Steve Roberts

Steve Roberts has been involved in music for more years than he can remember… As the singer and songwriter with Liverpool’s 16 Tambourines he signed a major record deal with Arista/BMG and toured and recorded throughout Europe in the late 80s and early 90s grazing the lower reaches of the uk charts and securing a reputation as a songwriter of some renown.

Steve deals with the big themes and the very little; war, love, cafes, bars, trouser style and more, all of it set to a tune you can whistle and often a beat you can dance to. “I don’t consider myself a musician” he says, “all I ever want to do with an instrument is write a song with it, I’m not your triplets and scales type of person”. That said, his songs aren’t your run of the mill rock and roll turn arounds; “I love the song writing of Ray Davies and Andy Partridge, the twists and turns of it but I like to mix it with a bit of, say, Stevie Wonder’s heartache and joy. I suppose I’m still mostly influenced by the sounds I heard growing up”. His discography is testament to that, moving through blue eyed soul, 12 string chiming stompers to reflective acoustic singer-songwriter songs.