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Steve Treatment
12+ albums
post-punkpunkdiypunk rock
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Steve Treatment, or Steven John Finney as his parents know him, was born in Derby but the Rock'n'Roll dream led him to London in 1975. Steve met Nikki Sudden of Swell Maps at Marc Bolan's 69 Bond Street office and the pair began busking around London and going to the early Punk gigs. Steve had a job in the HMV shop and used to wear a plastic padlock and chain he nicked from a Uriah Heep display in the window. Captain Sensible had inherited Sid Vicious' famous padlock and wanted to swap it for Steve's. Marc Bolan wanted to know about punk rock and asked Steve & Nikki their advice - he ended up getting The Damned to support him on his final tour and a few good punk bands got their TV debut on the 'Marc' television show.. By early '77 Steve had written most of the tracks for his first record and others including his theme song "You're Gonna Receive Treatmen" from where his nickname came. Nikki's band Swell Maps had now made their first single, the classic "Read about Seymour" on their own Rather Records which was later taken up by Rough Trade records and was a big favourite of John Peel, Nikki thought it would be a good idea to use Rather Records to put out singles by other bands and, after hearing tapes that Steve had made on his friend Gary Hill's Revox tape machine, offered Steve the chance. On June 1st 1978 Swell Maps and Steve went into Spaceward Studios and recorded the Five 'A' Sided Single. This was one of the best singles of 1978 and although it had all the ingredie
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