Post by poetress on Dec 15, 2009 21:35:58 GMT
Hope this is the right place to post this... I just found it while cleaning up my hard drive (it's amazing what you find!) and thought people might be interested. It comes from the old bsh website
musical influences Nick Cave, Bee Gees, Smashing Pumpkins, James Brown
extra info Born 22nd of March 1971, Steve grew up near Manchester in
Northwich, home to Tim Burgess of the Charlatans. Steve actually played with
Burgess for a time in the Electric Crayons. He also featured in a band called
the Mystic Deckchairs. At seventeen he saw an advert in Afflecks Palace:
'Genius duo require drummer for German tour'. He duly joined Breed, toured
Germany and left to join the Boo Radleys on a temporary basis. After recording
the Boo Radleys debut album he was again gigging frantically leaving Breed on
the back seat for eighteen months. Simultaneously, Steve was playing with then
happening dance outfit K-Klass, who scored five top 40 hits from 91-94. In
time, Steve found himself being sucked into the London session work, doing the
music for car adverts. Back then, money was always a factor. And money was the
knife that slit Breeds throat. They came off Nick Caves "let Love In" tour
(where Steve developed a friendship with The Bad Seed drummer Thomas Wylder),
devastated to discover that they were still nobodies. This was after six years
together, two of those spent touring with Cave. Following a dismal, disastrous
gig at the Bull and gate, Breed called it a day. With a pregnant girlfriend
and no musical work forthcoming, Steve was forced to get a job as a forklift
truck driver. "I had to get back into music again," he decided, "I can’t
function without playing" Today, aged 26, Steve doesn’t have to worry about
jacking in his day job. In the past he’s been a joiner and an apprentice
building racing cars for Williams; he even did a stint at Dougie’s Music store
in Northwich. Steve Hewitt became a drummer because one of the kids at school
asked him to. His first gig was a school assembly at Weaversham High, playing
Fleetwood Mac’s "Albatross". He didn’t even have a foot pedal. A self taught
player, at seventeen he was already teaching others, working out of Dougie’s
store. Steve’s elder brother was a rock fan, so Steve loved AC/DC, Black
Sabbath and Dio. Later he got into more indie-inclined likes of The Smiths and
The Wonderstuff, along with the obligatory weed smoking Pink Floyd interludes.
In terms of sound and style, Steve has taken Placebo’s recorded drum tracks
and built on them. "I listened to the first Placebo LP," he says, "and I
thought Robert was technically a good drummer, but in terms of feel and groove
it felt like he was fighting it. I’ve just sorted out the tempos really, on
the stuff that was done before I joined, and just put more groove, more feel
in it. Made it less uptight."
NOTE: It was actually Steve who played on the very first ever Placebo demos,
along with Brian and Stefan. Other commitments prevented him from joining the
band back then... but that's a long story... When Robert 'left' Placebo Steve
was the first drummer to be phoned by Brian who had placed Steve at the top of
a list of three. ' I sat in my bedroom with my practice kit for two weeks and
learnt the LP', Steve recalls ' Then we had one and a half days rehearsal
before touring thirteen countries in four months!'.
poetress x
musical influences Nick Cave, Bee Gees, Smashing Pumpkins, James Brown
extra info Born 22nd of March 1971, Steve grew up near Manchester in
Northwich, home to Tim Burgess of the Charlatans. Steve actually played with
Burgess for a time in the Electric Crayons. He also featured in a band called
the Mystic Deckchairs. At seventeen he saw an advert in Afflecks Palace:
'Genius duo require drummer for German tour'. He duly joined Breed, toured
Germany and left to join the Boo Radleys on a temporary basis. After recording
the Boo Radleys debut album he was again gigging frantically leaving Breed on
the back seat for eighteen months. Simultaneously, Steve was playing with then
happening dance outfit K-Klass, who scored five top 40 hits from 91-94. In
time, Steve found himself being sucked into the London session work, doing the
music for car adverts. Back then, money was always a factor. And money was the
knife that slit Breeds throat. They came off Nick Caves "let Love In" tour
(where Steve developed a friendship with The Bad Seed drummer Thomas Wylder),
devastated to discover that they were still nobodies. This was after six years
together, two of those spent touring with Cave. Following a dismal, disastrous
gig at the Bull and gate, Breed called it a day. With a pregnant girlfriend
and no musical work forthcoming, Steve was forced to get a job as a forklift
truck driver. "I had to get back into music again," he decided, "I can’t
function without playing" Today, aged 26, Steve doesn’t have to worry about
jacking in his day job. In the past he’s been a joiner and an apprentice
building racing cars for Williams; he even did a stint at Dougie’s Music store
in Northwich. Steve Hewitt became a drummer because one of the kids at school
asked him to. His first gig was a school assembly at Weaversham High, playing
Fleetwood Mac’s "Albatross". He didn’t even have a foot pedal. A self taught
player, at seventeen he was already teaching others, working out of Dougie’s
store. Steve’s elder brother was a rock fan, so Steve loved AC/DC, Black
Sabbath and Dio. Later he got into more indie-inclined likes of The Smiths and
The Wonderstuff, along with the obligatory weed smoking Pink Floyd interludes.
In terms of sound and style, Steve has taken Placebo’s recorded drum tracks
and built on them. "I listened to the first Placebo LP," he says, "and I
thought Robert was technically a good drummer, but in terms of feel and groove
it felt like he was fighting it. I’ve just sorted out the tempos really, on
the stuff that was done before I joined, and just put more groove, more feel
in it. Made it less uptight."
NOTE: It was actually Steve who played on the very first ever Placebo demos,
along with Brian and Stefan. Other commitments prevented him from joining the
band back then... but that's a long story... When Robert 'left' Placebo Steve
was the first drummer to be phoned by Brian who had placed Steve at the top of
a list of three. ' I sat in my bedroom with my practice kit for two weeks and
learnt the LP', Steve recalls ' Then we had one and a half days rehearsal
before touring thirteen countries in four months!'.
poetress x
*remembers having gone around deliberately getting 'Bo facts right, and definitely noting this one*
