Steve Mason

I have been a fan of The Beta Band for many years and in fact I met one of the original members at an open mic night in Edinburgh years ago who goes by the name of Lone Pigeon.

He told me he wrote my favourite Beta Band song, Dry the Rain, and that he had to leave the band cause he went mad by taking too many shrooms.

I have been a fan of another original member, Steve Mason, since I discovered his solo work about 8 years ago.

It took me until the day of the gig to decide to go cause of money concerns but I couldn’t let it slide so I bought two tickets and dragged Emma along.

The support act seemed genuinely thrilled to by playing in Scotland and said it was a bucketlist dream ticked off.

Here is Cobain Jones and yes he was named after Kurt.

Steve Mason comes across as a really down to earth bloke but his songs have a deep spiritual power and it was definitely one of the best gigs I have been to in terms of stirring up emotions of fighting back against they system with love and intelligence.

Don’t believe me? Well here is the full gig so you can see for yourselves from our front row position.

I really loved a new track of his in particular which mentioned poets, so after the gig I went to my car to get a copy of my book and then went back to the merch stall to give it to him and grab a quick photo.

Emma really enjoyed it to and told Steve that as I took the selfie. It didn’t come out too good but thankfully Emma took a couple of Steve and I when I was handing him my book.