Steve Kilbey

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Steve Kilbey

Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954, Welwyn Garden City, England) is the lead singer of Australian rock band The Church. He is also a songwriter, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, poet, and painter. He has been a vegan for a few decades. Since 1985, Kilbey has released several solo projects and collaboratively written and/or produced recordings with artists such as the late Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens, Stephen Cummings, and Kev Carmody. Earthed, a book of fiction, was published in 1986, in conjunction with an album of the same name of instrumental electronic music. His book of poetry, Nineveh/The Ephemeron, was released in 1998 and was later republished. He now lives in Bondi, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three of his five children.

A biography of Steve Kilbey titled No Certainty Attached is due to be released in 2007 by Verse Chorus Press.

Steve Kilbey of The Church - California, 1986

Discography

Albums

• Unearthed (1986)
• Earthed (1987)
• The Slow Crack (1989)
• Remindlessness (1990)
• Narcosis EP (1991)
• Narcosis + (1997)
• Dabble (2001)

Collections

• Acoustic & Intimate (2000)
• Freaky Conclusions (2003)

Collaborations

Hex (with ex-Game Theory's Donnette Thayer)

• Hex (1989)
• Vast Halos (1990)

Curious (Yellow) (with Karin Jansson)

• Taken By Surprise (1990)
• Charms and Blues (1990)
• Love Itself (1990)

Jack Frost (with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens):

• Jack Frost (1991)
• Snow Job (1996)

Fake (with Sandy Chick):

• Fake (1994)

Isidore (with Remy Zero's Jeffrey Cain)

• Isidore (2004)

Gilt Trip (with his brother Russell Kilbey)

• Gilt Trip (1997)
• Egyptian Register (2005)

Mimesis (with Simon Polinski)

• Art Imitating Life (2007)

External links

• Kilbey's blog
• Art gallery selling Kilbey's paintings and poster
• [2] Official website for Isidore
• Kilbey interview on the Drinks With Tony radio show