Some Faded

THE HISTORY OF STEGG

  The tale of Stegg began long ago, far back in the mist of ancient time: 1996 to be precise.  It was in September 1996 that vocalist/guitarist Don Newholm met bassist Dave Moore and drummer Ben Sleeman.  After foolishly deciding to form a punk band for no particular reason, they chose the name Stegg as a shortening of Stegosaurus, in reference to singer Don’s long dead Mohawk haircut.  They spelt it wrong on purpose because they thought they were being cool, and then sat down to write some songs.  Some were good and some were bad, none of them were played very well, and it was soon that Stegg were performing in inappropriate places such as the Rock Garden and legendary blues venue, the 12 Bar Club.  After a few of these questionable events, they decided to take a year or so to completely change their style, recruit a keyboard player (Don’s boyhood companion Chris McInnes) and become genuinely good at music.  Keeping the good songs and discarding the bad, and of course, writing some new ones, the sound of Stegg is now an eclectic blend of herbs and spices.  They have been described variously as “Syd Barrett and Ian Dury having sex with Brian Molko’s head” and “Sonic Youth meets the Beach Boys”.  They have played their instruments together in venues such as the King’s Head, the Dublin Castle, the Half Moon and the Camden Underworld.  Don has founded a small record label, Gourmet records, but has no money with which to actually use it in any way.  Stegg are currently unsigned, but are hoping to form an intimate bond with a recording contract as soon as possible, or at any rate, make some actual money.  Nevertheless, they have independently recorded their debut album “They Always Get You In The End” and are currently working on material for their second album, to be recorded later this year.  Stegg are all thoroughly nice, polite young men, aged between 20 and 25.