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Dear Soulmates, Steve Hewitt turns 51 today !

I'd like to share one of the latest French interviews Steve gave in early 2020 before the Coronavirus health crisis and containment, where he speaks about his new album, Detonation Days, social networks, Brexit, the content of his songs, etc. Well, to this day, the new album is not released yet.

It's a very interesting interview where you can dive into Steve's views of the world…

Photo credit: S3bastian Dolidon

𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒐𝒏, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 ?
⭐ Seventh Son will be the first track to be released to introduce the third Love Amongst Ruin album. It's different from the Lose Your Way album because it's much more contemporary, it's an attempt to bring rock music to the fore. The way I created this album is very different from my usual way. Rather than writing new songs, it was about enjoying new sounds and textures that inspired the tracks. Seventh Son comes from something old that seems relevant today. It's a place that is sometimes obscure but also a place where people can hide when they want to make themselves invisible in their lives and to the rest of the World and that place exists.


𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 7 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒚𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌, 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 ?
⭐ In our time, the number 7 is a lucky number that brings fortune and success. But in medieval times it was a dark and evil number. If you were the 7th son then you were an outcast and damned. I thought it was interesting to point out how human society can change over the centuries.


𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔? 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 ?
⭐ The music industry is changing and I'm trying to adapt to that. The change is in the way music is distributed and listened to. I don't think people listen to albums anymore, because there are too many songs coming out every day and it's impossible for anyone to keep up with everything that's going on. I think that rather than releasing a song for an album that will disappear into obscurity, it's better to make each track its own entity. But I've got enough songs to put out an album, no worries about that.

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𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒕 "𝑫𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒔" ?
⭐ Well, Denotation Days is a very inspiring title for me because it allows me to write about what's going on in the world right now. And what it's like to live in this World. And I'm afraid it's going to get worse before it gets better.

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒔 ?
⭐ I say trilogy because this will be the third Love Amongst Ruins album, nothing more. It could be the last one or not, who knows…


𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 ?
⭐ I think vinyl is a real lever and if the album is good then it will always be a work of art. I pray to God that people will always want to listen to whole albums. The difference is that when I started you would find out about the song on the radio or TV and then go to the record shop and buy the album and that was a lot more, whereas now it's easier. You listen to a track and then you just click. I guess the emotional process of finding a song has been lost a bit.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒔. 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒙 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒔 ?
⭐ I think we've really reached a point where everything that could be done in music has been done and it's getting harder to be original. That said, the mixing of so-called genres allows for the creation of novelty. It's been going on for a while now, since the beginning of hip hop. The same thing happens in rock music. There are only so many notes you can play and only so many ways to incorporate and mix genres to disguise what you're playing. But nowadays genres don't exist anymore, there's just a big grey area where everything gets mixed up and blended. Everything we listen to today uses past elements that worked.

Photo credit: NOCR 

𝑰𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒉𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 ?
⭐ Haha, impossible for me to answer, if I knew, I would open a huge label in France. I don't think rock has ever been the market leader in France, it's cultural. The US and Britain have always been defined by classic rock, where France is more in the modern age with traditional crooners and hit parade singers, there is also a big electro scene that is very strong these days. We just need a new rock act, the new generation to get out the guitars and drums and play rock.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒕 ?
⭐ This third album is taking shape but it's also a time to look at the world and what's going on in it. I don't want to get political though, it's more about where I am in my life at the moment.


𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 ? 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝒌𝒊𝒕 ?
⭐ I created this band out of a need to express my ideas. I never thought in my life I would become a singer. I've always written and composed so it was quite natural for me. But getting used to singing in a band was a lot of work just to convince myself that I could do it. I'm now more comfortable with singing and playing guitar but I'll always be happy playing drums.

Photo credit: Vincent Lignie

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕. 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 ?
⭐ Love Amongst Ruin is basically me, no matter who plays with me, although there are a few musicians who play regularly with me now. I've worked with Donald Ross Skinner on all the albums, we write together, we play together on the recordings so it only changes live when musicians join in. What can really change things is the producers who decide to co-produce us. It's always good to have a third or fourth opinion. It's easy to retain the identity of a band because it's going to be the same frontman, it's not going to change no matter what band it is.


𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 "𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎", 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 ?
⭐ Dream should be the second track to be released although it's not set in stone yet. The song is about an artist who has reached a point in his life where he wonders if what he's doing is right and suffers from a lack of direction. It's generally a lack of self-esteem related to the mid-life crisis. He spends his days being too afraid to do anything about it.

𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕. 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 ?
⭐ Modern technology is a good thing, there is nothing wrong with progress and it helps musicians to spread their music. What it means to be a musician has changed completely nowadays and that's not a problem. But when people go to concerts to look at their mobile screens, then I wonder what the fuck is going on? They miss the point of the concert. But in the end social networking is still a good thing for musicians.


𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏 ?
⭐ For me, Brexit was a complete waste of time. I voted to stay in Europe so now I have to deal with someone else's decision. It's a real pain in the arse and an upheaval beyond belief. I don't want to talk about it any more as it's a complete load of crap.

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𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓? 𝑫𝒐 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ?
⭐ I'm not sure that the world has become more disparate than ever, everyone has their own opinion, even politicians can't agree in their respective parties. It's because of all this that music is finding it harder and harder to unite people. It's always had the power to move people and make them feel something and I think, but I'm not sure, that rock can be the answer to the problems of this world.


𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑳𝒀𝑺 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ?
⭐ The big difference when people come to see me on stage now is that I'm playing with more people, it's important to try new things and expand your experience as a musician. It's important to stay relevant in music and embrace the future, it's vital. You have to continue to love what you do and love to renew yourself, that's what I've been doing for 30 years and I'm going to continue to do that. I love meeting new people in music who come from different styles. It's fabulous.


𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 ?
⭐ I hope to be touring in November with the band so keep following us.
✔️ 𝚙𝚘𝚙𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝.𝚏𝚛

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𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗧'𝗦 𝟱𝟬𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬 + 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 (𝗫𝗦 𝗡𝗼𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱)

🎈🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝟓𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘, 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐓! 🎉🎈

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On 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 22𝘯𝘥 1971 Placebo's ex-drummer Steve Hewitt was born in Northwich, Cheshire (UK). Steve was inspired to become a drummer after watching Phil Taylor performing “Ace of Spades” with Motörhead on Top of the Pops as a kid. He convinced his parents to get him a drum kit and then taught himself to play.

Steve joined the band 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 at the age of 17 after responding to an advert in a newspaper.
In 1991 he met Brian through his then-girlfriend at a Burger King in Lewisham. Later he was invited to drum on some demos for Placebo but he couldn't join them due to commitments to Breed. He replaced Placebo's first drummer Robert Schultzberg in 1996 and was a regular member of the band until 2007.

After his departure Steve founded the band Love Amongst Ruin, did some collaborations and started to work as a producer.

🎬 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗡 – 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗬
🎵 http://bit.ly/2un9nD6 🎵

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♦️ 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 ♦️

𝗛𝗜 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗩𝗘, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗨𝗣 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗟𝗬?
📢 "I’ve been at my home studio doing loads of production working with a female songwriter called DéDé who’s with the same publisher, I’ve been asked to write and produce for her, as well as working on other peoples stuff."

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗜𝗦 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.
📢 "It’s been amazing, I’m really chuffed it’s been quite overwhelming, especially in America, it’s gone off the hook there. We had a number one in Germany; all the reviews have been superb. It’s been a long time coming, I sort of became the British Dave Grohl for a while working with everybody else (laughs)."

𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠?
📢 "Yeah, you get it done and then other work comes in. I worked with Six By Seven for a year. Time is just flying in and before I knew it three years had passed and I thought “Shit! I better get this out.” Since I left Placebo it’s nice to be versatile and have the freedom to go off and do other things and have a musical career, I really enjoy it. It’s nice to work with different styles of music and different people. It’s quite addictive I suppose."

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 “𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗬“ 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠?
📢 "We did them both in the same studio at Moles in Bath, obviously doing the first record felt like quite a steep mountain to climb seeing if I could do it on my own. It was obviously a cathartic thing; I had to get a lot of shit off my chest. The second album was different because I was much more confident. I taught myself more lessons and I knew what I was doing, it felt much easier I was more confident, the songs were better as well.
I broke it down so it was just Donald Ross Skinner, Dan Austin and I. I didn’t take a whole band in it was just ourselves, we kept it quite minimal. That way there are fewer people to make decisions, it becomes a quicker process, and enjoyable. Working with Dan was a massive eye-opener because he works really quickly, there’s not much time to hang around which keeps the momentum."

𝗦𝗢 𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗬 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗨𝗟𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠?
📢 "Not at all, if anything it was the complete opposite, it felt like it was meant to be, it felt easy and it felt right. I love being in the studio anyway, it felt very comfortable there. It’s an enjoyable experience the more we can get in and sculpt an album. I think if you’re in the studio and your struggling, you shouldn’t be in there you should come out and rethink, it all seemed to flow really well."

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠; 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗗𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗡𝗘?
📢 "Possibly, I hadn’t really thought about it actually. We did the acoustic version of my debut in a day in a studio in Sussex, it was a nice exercise, but yeah it might be good. Those things come about when you’re doing radio sessions and you start breaking the songs down to acoustics so you can see how they work. It would be nice to do something like that to keep the tradition going, we should look into it. I think a lot of the songs on this album would work that way."

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“𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚“ 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠, 𝗜'𝗠 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚. 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘.
📢 "It’s more of a modern-day occurrence than ever before, it’s become part of everyone’s life. There is always a war somewhere, unfortunately. When you see discussions or reasons why these wars are happening, it’s always from the politician’s point of view. It’s a difficult job for the people who are on the front line; nobody seems to take their point of view. It seemed logical to me to write a song from a soldier’s point of view asking the politicians ‘What the fuck is going on?’ I find it quite revolting the way soldiers are treated when their service finishes after signing up and fighting for their country, it’s unbelievable."

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗔 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗡?
📢 "I had been 25 years behind a drum kit when I was ejected, it was probably time to test myself and try something new, it was a challenge. I thought about writing songs and getting someone else to sing them or co-writing, I didn’t know whether I would find that easy trying to get my view across, I sort of fell into it."

𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗡?
📢 "Yeah, I get really nervous before I go on stage; the idea of it makes me nervous but once I’m there I can deal with it. I’m just developing parts of my musical character. I never thought in a million years that I would be singing in a band. I’ll just get on with it and try and do the best job I can."

𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚?
📢 "Yes, I co-wrote some of the lyrics with Brian (Molko) in Placebo and I always did backing vocals, I have always had a good pitch and musical ear, but to put that into practice and front a rock band never crossed my mind, and here we are! (Laughs)"

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬
📢 "Probably going back to the 70s growing up it was always AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy and Led Zeppelin obviously. I’ve got an older brother Nick who is 4 years older and I was always going through his record collection. My family loved music, my dad was a massive Buddy Holly fan. I remember being in the back of the car going on caravan holidays, we would be listening to The Bee Gees, Elton John, ELO and The Beatles, stuff that was around all the time. I probably know the words to every Elton John and Bee Gees songs because of those times (laughs) it was always very much rock, then when I got older I crossed over to The Smiths and The Cure, I am a massive fan of The Cure."

𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛?
📢 "I have been lucky enough to get my wish list; I’ve worked with Robert Smith, Michael Stipe, Frank Black and David Bowie. I would like to work with Tom Waits, I am a massive fan of his, I would love to meet him I think he is an amazing musician. I have toured with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds it would be great to do something with Nick. I think some of the earlier Bad Seeds records are some of the best ever, they could be phenomenal."

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𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗙𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦, 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧?
📢 "Probably when I was in K-Klass back in the day, I was doing programming for them and playing congas live at the Hacienda on New Year’s Eve 1989 going into 1990 and the place was going off! It was probably the last greatest movement in music that dance period when Ecstasy came in, at the same time I was in The Boo Radleys and I was in K-Klass, you couldn’t get 2 polar opposites (laughs). I was in a shoegazing band in Liverpool and in a dance band in Manchester, fucking mental! You could say I was a musical prostitute (laughs) that New Year’s Eve was just off the scale, I haven’t seen anything like that drug-fuelled madness since."

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦. 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖?
📢 "Absolutely! I have spent 25 years playing the drums and touring the world if I haven’t learned anything by now there’s something wrong, so it’s nice to work with up and coming artists along with already established artists. It’s nice to put my ideas and influences across. When you gel with someone it’s really satisfying, it feels like your keeping yourself contemporary at the same time. Music moves so quickly these days, there is no life to it at all, it’s so disposable, and you’ve got to keep moving with it. It’s nice to filter through your influences while learning from other artists."

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗢𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧?
📢 "The last good rock album was Royal Blood, I thought that sounded amazing, and a recent discovery is a band called LA Girls, I have heard a few tracks from them on 6 Music and they sound amazing, they are out there and quite spacey."

𝗦𝗢 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗡?
📢 "We are going to be touring at the end of November; I have just got the band together with some top-class musicians who are great friends as well. I am really looking forward to taking the album out with a great bunch of lads who can really play. We are going to rehearse for the next few months and go out in November and start touring, we will be doing Europe than London, hopefully over to Ireland and then America in January-February."
(XS Noize, October 2015)

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Love Amongst Ruin - Steve Hewitt - Vienna - Austria 01/12/15

Love Amongst Ruin (Steve Hewitt) gave a performance  at the Viper Room in Vienna on the 1st of December.

The Setlist was quiete short (12 songs), amongst others they played their first single "So sade (fade)". 

Although there were less people than I expected it was a really good atmosphere. 

After the concert Steve Hewitt and the other current band members (Donald Ross Skinner and Perry Bamonte who played with The Cure for 15 years) took the time to talk to their fans. 

They signed aplenty of CDs, and a lot of pictures were taken. 

Finally Steve had a drink with us at the bar. It was a great experience!

Concert review by Silke Mitteregger - Vienna - Austria 

1st of December 2015 

Photos: Silke Mittereger
Layout. Susie Bosco - Placebo Anyway

Info: LAR  & Steve Hewitt Official