Steven Wells R.I.P.

I’ll leave it to his contemporaries to write the perceptive, insightful, emotional stuff.

ET has collected a list of tributes here.

There’s also the ever brilliant WSC forum too.

In James Brown’s piece he says “Anything loud or unhip became his domain” which seems particularly astute in the context of the few measly scraps I can offer.

Carter USM, Jesus Jones and finally, perhaps fittingly, Snuff.

Snuff said.

Indeed.

Steven Wells interviews Carter USM, 19th November 1994. Photos Roger Sargent & Derek Ridgers

Steven Wells interviews Jesus Jones, 1st July 1989. Photo Lawrence Watson.

Steven Wells reviews Snuff Said by Snuff, 18th November 1989

The Stone Roses on the cover of NME, 4th March 1995

The Stone Roses on the cover of NME, 4th March 1995. Photo by Derek Ridgers.

R.E.M. on the cover of NME, 23rd March 1991

REM on the cover of NME, 23rd March 1991. Photo by Derek Ridgers.

Catching up.