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Steph Jones

Steph began writing at the age of three and soon really got to grasps with her curly Cs and kicking Ks. As a lonely only child she was often found in her room recording make-believe radio shows and interviewing her cuddly toys. She still quite likes to do this on a Friday night after a bottle of wine.

Her background is in music and radio, acquiring a first class honours degree in music production- subsequently working for the BBC, Galaxy and XFM, and having her own shows on Shock FM, Manchester Radio Online and 106.6fm. Steph is the lead singer in alternative band Strange Gifts and is borderline obsessed by David Bowie and Kurt Cobain. She was once offered a 12-month intern in A&R at Sony but had to turn it down because she was skint. She doesn't regret this though as it probably saved her from a lifetime of cocaine addiction and ill-considered asymmetric haircuts.

Steph is also a fully-qualified psychotherapist and will likely analyse the shit out of you when interviewing your band.

tramp hair boutique

10/08/2017 By Steph Jones

tramp hair boutique

    As I sit in the passenger’s seat of my editor’s car, we chat about my forthcoming work. “So, I’m doing a few album reviews, covering Rodrigo and Gabriela, we’ve got Mark Guiliana from Blackstar being interviewed for the [...Read More]

Rodrigo Y Gabriela – The Albert Hall, Manchester

10/08/2017 By Steph Jones

Rodrigo Y Gabriela – The Albert Hall, Manchester

The Albert Hall, Manchester 13/07/2017 In a harder, better, faster, stronger world punctuated by synthetic musical bleeps and bloops, the acoustic guitar seems to have lost its cool. Down on the Delta in the mid-1930s as legend would have it, [...Read More]

Beatherder (Preview)

10/07/2017 By Steph Jones

Beatherder (Preview)

14th-16th July This weekend I shall be attending my first ever Beat-Herder festival. I’ve known of this intimate rural gathering since it’s inception in 2006 but have always teetered on the edge of “maaaybe”, despite having a consistently impressive line-up [...Read More]

The Fame Machine (and how it destroyed itself)

10/07/2017 By Steph Jones

The Fame Machine (and how it destroyed itself)

Today is deadline day at the busy Sounds’ office. Everyone is slightly huffy and crazed by caffeine as paper mountains throw themselves off desks in an attempt to get to the finish line by the witching hour. It’s precisely at [...Read More]

No Komodo

10/05/2017 By Steph Jones

No Komodo

Zombie Shack, Manchester 28/04/2017 No Komodo are a decent little high-octane four piece held together with some exceptional drumming by Andy Walsh who would give Queens of the Stoneage a good run for their money. Tonight we’re at Zombie Shack [...Read More]

The worst crime is faking it

10/04/2017 By Steph Jones

The worst crime is faking it

  If you were the kind of person to be interested in all things magical, mystical and occultish, you might recognise the power significance of the number 23. On April 5th (we presume) twenty-three years ago, Kurt Donald Cobain lead [...Read More]

Chuck Berry’s School Day

10/04/2017 By Steph Jones

Chuck Berry’s School Day

Last month we bid a fond farewell to Mr Charles Edward Anderson (that’s Chuck Berry to you and me) who was finally granted his one-way ticket to Valhalla at the grand old age of 90. Although rock ‘n’ roll might [...Read More]

James M Carson – Night & Day

10/04/2017 By Steph Jones

James M Carson – Night & Day

22/03/17 When Justin Nathan Barber broke my little heart in my early twenties, I didn’t take it too well. I have foggy memories of turning up at his parents’ house at 4am, fuelled by strong continental lager, and climbing up [...Read More]

Jesca Hoop

10/04/2017 By Steph Jones

Jesca Hoop

This evening I got to witness something rather breathtakingly magical in the tiny (yet mightily impressive) form of Ms Jesca Hoop – a California born singer-songwriter residing in drizzy Manchester after being lured here by the touring manager of Elbow. [...Read More]

ELVANA

20/03/2017 By Steph Jones

ELVANA

Ruby Lounge 25/02/17 This week would’ve been Kurt Cobain’s fiftieth birthday. When he voluntarily checked out of this plane back in 1994 (depending on what you read), I wasn’t vaguely interested in grunge. In fact, I was more interested in [...Read More]

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