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I’ve been getting WAY too many ‘follows’ on Twitter of late from musicians who really don’t get it. So here’s my Top Tips For Musicians On Twitter. You may want to start with my Best Practices In Social Media post, or just jump straight in here.
OK, let’s start by comparing twitter with Myspace, as that’s […]

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This morning I read a really excellent blog post by Ben Walker.
It’s headed Wake Up And Smell The Evidence and outlines via statistics gathered from Ben’s own audience just how little of this social media webby geeky stuff gets through to ‘your average music fan’.
So are we wasting our time? Not if, like me, you […]

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I’ve just spent a most enjoyable few hours of the last couple of days removing over 90% of my Myspace ‘Friends’. By ‘removing’, I just mean from my list of myspace friends, not anything more sinister!
My reasoning was fairly simple - with just over 8000 friends, I was finding Myspace to be completely unusable. I […]

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I’ve been telling you a lot about what I’m up to musically of late, but I’ve got some rather talented friends who’ve been busy too, so here’s a quick and incomplete round-up of what a few of them have been doing:
First up there’s Ben Walker - fellow Tuttlist and fab singer-songwriter. He was writing 50 […]

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First up, a HUGE thanks to everyone who’s bought the album already - thanks for the feedback, and thanks for investing in the music. It means that (if sales continue as they are) we’ll be able to pay for the pressing of the CD without going into any kind of debt… makes the whole process […]

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I’ve just written a piece for MusicThinkTank.com about Sustainable touring, inspired by an interview on BBC 5Live with Geoff Hickman, the manager of Paris-based band, Televox - here’s the interview, and the video discussion that’s happening off the back of it on Phreadz…

The Music Think Tank post will go live in a few days (they […]

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I’ve just spent 3 days geeking out in Helsinki, at the Nokia Open Lab 08. The idea was to bring together 40 social media/mobile tech/blogging geeks in Helsinki for a series of workshops, discussions, talks and brainy mash-ups. The attendees were from all kinds of backgrounds, from corporate bloggers writing about tech stuff or financial […]

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We’re home from Greenbelt. Will do a proper blow by blow account soon, but for now, a few thoughts on a Qik video (I am as tired as I look in the vid )
Please post links to your own Greenbelt blogs, videos & photos in the comments below…

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Oh yes. Oh yes indeed - me interviewing first Carl Young and then Michael Franti from Spearhead. Such lovely blokes.

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I’ve put another post up at Creative-Choices.co.uk, titled “Telling Stories…”
The premise behind it is that everything we do as musicians has a story attached, and if you’re not telling it, someone else is. It’s a theme I hope to develop more here, or there, but for now, head over to the Creative Choices site to […]

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