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Last Friday, after the Social Media Cafe, I was interviewed by broadcaster and programme maker Penny Jackson for the Creative Coffee Club podcast. She’s a fantastic interviewer in that she asks the questions that from my site of the mic sound obvious, but are the things that make sense of a lot of the stuff I’ve been writing on here.

We talk a lot about my story, where the energy and motivation comes from to see marketing and promoting what I do as a conversation, as well as my understanding of how social media facilitates that, and allows me to make a living from it…

I’ve embedded the page, slightly clumsily, below, so you can just click on the podcast and listen to it, or you can go to the podcast page here.

[clarification - half way through, I describe what I do as being pop music, and at the end I say it isn’t pop music - I’m using the term in two different ways: First time it’s because I’m using pop forms and pop harmony for the most part, and my influences are ‘pop’ songwriters. The second time it’s because in a live setting (the context being opening for Level 42) it doesn’t engage you in the way that a pop ’song’ does, largely because it’s instrumental, and because the looping process means it doesn’t hit you with the hook in the first 15 seconds like any classic pop song would… I really should’ve chosen a different term ]

Does that lot make sense? Was it helpful? Do you want to hire me to come and talk to your band/college/company/record label/etc. about how this stuff works for you? I’m all ears…

Similar Posts elsewhere in this blog:

• Social Media Thoughts Pt 2 - The Playground Of The Curious. - May 16, 2008
• Social Media Thoughts 5: Sharing the Love pt 1 - fans. - June 13, 2008
• Social Media thoughts Pt 1 - my background and history. - May 15, 2008