NEWS! The Sunshine EP - Japanese Release: Steve is releasing an EP in Japan on July 21st, it's called 'The Sunshine EP'. The 10 tracks are a mixture of new songs and special edition versions of album songs.
UPDATE! Have a look at Steve performing on GMTV HERE!
NEWS! 'City Won't Sleep' - the new single - download from 16th August 2009
NEWS! 'When the sun comes up' - THE ALBUM!!!! - release date 31st August 2009
NEWS! Freshman Endorsee Steve Appleton was recently filming the video for his new single "city won't sleep" with 24 Director Frank Borin! He must have impressed as now Steve has been offered a cameo in the hit TV show!!! Look out for Steve's new single which is set to be released on 27th July with the highly anticiated debut album following on 10th August!
Taking inspiration from classic Pop, Drum & Bass, Reggae and Funk, 19 year old Steve Appleton has an ear for a tune and an eye for an incredible live show. Steve is a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, who entirely on his own has written and produced his varied and mesmerising debut album.
From the age of just fifteen, Steve Appleton was tinkling the ivories in a swank Soho eatery and attempting to master the fine art of somehow being audible without ever being distracting. “I'd be banging on the piano like I was at a gig, and I was playing for four hours at a stretch so I had to entertain myself,” he laughs. “I ended up building quite an impressive repertoire of songs.”
Behind the scenes, and far away from the distant clatter of a restaurant kitchen, Steve was developing his own songs with some distinctive production sounds. “A lot of my mates are just into drum 'n' bass, or chilled guitar music, or hip hop,” Steve explains. “I love all of them – and I want to listen to all of them at once.” Which leads us to Steve's tracks like 'Dirty Funk', which really is an opportunity to listen to all of those styles at once: attention grabbing and charismatic pop which combines the melodic, feel good vibe of your favourite singer songwriter with frenetic drum 'n' bass and modern urban storytelling; it's like Jack Johnson produced by Pendulum by way of Mike Skinner.
One listen to Steve Appleton would dispel any notion that he is 'just another singer-songwriter'.. There is no one else who makes pop music quite like this.
Steve's debut single was released in April 2009 with his Debut album following August 09!
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