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PLAY STEAFÁN HANVEY
STEAFÁN HANVEY - "ROOMS"
SEE STEAFÁN HANVEY WEBSITE
WWW.STEAFANHANVEY.COM
SEE STEAFÁN HANVEY AT NEMO
Saturday 1st October
The Burren
247 Elm Street, Davis Square
Somerville MA 02144
Phone: (617) 776-6896
Fax: (617) 776-3466
CONTACT STEAFÁN HANVEY
THE BAND CAN BE CONTACTED VIA STEAFANH@YAHOO.COM
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STEAFÁN HANVEY, ORIGINALLY HAILS FROM DOWNPATRICK, CO.DOWN, IN NORTHERN IRELAND. IN FEBRUARY HE RETURNED FROM HIS OLD STOMPING GROUND OF HELSINKI, FINLAND, WHERE HE GOT BUSY PROMOTING THE RELEASE OF HIS DEBUT ALBUM ENTITLED "STEAFÁN HANVEY AND THE HONEYMOON JUNKIES". HAVING SPENT SEVERAL YEARS UP IN THE NORDIC HINTERLAND (1995-2002), HE FELT IT ONLY FITTING TO GIVE HIS NEW MATERIAL ITS FIRST OUTING THERE, WHERE HE WAS JOINED ON STAGE BY THE FINNISH BAND. FINLAND'S EQUIVALENT TO NME, "RUMBA", GAVE HISALBUM 4/5****.
WHEN LIVING IN HELSINKI, HE WAS FORTUNATE TO HAVE WORKED WITH ONE OF FINLAND'S BEST PRODUCERS, JANNE VIKSTEN, WITH WHOM HE RECORDED HIS MINI-ALBUM ENTITLED "SOLE", (2000-1) WHICH WAS MET WITH WIDESPREAD
CRITICAL ACCLAIM BOTH IN FINLAND AND IRELAND.
STEAFÁN IS NOW LIVES IN DUBLIN'S FAIR CITY. IN BETWEEN RECORDING SESSIONS FOR THEIR KARMA CALLING ALBUM, HIS OLD BAND MATES KEN & CARL PAPENFUS FROM RELISH TOOK TIME OUT TO LAY DOWN THE DRUMS AND LEAD GUITAR, AS DID MEMBERS OF THE VAN MORRISON BAND, GEROME RIMSON AND
DICK FARRELLY-BASS AND PIANO/HAMMOND/RHODES RESPECTIVELY. KIERAN LYNCH, WHO RECENTLY WRAPPED UP U2'S "HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB" AND WHO
CO-PRODUCED ELVIS COSTELLO'S "WHEN YOU WERE CRUEL", WAS CHOSEN TO MIX THE RECORD.
SINCE MOVING BACK TO IRELAND, STEAFÁN HAS OPENED UP FOR THE LIKES OF JOHN SPILLANE, DAMIEN DEMPSEY, HUGH CORNWALL (THE STANGLERS) THE WALLS, RELISH, THE DEVLINS, THE 4 OF US, THE HOTHOUSE FLOWERS AND HAS BEEN INVITED TO GO ON A WHISTLE-STOP TOUR OF IRELAND WITH LIAM O'MOINALI ON 7 DATES OF HIS IRISH TOUR IN MAY.
AFTER RECORDING THE ALBUM IN IRELAND, HE THEN WENT BACK TO HIS ERSTWHILE-ADOPTED HOME OF HELSINKI, TO LAY DOWN "THE VERY FINNISH SOUNDING STRINGS". IN AUGUST, STEAFÁN WILL MAKE AN APPEARANCE ON IRISH NATIONAL TELEVISION TO PROMOTE HIS DEBUT ALBUM. THE ALBUM GETS ITS NATIONAL RELEASE IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR.
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