Daintees

Born in Durham, singer/songwriter Martin Stephenson is touring once more with his backing group the Daintees. He rose to prominence in the late ‘80’s after starting out aged 15 as a busker in Newcastle, now he is bringing his music…

Newsletter June 

Hello and welcome to June’s newsletter 

Lets hope the nice weather holds out, such a lift 

Boy’s Heart vinyl 

Finally the Boy’s Heart vinyl arrived, I dropped all copies off at the post office this afternoon after 3…

Hello and welcome to our April Newsletter 

Just a big thank you for all the support on the livestream concerts and recent releases, and thank you for your patience, Boys Heart vinyl which should be with us in another…

Hello and welcome to Feb 2021's Newsletter. 

I sure hope everyone is doing okay, it's been a tough old year and finally The Boy's Heart 30th Anniversary is complete and into production. It has been a fascinating journey time travelling…

Thats 9 mixes completed so far for our upcoming Boys Heart 30 anniversary album, it's sounding beautiful, excellent work by engineers John Martindale and Mark Lough, some awesome guitar by Gary Dunn, from late night New York jazz to full…

This stunning album was written and recorded by Anna Lavigne and Martin Stephenson. 
Anna originally worked closely  with Rick Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer touring the Young Ones in the U.K , she also worked alongside Marti Caine and…

Another lovely sketch by Pete Shields from yet another very small photo, 2" by 2" I guess

This pic ended up on the sleeve of a 12" single in the 80's (Crocodile Cryer)

My mother Frances born 24 October, 1933…

This is my uncle John George Stephenson, This fine boy never saw 17, he caught his arm climbing a fence and died of blood poisoning at home which took almost a year, if only they had simple penicillin back then…

Gladsome humour and blue (revisited) 

Was recorded in 1987 at Ridge Farm studios, Rusper in Surrey 

A wonderful studio, the engineer was Tony Phillips (All about Eve, Joni Mitchel) and producer Paul Samwell Smith ex bassist with the Yardbirds and…

This September I went down to Newcastle and record with the Dunn brothers at Blank Studios, we invited 20 yo drummer Charlies Smith to join us

Charlie is the grandson of our original drummer Paul Smith who played on the…