The Beef People are an original band that began in Greenville, South Carolina in the mid-1980’s. Hard to pigeonhole, the band's sound referenced influences such as Elvis Costello, Husker Du, R.E.M., and Mission Of Burma. 

The band are: 

Steve McGowan (Vocals, Guitar) 

Adrienne Meddock (Vocals, Bass) 

Ken Norton (Vocals, Keyboards) 

The drummer’s seat featured a revolving cast, including: 

Jim McNeeley 

Rhett Lawrence 

Russell Farrow 

Kevin Heuer 

The band played hundreds of shows across the Carolinas and Georgia. They released a seven-song Demo cassette and the Fragile/Nothing You Can Do vinyl single. 

The band has three distinct songwriters that leads to the music having a ‘mixtape’ feel. The sound of the band fit the song and not vice versa. The Beef are known for playing carefully curated, ever-evolving cover songs drawn from bands as diverse as contemporaries such as Pylon and the Volcano Suns to classics such as Joni Mitchell and The Cyrkle.