Seasick Steve • Non-Gaming • Music • Eurogamer.net

PhoenixFlames 18 Oct 2009 10:29:48 9,263 posts
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I like this guy Seasick Steve

You can get 3 free songs if you enter your details on the website.

He was just on Something for the Weekend (BBC 2).

EddieBear 18 Oct 2009 11:27:14 560 posts
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He's good fun live, worth checking out. In fact, think he's touring at the minute.

JuanKerr 18 Oct 2009 11:29:45 37,710 posts
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I saw him at the Latitude Festival last year and he really was great fun to watch. He seems as amazed as everyone about how successful he's become.

warlockuk 18 Oct 2009 11:33:16 19,519 posts
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He's awesome! I'd lend him a dollar

President_Weasel 18 Oct 2009 11:33:56 12,355 posts
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There's currently a later with Jools Holland on the iplayer with him on it. Only one song but it's a belter, he's playing a one-string instrument and getting a great sound out of it.

Deleted user 18 October 2009 11:54:00

Saw him on Jules Holland a few years back. He only had this mini banjo thing and a foot tapping beat box. He was all kinds of awesome.

smoothpete 30 Sep 2016 08:18:47 37,743 posts
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Turns out he made it up!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/29/seasick-steve-session-musician-ramblin-man-book?CMP=share_btn_fb

Love it. Jules Holland must be fuming

nickthegun 30 Sep 2016 08:30:34 87,711 posts
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The big takeaway from that is that he plays on the main sample used on the theme from s'express. That's genuinely amazing!

Deleted user 30 September 2016 08:47:48

Except he didn't according to the article, he played on the album the track which the sample was taken from, but not the track.

Seasick Steve Inception

neilka 30 Sep 2016 09:41:43 24,021 posts
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NO BUM* STUFF

*like a tramp

Dougs 30 Sep 2016 09:49:41 100,414 posts
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Haha, that's brilliant. Personally, I don't care - seen him live and he was awesome. He told some great stories too, most of which seemed quite fanciful (including queuing up to see the first Nirvana gig - a nice segue into how he knows Dave Grohl, who was playing after him). But I'm not sure it really matters all that much - no Blues guitarists and song-writers these days are speaking from personal experience like the old un's.

simpleexplodingmaybe 30 Sep 2016 10:03:09 19,992 posts
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I thought it was already out there that he'd done some session and engineering work.

Does it matter a lot if he's as good at what he does as he is?

It's not like Kiss were actual spacemen and monsters but I dig them.

DUFFMAN5 30 Sep 2016 10:32:04 26,890 posts
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Great artist

Deleted user 30 September 2016 10:40:48

I look forward to the inevitable the Great Hobo Hoax documentary.

If it is a lie fair play to him for maintaining the act for so long. It must take total dedication to live the lie that you are southern vagabond in the age of social media.

Deleted user 30 September 2016 16:31:57

I'm suprised that the act didn't slip earlier. To be able to weave a mythology like that is pretty impressive, good acting and control of information.

I'd half assumed that there stories he told were exaggerations at the least, so I'm not surprised. I don't think it matters too much.

Deleted user 30 September 2016 16:47:29

If he was so famous how come his guitar was shit

Decks 30 Sep 2016 17:06:03 31,013 posts
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I heard he doesn't even get seasick.

Load_2.0 30 Sep 2016 18:08:06 33,582 posts
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I heard he raped other tramps.

Deleted user 30 September 2016 18:16:57

Seasick Stefansen

Deleted user 30 September 2016 18:17:54

IT ALL BECOMES CLEAR

greg_wha 30 Sep 2016 18:29:28 1,392 posts
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Woah, this is heartbreaking. I thought he was real, you know? I'm crushed.
Nah, seriously this really doesn't matter. He's not Dylan, or anything.

neilka 30 Sep 2016 18:37:37 24,021 posts
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I suspect that Stefansenville doesn't have any homeless people, but does have suspiciously cheap meat in the supermarkets.

challenge_hanukkah 30 Sep 2016 18:41:48 14,394 posts
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Soylent Steve.

elstoof 30 Sep 2016 18:59:30 28,125 posts
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What songs did he do

challenge_hanukkah 30 Sep 2016 19:04:47 14,394 posts
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Mostly Skrewdriver covers.

Trowel 30 Sep 2016 19:25:22 24,512 posts
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Says more about the state of music journalism. Good on him.

elstoof 30 Sep 2016 19:57:27 28,125 posts
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Music journalists need to remember that they signed up to a code, a strict duty of care to stop this kind of thing ever happening again

Dougs 30 Sep 2016 20:00:34 100,414 posts
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It's about ethics in music journalism

neilka 30 Sep 2016 20:08:46 24,021 posts
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Apparently Seal has already gone into hiding.

Jeepers 30 Sep 2016 20:17:33 16,616 posts
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The Pet Shop Boys are shitting it.