Singer/Songwriter and Keyboardist
- DOB: 21st November 1952
- Home Town: Resides in London UK
- Currently: On the cusp
Band Sightings
- Pilot
- Hawkwind (Hawklords)
- Earth Lab
- DanMingo
- Spirits Burning
Available Recordings
- Pilot - Twos A Crowd
- Steve Swindells - Messages
- Steve Swindells - Fresh Blood
- Hawklords - 25 Years On
- Earth Lab - Element
- DanMingo - Leap Of Faith - The Prequel - Hear it on isound
- Spirits Burning & Bridget Wishart - Earth Born
- Steve Swindells - Demos For The Departed - Hear it on isound
Involvement with Spirits Burning
"Bridget got hold of me through www.myspace.com/steveswindells, we became friends (having never met!), we exchanged email addies she sent me an mp3 of One-Way Trip. Jerry Richards was at my place, as we work together a lot. We loved the track, jammed on it and that was that!"
Recording For Earth Born
(Steve appears on One Way Trip)
"I chucked the One-Way Trip MP3 into my Garage Band recording studio (I'm a MAC-head) and Jerry and I got to work after a nice dinner and a couple of spliffs!"
"Modern technology makes it easy to co-write and record even if you've never met and/or live on different sides of the world (although in this case the truth is somewhat more prosaic, i.e. me in London and Bridget in Somerset!). It's fine working with an mp3 and then writing and recording the parts along with it, then leaving the individual parts as AIFF files for the artist to pick-up from an online storage situation, in my case a MAC iDisc."
Statement
According to Wikipedia
"Swindells grew up in the Bath and Bristol area, dropping out of art college to play keyboards in "classic rock" bands. Relocating to London in 1973 and living in squats, he recorded a debut solo album Messages for RCA in 1974. Produced by his manager Mark Edwards, Swindells felt the production poor despite the presence of quality musicians. A follow up album Swallow was recorded, mastered and test pressings manufactured, but 'Edwards had blown Steve’s deal with RCA by sweeping everything off the managing director’s desk with his umbrella in a drunken/druggy rage'
Splitting with his manager, Swindells joined Pilot recording the 1977 album Two's A Crowd. In 1978 he joined Hawkwind, then named Hawklords, for the 25 Years On album and tour. In 1980 he recorded another solo album Fresh Blood for ATCO, but was dropped when it failed to hit sufficient sales for the label. Swindells would go on to write and record with Roger Daltrey ("Martyrs and Madmen" and "Treachery") before turning his attention away from playing music.
He turned to club promoting and party organising in the burgeoning house scene and turned his hand to journalism, writing Internet columns for Time Out and Attitude."
He is now making music with DanMingo and Earth Lab.
