Here’s a video I just posted over on Phreadz, showing off my new spex
Entries Tagged as 'Random Catchup'
New glasses! (trivial nonsense alert…)
July 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Taking Care of Business (new post on Creative-Choices.co.uk)
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
I posted a new article up on the Creative Choices site. It’s a few lessons learned from last week’s tour… I’ll write more extensively about the tour here once we’ve debriefed it properly as a band, but the tour just provided the impetus for a post about the need to make creative ventures financially viable […]
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Quick catch up… normal blogging will be resumed shortly.
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Illness+tour+grandad’s funeral= not much blogging from Steve. Sorry ’bout that.
So the last 10 days have involved 3 days mostly in bed ill, 4 gigs, 2 days of rehearsing learning mad prog tunes with multiple time signatures (and in one case, an impossibly difficult line in 7/8 that I just had to ditch and make […]
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RIP Grandad…
July 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments
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Originally uploaded by solobasssteve
This pic was taken two years ago. Yesterday, my grandad, 98 years old, passed away. My nan was with him.
There are mixed emotions when someone of such advanced years dies. It’s not like he was cut off in his prime… He was ill and in hospital. We saw him last week, […]
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possible new business card design?
June 30th, 2008 · 11 Comments
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[real life] - no more car?
May 24th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Question: could you live without a car? (DO you live without a car?)
Ancillary Question: could you live without a car as a gigging musician?
This blog may end up being the ongoing forum for me answering those two questions after my car died this morning… It’s been problematic for a while (frustratingly, only last week […]
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Managing information streams (Pt 1)
March 7th, 2008 · 7 Comments
This will (I think) be the first in a series of posts about this, mainly because it’s an ongoing struggle and area of conceptual development.
So, I’ll start by saying where my problem lies - a lot of the stuff online about being overwhelmed by email starts by talking about spam. Apart from when I’ve had […]
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Solo bass night, last night…
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Back at Darbucka for the first time this year, last night was my solo bass night gig with Yolanda Charles and Todd Johnson. It was a pretty special evening on a few different levels. Firstly, it was Yolanda’s first EVER completely solo gig - this is a bassist who has played to live audiences in […]
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Cabaret, variety and the joy of artistic cross-pollenation.
February 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
I just got in from playing a cabaret show, organised by Moot, an urban spiritual community, with a particular fondness for the arts.
This was the second of their cabaret evenings I’ve played at, and once again the line up was hugely mixed in terms of artistic disciplines, but all of really high quality. There were […]
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Ever feeling like someone’s doing a cartoon portrait of your life?
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
:o)
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