34 Facts About Steve Hewitt

Steven James Hewitt was born on 22 March 1971 and is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.

Steve Hewitt is the frontman of his own band, Love Amongst Ruin.

Steve Hewitt was born in Northwich, Cheshire, England and attended Weaverham High School.

Steve Hewitt has a daughter and had a second child in early 2010.

Steve Hewitt was inspired to become a drummer after watching Phil Taylor performing "Ace of Spades" with Motorhead on Top of the Pops.

Steve Hewitt "hassled" his parents to get him a drum kit and when they did, he taught himself to play.

Steve Hewitt acknowledges drummers Phil Rudd and John Bonham as influences.

Steve Hewitt was musically active at school, drumming and putting on performances.

Steve Hewitt recalled that his family "loved music" and driving on caravan holidays in the car would be punctuated by the sounds of Bee Gees, Elton John, ELO and The Beatles.

Steve Hewitt worked as a picture framer before leaving school and upon leaving school he began training to be a race car engineer.

Steve Hewitt progressed to be offered an opportunity to continue his training with Williams and worked on the team's pit crew.

Steve Hewitt worked as a sign writer until deciding to pursue music full-time.

Steve Hewitt began his career in the North West of England, playing with his brother Nick in Misadventure, before leaving in 1988 to join The Mystic Deckchairs.

Steve Hewitt joined fellow local musician Tim Burgess in Electric Crayons, prior to Burgess joining The Charlatans in 1989.

Steve Hewitt joined Breed at the age of 17 and linked up with the band for a German tour after spying an advert placed by the band in Affleck's Palace.

Steve Hewitt met Brian Molko in 1991 through his then-girlfriend and was invited to drum on demos for Molko's band Placebo, though Steve Hewitt was unable to join the band due to his commitments to Breed.

Breed's breakup around the same time allowed Steve Hewitt to accept the invitation to join Placebo permanently.

Steve Hewitt appeared in the video for the band's 1997 "Nancy Boy" single with his face blurred out, because he was still under contract to a different record label.

The first official Placebo release to feature Steve Hewitt was the "Pure Morning" single, released in August 1998.

Steve Hewitt drummed and contributed to the songwriting on subsequent albums Black Market Music, Sleeping with Ghosts and Meds with the band.

On 1 October 2007, after the completion of the tour supporting Meds, it was announced via the official Placebo website that Steve Hewitt had parted company with Placebo due to "personal and musical differences".

Steve Hewitt was replaced in 2008 by Steve Forrest, the band's first right-handed drummer.

Steve Hewitt contributed drums, guitars, piano and lead vocals to the album and enlisted Jon Thorne and Donald Ross Skinner as collaborators.

Steve's brother Nick Hewitt recorded additional guitars and Hewitt felt that he had captured his best ever drum sound on the album.

The band was named Love Amongst Ruin in late 2009 and Steve Hewitt assuming frontman duties.

Steve Hewitt wrote and recorded the band's second album Lose Your Way with Donald Ross Skinner in 2011 and 2012, but the album was withheld from release until 27 June 2015.

Steve Hewitt befriended members of the band Six by Seven when they toured as opening act for Placebo in 1998.

Steve Hewitt was announced as the band's new drummer in August 2012.

Steve Hewitt's year was ended by a broken arm suffered in October 2013, which caused him to miss an in-store signing at Fopp in Nottingham and a performance at Soundedit Festival.

Chris Olley reported on his blog in May 2014 that he had recorded a new Six by Seven album by himself, which hinted that Steve Hewitt had left the band.

In June 2024, Saffron announced that Steve Hewitt had joined Republica as the band's live drummer.

Steve Hewitt struck up a friendship with French band Lys while touring to support Love Amongst Ruin in 2011.

Steve Hewitt worked on Lys' 2015 second album Rebud in 2015 and has been regular guest at the band's live shows.

In June 2019, Steve Hewitt played drums for Golden Apes at Wave-Gotik-Treffen.