STEVE IRELAND BASS
A b o u t
Steve is a professional bassist with over 5000
gigs and numerous recording credits to his
name. He resides in the North East of
England but is in his own words "100%
Scottish". Steve has a Masters degree in
Popular Music Performance and is currently
studying towards his PHD in Improvisation
and Anthropological Semiosis; (How we can
imply identity through the spontaneity of
enigmatic interaction). There will be a series of performances to gather research evidence.
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Steve was born in 1963 in Dundee and grew up
around the river Tay and sailing, in fact he won
several trophies in his early teens sailing with
his father. At the age of 15 he purchased his
first bass and he has never looked back since
that day. His life has been and is all about the
music,. Steve is a deep lover of modal jazz , Jaco
Pastorius and Weather Report, John Coltrane
and of course Miles Davis, Steve has played all
over the globe in many different settings From
touring Tiwan With Seb Roachford (Polar Bear)
to playing in the Dance band on the Queen
Mary 2, he has been there seen it, done it and
worn the teeshirt to coin an expression.
Steve has recorded and performed with;
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Blitzkrieg - 10
Spike and Tyla
Seb Roachford
Paul Elliott
John Wheatcroft
Dan Donnelly
Barry Hyde
Bonnie Tyler
Black Pearl
Bon Jovi Forever Uk
The Kill
The Safe Sextet
Billy Black
Lorraine Crosby
Mrs Loud
and many many more.
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Steve has rleased 5 solo albums to date and
has several new projects in process currently
including solo bass, jazz trio and a Frank Zappa
tribute show in the pipelineas well. He will be
promoting these projects as they develop.
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"I remember when i was about 4 or 5 years
old, my elder sister started getting piano
lessons and this big thing that made lots of
noise appeared in our living room (piano),
I was particularly drawn to the low notes
because they sounded amazingly BIG and
made my whole body resonate, from then on
I could only ever be a bassist i wasn't
impressed with the plinky plonky notes in the
upper register at all!"
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Steve's main choice of instruments are;
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Modulus Quantum 5 string fretted Bartolini p/us
Sei Flambouyant 6 string fretless. Bartolini p/us
Bassdoc 5 string Jazz. Semour duncan P/MM p/us
Yamaha TRB 6 string fretted.
Sire MM 5 string fretless.
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Boss Gt 6B and 10B Bass Multi effects
Boss RC 300 Loop Station.
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SWR Amplification
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D'addario nickel bass strings


R e v i e w s
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"Steve Ireland, bassist extraordinaire,
completely electrifies on this single called
‘Transpire’ fromhis latest album
‘Crazybassman’, on Steve Ireland Music and is distributed via Zimbalam.
I experienced so many inner music emotions throughout this absolutely rocking piece ofmusic. It was masterfully layered with backing beats and grooves with tones of tribal and orient sensations. It also took me through journeys of jungle movements and sounds to crashing waves on airy clear-skied beaches. On his Sei Flamboyant 6 string fretless bass, Steve plays throughout ‘Transpire’ with passion, style and such ease.
He phenomenally displays his mastery of his craft with a slow tempo solo midway through, that took this music listener to peaks of mountain tops with echoes and reverb sounds from a massive bass music element. This was a “fantastic listen”~A Musicians Friend~ gives this “7 out of 7” on it’s ‘thumbs up’ single review chart."
- Timothy Forker, A musicians friend (Feb 13, 2012)
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I am totally amazed and utterly flabbergasted by the flying fingers of Mr. Steve Ireland on the bass guitar. His skill can be summed up with one word: MASTERFUL.
I am listening to Gordon Bennett, and I am totally blown away at how the song opens up with an electronic drumbeat and keyboards, then the bass totally takes over the show. Usually, one hears of guitar players making their guitars talk, but Mr. Ireland plays so fiercely on his bass that it's like someone saying "There's a new sheriff in town."
Never in my life have I heard one bass player so expressive as Mr. Ireland. I wish him continued success.
Ginger Griffin
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Steve Ireland is sensational bassist professional talent that hails from out of Northeast England, UK. This extrordinaire bassist talent with years of experience just lit up my rocking ear modules with his 'today' self-released album entitled 'The Way Back home',. It is a thrilling Celtic concept album exploring into his heritage and upbringing. Steve incorporates bass and overall musicianship excellence with gorgeous instrumental skies glowing with radiant jazz/jazz fusion vibes, rock charm, 'bring the funk' splendour and of course a stunning backbone throughout of his Celtic music roots. This was an outstanding listen and so far for 2015 it certainly ranks no1 for my jazz and instrumental rock artists of the year. This cat is an absolute rocking juggernaut and the world 'needs' to take him into their ear catalogs, for sure!
ttp:/forksterrocks.net/10th-of-january-2015
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Bassist extraordinaire was the quote
used in one recent review and although
Steve himself considers this very flattering in many ways it is a truthful statement to
make. His fretless bass style is indeed a
virtuosic soaring delight of expression and emotion drawing from his Scottish roots with the wisdom and experience that over 35 years performing has given him, also the way that he can lay down the funkiest groove with deep organic feeling is why this reviewer and many others have felt driven to write so enthusiastically about Steve Irelands' bass playing skills.

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