Steve Kilbey

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Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey (13 September 1954) is the lead singer of Australian rock band The Church. He is also a songwriter, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, poet, and painter. He has been a vegan for a few decades. Since 1985, Kilbey has released several solo projects and collaboratively written and/or produced recordings with artists such as Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens, Stephen Cummings, and Kev Carmody. Earthed, a book of fiction, was published in 1986, in conjunction with an album of the same name of instrumental electronic music. His book of poetry, Nineveh/The Ephemeron, was released in 1998 and was later republished. He now lives in Bondi, near Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three of his five children.

A biography of Steve Kilbey titled No Certainty Attached is due to be released in 2007 by Verse Chorus Press.

The following is a self-description from Steve Kilbey's blog, The Time Being (http://stevekilbey.blogspot.com)

"Tuesday, February 13, 2007
re-set + q n a with doodles
name: kilbey steven john
born :1 3 9 54 , welwyn garden city , england
religion : church of england
sex : male
occupation : musician
country of citizenship : england
country of residency : australia
married : yes
children : 5
current abode : nth bondi, nsw 2026
aka : the killer, the time being, nevets yeblik, slim
height : just under 6 feet
weight : 13 stone/ 82 k
blood type : O

Steve Kilbey of The Church - California, 1986

previous occupations : n/a
mobile ph : n/a
type of food preferred : gourmet vegan
type of food not prefferred : anything dead, eggplant, cucumber capsicum
favourite drink : jaeger n red bull
favourite smoke : neils purple heads
favourite music : spacerock, ambient, trex, bowie, dylan, beatles, stones
be bop deluxe, television, jeff buckley, la dusseldorf, harmonia
big star, krautrock, progrock, shoegazers, glamrock, go-bes, triffids
indian, sheila chandra, harold budd, john foxx
least favourite music : rap, boy bands, girl bands, grunge, heavy, country
opera, trad-jazz, disco, dance, doof-doof,retro, fifties, schmaltz
type of female you like : no makeup, no perfume , must like music, non carnivorous
type of female you dont like : bitchy madeup gossipy drunken smoking bints
type of male you like : straight but not "straight" , no make up no perfume, non carn
type of male you dislike : macho or effeminate, threatening or simpering
stupidest thing you ever did : telling meat eaters to piss off
best thing you ever did : telling meat eaters to piss off
hopes for future : would like world peace, the complete defeat of meat
and a small villa in vaucluse
fears for future : more war, more meat and stuck here above noisy bunch
proud of : biting the hand that feeds
regrets : not biting hard enough while i had better teeth...
buy a fender...the rolls royce of basses"

1 Discography
2 Sales figures
3 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Unearthed (1986)
Earthed (1987)
The Slow Crack (1989)
Remindlessness (1990)
Narcosis EP (1991)
Narcosis + (1997)
Dabble (2001)

[edit] Collections

Acoustic & Intimate (2000)
Freaky Conclusions (2003)

[edit] Collaborations

Hex (with ex-Game Theory's Donnette Thayer)

Hex (1989)
Vast Halos (1990)

Curious (Yellow) (with Karin Jansson)

Taken By Surprise (1990)
Charms and Blues (1990)
Love Itself (1990)

Jack Frost (with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens):

Jack Frost (1991)
Snow Job (1996)

Fake (with Sandy Chick):

Fake (1994)

Isidore (with Remy Zero's Jeffrey Cain)

Isidore (2004)

Gilt Trip (with his brother Russell Kilbey)

Gilt Trip (1997)
Egyptian Register (2005)

[edit] Sales figures

There is no exact information available about sales figures for each album. However, John Kilbey from Karmic Hit Records published some official figures: each release sold between 5 and 27568 (as of August 18, 2005). The "5" probably is the Fire Down Below EP, a-test pressing with only a few items produced (rumored to be 5).