Album and LP designs for Manchester's @paddy_steer that came out last May, featuring a hopi-inspired mask, and a helmet used during performance by Paddy. Double height foldout poster too with his cardboard 'Yardbot'. Known him for a good while and longtime big fan of his individualistic ways, all the homebuilt instruments, space costumes and insane one-man shows – so very happy to making something together.
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A COUPLE OF WEEKS TO GO!!!
21ST MAY - PADDY STEER @paddy_steer
+ support from DERI SHARMAN @derisharman
The one man cosmic disco that is Paddy Steer comes to Nottingham this month, bringing an unforgettable evening for you to experience!
Support coming from Nottingham’s own Deri Sharman, blessing us with a set of dark alt folk.
⚠️ ALL profits from ticket sales for this gig will be donated to Music Venue Trust
🎟️ TICKETS: /paddy-steer-tickets/nottingham-billy-bootleggers-nottingham/2026-05-21-20-00
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I’ll be playing Dan Haywood and band with my lap steel this Friday Lancaster - I’ve been playing with his band whenever I can for past 15 years or so - I love doing it as it’s emotionally enriching and pretty much antithetical to my solo shenanigans. Check his stuff out
1984 Me as a naive 19 year old traveling to Egypt for a couple of weeks while taking a break from working in Israel on a moshav in the Negev desert for £40 a month . When in Cairo- the Oxford pension was recommended- it had no water - you had to shit while standing up over the toilet ( detail - breaching mound of shit was about 6” higher than the rim ) . I of course ended up with a bug and shitting in my sleeping bag - I escaped to Aswan . Took a feluka on the Nile with some strangers -started sinking after day 3 X. Hitched to station - spent 18hours on a wooden bench 3rd class train back to Cairo . Camel photo is eating out of a rubbish bin on Sinai peninsula. It was a quite interesting time - especially having a camera - folks wanted to have their pic taken . Oh yeah and I took my bass guitar of course.
Alpha- unreleased Homelife versions from archive - rejigged - Featuring Faron Brooks on vocals ,Pat Illingworth on drums Tony Burnside guitar Paddy Steer bass /clav/organ . Either Howard Jacobs or Icarus Wilson Wright on bongos
UCC Library & Tombstome Promotions Present:
Paddy Steer with guest Twitcher
- Saturday 13th June
- Doors at 6.30 PM
- The Creative Zone, UCC Library
- 16+ (Under 16 must be accompanied by an adult)
- Tickets: €13.50 from Eventbrite
- Venue is access-friendly
‘sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger’s shop’ - Graham Massey [808 State]
A Zelig‑like figure in Manchester’s musical story, Paddy Steer is a multi‑instrumental shape‑shifter whose talents have touched bass, drums, Hawaiian guitar and more, often all at once. His long‑running Homelife project produced six albums of intricate, wonder‑filled music, brewed in his attic and brought to the stage as a small, ever‑evolving orchestra.
Paddy is a quietly obsessive craft‑maker, building instruments as much as he plays them. His recordings have a cartoon‑like density, full of homemade textures, vivid colours and oddball inventions, like a cuckoo clock rebuilt from egg boxes and cosmic circuitry.
Live, he rejects clean “immaculate reproduction” in favour of glorious chaos. From behind a stacked tangle of self‑made gear, he sings through vocoders, batters xylophones, triggers shaking limbs and launches funk-driven, technicolour storms of sound. Part space‑program pantomime, part punk Arkestra, he’s a one‑man cosmos: unpredictable, joyous and completely unique.
Audiences don’t so much watch Paddy as fall into his world, heads spinning, feet tangled, surrendering to an alien groove machine that seems part Victorian time traveller, part future jazz insect, always out of time and out of this world.
Twitcher is the solo lo‑fi music project of Lisa O’Grady.
Her sound is rooted in Casio organs, nostalgic synths, folky wanderings, found sounds, gentle instrumentals, and soft vocal melodies. Her music has been described as “feudal folk” and "Enya meets The Wicker Man".
![UCC Library & Tombstome Promotions Present:Paddy Steer with guest Twitcher- Saturday 13th June- Doors at 6.30 PM- The Creative Zone, UCC Library- 16+ (Under 16 must be accompanied by an adult)- Tickets: €13.50 from Eventbrite- Venue is access-friendly‘sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger’s shop’ - Graham Massey [808 State]A Zelig‑like figure in Manchester’s musical story, Paddy Steer is a multi‑instrumental shape‑shifter whose talents have touched bass, drums, Hawaiian guitar and more, often all at once. His long‑running Homelife project produced six albums of intricate, wonder‑filled music, brewed in his attic and brought to the stage as a small, ever‑evolving orchestra.Paddy is a quietly obsessive craft‑maker, building instruments as much as he plays them. His recordings have a cartoon‑like density, full of homemade textures, vivid colours and oddball inventions, like a cuckoo clock rebuilt from egg boxes and cosmic circuitry.Live, he rejects clean “immaculate reproduction” in favour of glorious chaos. From behind a stacked tangle of self‑made gear, he sings through vocoders, batters xylophones, triggers shaking limbs and launches funk-driven, technicolour storms of sound. Part space‑program pantomime, part punk Arkestra, he’s a one‑man cosmos: unpredictable, joyous and completely unique.Audiences don’t so much watch Paddy as fall into his world, heads spinning, feet tangled, surrendering to an alien groove machine that seems part Victorian time traveller, part future jazz insect, always out of time and out of this world.Twitcher is the solo lo‑fi music project of Lisa O’Grady.Her sound is rooted in Casio organs, nostalgic synths, folky wanderings, found sounds, gentle instrumentals, and soft vocal melodies. Her music has been described as “feudal folk” and "Enya meets The Wicker Man".](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6747115623205249213824_0_c04d70a664c5300bcd8d8e0a8d67eba6.jpg?o=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&h=3b81ab1582a506676ed9da20a184d5d9)
