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El Lokal, Zürich 13.06.22
Typically beautiful poster design from El Lokal for this month’s set of concerts. Very happy to be heading back there
More info here.
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.
Nürnberg tonight
I’m playing a simple acoustic concert tonight in Nürnberg at the Rosenatelier Ziegelstein, Ziegelsteinstraße 130. Doors are at 19:00 and the concert should start at 19:30. Entry is free with a collection.
If you’d like to be super organised you can even save a place at post@rosenatelier-ziegelstein.de although I would stress that everyone is welcome and you just come along.
Yep.
If you need it, here’s the FB event:
Karlsruhe tonight
Back in one of my favourite places to play tonight - NUN in Karlsruhe.
It’s free with a collection and here’s a link.
Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe concerts this week
I’m very happy to be playing a couple of concerts this week, returning to two very nice little rooms.
Both of these are free entry with donations, 2G rules and everyone very welcome - links behind the buttons.
Other shows planned for later this month and then again in June, dates here.
21.04.22 WAKKER, Wiesbaden
23.04.22 NUN, Karlsruhe
Free concert in Stuttgart this Thursday 07.04
I’m playing in Stuttgart this Thursday evening - 20:00 at the Kleiner Schlossplatz behind the art gallery. Wrap up warm and byob. Entry is free and later Mo Klé is playing too. Details behind the image:
Concert in Aachen this Saturday
I am playing my first concert of 2022 and the first for me since last November. The longest break I've had between shows since 2008.
The event is at Überhaupt and will be organised with 3G rules, or as they write:
3G-Regel: Bitte Immunisierungsnachweis oder aktuellen Corona-Test (PCR < 48 Std., Schnelltest < 24 Std.) einschließlich Ausweis am Eingang vorzeigen.
I appreciate asking people to be in rooms with others might not be the most considerate thing to do but this date has been moved already and I can't imagine things getting much better soon. If you can make it and feel comfortable enough please join me but otherwise let's hope for more opportunities later in the year.
More details behind the links below and if you are a subscriber to my Patron or Bandcamp let me know and you get on the guest list.
Überhaupt website here
Überhaupt Facebook event here
Thanks all,
Stephen
Concerts this month
I’m happy to be playing some concerts this month in Germany and Switzerland, beginning this evening in Dresden and carrying on like this:
03/11/21 Hole Of Fame, Dresden, DE - link
04/11/21 Lila Drache, Halle, DE - link
05/11/21 GALERIA LUNAR goes Underground, Hannover, DE - all welcome, please email for details
06/11/21 Private House Concert, Rosche, DE
07/11/21 Fotostudio Gezett, Berlin, DE - all welcome, please email foto@gezett.de for details
08/11/21 Café Feuerwache, Hamburg, DE - all welcome, please email for details
09/11/21 Tonfink, Lübeck, DE - link
10/11/21 Waggon, Offenbach, DE - link
16/11/21 Gustav, Bern, CH - link
* 17/11/21 - FREE, CH - looking for somewhere to play / stay
* 18/11/21 - FREE, CH - looking for somewhere to play / stay
19/11/21 Mundwerk, Thun, CH - link
If anyone can help at all with the 2 free days in Switzerland, preferably around the Bern area it would be fantastic. Otherwise I’m looking forward to a busy couple of weeks and I hope some of you can make it along to these. Say hello if you do.
Stephen
'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
Hamburg concert this month
I’ve just added a special, acoustic concert in the Buchhandlung Blattgold, Wexstrasse 28 in Hamburg for next Friday evening - the 24th of September.
It’s free entry, with donations and I’ll be playing for an hour from 19:00. Spaces are very limited - I think about 20 people can attend. It’s 2G and you’ll need to reserve your place via email.
You can also just drop me a message and I’ll take it from there.
If you use Facebook, the event is here.
That’s all the info - I’m very excited to be playing back in Hamburg after almost a year away and hope some of you can make it.
Have a great week,
Stephen
Villa Müller, Feldkirch
Photos above by Katharina Koutnik from my concert at the beautiful Villa Müller a week or so ago.
I stayed there a few days, played a concert on the Sunday and then recorded most of the next day. I played some old songs but also wrote some new things and played some instrumental ideas. I’ll post the complete set of things I made on my Patreon and Bandcamp sites soon but in the meantime here’s a little idea of what happened.
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/
Nürnberg concert this Saturday, tomorrow
I just got asked to play a last minute concert tomorrow in Nürnberg at the rather excellent DESI. Doors open at 15:00, music and reading from 16:00. My good friend Julia Laura will play at 17:30 and eventually I will finish the evening at 21:00. That’s the story.
Winterthur concert in a week
Quick note to say that I’m playing a last minute concert in Winterthur, Switzerland next Saturday the 24th of July at the brilliant Gaswerk. Doors 18:00.
They’ll open their bar for the first time in ages and I’ll play some. It’s casual dress, bring your thirst.
'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.
20 concerts from 2020
I played just twenty concerts last year and here’s the pages from my diary for the last two. I scanned the rest and made a series of all of them that are over on my Patreon here now.
I’d like to think everyone that’s into my stuff considers supporting me directly over on Patreon but more than that I do hope I get to play more concerts soon, my word.
September 2020 - songs and set lists from the concerts
A quick note about this entry - I spent an hour or two and wrote a long post here but somehow closed the browser without saving so lost it all. Right now I’m posting the set lists for those that asked and some choice recordings from each night that I have and will follow with more words about each night and more photos, videos, etc when I get the energy to write it all out again. Bah.
Anyway, I just came back from some shows and they went like this:
Lindwurm, Hannover 03/09/20
i was in the north before the fall
the royal canal
down down down
lover o lover
deserter
barbara allen (traditional)
super good advice
fold culinary
song for a coalman
carrion call
so long song
we could have, we should have, we didn’t
we swam a little song
Prinz Willy, Kiel 04/09/20
when i was away
the royal canal
down down down
lover o lover
deserter
a carrion call
fold culinary
i do wrong
barbara allen (traditional)
song for a coalman
song for fee
super good advice
from the willows by the weir
so long song
we swam a little song
Kulturschlachterei, Rendsburg 05/09/20
when i was away
the royal canal
down down down
i was in the north before the fall
lover o lover
pure black coal
fold culinary
song for a coalman
make each other anew
super good advice
barbara allen (traditional)
polly vaughan (traditional)
so long song
Garden Concert, Rostock 06/09/20
when i was away
the royal canal
down down down
i do wrong
pure black coal
fold culinary
lover o lover
make each other anew
it don’t stop the bleeding
super good advice
so long song
when i was single (traditional)
we swam a little song
Rostock, photo by https://www.instagram.com/alex_ottoxo
Alice, Copenhagen 07/09/20
it don’t stop the bleeding
the royal canal
down down down
i do wrong
pure black coal
fold culinary
lover o lover
deserter
when i was away
make each other anew
super good advice
polly vaughan (traditional)
so long song
we swam a little song
Copenhagen, photo by https://www.instagram.com/__leilu___
Tonfink, Lübeck 08/09/20
song for fee
the royal canal
down down down
lover o lover
deserter
delia (song by blind willie mctell)
when i was away
i do wrong
winter (song by the diamond family archive)
we could have, we should have, we didn’t
super good advice
so long song
fold culinary
we swam a little song
Wohlerspark, Hamburg 11/09/20
when i was away
the royal canal
down down down
lover o lover
i do wrong
pure black coal
fold culinary
we could have, we should have, we didn’t
winter (song by the diamond family archive)
super good advice
paper birds
so long song
song for fee
Hamburg, photo by https://www.instagram.com/janina.rrr
Fotostudio Gezett, Berlin 12/09/20
when i was away
the royal canal
down down down
i do wrong
pure black coal
fold culinary
lover o lover
deserter
polly vaughan (traditional)
we could have, we should have, we didn’t
super good advice
pretty peggy-o (traditional)
so long song
Berlin, photo by https://www.instagram.com/gerald.zoerner
September concerts
My plans for September:
03/09/20 Nachbarschaftsgarten Baulücke, Hannover, DE
04/09/20 Prinz Willy, Kiel, DE
05/09/20 Kulturschlachterei, Rendsburg, DE
06/09/20 Private Garden Concert, Rostock, DE
07/09/20 Alice, Copenhagen, DK
08/09/20 Tonfink, Lübeck, DE
09/09/20 FREE
10/09/20 FREE
11/09/20 Wohlerspark, Hamburg, DE
12/09/20 Fotostudio Gezett, Berlin, DE
13/09/20 FREE
Any ideas for the free days or questions about any of the fixed dates please simply drop me a message.
As ever, I'll update this site first if anything changes and will also be uploading music and words on my blog here too. I’ll also be posting more to my Instagram as I go along. Has been a while since I did anything like this, let's see if I can remember how to do it.
Thanks everyone, hope to see some of you along the way. x