https://edwinrstevens.com Edwin Stevens Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 https://edwinrstevens.com en http://edwinrstevens.com/Home-Page Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 Edwin Stevens 395353 EDWIN STEVENS Is a musician and writer from Llanfairfechan, Wales. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland. e d w i n r o w l e y s t e v e n s a t g m a i l . c o m O U&nbsp; T.&nbsp; &nbsp;N O OW A Plague Of Gimps by Edwin R Stevens A PLAGUE OF GIMPS out 06/03/26 Wrong Speed Records Welsh-born, now Glasgow-based writer and recording artist, Edwin R Stevens presents A PLAGUE OF GIMPS, a minimal and absurd 10 song affair dwelling on grief, hereditary dumb f*ck blues, false memory, nuclear bunkers and blood-letting gimps amongst other things.You may know Edwin from his Irma Vep pseudonym and a peerless back catalogue on labels such as Faux Disc and Gringo. He was also behind The Web Of Lies album "Nude With Demon" (Wrong Speed, 2022) as well as the guitar portion of free-rocking duo Yerba Mansa (among many other projects).In 2021, Emyr Williams (rest in power, hero) asked Edwin to make an album under his own name for his label Ankst, resulting in the incredible "God On All Fours" (2023). Perhaps it’s too simple to say that making music under his own name allowed Edwin to be more honest, direct and personal but it certainly feels that way to anyone listening."A Plague Of Gimps" is the follow-up. The gimps of the title would seem to refer to the mental intrusions that tie us all in knots. We revisit, replay and over-think to infinity, time ticking as our single shot at happiness and fulfilment slides into a whirlpool of repetitious thought.Those recurring / intrusive themes still shape the songs but now it feels they’re being dealt with differently. Edwin describes "A Plague Of Gimps" as a “hangover” of the previous album – the themes of "God On All Fours" linger but are no longer obsessions:“I can tell I’m moving on, and I’m proud/happy with that”You can hear this too. The lyrics feel more refined – the stories might be longer and more densely-packed, but the storytelling is sharper. The absurd imagery that characterises Edwin’s work was always used to disarm and disrupt but now it puts the listener in a place where the heaviness of the story can hit the hardest. The instrumentation is stripped back to give those lyrics the space they need and the sonic choices illuminate the songs perfectly and magically.A word from Wrong Speed: this record destroys us. We've lived with it for some time now and it's burnt itself into us. There's heavy music out there with battle jackets and big amps and edgy imagery and whatever else. But this is different. This is crushing. The space in the music left for the voice is like leaving a door ajar to let the monster in."A Plague Of Gimps" is a beautiful and personal record. A moment in a life caught and bottled perfectly and uniquely.Put simply: no one does it like this.“NO MORAL REALM / NO PROPAGANDA / JUST BLIND SINCERITY AND JOY FOR THE CURIOSITY IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS” – E.R.S. 2026 creditsreleases March 6, 2026Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh – ViolaDan Bridgwood Hill – ViolinEdwin R Stevens – Everything ElseRecorded 2024/2025 in Glasgow, Scotland and Llanfairfechan, WalesMastered by John Hamilton GIGS:<img width="1400" height="1400" width_o="1400" height_o="1400" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2f737c6d40ddddb2de404d8a94a1643f596c0c069f2f86cdb1050569b1c069a4/gigs2026.png" data-mid="1431208" border="0" /> TICKETS: GLASGOW - THE FLYING DUCK MANCHESTER - KAMERA LONDON - DEPRFORD JUNCTION CARDIFF - PARADISE GARDEN GETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETTOFUCKGETT <img width="6614" height="4843" width_o="6614" height_o="4843" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/831cd706f87131bf49b78601f656780d988b8f9e28bc1cc0c11b4a0526a99e1d/papurmawr.jpg" data-mid="1414557" border="0" />THE PAPER - ISSUE TWO: TERRORBUY HERE <img width="385" height="573" width_o="385" height_o="573" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c82df00196c22ceeda31dafbc1857b9e0cba81e34913f9fb31663e17c7d4f093/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-13.47.10.png" data-mid="1414556" border="0" /> I contributed a short story called IAN along with some beautiful illustrations for the latest issue of&nbsp; The Paper: “IN THIS ISSUE: Dr Death, inventor of a 3D-printed portable suicide machine, on mortality. Mami Onami, former Children of God member, on morality. Jacob Reynolds on flying, being a father, and shooting Gummo. Previously unseen sketches from ex-Burzhum associate Jannicke Wiese-Hansen and Goosebumps illustrator, Tim Jacobus, and breaking into the Gibbons Twins archive. Personal stories about being haunted by an Ian Rush lookalike you saw flattened by a train, reflections on the complexity of your so-called ‘Slag Nan’, and ‘Every Time I’ve Shat My Pants’ by Emily [Redacted]. Fashion editorials shot from the comfort of a bed, a giant alien genital-monster centrefold, and the most unhinged iPad review ever written. Infected boob jobs, drafts for a suicide note, the madness emitted from your town's Victorian asylum, a noise that won’t leave you alone—and so. much. more. FEATURING: Admesster, Ailish James, Alejandro Bellizzi, Alex Nankivell, Alice-Louise MacGillivray, Ania Goszczyńska, April Clarke, Aran Harris, Ben Davies, Bertie Brandes, Bruce Birmelin, Daisy Hopkins, Dana Bonev, Dr Daniel Evans, David Tibet, Dracowhip, Edwin R Stevens, Emily [Redacted], Erin Jones, Elinor Evans, Ellie Baldwin, Ffian Jones, Hedd Jones, Henry Johns, Jacob Reynolds, Jack Parton, James Thomas, Jannike Wiese-Hansen, Jennifer Gibbons, Joshua Jones, June-Alison Gibbons, Justin Missner, Kirsty Purnell, Mami Onami, Megan Winstone, Michael Alberry, Philip Nitshke, Ross Jones, Sammy-Jo Webb-Edwards, Sam Evans, Sei Neale, Summer Emerald, Sylvia Evans, Tim Jacobus, Trees Heil, Tudor Etchells, Verity Bentley, Yiwen Lin.” PERFECT ANGEL PRESS 1 Perfect Angel Press/Gob Nation 2024 <img width="1000" height="1600" width_o="1000" height_o="1600" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3771d1f921ff8ad484a223e58e31fba6a8100c4ebf15b13d31b2f93800be3e71/IMG-20220830-WA0000.JPG" data-mid="1369644" border="0" data-scale="48"/>“A noble venture if there ever was one.“ Dennis Cooper (Author of The Sluts, Frisk, I Wished) A North Walian teenager called ‘Bum Head’ quietly raps about “sucking pussy on the regs”. A Hermes Warehouse Operative derives sexual pleasure from the condoned destruction of Christmas presents. Paul Dunwoody frantically tries to report his neighbour for ‘having unprotected sex with Craig Rusby’. A sinister plot threatens to ruin Benny Blue’s birthday a.k.a ‘the most mental day of the year’. Claire Champagne infiltrates her local Torture Therapy Allotment and accuses her psychotherapist ex-husband of seducing a refugee. California dreaming in Greggs. Carveries with a married man. Drinking a pot noodle with a hand on one hip. Perfect Angel 1 is a collection of twelve spiteful blasts of short fiction and poetry. Some of these writers are publishing for the first time. Others are in the publishing/journo world. Most write stories about what Paul Dunwoody would term ‘the droppings of society’. BUY SEAGULLS very bon books 2020<img width="8309" height="11712" width_o="8309" height_o="11712" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ab55e017c7a93e62d7592fdfac2fcb2c3f4159eccf75d1002d8bebc9d3c87929/SEAGULLS-IMG.png" data-mid="1037459" border="0" data-scale="48"/> 276 pages in an A6, Perfect Bound book with a hand stamped cover designed and laid out by Matthew Walkerdine.A novel of fourteen&nbsp; stories revolving around a fake North Wales Holiday&nbsp; Park.One of Dennis Cooper’s favourite fiction books of 2020. Also featured here on four books he read recently and loved. “Seagulls is Stevens’ debut novel, a sordid glimpse of an imagined North Walean life, depressing and disgusting but somehow magical, and a version of Pontins quite unfamiliar to that place you may have visited as a child. While I was reading I picked a scab on my ear until it bled and got blood on page 74. It seemed quite fitting. Bumming, wrestling, circumcision, pubey chips, Crosby, Stills, and Nash – it really has it all. Stevens’ capacity for evocative description and dreamlike scene-setting is impeccable. By the end, I was part-aroused, part-nauseated, part-wistful, part-drunk with excitement for his next work. Stevens is my favourite scumbag angel, his first book a perfect flash of his gross, rotting, and beautiful head, and I hope that his hilarious and vivid voice will soon be in your head, too.” – Blair James, Manchester Review of Books "A new major work from Glasgow’s Edwin Stevens. From behind the myth of musical outputs of Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa and countless other fine acts, Edwin has graced us with a piece of fiction which is stated as ‘NSFW’. Local regional stuff which is character driven, funny-not-funny- and funny again, add a little bit of dark. This comes extremely highly recommended. The first book from new Glasgow publisher Very Bon." - Good Press"Don't be fooled by the slick cover there's all sorts of sick stuff inside and with that, glimpses of love stories, friendship and sweet delusions. It's truly good as you'd expect from Edwin...14 unreliable stories revolving around a fake holiday park in North Wales...disgusting and funny and sometimes even sweet."Goodreads Buy from Good Press VERY CONSIDERATE Museums Press / A Plume, 2018 <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4b40cb1c1e6c9a607299d00707080da2715e0161097398d61078cc9456565790/Very-Considerate.jpeg" data-mid="1037464" border="0" data-scale="56"/> 135mm x 210mm, 20 pages, black and red risograph throughout, saddle stitched, edition of 100, 2018 “Very Considerate is a short story by writer and musician Edwin Stevens. Told from the perspective of a protagonist antagonised by their present, their past, and a world that’s too loud, its cumulative stanza’s creep up on you, gathering and staggering through a-day-in-the-life-of laced with ritual habits, grimacing images. Stevens is not shy of the explicit, the adult, the bodily fluids, the soft-lit afternoon delights, the darkest fantasies and the avert-your-eyes realities. He tattoos his mark across characters; places; talismans; vehicles; inner monologues that circle thought like a bad habit; dialogues that unfold like a tic; rural fictions; holiday park fictions; next door neighbour fictions; local shop fictions; rubbish job fictions; nights at the social club fictions BUY Writing: Bum Head Songs (Short Story), 2024 Swan Pedalo (Short Story),&nbsp; 2021 SEAGULLS (a novel), 2020 Very Considerate (short story), 2018 A Plume Annual Volume Two (co-editor) ‘Review’ (short story), From Glasgow to Saturn ‘Mick’ (short story), Front Horse Issue 5 MUSIC Old Yellow Serpent by Old Yellow Serpent OLD YELLOW SERPENT - OLD YELLOW SERPENT Early Music, 2025“Edwin R Stevens and dbh are two jammers-for-life who have been playing together in various constellations for around half of their earthly existence. To my knowledge this is their first duo release, and as such it's appropriately roomy – two 40ish-minute sides of long-form pieces for guitar and fiddle that follow their own winding routes to their own gorgeous ends.” - Jon Collin Yerba Mansa - Gravity&#39;s Joke by Yerba Mansa EDWIN STEVENS Is a musician and writer from Llanfairfechan, Wales. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland. e d w i n r o w l e y s t e v e n s a t g m a i l . c o m O...