BIO & GALLERY
Steve Revington was born in London, Ontario Canada and raised in Lucan. The son of a harness horseman, Revington's
first brush with music came in the way of his mothers love of melody and his dad's love of rhythm. Later he was heavily influenced by the "beat music" of the British invasion and Windsors CKLW radio's mix of Detroit's Motown sounds and fast rising Canadian bands. In the late 1970s he performed at London area coffee houses with his cousins, Pete and Jeff Culbert. Their trio, "Dash After the D", performed a diverse repertoire of songs characterized by rich harmonies. Between performing songs by The Beatles, Queen, ELO, Mills Bros, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Revington’s first originals were heard.
While attending teacher's college at Brock University, Steve expanded his interests in music to promoting. Friend and fellow songwriter, Stuart Peterson, invited Steve to represent Mary-Lou Zahalan, who recorded Stuart's song, "Take Me To The Twilight" by promoting the single. Revington secured regular radio play at different Niagara Peninsula radio stations and secured a spot for Mary Lou on Canada's only national talk show, CBC's "The Bob McLean Show".
Shortly after Steve's graduation, his father suffered a heart attack and Revington had to quickly change career directions from teaching to trainer of his father's horse racing business. Between the highly competitive demands of racing and training standardbreds, Steve and his brother, Scott, chose to make time for music. Taking advantage of their off hours, they developed Twice Shy, their first recording act. The brothers wrote and independently recorded songs that won several local recording and songwriting contests sponsored by radio stations. With talented producer Peter Brennan (Jeans & Classics), they developed a polyphonic rock sound with rich layers of instrumentation and harmonies. Their single, "Take Me Dancing", won CKSL's Battle of the Bands an unprecedented 18 times. Their single was play listed at 118 radio stations across Canada. Twice Shy was recognized by CBC as one of "Canada's Top Ten New Artists " and were featured on Air Canada's in-flight programming to Europe throughout the summer of 1988.
Twice Shy peeked the interest of respected Kitchener producer, Rick Hutt, best known for producing Tom Cochrane, Beverley Mahood and The Northern Pikes. With Rick, the brothers began work on a recording project which enabled them to work with many highly regarded session musicians including: Jorn Anderson (Cory Hart, Allanah Myles), Neil Chapman (Rough Trade. The Satellites), Barry Keane (Ann Murray, Gordon Lightfoot), Randall Coryall (Glass Tiger. Tom Cochrane), Steve Hogg (Ian Thomas, Gowan, Amy Sky) and John Johnson (Menteca, Diane Krall, Holly Cole).
Steve, always seeking to better his craft, took advantage of an invitation to work with acclaimed songwriter Gary O'Connor (Gary O, 38 Special) in Los Angeles. O'Connor was impressed with Steve's songsmithing, clever lyrics and honest delivery. After working at Grammy winning producer John Jones' home studio in Hollywood. Steve and Gary had refined the Revington sound.
Revington moved to Australia for a year on an international teacher's exchange where he hooked up with West Australian blues legend Rick Steele (father of Luke (Empire of the Sun) and Katy Steele (Little Birdy). During the year he wrote prolifically and performed in both Perth and Kalgoorlie. Backed by Steele's band "The Hot Biscuit Band", he tried out his new songs on club audiences. Encouraged by the new material, Revington was eager to return to Canada to begin pre-production on his solo project. With the musicianship of friend Dan Brodbeck (Gandarvas, Thundermug, Delores O’Riordan), Colin Linden (Bruce Coburn, Colin James, T-Bone Burnett), Terry Brown (Rush, Cutting Crew, Blue Rodeo), Corey Thompson (Thundermug), Geoff Warder (Gandarvas) and Mike BonneII (Buffalo Bros.) the first songs were recorded. What emerged is a mature labour of love, the fruit of many and varied experiences, songs that are reminiscent of John Lennon, Tom Petty, Neil Finn and Elvis Costello.
Steve was asked to produce a series of songs by friend Jim Duchesneau for Adisson-Wesley. Six of those songs became part of the Visages Educational Series that became Canada’s most successful French school programs. One production project led to another and it wasn’t long before he was juggling a very busy schedule producing and developing artists.
Steve has produced, written and arranged music on many recording projects which have included numerous Grammy, platinum, gold and Juno winning artists and seasoned session players including: John Jones (Celine Dion, Duran Duran), Dan Brodbeck (Juno winning engineer), Terry Brown (Rush, Blue Rodeo, Kim Mitchell), Rick Hutt (Tom Cochrane, Northern Pikes, Beverly Mahood), Colin Linden (Bruce Cockburn, Colin James, T-Bone Burnett), Kurt Swinghammer (Ron Sexsmith, Sarah Slean), Randy Cooke (Ringo Starr, Kelly Clarkson, Chantal Kreviazuk) and Don Ross (world famous finger style guitarist) to name a few.
Steve is presently writing new material that will be ocassionally shared on this site.
Presently, Mark Hart of Supertramp and long time member of Crowded House is providing guitar and keyboard parts to Steve's latest song, 'This Too Will Pass'.