Internet Opens Up World Market Place For Songwriter Steve Larkman

The internet has proved to be a great place to successfully promote the music of songwriter Steve Larkman. His independent publishing company Angelmusicplus is selling and sending out hundreds of copies of his debut album Tearjerker to the U.K. and all over the world. Through the website www.stevelarkman.com the general public and others in the music business have been able to access and buy his music. The result has been phenomenal.

The positive reviews and feedback from the centre of the music industry have sparked interest from Radio Stations around the world and tracks from the album are being played in Belgium, the U.S.A., Australia and on the BBC.

Success is all the sweeter for Steve having been in the business for many years. He was born down De la pole Avenue in Hull and presently lives in Hessle. His first enduring pop music memory is from when he was 8 years old playing a copy of The Beatles, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and This Boy over and over on a manual Dansette record player. He had a few drum lessons at school and played a solo in the assembly hall aged 12 then began playing guitar and writing songs a year later. At 15 he got to working on sound and light for local bands and throughout this time learned more guitar and continued writing.

Then, he started performing with his own bands. One of these, The Crack got their single released by J.S.O. Records. Soon afterwards, Steve created a recording studio, Angel Music and worked with some famous people such as Mick Ronson and Howard Gray. During this period he also worked as a producer for Virgin and 10 Records in some of London's top studios.

In 2003 Steve produced his first solo Album Tearjerker. The songs are uplifting and focus on the unaccountable proceedings of love and modern life. There are hooks, riffs and more hooks using a variety of styles. Funky and edgy in Diamonds, sexy and guitar driven for Eloise and catchy and upbeat in Everybody wants to be a Star. Blue for You combines chords that bring out goose bumps with lyrics that will leave you gutted.

After hearing Track 1 Thin White Dove you'll want to press rewind to hear it again...and again.

There are so many hits on this album that it's hard to decide which one is your favourite, you'll keep changing your mind the more you listen. Tearjerker contains 15 great songs and comes with a full lyrics insert. The album is on sale at HMV and Virgin Records and can also be bought online at: www.cd-wow.com ; www.cdbaby.com ; www.solarise.com and from Steve's website at www.stevelarkman.com

Steve is currently working on his next record due for release April/May 2004. STOP PRESS: We just found out that the lead track on Steve's album, Thin White Dove is on the A playlist of Downtown Radio, the biggest station in Ireland.

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