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On Learning Not to Walk Past Suffering (2024)
Steve Miles talks in his 'In Dreams Begin Responsibilities' column to Illinois musician and former Beauty Shop frontman John Hoeffleur about the empathy behind the songs that he has started publishing on Bandcamp under the moniker of Green Boots.
Heaven Is Whenever We Can Get Together 3 - ‘Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls.’ (2023)
In the third part of his four part series, Steve Miles continues his interview with Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, putting his writing process under the spotlight, and looking at how focus on mental health plays a key role in the band’s bond with the audience.
Heaven Is Whenever We Can Get Together 4 – ‘When you look a little closer, you learn a lot more.’ (2023)
In the fourth and final part of his series on music and mental health, Steve Miles talks to Heavenly’s Amelia Fletcher, on the band and the tragic death of her brother in 1997.
Heaven Is Whenever We Can Get Together 1 - ‘A small flame that burns very, very hot.’ (2023)
In this special article spread over four parts, Steve Miles discusses the role of intimacy and belonging in music. He begins by remembering encounters with Joy Division and New Order, and starts to conduct an extensive and wide-ranging interview with The Hold Steady frontman, Craig Finn.
Heaven Is Whenever We Can Get Together: 2 - ‘The best advice that I've gotten’ (2023)
In the second part of this four part article Steve Miles examines the links between religion and fandom with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and ponders the effect of gigs by The Smiths, The Libertines and The Dandy Warhols as he continues to find an answer to the question of why and how music matters so much.
Music and Mental Health - Searching for Harmony. A special interview with debutant Marlody on her new album. (2023)
In 'In Dreams Begin Responsibilities' Steve Miles assesses and talks to Marlody about her extraordinary debut album. ''I'm Not Sure At All'.
Music and Mental Health: Don't Talk To Me About Work (2022)
‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ Steve Miles looks at the world of work, and with reference to Lou Reed, The Ramones, The Fall, Generation X, 999 and Patrik Fitzgerald, asks why so few songs have otherwise been written about it.
Resilience and A Life In Mono (2022)
In this special edition of ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,’ Steve Miles continues his insightful exploration of the relationship between music and mental health by looking in depth at just one artist, the fascinating and fantastic unsigned Life In Mono, and meditating on the meaning of resilience.
#6 - ‘Sometimes when I wake up/ Feel like I never woke up at all...’ - Peter Perrett and the Primacy of the Emotions : Music and Mental Health Part 3). (2021)
In his regular column ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ Steve Miles reflects on the themes of anxiety and depression in the lyrics of the Only Ones’ Peter Perrett.
#5 - ‘We all have good intentions/ But all with strings attached’: Music and Mental Health Part 2 (2021)
In his regular column ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’, Steve Miles continues to looks at the issue of mental health and reflects on the positive effect of music and songs by The Gang of Four, The Fall, The Television Personalities, Black Uhuru, The Au Pairs and The Slits on his adolescence.
#4: From Leonard Cohen to Long Covid: Music and Mental Health – Part 1 (2021)
In his regular column ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’, Steve Miles begins to looks at the topical issue of mental health and its effect on music and songs by Leonard Cohen, Suicidal Tendencies and The Smiths.
#3 (2021)
In his column ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ European Sun and The Short Stories’ Steve Miles reflects on the role of silence in music.
#2 (2021)
In his new column, European Sun's Steve Miles continues to assess what punk means to him, and in the second part of a two part article examines the latter five out of ten groups that transformed his life.
#1 (2020)
In his new column, European Sun's Steve Miles admits that he is ‘a punk through and through’ and verifies the point by citing in the first part of a two part article five out of the ten incomparable bands that changed his life.