Dave Stead

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David Stead (born 15 October 1966), is a drummer from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Stead was the drummer for the alternate pop / rock band, The Beautiful South.

After his parents separated, Stead moved with his mother and siblings to Cottingham, a village on the outskirts of Hull. He attended Cottingham High School, and following school worked as an electrical fitter for a few years,{{quantify|date=January 2015}} after which he was employed part-time as a sound engineer at the nearby alternative live music club, The Adelphi.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

When sixteen-years-old he, with his older brother Mick, started the band 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.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} After The Luddites, Stead joined the band Vicious Circle. In August 1988 he joined The Beautiful South,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A638967|title=The Beautiful South – the Band |publisher=BBC |date=29 November 2001|accessdate=14 April 2009}} playing on thirteen albums 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.{{cite web |last=Lee |first=David |date=16 February 2012 |title=Restaurant review: Union Mash Up |url=https://davelee1968.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/restaurant-review-union-mash-up/ |access-date=16 August 2023 |website=DAVE LEE |publisher=Yorkshire Post }} Following a July 2012 planning committee failure to add a bar licence for the venue Stead announced that he was closing the business.[http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dave-Stead-close-Hull-s-Union-Mash-restaurant-bar/story-16553604-detail/story.html "Dave Stead to close Hull's Union Mash Up restaurant after bar plan rejected"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105190319/http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dave-Stead-close-Hull-s-Union-Mash-restaurant-bar/story-16553604-detail/story.html |date=5 January 2015 }}, Hull Daily Mail, 18 July 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2015