For twenty years Steve has been writing songs about his life and the lives of others. The result is a collection of songs that are raw, honest and heartfelt. They are sometimes funny, sometimes strange. Often they are sad. Yet regardless of the pain, they remain tinged with the beauty of hope.

From head thrown back exuberance to the offering of gentle reflections echoing in community spaces this is music for the body, soul and the mind. At bottom it is the sound of faith. Which is hardly trendy in an age of well healed cynicism and cheap credit - but there you go.

A lifelong lover of guitar and sound, Steve is passionate about the musical interplay of body and spirit in a culture that packages one into a commodity and marginalises the other. And, of course, his lyrical eye is set firmly on tracking the abuses, injustices and simple damn apathy with which we in the west can treat our brothers and sisters in so called less developed countries.

To do this Steve traverses rock, acoustic roots, and gospel music in the search for sounds and forms that can still bring words to life and a smile to your soul. Following on from his earlier releases The Bright Side, Put Out The Sun Hold Up The Sky and Worship To Live By, Steve brought to us two new albums in 2006. The roots rocker Telecast Hotel - a blast of guitars, drums, bass and incisive lyrics, and The Tropic of Conversation - a rootsy singer/songwriter CD that draws on Steve's travels as a documentary filmmaker for TEAR Australia and his experiences in sunny Sydney. Sunny that is unless you're a refugee or unemployed or.....