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July to December:
One hour special Sounds of the 70s
Peterborough Evening Telegraph feature
Buy "UNCUT" Magazine
- out now!
Steve
appears in interview for their Special 100th
Issue
Cornbury and Ashton Court Festival Videos
Cornbury Festival Experience - with photos
First
Glastonbury picturesNew web site added to links page
UK Tour Poster and Flyer can be seen here
What's the best album ever made?
ISLE
OF WIGHT CONCERT TO BE STEVE HARLEY’S
FIRST LIVE DVD
Pop Legend brings smiles with surprise performance
Rebel Fans Filmed by Steve - exclusive off-stage videos
First studio CD for nine years due September - plus UK Rebel Tour
Welcome to the new-look "official" website!
Click here for the 2005 News Archive
Click here for the Main News Archive
Steve has recorded a one-hour special Sounds Of The 70s, to be broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday, December 27th.
** Breaking News for 2006 **
A
St. Patrick's Day special event - March 17th -
may soon be confirmed for Steve and the rock band
at a venue off the north-west of England.
Also, from April 19th into the middle of May, dates should soon be confirmed
in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. More as it comes....
All sorts of possibilities are being worked on for weekends throughout the summer.
NEW
CD READY!
Order the new Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel album "The Quality Of Mercy"
For your copy choose from the following:
and many leading independent music stores.
iTunes users click below to download album:
Itunes
Music Store
Every order will count towards a national chart position.
"A very impressive CD from the mighty
Steve Harley" - Billy Sloan, Radio Clyde
LET'S
GET STEVE BACK INTO THE ALBUM
CHART!
" A winner - just
may be the best thing he's
ever done"
" ..... the beauty and vibrant electricity of this album" - Drew
McAdam, music journalist
"Quality of Mercy" Album Review from Birmingham 101 Gig Guide
"It’s 26 years since Harley last used the name of the band with whom he enjoyed his biggest chart successes in Make Me Smile, Judy Teen and Mr Soft and recorded five albums, however to mark the 30 anniversary of Smile he’s dubbed his touring band Cockney Rebel Mark III and even recorded a new album, The Quality of Mercy, his first since 2000’s Yes You Can.
He’s in fine voice, at times sounding not unlike a cross between Sting, Gerry Rafferty and (on the superb The Coast of Amalfi) Chris De Burgh, and this is easily the best thing he’s done in years. Co-penned by ex Rebel Jim Cregan, opening track The Last Goodbye shows his ability to pen classic, radio friendly quality pop hasn’t dimmed with the years, a fact ably reiterated by the chorus friendly tumbling folksy Saturday Night At The Fair and the 60s sounding No Rain On This Parade.
But if the uptempo material shines, the slower songs positively glow. A father’s hymn of love to their child, Journey’s End (A Father’s Promise) mines a seam of Celtic folk influence, the God searching Save Me (From My Self) with its keening pedal steel and the closing plea for enduring love A Friend For Life are all stand-outs, but the centerpiece surely has to be The Last Feast, a seven minute throaty slow blues-rock burner that (referencing Phantom of the Opera) again finds Harley confronting God as he addresses the fear of mortality.
Giving it the full works after a spate of solo acoustic dates, no doubt fan demands will mean much of the set focus is on past favourites (hopefully Sebastian included), but there’s material here that will stand the test of time just as strongly."
Buy "UNCUT" Magazine
- out now!
Steve
appears in interview for their Special 100th
Issue
New Video: Man'r; New Press: Brum, Notts, Cambs (Don't miss this one!), Sunday Times, NotW, Portsmouth, Classic Rock, The Independent, Liverpool Echo; New Photos: Aylesbury
Cornbury and Ashton Court Festival Videos
Steve's film of the audience of 10,000 at the Cornbury Festival, as well as his film of the 100,000 at the Ashton Court Festival available to view now in the video archive - click here
NEW LIVE DATE ANNOUNCED
November
6th - Glasgow Renfrew Ferry
Booking
info - click here
UK Tour Poster and Flyer can be seen here
Click on image to see a larger view:
Downloads count!
You can now order the new
version of Make Me Smile as a MP3 download,
and what's more these orders contribute to
the chart count.
If you haven't ordered - PLEASE do it now!
Click below to order
www.pinnacle-digital.co.uk/gottdiscs
Click
here to order the CD and get Steve back
into the charts for £2.99
IT CAN BE DONE!
The
CD includes "Judy Teen - Live at Homfirth" and "The
Quality Of Mercy Taster" - two extracts
from the forthcoming album.
PLUS..... LIMITED EDITION VINYL - only 1,000 will be pressed - £1.99 each - click here to order
When
ordering from HMV online, please make sure
that you go to the check-out and enter
your payment details, otherwise the order
will not count towards the chart count.
If you fancy two or more copies, PLEASE order each copy SEPARATELY, or go
to your local HMV STORE and order it there.
Ask for "Make Me Smile - by Steve Harley" on GOTT Discs, catalogue
number GOTTCD030 or for the limited edition 7" vinyl - catalogue number
GOTTMMS0307.
If Steve charts, we get great publicity. Which means MORE CONCERTS!
PLEASE GET CLICKING!
All at Comeuppance thank you on Steve's behalf.
What's the best album ever made?
Please vote for 'Human Menagerie' in the Q Music web site poll.
To register your vote - click here
Closing date: 1 October 2005. Everyone who votes will be entered into a prize draw, the winner of which will be presented with all of the albums that make the final list.
London's Greatest Hits
ITV's 'London's Greatest Hits' concluded on Monday 22nd August with Londoner's voting for their favourite top ten hits. Steve came in at a very respectable number 7 with Make Me Smile. Here's the top ten in full:
1.
The Jam - Going Underground
2. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
3. Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
4. Clash - London Calling
5. Madness - House of Fun
6. Ralph McTell - Streets of London
7. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See
Me)
8. David Bowie - Let's Dance
9. The Who - My Generation
10. Squeeze - Up The Junction
Thanks to all those who voted for Steve.
ISLE OF WIGHT CONCERT TO BE STEVE HARLEY’S FIRST LIVE DVD
A FILM of rocker Steve Harley’s show-stopping appearance at last year’s Isle of Wight festival is to be released on DVD on May 23. One of this year’s most eagerly anticipated music releases, ‘Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival’ will be his first ever live DVD. Click here for more details.
Brand New Guestbook
Due
to a massive increase in traffic to the Steve
Harley web site over the last few months, we
have upgraded to a more reliable and faster
guestbook service which we hope will offer
a more enjoyable experience to our site visitors.
Click
here to visit the new guestbook.
The link to the Guestbook has been updated on this page, and the current Dreambook
will close down permanently.
POP
LEGEND BRINGS SMILES WITH SURPRISE
PERFORMANCE
Recent
article from Plymouth Evening Herald
Rebel
Fans Filmed by Steve - exclusive off-stage
videos
Click here to view footage.
Debut DVD due May
Steve's debut DVD, "Live At The Isle Of Wight - plus 45-minute backstage documentary," is due for a May release. The DVD, which includes an in-depth interview with Steve, backstage and soundcheck footage, plus a Live bonus track, "Death Trip," filmed at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall, last December.
First studio CD for nine years due September - plus UK Rebel Tour
Steve's first all-new studio
CD, "The Quality Of Mercy," is being
prepared for a September, 2005 release.
The tracks are being fine-tuned at a studio in
Suffolk, and are almost ready for mixing.
Manfred Esser will be shooting a cover photo at a session in Cologne, Germany,
in April.
The CD will include three tracks already familiar with concert going fans,
such as "A Friend For Life," "The Last Feast" and "Saturday
Night At The Fair." Click
here for more details.
To support
the new album, a 30+ date UK Tour, as Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel, is
being planned for the autumn, beginning at the end of September, running
through to a handful of Christmas Specials in December, when The Backbeat
Beatles will appear as support. The tour winds up at Shepherds Bush Empire,
December 9th.
In November, Steve takes an Electro-Acoustic band to Holland for a run of around
15 shows.
See Live Dates (constantly up-dating)
for full details.
Brand new email service
Join our (spam free) mailing list and be first with all the latest news on concerts and special events. Click here for more details.
Welcome to the new-look "official" website!
Click here for Steve's welcome message.