The original line-up also included Donal Duggan (saxophone), Ronan Kavanagh (keyboards) and Paddy Schutte (trombone), the latter three all leaving after the first couple of years to pursue other careers.
[5][6] Their debut album Paradise in the Picture House was released under license on Solid Records in June 1990, reaching number one in the Irish charts and remaining there for five weeks.
That year the band performed an early slot at the first Féile festival in Semple Stadium, Thurles and they toured constantly, building up a huge following nationwide.
[3][4] The second album, Once Around the World, released on Solid Records, went straight into the number one spot and contained the hit singles "Heads", "Everything that Rises", "She’s on my Mind", and "Mr. Ginger".
Regular shows in the Mean Fiddler (Harlesden), the Powerhouse (Islington) and the Grande (Clapham) had hoped to get the band noticed by UK record labels, but a deal never materialised.
They made several trips to the US, playing in Boston, New York City, Northampton, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Portland, Maine, but these self-financed tours became impossible for the band to fund.
They performed a sell-out Irish tour in 1994, which included their fifth appearance at Féile, and concluded with two nights in the Warwick Hotel, Galway where the band were based.
[4] 2003 – 9 years after breaking up, they re-issued Paradise in the Picture House on the imprint Dirtbird Records as a special edition with bonus tracks and a full-colour booklet.
2015 - The Stunning went into Grouse Lodge studios, County Westmeath for two week-long periods to record new material and that summer they performed several festival shows around Ireland.
2016 - Following a summer of festival shows, Steve was cast as Chet Baker in a Dutch-produced film My Foolish Heart about the jazz musician's last days in Amsterdam in 1988.