David Stead (born 15 October 1966), is a drummer from

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, England. Stead was the drummer for the alternate pop / rock band,

The Beautiful South The Beautiful South were an English pop rock group formed in 1988 by Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, two former members of the Hull group The Housemartins, both of whom performed lead and backing vocals. Other members throughout the band's exi ...

. After his parents separated, Stead moved with his mother and siblings to Cottingham, a

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on the outskirts of Hull. He attended Cottingham High

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, and following school worked as an electrical fitter for a few years, after which he was employed part-time as a

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at the nearby alternative live music

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, The Adelphi. When sixteen-years-old he, with his older brother Mick, started the

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The Luddites, with himself on drums and Mark Fell (1962-1984) on bass. The band released two singles, "Doppelganger" and "Altered States" on Eccentric Records. After The Luddites, Stead joined the band Vicious Circle. In August 1988 he joined The Beautiful South, playing on thirteen

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s with the band. Stead took over the Boars Nest restaurant in Princes Avenue, west Hull, converting it to the 'Union Mash Up' venue and restaurant. Following a July 2012 planning committee failure to add a bar licence for the venue Stead announced that he was closing the business."Dave Stead to close Hull's Union Mash Up restaurant after bar plan rejected"
, ''Hull Daily Mail'', 18 July 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2015 He promoted a proposed music festival in Huddersfield, 'Song 07', which was cancelled.

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