Steve Kilbey

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Name = Steve Kilbey

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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Steven John Kilbey
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Born = 13 September 1954
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Origin = Welwyn Garden City, England
Instrument = Bass guitar
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Genre = Psychedelic rock
Occupation = Singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, music producer, poet, painter
Years_active = 1971 - present
Label = Enigma, Rykodisc, Rough Trade, Vicious Sloth
Associated_acts = The Church
Isidore
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Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954, Welwyn Garden City, England) is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. [ [http://www.thechurchband.com/bandmembers/stevekilbey/ :: thechurchband.com :: the church - official web site :: ] ]

Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a "cabaret band". He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey followed up with another band, Baby Grand, around 1978 while he lived in Canberra. Soon after, he formed The Church along with Koppes, Nick Ward, and Marty Willson-Piper. [ [http://www.thechurchband.com/bandmembers/stevekilbey/ :: thechurchband.com :: the church - official web site :: ] ] After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when Kilbey's song "Under the Milky Way" (from their 1988 album "Starfish") became a hit.

Kilbey has released six solo music albums and collaboratively written and/or produced recordings with the late Grant McLennan (of The Go-Betweens), Stephen Cummings, and Kev Carmody. "Earthed", a book of fiction, was published in 1986, in conjunction with an album of the same name of instrumental electronic music. His book of poetry, "Nineveh/The Ephemeron", was released in 1998 and was later republished.

Kilbey, a vegan for over three decades, lives in Bondi, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three of his five children. [ [http://stevekilbey.blogspot.com The Time Being ] ] His brothers, Russell Kilbey and John Kilbey, have also led successful Australian bands. [ [http://www.thechurchband.com/bandmembers/stevekilbey/ :: thechurchband.com :: the church - official web site :: ] ]

A biography of Steve Kilbey titled "No Certainty Attached" is due to be released in 2008 by Verse Chorus Press. Fact|date=August 2007

Discography

Albums

* "Unearthed" (1986)
* "Earthed" (1987)
* "The Slow Crack" (1989)
* "Remindlessness" (1990)
* "Narcosis" EP (1991)
* "Narcosis +" (1997)
* "Dabble" (2001)
* "Painkiller" (2008) [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/stevekilbey/discography Steve Kilbey : Discography : Rolling Stone ] ]

Collections

* "Acoustic & Intimate" (2000)
* "Freaky Conclusions" (2003)

Collaborations

Hex (with ex-Game Theory's Donnette Thayer)

*"Hex" (1989)
*"Vast Halos" (1990)

Curious (Yellow) (with Karin Jansson)

*"Taken By Surprise" (1990)
*"Charms and Blues" (1990)
*"Love Itself" (1990)

Jack Frost (with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens):

*"Jack Frost" (1991)
*"Snow Job" (1996)

Fake (with Sandy Chick):

*"Fake" (1994)

Into The Sun (with Penny Flanagan)

*"Light Sleeper" (1998)

Isidore (with Remy Zero's Jeffrey Cain)

*"Isidore" (2004)

Gilt Trip (with his brother Russell Kilbey)

*"Gilt Trip" (1997)
*"Egyptian Register" (2005)

Mimesis (with Simon Polinski)

*"Art Imitating Life" (2007)

Bibliography

* "Earthed, Nineveh, and The Ephemeron", 2004, Impressed Publishing, ISBN 978-0975161890

References

External links

* [http://www.stevekilbey.blogspot.com Kilbey's blog]
* [http://www.thechurchband.com/bandmembers/stevekilbey/ Kilbey's Biography on The Church's official website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452925/ IMDB entry]
* [http://www.stevekilbeyart.com/ Art gallery selling Kilbey's paintings and poster]
* [http://www.soundisidore.com/] Official website for Isidore
* [http://www.amplifiermagazine.com/artist_driven/11_questions/steve_kilbey_the_church.php Amplifier Magazine Interview]
* [http://www.stevekilbeydvd.com