Steve Cake Solo
I have been making sadcore and electronica under the banner of Steve Cake for a few years. Due to the the moodswinging bipolarity of urban life, half the tracks are bass-heavy mashups and the other half are lo-fi wristslashers. Enjoy.
Free Steve Cake tunes on MySpace >>
Science Ninja Team
Science Ninja Team was an electro-punk band featuring Steve Cake on guitar/vocals, Matty Ash on bass/vocals and Andy B on keys/drums. Active from 2006-2007. The band played at the Concorde2, the FreeButt, the Prince Albert, the Green Dragon, the Pressure Point and more. We won the Demo Clash on JuiceFM's Totally Wired radio show for 4 weeks in a row and got written up in the Latest magazine a couple of times. We were cool.
Official website includes photos and free tunes>>
Free tunes and DJ Slam remixes on MySpace >>
Refugee Radio Orchestra
The Orchestra was supergroup of refugees and asylum seekers playing together with local musicians. I put the band together in 2009. We played gigs at the Komedia and on the Bandstand on Brighton seafront. Some of the musicians played with Planet Gnawa at the Glastonbury Festival in 2010.
Interviews with band members and live recordings on podcast on the official site>>
Free tunes and updates on MySpace >>
Chokey Fried Chicken
This is what happens when you mix a bedroom-band hippy like Golden Elf with a dangerous MC machine like Steve Cake: you get a kebab to the face!
More hiphop lunacy and free downloads onMyspace >>
Other
I would like to thank all the other poor bastards who have been in a band with me over the years:
Little Vinyl Dinosaurs: When I was still a schoolboy, I sang Joy Division covers and Swans-like originals with Simon, Adrian, Nigel, Matt and Keiran. We sounded like Napalm Death meets the Happy Mondays. It was the early nineties. It made sense at the time. We gigged in Croydon, South London and Surrey even. Wowza!
Rolf's Cartoon Club : LVD side-project with me and Simon and MC Sooty on human beatbox. We only had one song and it was an Australian/Neighbours themed rap called "Shrimp on the Barbie". Again, it was the early nineties and such things were allowed back then. We played live at least twice. I can't remember either of them.
North Surrey Glitterati : I was only involved in one album for this motley collection of artistic renegades from Sutton, a strange mash-up bedroom band doing somewhat abusive covers of Nirvana and The Fall. I still like Lex's version of The Smith's "There is a Light".
Retard Spoilage AKA Fashion Gun9: We had some other names I can't even remember now! Experimental industrial rivet-head art-noise terrorism with Slam and Keian (and occasionally Adrian too). Primitive sampling devices made with a walkman and some selotape evolved into Tetsuo-like levels of machine sophistication. Some tapes still exist. I swear it wasn't me who lost the back catalogue, Slam! We were too cool to play live.
The Melon Farmers: Fore-runners to the Science Ninja Team with Matty, Loz, Ian and Lucy. Gigged all over Brighton and had a proper laugh doing it. Thanks everybody. G! C! S! E! P! E! Oi!
And a thousand others... Including The Surrealist Army of Teen-Angst Casualties (me, Dave and Tom busking the Velvet Underground's "Heroin" in Croydon shopping centre over and over again), the then-unnamed Stanford Road All-Stars (Sam, Simon, Loz, Toby and even G on drums once or twice) and their classic "Dirty Marijuana Junkies" and "Millipede" (sample lyrics "Millipede, a thousand legs on speed"); the Dorking-based quirk-rock jam sessions of the band known only as Bill; the post-rock progessiveness of Fried Gold; the groovy world-reggae and general delay-pedal freakout of the Dub Ninjas; that four-track band we started in West Norwood with Bradley and Simon with those seriously cool songs I can still remember even now except I can't remember if we even had a name; the Howard Terrace Abuse of Gideon's Basement Studio House Band with their memorable bunny-killing "Doogie Howser MD". or the techno psychosis of "Me So Horny"?
Lest we forget. Gentlemen, to your guitars! Battle positions!
