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.

102.5 The Edge

102.5 The Edge (call sign: 2MOR) is a radio station broadcasting in Deniliquin, Australia. Its target demographic is the female 30-50 yr old age group.

Formerly known as Classic Rock 102.5, in 2013 the station dropped its classic rock format, rebranding as FM102.5 and switching to pop music adult contemporary. The current music format has become unpopular in the listening area. On 1 September 2015, the station rebranded as 102.5 The Edge, in line with sister station 102.1 The Edge.

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102.1 The Edge (Wangaratta)

102.1 The Edge (ACMA callsign: 3NNN) is a commercial radio station in Wangaratta, Victoria, broadcasting to Victoria's North East and Border region. The station caters for females and broadcasts an adult contemporary format on 102.1FM from Mount Stanley, east of Wangaratta. There is also a repeater licensed to Mount Beauty.

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Coordinates: 36°21′08″S 146°19′30″E / 36.3522°S 146.3250°E / -36.3522; 146.3250

The Edge

David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a British-born Irish musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist of the rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 13 studio albums with the band as well as one solo record. As a guitarist, the Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.

The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, and was raised in Ireland after the Evans family relocated there while he was still an infant. In 1976 at Mount Temple Comprehensive School he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, the Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, the Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.

Closer to the Edge

"Closer to the Edge" is a song written by Jared Leto and performed by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. Produced by the band, co-produced by Flood, the track is the seventh track and the third single from their third studio album This Is War. It was released in the United States in August 20, 2010.

Background

Tomo Miličević, the lead guitarist of 30 Seconds to Mars, said about the song, "A really interesting track. We call it our 'pop' song, but when you really listen to it, you realize that it has a lot of rock glory in it. It's a song that fools you, and I like that. Jared really pushed himself as a songwriter here in that he was trying to reach for a new way of presenting music that was very accessible but not spoon-feed it to the audience. He has a lot of respect for the fans in that way. The guy's a trip - very inspiring to be around and work with."

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The music video premiered on June 9, 2010, on the band's YouTube account. The video was directed by Jared Leto as "Bartholomew Cubbins". The video contains concert footage from about 30 performances during their Into the Wild Tour, which commenced on February 19, 2010, and ran till December 18, 2010. The six-minute-long video shows each location played at until a certain date, fan commentary and some backstage footage. "Closer to the Edge" is not the band's first live video, being preceded by "Edge of the Earth". The video mistakenly puts an image of Manchester's Millenium Quarter (Including the Arndale Tower, Chetham's School of Music and then the Urbis museum) on screen as being in 'London'. Whilst the image accompanying Manchester later on in the video is clearly of a London street (Presumably Whitehall), with Hackney carriages and Union Jacks lining the road.