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"For a song about facing death it's remarkably joyous": Former world snooker champion and modular synth player Steve Davis picks 10 favourite experimental music songs

Steve Davis (Utopia Strong publicity photo, 2025) and Steve Davis playing snooker.

Six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis and former BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Steve Davis has put his cueing arm to good use since retiring as a professional competitor.

He's DJ'd at clubs and festivals and hosted a regular radio show with Gong and Cardiacs man Kavus Torabi, who he met at a Paris show by French prog veterans Magma. The pair later formed The Utopia Strong with Michael J. York, a former member of post-industrial experimental music group Coil. The band, in which Davis plays analogue modular synth, have supported Steve Hillage and Magma on tour, and released a third album, Collapse, in 2025.

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