[Name] Steven Hewitt
[Date of Birth] March 22, 1971
[Age] 27
[Lost his virginity when] he was age 13
[Started smoking when] he was age 11
[Nick Name] The Beast
[Star Sign] Aries
[Favorite Show] The Simpsons (YAH!)
[Favorite Placebo Song] Ask for Answers
[What kind of smokes] Marlboro Lights
[Family] Steve has a 2 year old daughter with his ex-girlfriend. He has said that he gets very angry when they talk, because they fight about their daughter. He has thrown several phones through the window.
[He met Placebo when] he was dating a girl who Brian went to high school with and they first met at Burger King and Steve had played a few gigs with Brian before they re-met.
[Steve is] straight, the other members are Brian-Bi, and Stefan, who is openly gay.
[Films] Steve has been in the movie Velvet Goldmine, which also has the rest of the band except for Stefan in it...Steve played a drummer in a band and named Billy...
[Instrument] Drums, Precussion
[Influences]Nick Cave, Bee Gees, Smashing Pumpkins, James Brown, Black Music And Thomas Wydler Drummer from the Bad Seeds
[Nationality]UK
[Height] 5ft 9in
[Previous bands] Mystic Deckchairs, The Boo Radleys and K-Klass
[Buys Clothes in] all over the place
[His Motto is] Don't trust Anyone
[Favorite Film] Telletubbies
[His Greatest High] Spain with U2 and New York with Bowie
[His Fantasy Band] Prince, Thomas Wydler, Sly Stone, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Tom Waits
[Liked to be remembered as] A Top Bloke and and a Good Dad
Born 22nd of March 1971, Steve grew up near Manchester in Northwich, home to Tim Burgess of the Charlatans. Steve actually played with Burgess for a time in the Electric Crayons. He also featured in a band called the Mystic Deckchairs. At seventeen he saw an advert in Afflecks Palace: 'Genius duo require drummer for German tour'. He duly joined Breed, toured Germany and left to join the Boo Radleys on a temporary basis. After recording the Boo Radleys debut album he was again gigging frantically leaving Breed on the back seat for eighteen months. Simultaneously, Steve was playing with then happening dance outfit K-Klass, who scored five top 40 hits from 91-94. In time, Steve found himself being sucked into the London session work, doing the music for car adverts. Back then, money was always a factor. And money was the knife that slit Breeds throat. They came off Nick Caves "let Love In" tour (where Steve developed a friendship with The Bad Seed drummer Thomas Wylder), devastated to discover that they were still nobodies. This was after six years together, two of those spent touring with Cave. Following a dismal, disastrous gig at the Bull and gate, Breed called it a day. With a pregnant girlfriend and no musical work forthcoming, Steve was forced to get a job as a forklift truck driver. "I had to get back into music again," he decided, "I can’t function without playing" Today, aged 26, Steve doesn’t have to worry about jacking in his day job. In the past he’s been a joiner and an apprentice building racing cars for Williams; he even did a stint at Dougie’s Music store in Northwich. Steve Hewitt became a drummer because one of the kids at school asked him to. His first gig was a school assembly at Weaversham High, playing Fleetwood Mac’s "Albatross". He didn’t even have a foot pedal. A self taught player, at seventeen he was already teaching others, working out of Dougie’s store. Steve’s elder brother was a rock fan, so Steve loved AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Dio. Later he got into more indie-inclined likes of The Smiths and The Wonderstuff, along with the obligatory weed smoking Pink Floyd interludes. In terms of sound and style, Steve has taken Placebo’s recorded drum tracks and built on them. "I listened to the first Placebo LP," he says, "and I thought Robert was technically a good drummer, but in terms of feel and groove it felt like he was fighting it. I’ve just sorted out the tempos really, on the stuff that was done before I joined, and just put more groove, more feel in it. Made it less uptight."
It was actually Steve who played on the very first ever Placebo demos, along with Brian and Stefan. Other commitments prevented him from joining the band back then... but that's a long story... When Robert 'left' Placebo Steve was the first drummer to be phoned by Brian who had placed Steve at the top of a list of three. ' I sat in my bedroom with my practice kit for two weeks and learnt the LP', Steve recalls ' Then we had one and a half days rehearsal before touring thirteen countries in four months!'.
