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“His ragged juvenile lead tones, as ineffably English as the sort of Sunday teas no one eats anymore. “Steve Somerset, for he is The Shadow Kabinet, created a Sgt Pepper in miniature. Wrote and Recorded four albums under the name The Shadow Kabinet. Society featured music by Justin Hayward, Stephen Duffy, XTC, Steve Hogarth and more. Produced The Wish List an album commemorating fifty years of The M.S. Worked on videos for INXS, Sting, Rush, Thompson Twins, Howard Jones as well as Band Aid, Fashion Aid and Artists Against Apartheid.
Worked for Kevin Godley and Lol Creme at Medialab. These are themes which chime with the sentiments of much of the music of the sixties to which The Haven Green knowingly and lovingly tip their hats. It all happened very quickly but looking back now he thinks the main themes of the album are hope and new beginnings which of course, coming out of the pandemic, made perfect sense. The material just poured out and within three weeks he had recorded the whole album. He recorded the song the next day and the following day wrote two more songs. Immediately he thought “this sounds like The Haven Green". It was an idea he always kept on the back burner, so fast forward through many jobs, bands, projects and flats to 2021 when he found himself sitting on a sofa in Highgate writing a song called ‘Journey To The Stars’. He was living in Ealing near a green space called Haven Green and thought The Haven Green sounded like the name of a late sixties band he even came up with a title for their album ‘To Whom It May Concern’. In the mid eighties Steve Somerset had moved to London and was working as part of the creative team for Kevin Godley and Lol Creme at their video production company Medialab.