Steve Thompson

I’ve finished writing all the songs for Jobling The Musical and Lee Morris is busy arranging them for the Westoe Brass Band. The show will take place at The Word, South Shields, June 24th. To whet your appetite I thought I’d share the demo for one of the songs here. (Health warning: my own vocals … Read more

Back in October 2011, I set up a website to assist with the production of a community play. The play was “The Bonny Moorhen”  which told the story of the “Battle of Stanhope” that took place in 1818 (remember that number). The play was to take place in a converted barn on March 22nd, 2012 … Read more

‘Down to the River’ premiered at the National Centre for Spoken Word in January 2017. Now you can enjoy it here https://steve-thompson.org.uk/dttr/ by clicking through the numbered tabs at the top. The exhibition takes as its source the poem, ‘Geordie,’ which features in Tom Kelly’s poetry collection ‘Dreamers in a Cold Climate’ (Red Squirrel Press). … Read more

We released the Mayor of Redcar & Cleveland’s CD this week. The launch went great and it’s a terrific version of my 1982 hit “Hurry Home”. After the day was done was somewhat exhausted. Many people worked on this recording with me but it fell to me to produce it, develop the artwork, make the … Read more

Time to hit the ground running for 2017. There should be another outing for the “Steve Thompson Songwriter” show early April. More on that when we have it. I’ll also be taking the show around as a one-man talk with Multi Media and the first of those is in March for Loftus Tradesmen’s Reform Club. … Read more

It’s that time of year so here’s a review in pictures of the past year of the Steve Thompson Band. See you in 2017