Liverpool Football Club, Billy Bragg, David Rovics, Tom Waits, Lyle Lovitt, The men they couldn't hang, The Pogues, Ray Davies, The Beatles, Rush, The English Beat, The Smithereens, Neil Young, Redgum
The song is everything. The attitude is not. Music is a game of survivors and Steve Sinnicks is nothing if not here to stay.
If you live in Southern Ontario, there is a good chance that you have seen Steve Sinnicks on stage. Steve plays pubs, clubs, campuses and festivals almost 365 days a year. Lefty, labourside and not interested in who knows it, with the trio or solo, no two gigs are the same.
Original songs and acoustic shows ... anywhere draft beer or solidarity can be sold.
Original Discography
1998 Truck Songs Compilation, Drog Records
1999 September 8 1977, Big Eddy And The Trailer Park 5
2000 Slow Learner, Independent
2001 Work Songs Compilation, Drog Records
2002 5 Songs 5 Bucks, Independent
2003 Songs Under 60 Seconds, Drog Records
2003 If You Don..t Want Genie, Don..t Rub The Lamp, Independent
2004 Dressed to Kilt, with the Tartan Terrors
2005 Unpubbed, with the Tartan Terrors
2006 Who's Your Paddy with the Tartan Terrors
2007 Tartan Terrors Christmas
2008 Red Meat and Blue 88's Independant
Backing Musician Or Solo Performer
Performances:
NXNE, CMW, Edmonton Songwriters Festival, COCA Conference, Hamilton Days of Protest, Festival of Friends, Red Skies, Hamilton Place, Oakville Place, Sanderson Centre, Convocation Hall, Western University, McMaster University, Freshwater Folk Concerts, It..s Your Festival, Lindsay Academy Theatre, Capital Centre, The West End Cultural Centre, Pennsylvania RenFaire, Irish Cultural Centre Milwaukee, University of Memphis, University of South Carolina, and too many clubs to mention.
Opening Act For:
The Rheostatics, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Spirit of the West, Junkhouse, Fred Eaglesmith, Garnet Rogers, Ron Hawkins, Teenage Head.
Television:
Much Music, Open Mic with Mike Bullard, Breakfast Television, (City) Lunch T.V., News at Noon (OnTV), CFTO, The Big Breakfast (Winnipeg).
Live Credits:
Stompin.. Tom Conners, Tom Wilson, Stephen Fearing, Elizabeth Hill, Kim Deschamps, Big Smoke, Tartan Terrors, Scottish Dance Company of Canada, The Killjoys.
Recording Credits:
Shawn Brush, Ray Materick, Coyote Shivers, Harrison Kennedy, Jacob Moon, Rob Lamothe.
Quotes Of Note
..True songs about people, for the people....Exclaim Magazine
..Thank God Steve Sinnicks is an undiscovered talent. It gives the world something to look forward to hearing....Tom Wilson, Junkhouse, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Juno Award winning songwriter
..Sinnicks.. wit is sharp and there is no rosy tint on his view of things. It..s rootsy people music you don..t hear on the radio anymore but is still live and well in the live halls.....Hamilton Spectator
