Steve Adams
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Steve Adams (1977)
Photograph courtesy: Tamworth Herald |
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Steve Adams (1978)
Photograph courtesy: Tamworth Herald |
Singer/Songwriter from Birchmoor
29/04/77
Steve Adams
Unicorn Folk Club
11/09/77
Unicorn Folk Club - Opening Night
Every Sunday
Steve Adams
07/04/78
Steve Adams (winner of EMI Folk Contest)
Globe Folk Club
26/03/80
Steve Adams
Folk at the Manor
Pubsinger’s Blues (or I’m sorry I won’t play Streets of London)
But for You
Tamworth Herald – 29/04/77
Steve Adams, last year’s “Melody Maker” folk competition winner, appears at the Unicorn Folk Club tonight.
Steve, who recently moved from the Bristol area to Polesworth, won through this year’s heats in the “Melody Maker” competition on Saturday and is all set for the forthcoming area final to be held in Birmingham.
Tamworth Herald – 01/07/77
Birchmoor singer-songwriter Steve Adams has gained national recognition for his talents.
The former industrial chemist who gave up his career for music, has won a top Melody Maker award and won for himself a country-wide tour.
 Steve topped the soloist section in the leading music paper’s national talent-seeking contest to add to the Melody Maker award he received last year as the “most outstanding performer.”
His prize this year includes £250 in cash and a tour of universities and colleges.
He warded off the challenge of four other finalists after sailing through area and regional finals.
Steve’s set was a mixture of humour and sentiment and included songs such as “Pubsinger’s Blues (or I’m Sorry I Won’t Play ‘Streets of London’)” and “But For You”.
Tamworth Herald – 16/06/78
KIDS at Greeneacres School, Amington, must think they have got a wonderful teacher in Steve Adams.
Last year he won the National Melody Maker Rock Folk competition – and now he looks set to do it again.
Last Sunday he won the semi-finals at Barbarella’s Club, Birmingham. And now he’s hoping his luck will continue into the finals at The Round House, London on July 2.
Steve, 30, of Dormer Cottage, Green Lane, Birchmoor, Tamworth, got a lot of work in pubs and folk clubs after winning last year’s contest.
And at the end of last year he bought out his LP, “Steve Adams”.
He writes and sings his own compositions, and it is the top soloist award that he hopes to win for the second time.
But in spite of his success, Steve has no plans of turning professional. He is quite happy teaching at Greenacres Junior School where he has been since last September.
 Tamworth Herald – 05/12/80
THOSE Attractive Magnets recorded their cassette at the Steve Adams Studio in Birchmoor. But how many readers knew that local bands had such excellent recording facilities on their own doorstep.
For schoolteacher Steve has concerted part of his Green Lane cottage home into a sirst-class recording studio where bands like The Magnets can go along at weekends and holiday times to use the studio which won’t cost them the earth.
A past winner of Melody Maker’s annual folk/rock award, Steve started producing about 18 months ago and he says it’s really just a hobby.
Steve was a full-time professional musician for a while but says he now much prefers to restrict his musical activities to his small but well equipped studio which is literally his “second home”.
“I really enjoy doing this,” he says. “It’s much better than just gigging.” And he’s certainly made some customers very happy as the Magnets’ Rikk Quay, speaking on behalf of the band, is only too quick to point out…
“We think Steve Adams is a great producer and we would urge any band just starting off and interested in recording should go there,” he says.
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