Born in Stirling, Scotland in the late 60s, now living in stunning Arisaig on the west coast, Steve first picked up the guitar at 8 years of age and rarely put it down.

Formed the punk band POLITICAL ASYLUM while still in High School, the band released 3 albums and one EP. They toured Europe in 1987 then Steve left to form rock band SEEING RED with the amazing singer ANGIE COBB TOWNSEND. A few good breaks, including some live TV and playing in London’s iconic Marquee Club, recording in studios previously owned by Jimmy Page and Gus Dudgeon and releasing an album produced by Nirvana/Foo Fighters engineer Ian Beveridge — the band split in 1993.

In 1994 Steve was playing with Norwegian American singer songwriter FJAERE. They performed a half hour set in the White Room in Abbey Road studios in front of George Martin and Bob Harris. This led them to playing in Japan later that year and Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in 1995.

One of Steve’s lockdown projects was producing TRIBUTES — SONGS FOR NEIL VOL.1. An album of Rush songs played by Rush tribute bands from around the world and dedicated to Rush drummer Neil Peart who tragically passed away in January 2020. Vols 2 & 3 have since been released in 2021 and 2022 — on Neil's birthday 12 Sept.

Steve is also a member of the GREAT GLEN SWING BAND playing big band jazz around the Scottish Highlands and festivals such as BELLADRUM.

One of the most important musically creative experiences of Steve’s life was working with ANGIE TOWNSEND on her solo album BUTTERFLY.

Steve’s second lockdown album was released under his alter ego BROON. A collection of mandolin and guitar instrumentals COSMIC CEILIDH came out in January 2021 and gained some great reviews. This was album of the week on BBC RADIO NAN GAIDHEAL — the BBC’s Scottish Gaelic station.

Around this same time, January 2021, Steve began studying under Chris Shreenan-Dyck, Michael Elsner and Gabriel Candiani — experts in the field of sync — placing music and songs in TV, film and ads. Steve has since landed deals with Sync agents, publishers and Warner Chappell production music.

Steve is happy to share his new-found knowledge with his studio clients, and in doing so, formed the online songwriting group, Serve the Song. This is where he met Barbara Cooper — who had the main idea for Steve's debut country music release ONE HIT SONG — released on all platforms on 1st December 2022. During this single's pre-release campaign Steve was invited to play the song at the GRAND OLE OPRY in GLASGOW. This single features backing singers from Steve's lockdown songwriting group — a German opera singer, Norwegian art gallery director, Danish school teacher, Cumbrian councillor and Glaswegian school cleaner.

ONE HIT SONG" REACHED NUMBER ONE in the iTunes UK Country charts! It entered at #2 on release and hit the top spot later that day.

Steve is co-host for the podcast SERVE THE SONGWRITER.

• Political Asylum — Someday, Winter, Rock You Sucker
• Seeing Red — TV Degeneration, Keep The Fire Burning
• Wonderland — Looking For Alice, In Your Dreams, Crying Out Loud, Songs For Sofia, The Rivendell Sessions
• John Coletta — All This Fun Is Killing Me
• Tim Branston — Slidin’ Down the 9
• Gary Aaron Stuart — Elvis Through The Years & 3 more
• Steve Brown — Sun Studio
• Bodie — Songs For Dawn
• Angie Townsend — Butterfly
• Moving Pictures — Live in Northern Ireland
• Various — RUSHfest Scotland — TRIBUTES, Songs For Neil Vol.1
• Broon — Cosmic Ceilidh – album of the week BBC RADIO NAN GAIDHEAL Feb 2021
• Various — RUSHfest Scotland - THE STARS LOOK DOWN - Songs for Neil Vol.2
• Seeing Red — One Heart (feat. Angie Townsend)
• VARIOUS — RUSHfest Scotland - TRIBUTES - Songs for Neil Vol.3

Albums Currently in Production

SEEING RED — EDZELL 1991