Steve Christian
Steven Raymond Christian (born 26 June 1951, Pitcairn Island) is a political figure from the Pitcairn Islands.
Mayor
Christian was the Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands, a British dependency in the Pacific Ocean, from 7 December 1999 to 30 October 2004. He also acted as the island's supervising engineer, dentist, radiographer, and as coxswain of the longboat, which is described as Pitcairn's umbilical cord to the outside world. He was formally dismissed from office on 30 October 2004, following his rape conviction on 24 October.
Background
Christian is a patrilineal descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutineers in the late 18th century on the HMS Bounty, a story told in the 1932 Nordoff and Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and several subsequent motion picture versions. He is the son of Ivan Roa Christian and Verna Carlene "Dobrey" Young, a descendant of Ned Young. Ivan Roa Christian is the son of Richard Charles Edgar Christian and nephew of Charles Richard Parkin Christian, and is the grandson of Francis Hickson Christian. Public respect for Steve Christian's lineage gave him considerable influence long before he held political office, first as a member of the Island Council in 1976. He again served on the Council in 1982, and was briefly Chairman of the Internal Committee (considered the second-most influential political position on the island) in 1985. He was to hold this position again in 1991 and 1992, 1994 and 1995, and 1998 and 1999, when he was elected as the island's first mayor. The title was new but the office was not: the mayor had previously been known as the magistrate.
Steve Christian (DJ)
Steve Christian is a producer and musician from Manchester. He was formerly one half of recording group Rae & Christian, along with Mark Rae, the then head of independent record label, Grand Central Records.
Background
Steve Christian is a record producer, whose credits including 10 years working as in-house producer for Grand Central Records.
Steve Christian has close to 100 remix credits, including several number one records. Artists remixed include Simply Red, Jay-Z, Manic Street Preachers, Moby, Primal Scream, M People, Texas, Public Enemy, Natalie Imbruglia, David Gray, Lamb and Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel.
In 2001, Steve Christian relocated to North Yorkshire where he now lives with his wife, two children and a variety of livestock. He took a break from music to build his own recording studio in an old mortuary.
Rae & Christian
Steve Christian co-wrote and produced two studio albums of hip-hop / soulful dance music with Mark Rae under the band name Rae & Christian - Northern Sulphuric Soul (1998) and Sleepwalking (2001). The pair also released 3 DJ mix albums and Christian worked on the records of several other Grand Central artists including Aim's albums Cold Water Music and Hinterland and Kate Rogers' album St. Eustacia.
Podcasts:
Steve Christian
ALBUMS
- B-Boy Classics, Volume 1 released: 2000
B-Boy Classics, Volume 1
Released 2000- Uprock: An Introduction
- It's Just Begun
- Planet Rock
- Ego Trippin
- Don't Sweat the Technique
- (It's All in) Mr. Magic's Wand
- Adventures on the Wheels of Steel
- Doowutchyalike
- Talking All That Jazz
- It's Like That
- I Know You Got Soul (Krafty Kutz remix)
- Release Yo' Delf (Prodigy mix)
- Pump Me Up
- That's the Joint
- Galaxy
- The Breaks
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by Crawdad
Shark Tank
by: CrawdadYeah,
We was dancing on the beat like phantoms in our sneaks,
Hanker chief to wipe it, sadness couldn’t fight it,
Sandman’s like a viper, who sweeps up to tilt the hour glass,
Before she had a minute to fight the,
Cancer in her beat, yeah Hansel’s will is weak cause he gave up on Greddle,
To escape she had to make nice with the devil,
She can recall all the kettles and pots, pinpoint the pain,
To the very last spot where she seen him,
Swallowed her way down to Phoenix, hopped on the bus man,
Hallow be the reason, followed all the trees in line to the next stop,
She doesn’t get off, just keeps drilling away at that greyhound,
CA state bound, new life is what she’s thinking,
You got to break ground to build,
She got to break down to full the void that he left but she still
Caught in a shark tank,
Trying to break free,
You trying to get bit,
Man you could swim in the sea,
But you can’t stop the waves,
You can’t stop the waves,
Nah not today
Caught in a shark tank,
Trying to break free,
You trying to get bit,
Man you could swim in the sea,
But you can’t stop the waves,
You can’t stop the waves,
Nah not today
Painters use a canvas and poets like to paint words,
She reads the decorations,
She got half way to heaven, then they had to stop and let in,
A few more people,
Take a peep through the peep hole of the ego to see all the pieces of evil,
Needle made of cheap gold, searching through a hay stack,
For faint facts to justify the take back,
Man this is how you shape that,
Stop coming up soon,
Hops up the bus moves,
She never gets off, it never really stopped,
She never really learned,
It’s not about the ride,
It’s all about the time when you find what’s inside,
Yeah,
Go on and swim to the edge of the world where your mind might collide with the fianite design that’s kept you alive, and when you get to that edge, ask yourself,
What you gonna do, jump or dive?
Caught in a shark tank,
Trying to break free,
You trying to get bit,
Man you could swim in the sea,
But you can’t stop the waves,
You can’t stop the waves,
Nah not today
Caught in a shark tank,
Trying to break free,
You trying to get bit,
Man you could swim in the sea,
But you can’t stop the waves,
You can’t stop the waves,
Nah not today
Caught in a shark tank,
Trying to break free,
You trying to get bit,
Man you could thank me
Caught in a shark tank,
Trying to break free,
You trying to get bit,
Man you could thank me