May 26 - festival cancelled. click here for the Promoter's notice

Steve’s 3-man Acoustic set will headline Isle of Wight Arts festival - click here for tickets

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Many thanks to all of you for supporting me again during the past year.
Thanks, especially, for buying the tickets.
Without an audience, I really would wonder what had happened to my world!
The response to the plan for an Orchestra and Choir Concert, featuring the first two albums in their entirety, has been really encouraging.
We have the date reserved and tickets should be available soon.
 
For now, though, a battle-weary wandering minstrel can only say:
Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year To You All
 
Stay your way, eh.
With affection, as always,
 
Steve

The edition of Celebrity Mastermind featuring Steve as a contender will be broadcast on BBC1 TV, DECEMBER 28th at 18:30

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Friday, December 9th: Steve Will Be With Radcliffe & Maconie, LIVE at 2.30pm, BBC 6 Radio, prior to the Manchester Ritz show.

With great regret, we have to announce Liverpool Mojo, December 15^th, has been cancelled. We will give further details re refunds when we have them.

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Steve has agreed to be a contender on Celebrity Mastermind, to be broadcast on BBC2 over the Christmas/New Year period. He has chosen T.S.Eliot and Four Quartets as his specialist subject. The fee is donated to a charity of the contestant’s choice, and Steve’s will be split equally between Cancer & Polio Research and the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).

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November

Weds 23^rd – Oslo, Rockefeller (all-seated)

Thurs 24^th -  Bergen, Madame Felle (seated/standing mixed)

Fri 25^th - Stavanger, Stavanageren (all-seated)

Sat 26^th - Skien, Peer Gynt/Ibsenhuset (all-seated, tables)

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Steve with Barry and James in a Live Acoustic set with Bob Harris

We have had confirmation from BBC Radio 2 that they can keep the OGWT 40 radio series up on the BBC iPlayer in its own dedicated area for the duration of the whole series until the 5^th January.

Each show will be added on to the iPlayer the week it airs, and will remain on there until the series finishes.

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... including Journey’s End, The Coast Of Amalfi and other ‘live’ favourites

Available now – T-shirts with the iconic “Psychomodo” image.

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ALL USUAL SIZES  –Plus WOMEN’S STYLE (with lycra and scooped neck; photo not available)

£14.99 each plus carriage

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Even MORE Live dates added – click here for details

Manchester Ritz, on sale now ... click here

Full band. More of the same (and some!). If you missed the great new set, now’s your chance!

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Old Grey Whistle Test at 40, Radio 2 – Steve plays acoustic on September 7th, including interview with Bob Harris

Steve will play with Barry and James in the fabulous setting of mediaeval Rochester Cathedral. No finer way to spend an English autumn evening.

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The Best Years Of Our Lives will be the Featured Album on Sunday’s Sounds Of The 70s, with Johnnie Walker, BBC Radio 2,  88–91FM, 15:00 – 17:00

Steve has been to Cologne to settle his promise for the BBC Children In Need Appeal. He took trains to Cologne, Germany, accompanied by violinist Barry Wickens, and his techie ‘Shop’, and played for the auction winner Gregor Koenig, who was joined in his living room by a dozen or so friends and family members. Steve sang the requested “(Love) Compared With You”, and added “A Friend For Life” and “True Love Will Find You In The End”, another song that Gregor told everyone meant a great deal to him.

Television and radio presenter Gregor celebrated his 50th birthday that evening among 60 people, including his British visitors, in a Japanese restaurant.
Gregor’s winning bid for Steve’s Takamine electro-acoustic guitar, plus a promise to sing the song of his choice in his home, was a stunning £10,000.

We thank all those who bid for the Lot, all helping to push the high bid to such a fantastic sum.
 

Guilfest confirmed for Steve and Cockney Rebel. Second from Headline, Stage Two on Saturday, JULY 16th – click here for details

PLUS…Market Harborough, full-band, Saturday OCTOBER 1^st – click here for further details

NORWAY is ONE HOUR ahead of UK.

NB:   Showtime, Friday April 22^nd UK Time 20:40 (8:40pm)

The show will air on Friday 22nd of April at 21.40 (Norwegian time) and run for approx. 1 hour 40 min.

It will be shown again, the day after, on Saturday 23rd. at 15.05.

The show will be on NRK2.

LIVE STREAMING:

http://www.nrk.no/nrk2

http://wherever.tv/tv-channels/NRK-2.jsf

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ACOUSTIC FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN



MAY 20-21-22  Uttoxeter, Staffs.


Tickets and info direct: www.acousticfestival.co.uk

See the whole show - spin forward to see Steve (Fast forward to 99.45 for Steve's performance)

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Back on air!

Steve will be live on NRK on Tuesday 18th January at 22:30 UK time.

To listen online go to: http://www.nrk.no

Click the Radio button that looks like this:

Then click on the NRK P1 button:

A new window launches. Finally click the play button to listen:

NRK P1 (NRK channel 1) is the name of the radio station broadcasting the programme.

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel’s section is the finale of the show. That means it will be broadcasted from a few minutes after 2330 hours, Norwegian time. Which is 2230 in UK, or in other words thirty minutes past ten at night.

After the concert on July 30th 2011: Sinah Warren Hotel, Hayling Island, Hampshire, Steve has agreed to spend time in a Meet 'N' Greet with audience members.

So if you fancy a weekend away, with Steve and full rock band as the concert attraction on Saturday 30th, see LIVE DATES for details.

Or http://www.warnerleisurehotels.co.uk/hotels/sinah-warren-hotel/overview/
Google Warner Holidays Events.

Monday January 10th: Steve visits The Shed, literally a garden shed in Somerset, where local players have been popping in to play for the owner’s website. It’s all the scheme of Jon Earl. See www.songsfromtheshed.com

See the one-off unique performance Live on BBC West at 7:30pm on Inside Out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xjfg4

Steve says, “Jon wanted a few acoustics numbers, and as we were passing that way that day, I thought why not?! The local BBC crew thought it a good story. Me too! It was very, very cold, and we could hardly keep the instruments in tune. Just another adventure!”

The programme should be viewable on Sky Channel 986

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The auction has now ended!

Children In Need Auction Ends DECEMBER 3 at midnight. High Bid so far: £10,000

Steve has pledged an Auction Package to raise funds for Children-In-Need:

His Takamiane Tan guitar, being played on the tour, PLUS Signed if desired, PLUS 2 Guest Tickets to any SH & CR Show of the winner's choice, PLUS ENTRY TO THE SOUND-CHECK, Plus dinner after the show with SH and Band, PLUS, Steve will come to the winner's home, if requested, and perform a song of their choice!!!

The on-stage auction began in Manchester, where frenzied bidding took the highest offer to £3,500. But, moving on through Reading. Norwich and Huddersfield, bidding reached a heady £6,000 - pledged by Anita Kerslake of Berkshire, but a new high bid has been received, for £10,000, from Gregor in Germany.

Steve will present a special Children In Need edition of Sounds Of The 70s on BBC Radio 2 With Johnnie Walker, Sunday, November 14^th

Steve and the band will appear at Marktrock Festival, Poperinge in Belgium on August 27

See Live Dates for information as it comes

The One Show, BBC1, 7pm, Friday 22nd October 2010

Steve Appears in interview

Steve and the band will welcome the New Year in at HOLMFIRTH Picturedrome, December 31^st.

Sing Auld Lang Syne with the boys!!

Google “Auld Lang Syne Lyrics”, print them off and LET’S SING!!!

PLUS NYE DJ

Tickets on sale now

www.picturedrome.net

http://www.radio102.no/2010/10/det-store-steve-harley-intervjuet-13m-30s

http://www.geoffandandy.co.uk/vip/steve_harley

Carrie Grant interviews Steve. The piece is provisionally scheduled for air on Friday, October 29^th.

The programme is on-air at 7pm nation-wide.

Saturday, October 9^th @ 10pm, Steve will feature as Guest of Lesley-Ann Jones on VINTAGE TV (Sky) chat-show, Me & Mrs Jones.

In the 30-minute chat, Steve opens up on several subjects rarely broached by journalists these day.

SOLD OUT

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Tickets for the Portmeirion Alzheimer’s charity show (Wednesday 8th September 2010) will be available direct from Portmeirion on:
Tel: 01766-772337
Tickets will go on sale as from next Friday 16th July 2010, priced £30 each.

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Steve’s acoustic tour, in the planning stages now for the autumn, has been confirmed for the  Union Chapel, Islington, London, November 26^th.

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Steve and the rock band will celebrate Christmas at the Robin2 -  Click here for details

Finally a transcript of the live chat with Steve on Sunday 16th May 2010.

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Steve enters the Independent Albums Breaker Charts at number 7.

http://www.theofficialcharts.com/independent-albums-breakers-chart

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Come and visit Steve's new Facebook Account and YouTube Channel

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March 23rd - The Lady magazine, The Gents, an article by Steve
April 14th BBC London Radio, 14:30 Live with Robert Elms
April 15th - www.hr1.de 19:00 - 11:00 (UK time) Live for 4 hours
Steve picks the discs on National German Radio including tracks from "Stranger ..."
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April 19th - BBC Radio 2, 10pm, The Jools Holland Show
April 30^{th -} BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright In The Afternoon
May 2nd - Radio Clyde, 7-11pm, Live Session + Interview, Billy Sloan Show (available nationwide via internet)
May 6th - BBC 1 TV, 9pm+ Election Night Special from the London Eye Pier, with Andrew Neil
May 13th - Live on Yorkshire TV's Calendar
May 30th - Johnnie Walker’s Sounds Of The 70s

The Rock4Life Festival, due to take place in The Highlands in May, has been cancelled.

Steve and band were due to play on a bill (May 1^st) with Status Quo, but the prevailing circumstances have forced a complete cancellation of the event.

Steve will be in Glasgow the following day (May 2^nd) to perform a Live acoustic session, with Barry Wickens and James Lascelles, for Billy Sloan’s Radio Clyde Show.

To Listen Again to Steve on the Jools Holland Radio 2 show, click here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s1mwz/Jools_Holland_19_04_2010/

Steve and the band will be playing on the Avalon Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 26th June 2010.

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More CD titles added!

Jono talks with Steve about new album "Stranger Comes to Town"

To listen click here and then scroll down - broadcast on March 29th

Click here to see the FUN, WEBSITE-ONLY video, shot on Steve’s digi-camera

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Steve on TV: Steve is scheduled to appear, Live in the studio as well as on film, on The Daily Politics Show, BBC 2 on WEDNESDAY, February 24^th.

The show runs from 11.30 to 13:00. Steve’s appearance is likely to be after 12.30.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/

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"If it were a matter of life and death - Sebastian" - read it here

Steve has been confirmed for The Big Top at the Isle Of Wight Festival, Sunday, June 13 (re-scheduled)

For tickets, please see the official Isle Of Wight festival website.

Steve will appear at The Space, Brighton’s prestigious monthly in-person event on April 1^st. See Live Dates for full booking details.

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel have been confirmed for the May Day “Rock For Life” charity festival to be held near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
The band will play on a bill with local acts and Status Quo on Saturday, May 1^st.

All Tickets On Sale NOW!

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Steve Harley was last night presented with the ChildLine Rocks Special Award at the Classic Rock magazine Roll Of Honour ceremony, held in the ballroom of London’s Park Lane Hotel.

The coveted award, won previously by Ian and Jacky Paice and Bryan Adams, came as a complete surprise to Steve, who was named as recipient for his charity fund-raising. He was at the event as a guest of Bob and Trudie Harris, and completely unaware of the surprise to come.

The award cited Steve’s connections with MAG (as an ambassador for the landmine clearance agency), the National Neurological Hospital, the Hope School for Children with Multiple Disabilities and Chailey Heritage School for Disabled Children.

In his brief acceptance speech, Steve told the gathering of music industry executives, fellow musicians and media representatives that “Giving back is part of the deal when you live as privileged a life as I do. Compared to the suffering of those surrounded by landmines in south-east Asia, and the intolerable suffering of the kiddies at those schools, giving is easy.”

Steve received an ovation from the packed room, which included fellow guests Pete Townsend, Jeff Beck, Iron Maiden, Rick Wakeman, Ronnie Wood, Iggy Pop and Slash.

Yes, the Beethoven remark WAS a joke!

Steve Harley – No Mr Soft

October 28, 2009 by John Hurd

‘Mr Soft’ was the title of Steve Harley’s 1974 hit single. Harley himself though is anything but soft.
“I don’t give sympathy because I don’t expect it. Nice guys don’t make it” is a famous quote from a 1977 interview.
Harley’s concert with Cockney Rebel at Bonn’s Harmonie showed that at 58 he is still very much in both Command and Demand.

The Quality Of Mercy CD is now in stock and on sale at this site.

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Steve and several musicians has spent most of September ensconced in a residential studio, recording a new CD of original songs. No title for the collection is yet confirmed, but one working title is “Stranger Comes To Town.” These are the words heard in a local village pub, spoken by a couple eating a meal, as Steve and two friends sat with a drink after visiting the studio complex last month. The couple bought Steve a Guinness!

{flv}ChildlineRocks{/flv}Steve plays ChildLine Rocks Fund-raiser at London’s Indigo2. “A Friend For Life”

Among the new CD tracks, Steve is keen to record a cover version of someone’s else’s song. Just one. But the choice is very wide and difficult to make.

Fans are invited to offer their suggestions. Past covers Steve has released have included “Here Comes The Sun”, which charted in the UK and several European countries in the 70s; the Motown classic, “I Wish It Would Rain,” and Bob Dylan’s “Love Minus Zero – No Limit”.

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During the autumn studio sessions, Steve plans to take two days with the musicians to record The Lartey Sisters, Ashleigh, 20, and Faye, 17. The girls are from Peterborough, and write what Steve has described as “haunting, poetical songs”. Faye plays guitar, often in “open” tunings, and Ashleigh sings. The girls write together. James Lascelles and Barry Wickens will compose an orchestral arrangement for at least one song. Steve will produce the 3 tracks.

Welcome to the new site. I hope you enjoy the new look.

Here are a few new features:

• Interactive/Web 2.0-registered users can now add comments (no abuse tolerated, mind).
• Articles will offer track-back links.
• New Forum AND Guestbook.
• New Shop with PAYPAL facility.
• Entire back catalogue (almost) as downloadable MP3s.
• Gig Reports with set-lists passed on by Tour Manager after the show (provided a Fan is prepared to submit a report).
• Search Facility, so you can find anything on the site before you’ve even finished typing in the search box.
• Skip links to help keyboard-only and screen-reader users navigate around the site more quickly.

To get the most from the site you'll need to register with a valid email address, so make sure you type it correctly. You'll need to confirm your registration by responding to a confirmation message. If you don't receive this email within a few minutes, please check your spam filter.

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Andy Fearon

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He will play 3 songs with Robbie and Barry PLUS Bill Wyman’s band of top session musicians.

Friday morning dawns grey and drizzly in London and, with complete trust in the optimistic BBC weather forecast, I load my rucksack (minus the wellies) into the car and set off. A quick stop for petrol and to pick up Clare, a work colleague who has not had the chance to camp or visit a festival for 20 years, then we make our way out onto the M25 and immediately wish we’d chosen a better route. As we crawl our way along in 2nd and 3rd gear for about an hour we have the consolation of seeing the rain dry up and little patches of blue appear ahead of us in the sky, roughly in the direction we are headed.

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.

"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."

Order the new Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel album "The Quality Of Mercy"

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

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.

Steve has agreed to act as a panellist choosing "Best Local Hero" for ANGLIA TV. The programme is part of the regional series "Britain On The Move" and is scheduled for broadcast on Anglia Television, TUESDAY 19th at 19.30hrs. Check local listings.

Ordering details coming soon.

BBC RADIO 5 LIVE (909am) SATURDAY, 9th APRIL, 9 - 11 a.m.
Steve will appear 'live' on the Eamonn Holmes show. On Grand National Day, Steve will be discussing his passion for horse racing and his hobby as owner and gambler, and chatting about the summer concerts, Glastonbury Festival and the big autumn tours.

This interview was postponed from Grand National Day (as a result of the Royal Wedding and the Pope's funeral) to be broadcast on 30th April 2005 - the day of the 2,000 Guineas Colts' Classic at Newmarket.

Sale: 11707 - Rock & Film Memorabilia
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27th April 2005 - Knightsbridge
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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."

Steve and his regular band have spent many long days in recent weeks working in a Pro-tools studio in Suffolk. The album is now at the mixing stage and Steve, to demonstrate his own feelings with the way the work has developed, said at his "An Audience With....." show in Stamford, Lincs. recently, "I am making a record that pleases me - I can only hope it then pleases lots of other people, including the critics. We have a wild drum sound on the rocky tracks and the lyrics are flowing once again. I am very, very excited about this project. The band have looked at me as though I'm mad, when I've put forward certain production ideas, but they've come to accept now that sometimes the safe way is not necessarily the best way forward."

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, then the set-up moves into Belgium (Dec 1-4).