calmed by the sight of heavy rain on deck.. SAVED BY RAIN was playlisted for 6 weeks on Downtown Radio, Northern Ireland's biggest independent station and was also played on 3WBC Radio in Victoria, Australia and on Yorkshire's Radio VikingFM.
ROCKIN UP THE WORLD attracted great interest from many stations and reached #5 in the Irish charts.
CHASING RAINBOWS Prominent record company Mi5 Recordings UK who have strong links to the USA and the rest of the world have included an acoustic version of Steve's song Chasing Rainbows on their current QSheet Magazine compilation album. Other featured artists include The Quireboys, The Southern Electrics, Laika Dog, Nigel Clark, The Stawls, Intervurt, The Whyers and Kontiki. John Rosborough included CHASING RAINBOWS in his recent Radio U105 'Best of 2006'. The song was also A-playlisted as a new entry on the playlist of DOWNTOWN RADIO and reached the #2 playlist chart position. The song was played on Radio Caroline's IMAGINATION programme and on many other radio stations throughout 2006.
THIN WHITE DOVE BIG IN JAPAN! A new world-music company based in Japan have signed-up Steve and his hit song for their website. After a few weeks of the track being online, the company, FISHTHEMUSIC contacted Angelmusicplus (Steve’s publishers) to tell them that they were going to translate the pages into Japanese.
EDDIE WEST/THIN WHITE DOVE AND HOW IT ALL STARTED
In 2003 Northern Ireland's biggest and most popular Radio station Downtown Radio selected THIN WHITE DOVE the first track on Steve Larkman's debut album TEARJERKER for their A-Playlist. Steve was interviewed live by one of their top DJ's Lisa Flavelle and the song was played every three and a half hours reaching the #2 position in the first week of March 2003. The song remained on the playlist for 6 weeks.