On Stage
The Apollo Stage
Steve Pretty is best known as the band leader of internationally-renowned brass pioneers, Hackney Colliery Band (‘one of the greatest live bands that we have in this country’ BBC Radio 2), but he is also a composer, performer and podcaster. His podcast The Origin of the Pieces explores his enduring fascination with what music is and why it matters. A long time Shambles collaborator, he serves as musical advisor on their new docuseries, For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music.