Steve Mason at TRNSMT 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Our next gallery from TRNSMT 2019 features Steve Mason, at the festival last weekend after the release of his latest solo album About The Light in January.
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“Last year’s reissue of The Beta Band’s Three EPs would seem to have been the obvious springboard for a long anticipated and lucrative reformation for the four space cadets who played the industry for suckers but ended up broke and dissolute; former singer Steve Mason, however, quietly pushed the idea to one side, saying that all the old gang were ‘pretty busy’,” our About The Light review reads.
“It’s hard to work out whether Mason has more to lose or gain from anything like that, chiefly because the Scot has undertaken a solo career determinedly on his own terms, at the same time gradually recovering from personal issues while both in and out of the public eye.”
“After a triumphant, chapter-closing retrospective at the Barbican in early 2017, About The Light is the fourth album released under his own name, one which perhaps a little peculiarly he claims is ‘the first legitimate record that I have ever made’.”
Coming up next for Mason are appearances at the Deer Shed and Green Man festivals, with a headline tour of the UK and Ireland following in November.