Steve Hughes Biography
Steve Hughes is an Australian-born thrash metal drummer, comedian, and actor who has been referred to both by the press and himself as a “Heavy Metal comedian.
Hughes Steve Age|Nationality
Hs specific date of birth is not yet known. We only know that he was born in 1966 and is therefore about 53 years old as of 2019. His birth|zodiac sign is currently not known and will be updated soon.
Steve Hughes Spouse|Divorced
As of his relationship status, he is a married man. Since 22 September 2005, Hughes has been married to Jane Hughes. Details about their love life seem very happy because no controversies are yet to be mentioned.
Steve Hughes Family
He is very personal and tries to keep his family life away from the spotlight. Details about his parents or siblings whereabouts are not known and will be updated as soon as possible.
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Steve Hughes Education
As of education background, not much is known. Details about it will be updated as soon as we get to hear from him or from other relevant sources.
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Steve Hughes Career
Hughes founded a band that was originally named Onslaught in 1985 but the band was forced to change their name due to a UK-based band by the same name. That band briefly changed their name to Devastator, before settling on Slaughter Lord. Slaughter Lord released one demo tape titled Taste of Blood before disbanding in 1987.
Despite the band’s short lifespan, Slaughter Lord had received attention overseas and has since been called “legendary” and “pioneering” in terms of Australia’s extreme metal history. He joined Mortal Sin in 1989. While he did not appear on any of the band’s albums, he played drums for them during their European/American tour in 1990.
After his work with Mortal Sin, he formed a rock band called Presto, releasing 2 CDs. Hughes joined the black metal band Nazxul in 1993. Also, he played live with the band Primordialwhile living in Ireland in 1999. He released the album Sumaire independently under the band name Eternum in 2010. The album contained songs that he had written and arranged and mainly performed himself along with “some shredding solos performed by a variety of metal maniacs.”
Comedy career
In 1994, he first tried comedy shortly after having joined the band Nazxul and started performing at The Comedy Store in Sydney. Steve quit Nazxul and left Australia for Ireland in 1999, living for a time with members of the band Primordial, then moved on to London, then on to Manchester where he stayed in a house with fellow Aussie comic Jim Jefferies before finally settling in Manchester in 2002.
His early comedy was influenced by Bill Cosby and the works of Woody Allen, particularly his books Side Effects and Without Feathers as well as a 1965 recording of one of Allen’s stand-up shows that Hughes had owned on audio cassette. Also, Steve has cited having been influenced by the comedy of Richard Pryor, Dave Allen, George Carlinand Eddie Murphy.
Steve’s comedic style has been influenced by the political and subversive humor of Bill Hicks, as well as the spoken word performances of musicians Henry Rollins and Jello Biafra. His stand-up has been featured at such festivals as the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in Scotland, the Just for Laughs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia and the Hull Comedy Festival held in Kingston upon Hull, England.
Television and film
Steve was a hard rock VJ in the 1990s for MTV Australia. By his own account, he got the job at MTV through the help of a friend who was a cameraman, but the job lasted only about 6 weeks after it was determined that there was not enough of a demand in Australia at the time for heavy metal-based programming. He was interviewed for the 2014 documentary film Metal Down Under: A History Of Australian Heavy Metal.
Hughes appeared as a guest panelist in 2009 on the Australian game show Good News Week. Also, he played drums during the episode while host Paul McDermott sang the song “Hanging on the Telephone”. Hughes also appeared on the Australian music-themed quiz show Spicks and Specks in 2010.
He starred in the Australian short film Brainless Killers in 2015 as the mayor of Cambridge, a fictional town inhabited by zombies. The role required extensive make-up, provided by the same make-up team that worked on Mad Max: Fury Road. That film was nominated for 6 awards in the short film category and went on to win the awards for Best Film, Best Special Effects, and Best Thriller.
Steve Hughes Net worth
As of now, his estimated net worth is currently under review and will be updated as soon as possible. Detailed information about his property, cars he owns, luxuries, houses are not known and will be updated as soon as possible.
Steve Hughes Trivia
He became interested in heavy metal in the early 80s. In an interview with MusicRadar, Steve said he became obsessed with Iron Maiden in 1982 and “the pounding drumming of Mr. Clive Burr” and was also heavily influenced by Black Sabbath and Dio drummer Vinnie Appice, particularly his work on Dio’s first 2 albums, which he would repeatedly play while attempting to play along.
He is known for maintaining his heavy metal look during his stand-up performances. Steve has worn his hair long for much of his comedy career and also sports a goatee. Steve often wears all-black, including a leather jacket, a concert t-shirt, and jeans.
His comedy sets often contain social commentary including criticisms of political correctness, religion, war, drug laws, health and safety policies, colonialism, corporate capitalism, and technology. Steve’s humor touches upon topics of a spiritual and philosophical nature. Also, he is known to discuss ideas in the conspiracy theory realm, although he refers to himself as a “conspiracy realist” and adopted this title for one of his comedy tours in 2011.
Hughes’ stand-up has been featured on television shows such as the BBC series Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow in 2009 and Live at the Apollo in 2011. He also appeared on The Comedy Channel’s Cracker Night in 2010 and in 2011 he appeared on the Channel 4 series Stand Up for the Week.
On his 2010/2011 British tour, he supported comedian Reginald D. Hunter and appeared on an episode of UKTV’s Dave’s One Night Stand featuring Hunter that originally aired on 1 December 2011. He also supported Belgian comedian Alex Agnew on his 2011 “Larger than Life” best-of tour.
After touring non-stop for four years and averaging more than 150 shows a year, Steve took a break for health reasons. He quit both drugs and alcohol cold turkey during this hiatus and cut his long hair short. in 2014, Hughes returned to the comedy stage.