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Martin Stephenson & The Daintees set to play Brighton gig

by Nick Linazasoro
Thursday 23 Sep, 2021 at 9:17AM
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Martin Stephenson & The Daintees set to play Brighton gig

Martin Stephenson is heading to Brighton

Martin Stephenson is heading to Brighton

‘I Cried For You’ is the brand new single from Martin Stephenson and The Daintees. The single is taken from the new album ‘Howdy Honcho’ and is available now via Martin’s Bandcamp page, you can hear the single HERE.

Martin Stephenson & The Daintees have announced nine autumn shows which includes an appearance at Patterns on 3rd October 2021. Purchase your tickets HERE.

Tour dates:
Oct 2 – London : 100 Club
Oct 3 – Brighton : Patterns
Oct 13 – Birmingham : Hare & Hounds
Oct 15 – Glasgow : Oran Mor
Oct 16 – Edinburgh : Voodoo Rooms
Nov 11 – Wardrobe : Leeds
Nov 18 – Sheffield : Crookes Social Club
Nov 19 – Chorlton : St Clements Church
Nov 20 – Gateshead : The Sage

Patterns will host the concert (pic Nick Linazasoro)

Inspired by early Cure and the Brighton scene, Martin began his career as a busker aged 15. He then spent three years plying his trade as the guitar player in various bands in the North East of England .

But Martin wanted more, he wanted to tell stories of his own and he was quickly developing ways of doing just that.

He developed his song-writing technique by firstly learning a few licks from a Spanish guitar book and repeated the process with Jazz, Blues, Country, Skiffle, Reggae etc.
Eventually, this glorious collision of styles would become the trademark which Martin has carried through his career of almost 40 years.

Martin formed his band The Daintees, who became a busking sensation and were signed by Kitchenware at around the same time as Prefab Sprout and Hurrah! The band and indeed Martin have always been known for their incredible range of styles, each album covering a multitude of genres, tempos and moods.

In the early days of The Daintees, the band toured with the likes of Aztec Camera and The Bluebells. In 1985 , they became Roy Buchannan’s backing band on a month-long tour of Europe and the following year joined John Martyn on his ‘Piece by Piece’ tour. As a solo artist, Martin also toured around this time with such artists as Hothouse flowers and Janice Ian.

The Daintees released four albums between 1986 and 1992:

‘Boat To Bolivia’

‘Boat To Bolivia’
Produced by Gil Norton (Pixies/Gomez/James)
In a review of Bolivia at the time , the NME said “it builds bridges between love and hate, between cradle and grave, between folk and pop, between past and present.” Includes ‘Rain’, ‘Crocodile Cryer’ and ‘Running Water’.

‘Gladsome Humour And Blue’

‘Gladsome Humour And Blue’
Produced by Paul Samwell Smith (Cat Stevens, All About Eve, Carly Simon) includes the hit ‘Wholly Humble Heart’, ‘Nancy’ and ‘There Comes A Time’.

‘Salutation Road’

‘Salutation Road’
Produced by Pete Andersosn (Dwight Yoakam, Michelle Shocked) includes ‘Morning Time’, and ‘Left Us To Burn’.

‘The Boys Heart’

‘The Boys Heart’
Produced by Lenny Kaye (Suzanne Vega, James) Includes ‘Big Sky New Light’ and ‘We Can Roll’.

Disenchanted at the way the industry was moving and following the band’s break up shortly after ‘The Boys Heart’ , Martin distanced himself from the mainstream music industry and relocated to the Scottish highlands in order to recharge and re-evaluate.

Then followed a number of years in which Martin supported himself through a combination of extensive live work and a multitude of self financed solo albums. 2000 saw the reformation of the Daintees, to this day Martin splits his time between solo and small collaborative projects with band albums and annual celebratory Daintees UK tours.

A few years ago, Martin fought and won a battle to take back control of his catalogue and now owns all the copyright to his vast back catalogue, including the songs on the first four major Daintees albums .

Back in the day!

In 2014, Nutella licenced Martin’s song ‘Morning Time’ from ‘Salutation Road’ as part of a successful TV campaign in Australia . The money this sync generated for both Martin and EMI, prompted the latter to refuse to relinquish recording rights back to Martin. Given that EMI had done nothing to promote Martin and his music for many years, Martin decided to re-record the first four major Daintees albums, in order to take back some control in this regard too……. And what stunning results ensued . It’s taken a while but all four have now been rerecorded to an extremely high standard, using mainly original Daintees members and it has to be said, in all cases actually improving on the original versions.

Daintees albums and solo recordings alike are met with eager anticipation by Martin’s loyal fanbase, who often pre-order projects ahead even of their recording to ensure they see the light of day.

In 2019, Billy Connolly paid a visit to Martin’s home which was filmed as part of ‘Billy’s Made in Scotland’ BBC TV programme, in which, Connolly warmly described Martin as his kind of musician and songwriter and the song ‘Rain’ from ‘Boat To Bolivia’ was heavily featured .

Martin has hundreds of songs which are crying out to be used in tv and film projects, he is a truly independent artist free of any ties or management which makes dealing with him both enjoyable and straightforward.

The range of material is breath-taking, the best thing to do is see/hear for yourself :
daintees.bandcamp.com

www.daintees.co.uk

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