Past Works
This is an attempt to gather together everything I’ve done since re-emerging from creative hiatus after The Spectators split. I wanted to bring it all in-house — almost like an audit. Maybe it’s a bit OCD, but I wanted to take stock before setting off on something new.
In Songs there’s Stephen Ellis, The Affair, etc...
There’s also a batch of Photographs that never had a home outside my hard drive, along with a couple of short Stories.
With Falling Trees, I’m hoping to weave these different interests together into larger, more overarching pieces of work.
Ok, so this is obviously the main event round here - the music. And here are all the various guises I've adopted over the past 13 or so years. I've never really felt comfortable (until now?), putting stuff out as Steven Briggs. The below monikers all offered varying degrees of removal and obfuscation and there was a comfort in that, which I guess I'm now removing.
The obvious ommission here is The Spectators. There are a few things that I could put up, but it hardly feels appropriate without the rest of the band's permission, and to be honest, I'd feel too presumptive to ask! Oh yeah and there's also nothing here from Inertia and The Sleep Stylists - but how far back does one go!!!?
I've always liked the idea of dabbling at short story writing. So about a year ago, I did just that, dabbled. Fun. Interesting. Made me realise how hard it is to keep a consistent style when you're writing more than a paragraph or 2 though. I'm keen to continue, but I definitiely need to develop my creative writing skills further. For now, though, these early experiments sit here as a starting point.
For me, photography and digital editing offer a far greater immediacy than music or writing. But I struggle to give these ideas meaning or significance, so it always just feels like playing around.
So here’s a collection of ideas and images that never quite had a home or a context to sit within.
I’m hoping photography will take on a greater resonance within Falling Trees — as part of a bigger, more connected whole.
