Author: Steven Battelle

My solo music took a back seat this year with me getting my band back together but its bubbling just under the surface. Like my favourite movies they come in trilogies and so album three is gestating and will appear when the moment is right. I’ve spent a lot of time writing for and with […]

I wrote this record in what now seems like such a strange, distant and almost unimaginable time when traveling was a very normal part of what I did and before a words and phrases like lockdown and daily death rate / infection rate were not common place. It’s a record released just pre pandemic and […]

One of the most in depth interviews I’ve ever given. Listen here

Over the moon to be back, much more to tell you soonbut for now here we are.

Over the moon that I now, via my own label finally own the rights to the second LostAlone record. Stream and purchase safe in the knowledge the people who made it will be remunerated for it, well the minuscule amount streaming services pay but STILL its a massive moment for me personally. Just one more […]

I wrote about the craziness that this record is ten years old. You can read here Ten Years of I’m A UFO In This City

Finally after two years of pandemic related postponement,  I returned to what has become my spiritual home, where my head feels calm and the weight of life is instantly lifted from me. Without writing a travel blog, Montreux for has become the place I go to not only write and clear my head but also […]

Freddie Mercury passed away 30 years ago on November 24th. His life, work and legacy has been a huge influence on my life.  

Spent a week locked in a box room at my friend James’s house up in Derby, isolating with Covid after I tested positive for it while visiting home. It was definitely an experience! Firstly I felt awful for about two days with flu like symptoms but then very quickly that passed and I was left […]

Happy second birthday to my second solo record! Well its two years today that it came out. I guess the conception was a year before that when I started writing the songs that would become the record, making an album really is like a creative pregnancy, we mark the birth rather than the conception. I […]