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I’ve FINALLY got round to adding the latest bunch of gigs to Reverb Nation. The first of which is this sunday, at the Brickhouse, on Brick Lane in London (deets below in the gig cal widget).
The gig’s with my new trio with Patrick Wood and Roy Dodds - two of the most amazing musicians I’ve […]

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Well, those were two of the most enjoyable days of music making I’ve had in a long time!
Here are two more videos from the recording session today - both of the same tune, the first one is of me recording bass fills between the vocal, and the second one is a bass solo on the […]

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I’m in North Lincolnshire at the moment, with Dave Bainbridge, guitarist and keyboardist with the band Iona. Iona have been a favourite band of mine for years, so when Dave contacted me via Myspace about being involved in his new project, ‘Open Sky’, I was rather excited.
Yesterday was spent mainly improvising and finding out how […]

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Was just editing the MP3s page on my site to reflect the fact that everything on there is now fully streamable, when it occured to me that the Last.fm widget on there for LLFAAF Pt I makes all the download tracks from that album available direct from the widget… So here it is!

Don’t forget, you […]

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Much to blog about, but real life getting in the way of cyber-time at the moment. All good (if you want to keep track of that stuff, sign up for Twitter and follow me.
Anyway, what is worth mentioning just now is that all the recent activity on my Reverb Nation page, with the free album […]

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Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but you can download all of Lessons Learned from An Aged Feline Pt II from the widget below. It’s a four step process, as follows:
1. click the word ’songs’ at the top of the widget.
2. click on ‘What Was Going On’
3. put your email address into […]

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One of the most linked to blog posts in the last few months in the musical blogosphere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on 1000 True Fans - it’s a great piece of writing, and quite inspiring too.
However, I’d like to get away from the numbers for a moment and talk about this whole thing of connecting […]

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Steve Lawson

Originally uploaded by Documentally

Here’s are some fantastic photos taken at the Solo Bass Night in Milton Keynes last Sunday by Christian Payne.
Christian is a really great photographer, photo journalist, documentary maker and new media junkie. His latest film about displaced Iraqis living in Jordan is vital viewing.
Anyway, enjoy the rest of the photos of […]

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So the last four days have been spent touring the south of England giving masterclasses at branches of the The Academy Of Music And Sound - a chain of music schools that stretches the length of the UK, but is focussed around the south west and midlands.
Once a year they do a masterclass week, where […]

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I’ve just seen that all four of my ‘proper’ release solo albums are now up on Amazon.com download store - here they are -
And Nothing But The Bass - $7.92
Not Dancing For Chicken - $8.99
Grace And Gratitude - $8.99
Behind Every Word - $8.99
that’s a pretty damn cheap way to get hold of them - and […]

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