The album, produced by Peter Walsh, featured Matlock, Steve Norman, Barriemore Barlow, Geoff Dugmore and others. An album, Everything's Getting Closer to Being Over, followed in March 2014. In January 2013, Stevenson released a three-track CD, "The Shape of Things to Come", via his own website. Via PledgeMusic, the band raised the money to record their first full-length album, The International Swingers (mixed by Peter Walsh), which was released in 2015. In 2011, Stevenson and Matlock formed supergroup the International Swingers with vocalist Gary Twinn and drummer Clem Burke. He sometimes turns up in New York singer/songwriter Willie Nile's band when they play in the UK. He also plays in Matlock's band the Philistines, and has contributed to Matlock's Open Mind and Born Running albums. He also rejoined Chelsea, performing on their Faster, Cheaper and Better Looking (2006), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (2015) and Mission Impossible (2017) albums. Stevenson still plays with the Alarm and Gene Loves Jezebel (Jay Aston's version). He has played on all Alarm albums recorded since 2000 including In the Poppyfields, Under Attack, Counter Attack, Direct Action, Guerilla Tactics, Blood Red, Viral Black, Equals, Sigma, War and Forwards 24 single "Superchannel" in February 2006 (from the album Under Attack). In 1998, seven years after Mike Peters left the Alarm, he called upon Stevenson to back his solo projects, and the latter has been a permanent fixture in Peters' subsequent musical incarnations, resulting in minor chart success, first under the guise of the Poppyfields with the top 30 hit " 45 RPM" in February 2004, and as the Alarm MMVI with the No. He has contributed as a session guitarist on numerous recordings including artists as diverse as Scott Walker ( the Drift and Bish Bosch), Henry Badowski (who he was at Chiswick Community School with), Charlie Harper, Duncan "Kid" Reid, Jimmy Nail, Helen Terry, Annabel Lamb, Louise and the Hothouse Flowers among others, and has composed music for TV and film. He also contributed guitar to the song "Brand New You're Retro" by Tricky from his Maxinquaye album. ĭuring 19, he provided additional guitar playing for the Cult during their world tour. He produced Gene Loves Jezebel singer Jay Aston's solo album Unpopular Songs, Beki Bondage's solo album Cold Turkey and Gene October's solo album Life and Struggle, among others. Stevenson performed on the band's albums Discover, House of Dolls, Kiss of Life, Heavenly Bodies, VII, The Thornfield Sessions, Dance Underwater (2017) and X - Love Death Sorrow (2023). Later that year, he was asked to join post-punk band Gene Loves Jezebel when their guitarist left suddenly at the beginning of their first U.S. In 1985, he was briefly in a band formed with Glen Matlock and Gary Holton called the Gang Show. In 1983, he toured as a member of Fischer Z singer John Watts' band in support of Watts' album The Iceberg Model. They released two singles on RAK Records. Stevenson then formed Hot Club with former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock. After Gen X broke up in early 1981 he worked with Kim Wilde, contributing to her first album, Kim Wilde, and second album, Select, and performing in all of Wilde's early videos including " Kids in America". He was asked to join Gen X featuring Billy Idol as its lead guitarist in 1980/1981. He contributed to their early singles and also the first album Chelsea and second Alternative Hits. Stevenson started his career with the London-based punk band Chelsea in 1977, while he was still at school studying for A Level exams. James Stevenson (born 12 October 1958) is an English punk/ alternative rock guitarist, at one time a member of the Alarm, Gene Loves Jezebel, Gen X, the Cult, Holy Holy, the International Swingers and Chelsea.
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