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7/12/23

DC Presents: Edwin R. Stevens and guests

Delicious Clam is proud to welcome back a familiar face in these parts: the sickeningly talented Edwin R. Stevens. Edwin has been a stalwart in the UK music scene for well over a decade now - you may recognise him under his previous alias Irma Vep, as a member of The Birthmarks, Sex Hands, Klaus Kinski, Yerba Mansa, Web of Lies...as a secret clamlines headliner a few years ago...the list goes on!

He has just announced his new album God On All Fours, the first record under his own name following on from 2017’s No Handshake Blues under his Irma Vep alias. Stevens’ forthcoming album is due out 10th November via Ankstmusik.

What does it mean “to go straight?” How did Metallica get to Nothing Else Matters after years of brutality? How did David Lynch come to tell his Straight Story? Like these artists, Edwin Stevens, long-time guitar mangler, distorted punk waste merchant and fecally-obsessed author has loped off his gnarly edges and protrusions to reveal something not straight, perhaps, but something approaching pure and recognisable. God On All Fours is Stevens’ “straightest” album to date and by far his bravest and most approachable. Edwin R. Stevens’ “straight story” turns out to be a masterclass in storytelling.

Emerging from behind the shadow of his “singer/songwriter” alias, Irma Vep, Stevens perhaps reveals more of himself as a human being than ever before. If Irma Vep’s overpowering compulsion was for self-analysis bordering on self-flagellation (as hilarious and thrilling as that often was), under his own name his stories seem more well-rounded, more honest.

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