Steve Cradock - Peace City West (Remix 2021)

Steve Cradock, songwriter, producer and guitarist for Ocean Colour Scene, Paul Weller and The Specials presents a brand new mix of his sophomore solo album Peace City West, released on vinyl for the very first time via Kundalini Records. The multi-talented Steve Cradock needs no introduction.

During his esteemed 30-plus-year career he’s cemented his position not only as one of the UK’s finest guitarists during his time with the million-selling Ocean Colour Scene and as long serving right-hand man to the ever-evolving Paul Weller, but he’s also toured and recorded with influential Brit-Ska legends The Specials and forged a path as a formidable solo artist, songwriter and producer via his work with legendary singer PP Arnold and young British soul artist Yasmin Kiddle.

The follow up to Steve’s 2009 solo debut The Kundalini Target, and the second in a trilogy of solo LP’s released between 2009 and 2013, Peace City West was recorded in December 2010 in an intense one month creative period at Deep Litter Studios in his native South Devon, but the seeds of its creation lie in the album’s opening track ‘Last Days Of The Old World’. “I recorded it at (Paul Weller’s) Black Barn Studio’s towards the end of the Kundalini sessions,” explains Steve. “It wasn’t the same session, but around the same time and that was all I had. I just thought ‘I have to make an album now I’ve done that tune’, it set me on the road to it.”