Solo work Stevens began releasing instrumental solo material in 2008, with his debut album
Echo. He was profiled about the
live looping technique he used to create the album in
Acoustic Magazine. Stevens performed a series of online concerts to promote the album, as noted in a feature in
Goldmine Magazine. His third record
Relic was released in 2011, via
Burning Shed. It received radio play from
Gideon Coe on
BBC 6 Music.
Guitar Player Magazine profiled Stevens in its December 2011 issue, coinciding with the release of the album. His 2014 album
Lucid, released on
Esoteric Recordings, a division of
Cherry Red Records, featured guest performances from
Pat Mastelotto,
Charlie Cawood and
Jem Godfrey. It was described by
All About Jazz as "a wholesome progressive-rock soup". Prog Magazine compared it to
Mogwai and
Sonic Youth. Stevens appeared in the 2014 Prog Magazine Readers' Poll of top ten best guitarists. He played a solo set at Cambridge Rock Festival, the headliners were
Wishbone Ash,
Jorn and
Mostly Autumn. In the same year Stevens wrote a regular column on live looping techniques for
Acoustic Magazine. In 2015 he completed a run of solo live looping UK gigs and toured with
Steve Rothery, and supported
Jon Gomm, alongside his work with The Fierce and the Dead. He announced his retirement from solo live looping performance in 2016 to focus on work with The Fierce and the Dead and other collaborations after the release of the
Archive live album via Bad Elephant Music. Stevens continued to appear in the Prog magazine readers poll, placing in the Top Ten Best Guitarists in 2019 The band originated from a jam session for Stevens'
Ghost album. The lineup features Stevens, alongside bassist Kevin Feazey, guitarist Steve Cleaton, and drummer Stuart Marshall. They have released 4 albums
If It Carries on Like This We Are Moving to Morecambe (2011),
Spooky Action (2013),
The Euphoric (2018), and 2023's
News from the Invisible World, their first to feature vocals.
Guitar.com noted they had "cultivated a large following by using both traditional and modern means". Keyboard player Tom Hunt joined the band in 2024. In 2018,
MusicRadar published a profile of Stevens focusing on his work with the band and the equipment he used. The Fierce and the Dead have appeared at festivals including
ArcTanGent and
Ramblin' Man Fair. The band have supported
Hawkwind, and have been nominated for the
Progressive Music Awards in 2013 and twice in 2018. They have played in the USA, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and regularly in the UK.
Collaborations Stevens was a guest on Shineback's Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed album in 2013. He contributed to
Gandalf’s Fist's 2014 concept album
A Forest of Fey and their 2016 album
A Clockwork Fable. Between 2014 and 2017 Stevens played on Cosmograf's albums
The Man Left In Space (with
Gregory Spawton and
Nick D'Virgilio),
Capacitor(with
Nick Beggs). and
The Hay-Man Dreams. In 2018 he recorded guitar parts for
Judy Dyble's album
Earth Is Sleeping, on
Acid Jazz Records and co-wrote “She Now Owns a Heart of Stone" on the record. The album got into the Official UK Independent Album Breakers Chart and Progressive Albums Chart.
Andy Edwards, John Jowitt and Rob Groucott, playing a range of material including Bowness's work with
Steven Wilson in
No-Man.
Andrew Booker replaced Edwards in the Tim Bowness band for the Prog The Forest Festival in 2024. He has performed as the live guitarist for comic book artist
Mark Buckingham, and with
Andy Tillison and
Theo Travis. ==Discography==