Dave Stead

David Stead (born 15 October 1966), is a drummer from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Stead was the drummer for the alternate pop / rock band, The Beautiful South.

After his parents separated, Stead moved with his mother and siblings to Cottingham, a village on the outskirts of Hull. He attended Cottingham High school, and following school worked as an electrical fitter for a few years, after which he was employed part-time as a sound engineer at the nearby alternative live music club, The Adelphi.

When sixteen-years-old he, with his older brother Mick, started the band The Luddites, with himself on drums and Mark Fell (1962-1984) on bass. The band released two singles, "Doppelganger" and "Altered States" on Eccentric Records. After The Luddites, Stead joined the band Vicious Circle. In August 1988 he joined The Beautiful South,^[1] playing on thirteen albums with the band.

Stead took over the Boars Nest restaurant in Princes Avenue, west Hull, converting it to the 'Union Mash Up' venue and restaurant. Following a July 2012 planning committee failure to add a bar licence for the venue Stead announced that he was closing the business.^[2] He promoted a proposed music festival in Huddersfield, 'Song 07', which was cancelled.

References

↑ "The Beautiful South - the Band". BBC. 29 November 2001. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
↑ "Dave Stead to close Hull's Union Mash Up restaurant after bar plan rejected", Hull Daily Mail, 18 July 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2015

The Beautiful South

Paul Heaton Dave Hemingway Sean Welch Dave Stead David Rotheray Briana Corrigan Jacqui Abbott Alison Wheeler

Studio albums	Welcome to the Beautiful South Choke 0898 Beautiful South Miaow Blue Is the Colour Quench Painting It Red Gaze Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs Superbi

Compilation albums	Carry on up the Charts Solid Bronze: Great Hits Gold Soup The BBC Sessions Live at the BBC

Singles	"Song For Whoever" "You Keep It All In" "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" "A Little Time" "My Book" "Let Love Speak Up Itself" "Old Red Eyes Is Back" "We Are Each Other" "Bell Bottomed Tear" "36D" "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" "Everybody's Talkin'" "Prettiest Eyes" "One Last Love Song" "Dream a Little Dream" "Pretenders to the Throne" "Rotterdam (or Anywhere)" "Don't Marry Her" "Blackbird on the Wire" "Liars' Bar" "Perfect 10" "Dumb" "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" "The Table" "Closer than Most" "The River/Just Checkin'" "The Root of All Evil" "Just a Few Things That I Ain't" "Let Go with the Flow" "Livin' Thing" "This Old Skin" "This Will Be Our Year" "Manchester" "The Rose of My Cologne"

Related articles	Discography The Housemartins

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