A Song About the End of the World

Lie With Me

The Truth

How birds fly

Espresso Martini

What Lives Inside

Full Stop (the End)

Another Holy Night

A couple meet for a first date on a cold and wet January day. It's an awkward affair, until they go to The Whisky Jar, in Manchester NQ.

The Whisky Jar

Staring into the sun

Twist Of Her Hips

Former front man of '90s London indie hopefuls The Spectators, Ellis hit his 40s after two decades of musical quiescence with a headful of song - largely induced by his confused, but (mutually) liberating extraction from an ailing and failing marriage.  
 
The songs brim with melody and melancholy, musing on life lessons, love lost and middle aged angst.  A dash of humour and a smack of self-derision stops the songs tipping over into sentimentality, but never take away from the candour at their core. 
 
In a world awash with male-singer-songwriter-piano-players, he doesn't lay claim to uniqueness (think Gary Barlow meets Elton John in a dark space and a bad mood). But the voice is dirt swathed in radio-friendly velvet, and the songs are immediate and infectious in their simplicity.  
 
He cites Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Nina Simone as influences and describes his music as "infinitely more effective than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors." 

He follows his 2019 EP, The Truth, with The World Returned, a more rhythmically driven and sonically rich set of songs which on one side consider our tendency toward complicit subjugation to technology, and on the other potential of hope for the future.
 
Stephen Ellis lives in Prestwich, Manchester and can be found “in and around” with piano in tow. His second EP, The World Returned is now available and more will follow later in the year.

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