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I believe this is from the gig supporting the Fall in 2004.

Hello all,

Thanks to whoever created this space. I have been reading through and it has been nice to discover some parts of Steven through it. I wasn't ever super close to Steven but considered him a friend.

I moved to London in 2008 when I was 18 and met Steven not long after as he was filming a short film about Dorian Gray. I always thought it funny as Steven himself was forever young.

As we were both cinephiles, we became friends, and I did a bunch of films with Steven of the years.

Here is a link to a film called Black Red Abyss, a sort of Giallo type horror short which we shot in 2012 but that Steven had never finished. Please note that he never put it out, so I am sure wasn't satisfied with it. The grading, some VFX, and the sound design I believe…

I wanted to wait a little while before posting anything here. I wanted to celebrate Steve's life rather than mourn his death, and I wanted to this with words, but also with music. I can’t imagine what is family and people he was really close too are going through.

I cried when I heard he had died.

Me and Steve were never best friends, back in Hull, Robin, Scott and Nick Roach were much closer, but our paths seemed to cross often, or at least until our late twenties. At a certain point in life I guess you reach a fork in the road, Steve stayed true to his creative muse, I followed the sign that read 'Complete Subjugation of the Id'.

When I think of Steve, I think of him with a smile on his face. I think our friendship was based on the fact that each one thought…

I found the trailer for Eating Scarlet that I edited for Steven at the time. It was a pretty crazy subject to pick to make a film about that Steven executed sweetly and lovingly.

We edited Eating Scarlet in a Vicarage in Stockwell, editing and preaching culture left and right in between edit decisions intermitted by coffees, tobacco and cuban leftovers. I remember a sense of disappointment when it was done. Not because of what we had done but about it being done, finished, I didn’t want it to be over, didn’t want to say goodbye.

Seeing Eating Scarlet now, it seems to be about the almost childlike innocence of obsession, the virgin eye focused on the color spectrum of attraction, a place a lot of us like to dwell and what a great place to do this: in film. A traditional masculine genre, the serial killer thriller that Steven…