STEVEN!!!! You were many things… the bomb, DA BAAAMB, bombaklaat, you were bombastic, Mr Bombastic, telly-fantastic. All of these things, you were larger than life.
Here is my short tribute to remember you!!!
Steve you changed my life... When I moved to London at 19 you were the first person I met and best friend I made, from that first moment at the Bloomsbury bowling lanes watching the Liars, I think our hair connected us. After that fateful meeting there were the hours and hours spent in Holborn, playing with synths (the Doepfer), tea and going up those bloody stairs. Then your brief stint at the Green Lanes, where we spent hours setting up equipment just to be told to shhhhhh.
In your generosity you opened the door to me living in the next place, elephant and castle, and here's where we has the crazy idea that you would record our next Vile Imbeciles record, words can't do justice to the memories, the tea, the rice and beans and Tesco value products
and occasional bin-dive drives and jaunts around london…
You were a gatekeeper of experiences, guardian against dangers and a humble and always enthusiastic human. Going out and having fun in london was never dull with you, and the best thing about it was that you were the real deal in a sea of people either figuring it out or faking everything.
Just over one year ago my dear friend Cameron Devlin sadly passed away, he finished the record we made in elephant, mixing and mastering it. One death does not diminish the other, it was incredibly sad losing Cam and now I’m faced again with the same tearing loss. I chose to add a photo of the one time you both met at Catch 22. You two were both geniuses, probably ahead of your times. These moments make us reflect.
Steve thank you for the memories, my only regret is that I didn't take more photos.
As a buddhist I believe that heaven and hell exist very much in our reality…. But I do relish the thought that, Steve, if you ended up stumbling into hell you are there, machine gun guitar, one foot on the monitor, facepaint and 10,000 watts of power amplification, screeching profanity and teaching Satan how to rock. And I can't wait to find you there...
