OVERLAND

Hard Rock • United Kingdom
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Steve Overland is a legend in his own lifetime. Is there anyone out there who is not familiar with his name? He has a musical history that goes way back into the late seventies and his first major recording was with the band “Wildlife” in 1980. Their first album “Burning” was a fine introduction to his vocal prowess while the second album “Wildlife” in 1983 extended his popularity. This album also featured Simon Kirke (Bad Company) on drums. After the demise of “Wildlife” Steve went on to form the cult British melodic rock band “FM”, a band that released many great albums throughout the eighties and nineties. Their popularity has always been at the forefront of British Hard Rock as their recent performance at the Firefest in Nottingham in 2007 showed with an enthusiastic crowd bursting at the seams.

Steve originally teamed up with Escape Music to provide lead vocals
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OVERLAND Break Away album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Break Away
Hard Rock 2008
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Diamond Dealer
Hard Rock 2009
OVERLAND Epic album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
Epic
Hard Rock 2014

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OVERLAND Epic

Album · 2014 · Hard Rock
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Kev Rowland
Steve Overland surely needs no introduction whatsoever, having fronted FM for so many years as well being involved with other bands such as The Ladder and Shadowman. So I was very interested indeed in hearing this, and when I discovered that Mike Slamer (City Boy, Seventh Key) and Billy Greer (Kansas, Seventh Key) were involved then I knew that this was just absolutely essential! So, I put it on, sat back, and listened to 47 minutes of great vocals with Steve showing why he really should be put on a pedestal next to Glenn Hughes. The production is also spot on, with perfect clarity and the harmonies mixed just so, but at the end I felt that somehow I had been hard done by. It isn’t exactly AOR/melodic hard rock by numbers, but it is pretty damn close. There are some fairly strong songs here and there, but they’re not doing anything dramatically new, and these are the better ones.

I am sure that anyone who is a fan of Steve or his other bands is just going to lap this up, but there is a definite lack of hooks and the feeling that this has been created to a formula for a certain set of people. I’m just not one of them.

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