Stevie Jackson
Stevie Jackson
Stephen "Stevie" Jacksonis a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is best known for playing lead guitar and singing in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle & Sebastian. Jackson's guitar playing is distinctively retrogressive and melodic, with a heavy use of reverb and minimal effects. He has, in the past, been nicknamed 'Reverb' or 'Stevie Reverb' due to his use of the said effect...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 January 1969
thinking artistic good-art
I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.
thinking shy groups
I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.
thinking laughing lazy
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.
thinking records representation
I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.
fall moving thinking
The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.
america deal favorite full wonder
Everyone is making a really big deal about it, and that's great. America is my favorite place in the world. It is full of wonder and magic.
belle guitar player
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
hit hopefully people together
I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.
imagination
I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.
contribute couple decline disastrous insane muddle records struck style worlds
Stuart was insisting (we contribute songs), which I thought was a pretty disastrous idea. The first couple of records were very self-contained worlds with a style that was all their own. It struck me as being insane to muddle what was so distinctive in the first place. I thought there would be a decline in quality. And I think there was.
definitely fast few fire gig guess reach shows trying unusual
This definitely is an unusual gig for us. It's all about trying to reach more people. The shows are short, which makes it kind of different. I guess we're just going to fire off a few fast ones.
chord draws finished group ideas main people rhythm riff sequence
Actually, it's just the opposite. Stuart is still the main guy, obviously, but he now draws more from the group than ever. In the old days, people would come in with their finished songs. Now, everyone in the group contributes ideas ? a chord sequence or a riff or a rhythm or anything.
given
I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.
areas art bits lots people projects round stretching trying
I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.