Steve's Journal

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 12:46 am

Here it is

http://www.stevenieve.com/journal.html

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:15 am

Steve has posted new stuff this (Sun. July 13th) morning.

JOURNAL

Elvis Costello and the Imposters Tour, July 2003

Updated from time to time, kept deliberately sparse, as there's more to life than internet.

Tuesday, July 1, 2003 Toronto CA

7.30 am Chateaudun to Toronto via Paris, reheasal by day, jetlag by night.

http://www.wallacestudios.com

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Toronto CA

Awful odour of rotten fish on the airplane. Expecting many disasters. But the music felt as if we'd been on the road one month all ready. Strange.

http://www.hummingbirdcentre.com/indexf.htm

Thursday, July 3, 2003 Montreal CA

Same festival I played with Vanessa Paradis. Afternoon at Steve's Music trying out keyboards. (Thanks guys).

http://www.stevesmusic.com
The song 'North' made it's debut appearance.

Friday, July 4, 2003 Off

Ducks waddling around the Breakfast room. City congestion, slow to move anywhere. In the evening, Lee Konitz and the Spring Quartet, playing arrangements of 20th Century French Composers, and Konitz compositions, which stood out.

http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/fijm200 ... e%20konitz
Dinner at Milo's, excellent fish. Midday drive tomorrow

Saturday, July 5, 2003 Ottawa CA

Beautiful city, reminiscent of Edinburgh. Open air fest, wet clothes, off stage into cold air conditioned 4 X 4, Early departure tomorrow

http://www.ottawa-bluesfest.ca/index-en.html

Sunday, July 6, 2003 Chicago IL

Uncomfortable mini jet. Afternoon, short set, in the park. Hot and clammy weather. Hired band equipment. Elvis enjoyed quoting from older songs and the huge crowd warmed. Girls in bikinis. Torrential thunder storm five minutes after we left the stage. The beat of Uncomplicated must be a rain dance. Still the jet lag, asleep at 20.00 hours. Early start tomorrow.

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/SpecialEvents/F ... e2003.html

Monday, July 7, 2003 Vienna VA

A rather tiring day, very early morning flight, delays due to bad weather. Sitting on the runway for an hour or so. Then, to make matters worse, the drivers at the Washington end took a wrong turn and the thirty minute drive to the hotel became an hour or so. Just the thing before playing a set at the sweltering, humid, Wolftrap.

http://www.wolf-trap.org/

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 Off

Pete and Davey spent a couple of hours in a local studio laying down a backing track for my next Zomba/Silvertone album. The studio was relaxed and effecient. My brief, in a word,"Slipknot"...

http://www.biasrecording.com

Wednesday, July 9, 2003 Philadelphia PA

DVD burner.

Thursday, July 10, 2003 Off

Afternoon and evening at Nola studios, recording piano for the "Windows" project I plan to release independantly later this year. Bill Moss, the in house engineer, knows how to keep the technical fuss in the background, allowing you to concentrate on the music. The Nola Steinway piano once belonged to Irving Berlin.

http://www.steinway.com/steinway/artist ... tals.shtml

Friday, July 11, 2003 New York NY

First thing in the morning, downtown to Marc Ribot's apartment. A guitar overdub on a song I began recording in Paris just before the tour. Marc is off to France to play the Vienne Jazz Festival. A couple of years back I saw Carla Bley's "Escalator Over the Hill" at Vienne. Muriel's family live closeby in Lyon.The rain came out of nowhere and the Central Park crowd got soaked , just before I arrived. Nevertheless E.C. did a fine job of drying everyone out, with a chalerous and energetic set. Davey and I walked back to the hotel amongst the fans, and only one or two noticed us..

http://www.nyctourist.com/central_park1.htm

Saturday, July 12, 2003 Boston MA

Strange to think that someone I had lunch with yesterday in NYC is having lunch today in Lyon with my 'brother in law'. Seems the French Musicians Strike didn't stop play for Ribot. Our bags are traveling by road while we get alittle more easilly through the airport security checks. The longest part of the shuttle flight to Boston was once again spent taxi-ing on the runway waiting for permission to take off.

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 10:41 am

haha.. there's a Steve's Music here in Toronto, but I guess he was at the one in Montreal. Buncha pricks, they are.. but would have been cool to go to a music shop and see Steve trying out keyboard.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:16 pm

Steve posted this rather interesting message on his message board today, Saturday.
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I'm putting a couple of tracks up from the "Windows" album, I plan to release shortly. Find them on the MP3 page. This is a Cd of music and photographs. The photos are digital snapshots of almost every window I've encountered over the last 3 years. I'm not sure yet how many windows will fit on the CD, but they make excellent desktop pictures. I've also recorded the sound from the window(s) and mixed this into the music. I'm recording on the road, in various studios, on the days off, and hope to have the album ready for the end of September

The link to the mp3 page is http://www.stevenieve.com/mp3.html

http://pub8.bravenet.com/forum/7890d98b ... &page=show
The password is password

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:22 am

there are journal updates!

July 13-20 are up.

i think i'm a freak. it makes me giddy to read this stuff.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:52 pm

Updates!

Pov · Post by **Pov** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:29 am

What's the password?

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:55 am

chronicle for his journal, password for his message board

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:51 pm

thankyou very much. I somehow figured out the board one myself... then saw it was posted on here.