Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey
Background information
Birth name Steven John Kilbey
Born (1954-09-13) 13 September 1954 (age 57)
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Origin Canberra, ACT, Australia
Genres Alternative rock, Post-punk, Dream pop
Occupations Singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, music producer, poet, painter
Instruments Bass guitar
Years active 1971–present
Labels Enigma, Rykodisc, Rough Trade, Vicious Sloth
Associated acts The Church
Jack Frost
Isidore
Website https://thetimebeing.com

Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954, Welwyn Garden City, England) is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter.[1]

Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a five piece "cabaret band" called 'Saga' in Canberra, Australia. He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey followed up with another band, Baby Grande, around 1978 while he lived in Canberra. Soon after, he formed The Church along with Koppes, Nick Ward, and Marty Willson-Piper.[1] After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when "Under the Milky Way" (from their 1988 album Starfish) became a hit.

Kilbey has released six solo music albums and collaboratively written and/or produced recordings with the late Grant McLennan (of The Go-Betweens), Stephen Cummings, and Kev Carmody. Earthed, a book of fiction, was published in 1986, in conjunction with an album of the same name of instrumental electronic music. His book of poetry, Nineveh/The Ephemeron, was released in 1998 and was later republished.

Kilbey lives in Bondi, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three of his five children.[2] His children include the twins Elektra June Jansson-Kilbey and Anna Miranda Jansson-Kilbey (whose mother is Karin Jansson) and Eve and Aurora (with Natalie). His brothers, Russell Kilbey and John Kilbey, have also led successful Australian bands.[1]

No Certainty Attached, a biography of Kilbey by Robert Dean Lurie, was released in June 2009 by Verse Chorus Press. Also in June 2009, an album with Martin Kennedy (from All India Radio) called Unseen Music, Unheard Words was released. Kilbey's first solo record in eight years, entitled Painkiller was released in North America on Second Motion Records in early 2009.

Steve Kilbey of The Church - California, 1986

Contents

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

  • Unearthed (1986)
  • Earthed (1987)
  • The Slow Crack (1989)
  • Remindlessness (1990)
  • Narcosis EP (1991)
  • Narcosis + (1997)
  • Dabble (2001)
  • Painkiller (2008)

[3]

Collections [link]

  • Acoustic & Intimate (2000)
  • Freaky Conclusions (2003)
  • Artifacts (2006)
  • The Bedroom Demos (2010) - mp3 collection given away with the "Monsters n Mirages" box set.

Collaborations [link]

Hex (with ex-Game Theory's Donnette Thayer)

  • Hex (1989)
  • Vast Halos (1990)

Curious (Yellow) (with Karin Jansson)

  • Taken By Surprise (1990)
  • Charms and Blues (1990)
  • Love Itself (1991) - Single.

Jack Frost (with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens):

  • Jack Frost (1991)
  • Snow Job (1996)

Fake (with Sandy Chick):

  • Fake (1994)

Into The Sun (with Penny Flanagan)

  • Light Sleeper (1998)

Isidore (with Remy Zero's Jeffrey Cain)

  • Isidore (2004)
  • Life Somewhere Else (2012)

Gilt Trip (with his brother Russell Kilbey)

  • Gilt Trip (1997)
  • Egyptian Register (2005)

Mimesis (with Simon Polinski)

  • Art Imitating Life (2007)

"Hear In Noiseville" single with Pocket:

  • Hear In Noiseville (2009)

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy

  • Unseen Music, Unheard Words (2009)
  • White Magic (2011)

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy Collections

  • Instrumental & Ambient Mixes (2009)
  • Live at the Toff in Town (2010) - mp3 only release.

"Damage/Controlled" with GB3:

  • Damage/Controlled (2010)

David Neil (Steve Kilbey and Ricky Maymi)

  • The Wilderness Years (2011)

Bibliography [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ a b c :: thechurchband.com :: the church - official web site ::
  2. ^ The Time Being
  3. ^ Steve Kilbey : Discography : Rolling Stone

External links [link]

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The Church
Studio albums
Extended plays
Compilations
  • Conception
  • Remote Luxury
  • Hindsight
  • Almost Yesterday
  • Under the Milky Way: The Best of the Church
  • The Best of the Church
  • Singsongs//Remote Luxury//Persia
  • Deep in the Shallows: The Classic Singles Collection
Remixes and outtakes
Singles
  • "She Never Said"
  • "The Unguarded Moment"
  • "Too Fast for You"
  • "Tear It All Away"
  • "Almost with You"
  • "When You Were Mine"
  • "I Am a Rock" / "A Different Man"
  • "It's No Reason
  • "Electric Lash"
  • "Already Yesterday"
  • "Tantalized"
  • "Columbus"
  • "Disenchanted"
  • "Under the Milky Way"
  • "Reptile"
  • "Antenna"
  • "Destination"
  • "Metropolis"
  • "Russian Autumn Heart"
  • You're Still Beautiful"
  • "Ripple"
  • "Feel"
  • "Two Places At Once"
  • "Comedown"
  • "White Star Line" / "Gypsy Stomp"
  • "Louisiana"
  • "Numbers"
  • "Song in Space"
  • "Block"
  • "Easy"
  • "The Coffee Song" / "Hounds of Love"
  • "Pangaea"
  • "Operetta"
  • "Deadman's Hand"
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Podcasts:

Steve Kilbey

ALBUMS

Garage Sutra

Released 2012

David Neil “The Wilderness Years”

Released 2011

Damaged/Controlled

Released 2010

Painkiller

Released 2008

Unearthed

Released 2005

Narcosis + More

Released 2004

Dabble

Released 2001

Acoustic & Intimate

Released 2000

Narcosis +

Released 1997

Gilt Trip

Released 1997

Remindlessness

Released 1990

The Slow Crack

Released 1989

Earthed

Released 1988
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PLAYLIST TIME:

She Counts Up The Days

by: Steve Kilbey

At the heart of her outrage
There lies a veil of tears
Stories of lost times
She'll spread among the fields
And we touched the land
Of weeds where nothing grows
And she watched my eyes
And she knows
She says love will never stay
She looked upon our years
She counted up our days
Watched the sky last night
Though the topics were aligned
My vision was obscured
By the things I couldn't find
And we touched the land
A land of weeds where nothing grows
And she watched my eyes
And she knows
She says love will never stay
And she looked upon our years
And she counted up our days
And we touched the land
A land of weeds where nothing grows
And she watched my eyes
And she knows
She says, she says that love will never stay
She looked upon our years
And she counted up our days
She says love will never stay
And she looked upon our years
And she counted up our days
It's so irregular




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