Steve Vantsis
Steve Vantsis (born 14 October 1969, Leith, Edinburgh) is a Scottish bass guitarist. He has played live and recorded with River City People, Horse, Billy Mackenzie, Jill Jones, John Young, Candy Dulfer, Bonnie Tyler, KT Tunstall and Heather Findlay amongst others.
He currently lives in Worcestershire with his partner and son. Vantsis has also worked as a graphic designer.
Steve has made regular appearances for Deportivo Lack of Talent FC between touring in 2012 & 2013.
Work with Fish
He is perhaps best known for having been Fish's permanent live and studio bass guitarist from the Sunsets on Empire tour (1997) until July 2008. During that time, he has appeared on the studio albums Raingods with Zippos, Fellini Days, Field of Crows and 13th Star. Vantsis also performed hundreds of gigs around the world during his time in the band. On the latest Fish album, 13th Star, he was Fish's main songwriting collaborator writing and arranging most of the album.
On 27 July 2008, Fish announced via his mailing list,[1] that Steve Vantsis had left the line-up, having played his final gig with Fish at a festival in Germany on 19 July 2008. Vantsis did not issue any official statement himself.
Tilt
In 2009, Vantsis formed the band "Tilt" whose nucleus consists of himself (bass, guitars, keys, loops, programming), Robin Boult (guitars) and Dave Stewart (drums, percussion). Tilt's first release, the EP Million Dollar Wound, also featured John Wesley, Frank Usher, Irvin Duguid, all of who have also been working with Fish and/or Marillion at some point, and vocalists Holly Tomas, Paul Dourley and Kaela Rowan.[2]
Work with Heather Findlay
In 2010 he played bass on ex-Mostly Autumn singer Heather Findlay's debut EP 'The Phoenix Suite' and in 2011 he joined her touring band.
References
- ↑ "Official Fish site: Email from Fish". the-company.com. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ↑ "www.milliondollarwound.co.uk". www.milliondollarwound.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-05-11.