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Post by soundspheremag on Nov 6, 2010 1:59:40 GMT
We'll be posting an interview with Steve from the Leeds show this weekend. Keep your eyes peeled to www.soundspheremag.com. Thanks all, D |
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Post by Dom on Nov 6, 2010 14:03:46 GMT
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Post by stellar on Nov 6, 2010 14:47:21 GMT
Cheers Dom, great interview  |
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Post by zvezda on Nov 7, 2010 22:11:32 GMT
A nice review from AAA Music of the London gig: www.aaamusic.co.uk/2010/11/05/love-amongst-ruin-the-relentless-garage/London, 30th October Love Amongst Ruin take the stage at north London The Relentless Garage on Saturday night. At my arrival I notice, to my surprise, that there aren’t as I thought it would be. First act on is From Great Height who unfortunately failed to gain the approval of the crowd. Better luck goes to Inner City Pirates, who rocked the party goers and deliver a really good set, settling ground for LAR performance. Next on, Love Amongst Ruin. So much has been said and written about the brainchild of former Placebo drummer that makes little difference to add something else to the pile (besides, you can read our interview here). So let’s just stick it to the music then. Kicking off with Blood & Earth, what one immediately notices is Steve Hewitt powerful vocals – warm, impeccable, reassuring – a neat contrast with Brian Molko’s ones. Then one gets overwhelmed by their politeness: Steve is charming, funny and, most importantly, transpires gratitude for all those who are here to see him tonight. Having only produced one album the set is short and tight, but it does not lack of energy and entertainment. The band plays to perfection every single track, sending shivers down my spine with Heaven & Hell, Running, Away from Me, So Sad (fade) and new single Home, although they won me over with a manual execution of Thin Lizzy’s Got To Give It Up: utterly beautiful!! The audience really seems to share my excitement: everyone sings along and dances, having a great time. The Garage is hot and sweaty now. The set is over but not for long: the audience pleads for more and so Steve and the gang come back for the encore, playing Bring Me Down (You Don’t) and crowds’ favourite So Sad (fade). Then, visibly happy, they thank the audience and leave the stage, but they do not break the spell they cast on us at the beginning of their set: everyone is still excited and it’s hard to accept that this, after all, is a band who just debuted. I expect a long, happy life for Love Amongst Ruin. |
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Post by kabloomyamy on Nov 9, 2010 19:18:13 GMT
The Placebo Effect: Love Amongst Ruin
from Nottingham Post Friday, October 22, 2010, 09:00 HE had been with them for more than a decade. Then, three years ago, Steve Hewitt was sacked as the drummer with Placebo. "I still don't know what happened," he says.
"We finished the world tour, went our own ways at the airport, then two weeks later I'm called to a meeting with management: That's it. You're out of the band."
Hewitt, who now fronts Love Amongst Ruin as singer and guitarist, says he's not seen or spoken to any of his former bandmates since.
"I haven't seen them since the airport. They weren't even at the meeting. I wasn't given any reason."
Despite being involved in songwriting with Placebo, Hewitt has taken the time out to develop as a songwriter in his own right, but his first effort took some time to see the light of day.
"The first song I wrote was Love Song. I dabble on the piano and it started there.
"Soon I had guitar and three-part harmonies. But then I sat with it for three days before I let my wife hear it.
"When she did, she cried. Which I took as approval," he laughs.
Hewitt then got together with former Lamb bassist John Thorne.
"After the Placebo situation, with immediate effect I was out of this massive band and it was a huge shock.
"I spent two weeks at the bottom of a brandy bottle but when I got myself together I realised I didn't want to stagnate.
"I could either let life pass me by or I could get back into a studio.
"I gave John Thorne a call, as we grew up in the same town.
"Lamb had just disbanded so he was at a loose end and we started jamming. It was just bass and drums at the time but we managed to write Running.
"Pretty soon I was playing guitar and bass and trying vocals. Before we knew it there were 10 songs, the 10 songs on the album."
He adds: "There is a rawness on there as it has been my outlet."
With the Placebo link, Hewitt is trying to ensure that it's not just former fans of the band taking an interest in his new project.
"While some Placebo fans seem to be taking an interest, I'd like to think that we can also draw new fans in.
"And in terms of feedback, some fans seem to prefer the new material to some Placebo stuff."
He admits Love Amongst Ruin are still developing as a live act and that he is prepared to start from scratch.
"I'm happy to start small. I actually had the smallest ego in Placebo – which wasn't hard," he laughs.
"It's new for people to see me singing and not playing drums. I want people to get used to that before I even consider making it bigger.
"It's about building a fan base. Like with Placebo, it's just about hitting it and hitting it and building it up. This is grass roots rock, not the X Factor."
While the band is still in its embryonic stages, Hewitt promises a good night out.
"There will be lots of interaction with the audience – certainly more than Placebo. And we're heavier than Placebo."
source: www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/entertainmentnews/Placebo-Effect-Love-Ruin/article-2787503-detail/article.html This was also in last weds metro. Someone kindly put it in my pigeon hole at work.  |
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Post by poetress on Nov 19, 2010 23:13:41 GMT
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Post by stellar on Nov 20, 2010 18:59:18 GMT
Wow, I love that, cos so much of what she writes is what I hope for in my heart of hearts.
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Post by zvezda on Jan 13, 2011 16:30:04 GMT
Steve Hewitt was among the musicians who responded to a recent article declaring the death of rock music. Here's the original article: www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/10/rock-n-roll-read-last-ritesAnd here is his response, quoted in Rocksound: "In response to the Guardian piece this week, Love Amongst Ruin performed at Sonisphere last August and if the size and enthusiasm of the crowds were anything to go by, not only is rock very much alive, but it's in remarkably good health. In fact, Sonisphere, is also becoming a massive European rock festival, along with Download, T In The Park and Reading & Leeds.
Perhaps the Guardian should ask the readers of Rock Sound and other leading rock press what they think? Better still, ask them if they seriously believe that the single downloads chart, largely dominated by reality pop/urban artists and which is fed by mainstream media, relates in any way to the world of rock music? Lastly, check out the figures regarding album sales, they tell a very different story."Full article here: www.rocksound.tv/features/article/if-you-think-rock-is-deadthe-musicians-weigh-in-part-two |
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Post by zee on Jan 15, 2011 21:08:24 GMT
One of the recent interviews (well, it's short and you won't find anything new there, really): Friday January 7th, 2011 12:02
SSQ: Love Amongst Ruin
Love Amongst Ruin was formed by former Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt following his departure from that particular band in 2007. Taking the opportunity to move out from behind the drum kit and become the band’s frontman, Hewitt set about writing a set of rock songs which eventually formed the band’s eponymous debut album, released last year via Ancient B Records. They also completed their debut headline tour late last year, rounding off 2010 supporting Feeder at a Kerrang! sponsored Christmas show. Now gearing up for 2011, we caught up with Steve to find out more.
Q1 How did you start out making music?
I saw Philthy Animal Taylor, the drummer from Motörhead, on ‘Top Of The Pops’ playing ‘Ace Of Spades’. It looked like an exciting thing to do. From then on I hassled my parents every day to get me a drum kit, eventually they relinquished and the rest is, as they say, history. History which we are still making…
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
I found myself suddenly and unexpectedly out of a job for reasons that were never explained to me. Basically, it was the feeling of betrayal that motivated me to write 80% of the tracks on ‘Love Amongst Ruin’. The other tracks concern true love and strange fruit.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
It varies, there isn’t really one process. Sometimes I just have a beat that I have laid down and we build off that in the studio. Or, it could be, that I have an almost completed song that I have worked on in my home studio. That could include drums, bass, guitar, some keyboards and guide vocals. Then I share what I have with Donneye and/or other members of the band and we see where that takes us.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
All the greats, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Cure and, of course, Radiohead.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Play loud, play often.
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and the future?
Right now I just want to get out and play this album for as many people as possible. Once we have done that I’m taking the whole band back in the studio to start writing and recording the next album. We already have three tracks almost complete.
www.thecmuwebsite.com/tag/love-amongst-ruin/ |
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Post by zvezda on Jan 18, 2011 12:28:18 GMT
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