SEASICK STEVE BRAVES THE OCEAN TO COME PLAY HUGE UK TOUR!

• 10th Sep 2007

Steve Wold is called Seasick Steve because he gets, erm, Seasick!After leaving home at the age of 14, he became a genuine hobo (hopping freights, working the farms, getting locked up and such ) in the 1950's and 1960's – but always dragging along his 100-year old guitar with him, playing on street corners to earn enough to eat. This era is the inspiration behind the music he plays today, and boy does he have an arsenal of tales to tell! Having just played the Connect Festival and Bestival to huge and seriously wowed crowds Seasick has announced a monster UK tour throughout September/October/November and December. You simply cannot miss him; Steve won the MOJO Breakthrough Artist category at the 2007 MOJO Honours awards. He recorded new album 'Dog House Music' in his kitchen, and in teaming up with Bronzerat Records in the UK it is fast becoming a hit record with universal critical acclaim and already lodging itself in the Top Ten Independent Charts.

Sep 16th: End of the Road Festival
Sep 18th: Dublin Spiegeltent
Sep 21st: Pilton, Somerset w/Massive Attack
Sep 30th: Belfast Open House
Oct 15th: Glasgow Classic Grand
Oct 16th: Manchester Academy 2
Oct 19th: Oxford Carling Academy
Oct 21st: Sheffield Plug
Oct 24th: Birmingham Carling Academy 2
Oct 26th: Bristol Anson Rooms
Oct 29th: London Scala
Oct 30th: London Scala
Nov 12th: Leeds Cockpit
Nov 13th: Liverpool Academy
Dec 8th: All Tomorrows Parties, Minehead
Jan 24th: London Astoria

Seasick Steve (pictured at Connect Festival during his inspiring set) started to get asked to perform in and around his native Bay area of Cali, and opened for Son House amongst other blues giants, and actually played in Lightnin' Hopkins' and John Lee Hookers bands. He went on to play with all sorts of weird and wonderful people, but you would really have to want to know to find out who. Around this time he started to build up his stock of classic analogue recording equipment, including an original mixing console from the legendary Stax studios in Memphis.

In the 90's he put this equipment to infamous use when he set up Moon
Studios in Olympia, WA (Kurt Cobain lived upstairs!). He made records with the likes of Bikini Kill, Murder City Devils, Modest Mouse and was actually a member of Modest Mouse's touring band early on.

He moved his studio and family to Norway in 2001 (his wife being Norwegian) and united with the Level Devils, returning to his his first love – THE BLUES! They recorded an album “Cheap”, released on Steve's own label There's A Dead Skunk Records. A series of fuck-ups led Steve to losing his studio and suffering a heart attack in the process. After a recovery period, he picked up where he left off – this time as a one-man-show in case the collaboration with the talented/insane/hilarious/wonderful Level Devils killed him!

The man is a genius, his live shows are “life-changing” and Seasick Steve is here to stay.