Dave Steel

David Alexander John Steel is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He is a former member of folk rock group, Weddings Parties Anything (1985–88) and pop band, the Whipper Snappers (1990–91). Steel has released eleven solo studio albums, including one as leader of Dave Steel and the Roadside Prophets and two albums with folk singer, Tiffany Eckhardt. He has been nominated for three ARIA Music Awards.

Career 1976-1984: Early bands Early in his musical career Steel was a member of various Melbourne pub bands: Related Mechanics in 1976 with Iain Colquhoun, Peter Lillee, John Lloyd and Nick Reischbeth; Moonshine from 1976 to 1977, the Trouts in 1977 with Mark Bell, Stuart Crosby, Dave McNaughton and Rob Stevens; the Satellites from 1978 to 1981; Zeros in 1981; Strange Tennants in 1981 with Alex Formosa, Lawrence Maddy, Bruce Worrall; and Fire Below from 1984 to 1985.

Fire Below had a line-up of Steel with Lloyd Campbell on guitar, Nigel Harrison on drums and vocals, Michael Kennedy on bass guitar, and Peter Myers on guitar. Steel is recorded on their first two studio albums, Scorn of the Women (April 1987) and Roaring Days (April 1988).

Prior to their second album, Karen Middleton of The Canberra Times, described how the group, "[were] compared to Irish post-punk folk rockers the Pogues, the more mellow Bushwackers and even Redgum. Steel ignored such comparisons. 'It's a rock 'n roll band', he said." Steel wrote the Weddings Party Anything tracks, "Big River", "Shotgun Wedding" and "Up for Air". Steel left in mid-1988 because of strained relations; however, according to AllMusic's Aaron Badgley, it was, "due to exhaustion."

Steel's debut album, Bitter Street was produced by Graham Bidstrup and released in September 1989.

In 1991, Steel released his second solo album, Angels Never Cry, with Bidstrup producing again. McFarlane observed, "another well-crafted set of songs competently played... It did little, however to further [his] status as one of this country's most promising singer/guitarists."

From November 1994 to August 1995 Steel recorded his next album, Old Salt Blues which was released in June 1996.

2010-present: with Tiffany Eckhardt Tiffany Eckhardt and Dave Steel have performed as a duo and released two albums, Sunday (2010) and Big Big Sky (2014).

Steel was inducted into the EG Fall of Fame in 2012 for his contribution to Australian music as a member of Weddings Parties Anything.

Discography Albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chartpositions AUS Bitter Street Released: September 1989 Label: Warner Music Group (256628-1) Format: LP, CD, Cassette 134 Angels Never Cry Released: June 1991 Label: East West Records (903174299-2) Format: CD 103 The Last Radio Released: July 1992 Label: Warner Music Australia (450990146-2) Format: CD 175 Cross My Palm (by Dave Steel and the Roadside Prophets) Released: June 1993 Label: Ravenswood (RV-1004) Format: CD — Old Salt Blues Released: June 1996 Label: Ravenswood (RV-1020) Format: CD — The Edge of the World Released: May 1999 Label: Dave Steel (DS001) Format: CD — Home Is a Hard Thing to Find Released: August 2002 Label: Black Market Music (BM258.2) Format: CD — Been On This Road Too Long (As Dave Steel and The Welcome Wagon ) Released: 2004 Label: Sound Vault (SV0433) Format: CD, DD — Blues & Ballads Released: 2007 Label: Sound Vault (SV0543) Format: CD, DD — Sunday (with Tiffany Eckhardt) Released: March 2010 Label: Black Market Music Format: CD, DD — Big Big Sky (with Tiffany Eckhardt) Released: 2014 Label: Black Market Music (TECK002) Format: CD —

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Released: August 1993