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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    All Power to the Bookshop, Steve's latest album, began as an Arts Council project about our relationship with books and reading. He explores how our memories, our hopes and dreams, our thoughts and emotional responses can be formed by the books we read and share. It’s an eclectic collection of songs that acts as propaganda for bookshops and reading.

    Wild and chaotic, capricious and frustrating, there are certain physical laws that govern secondhand bookshops and like gravity, they're pretty much nonnegotiable.
    Kathleen Tessaro

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Power to the Bookshop via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

There are books that fill a space
and look good on your bookcase
or on the coffee table placed so
people see them
And there are books with purple
prose, many spend their time
with those
I should buy some I suppose
then I could read them
But I’m a simple guy that’s no
word of a lie
I like bestsellers I read them
morning noon and night
On the commuter train, in bed
to ease my aching brain
I like bestsellers, I like a story to
unfold and maybe comfort me
and so I always choose to read
bestsellers
So when I’m on the beach or in
the bath I like to reach
For a story that’s a peach and I
want to lose myself in time
Take a break from my own mind
Leave my worries all behind, like
millions all do.
I’m a simple guy and this is how
I spend my time.

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from All Power to the Bookshop, released January 1, 2022

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Steve was/is the singer and songwriter with Liverpool’s 16 Tambourines who signed to BMG and toured and recorded throughout Europe in the late 80s and 90s.
He’s since recorded 3 solo albums and one with the band Captain Pop. He’s also written for TV and semi theatre pieces about the Cold War and Surveillance. He lives in the Peak District. ... more

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