I blogged about the Double L previously however For some time a Double Steve thing has been reoccurring in my conciousness. Perhaps the first time I noticed it was in relation the writer who uses the name Stephen King .Stephen means "crowned one" in Greek so his pen name is essentially "King King" .
In an interview I was listening to today with Rowetta of Happy Mondays by Carl Loben of the Drum Monkeys. I was made aware of two Steve Mac's with a Bristol connection; one (a white guy) & record producer the other (a black guy), house DJ and record producer. This reminded me of Steve Jackson (Gamer) and Steve Jackson (Kiss fm DJ)
And a few other DJ/Producers named Steve .
Kiss fm in its heyday had a few other "DJ Doubles" on Black & White tip ; Colin Favour/Colin Dale and Matt Black/Matt White.
I've blogged elsewhere on my own "White Steve" alias given to me by my Kung Fu teacher to differentiate me from "Black Steve"
In regards to my real name I've never actually met any one with the same name. But in the aforementioned Rowetta interview they also mentioned the well known music journalist named "Stephen" who shares my surname. I was always aware of him as I was a regular reader of NME in my teens but he never really impacted my life.
Which leads on to the next event which I sometimes wonder ever really happened, it was seems so absurd. I was in my 1st year of University , It was the early nineties, and around the time I settled on the use of my JSteveKane alias.Aa friend of mine and I had been to a club night entitled "innersense" at a place called the lazerdrome in Peckham Rye. We had just got back to East London after quite a hard night partying when we were stopped by the Police. Whilst we had done nothing wrong we were nervous and even more so, after the initial questions had been answered and checks carried out and we were still not free to move on.There was much talk on the police radio and the focus was clearly on me.In the end we were allowed to go, but not before the officer explained the reason for the hold up was I apparently share the same name as a "political dissident" of interest in regard to the delicate situation in Northern Ireland.
In regards to my real name I've never actually met any one with the same name. But in the aforementioned Rowetta interview they also mentioned the well known music journalist named "Stephen" who shares my surname. I was always aware of him as I was a regular reader of NME in my teens but he never really impacted my life.
Which leads on to the next event which I sometimes wonder ever really happened, it was seems so absurd. I was in my 1st year of University , It was the early nineties, and around the time I settled on the use of my JSteveKane alias.Aa friend of mine and I had been to a club night entitled "innersense" at a place called the lazerdrome in Peckham Rye. We had just got back to East London after quite a hard night partying when we were stopped by the Police. Whilst we had done nothing wrong we were nervous and even more so, after the initial questions had been answered and checks carried out and we were still not free to move on.There was much talk on the police radio and the focus was clearly on me.In the end we were allowed to go, but not before the officer explained the reason for the hold up was I apparently share the same name as a "political dissident" of interest in regard to the delicate situation in Northern Ireland.
Years later my Steve/Laserdrome connection came back to haunt me after a particularly heavy night out I caught a night bus home that terminated in Peckham Rye meaning a walk to Forest Hill, but as I stumbled off the night bus I looked up to see the long since derelict laserdrome the security screening accompied by signage with "secured by Stephen Kane" written on.
Strange indeed! I've blogged elsewhere in relation to the Double Steve / Stephen Strange.
Recently the BBC TV series Small Axe directed by Steve McQueen reminded me of the movie legend of the same name who I only ever watched in "The great escape"
Recently the BBC TV series Small Axe directed by Steve McQueen reminded me of the movie legend of the same name who I only ever watched in "The great escape"
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