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If you think back to the US tour that Lobelia and I did in Dec/January, you’ll remember that as well as gigs, we also did some masterclasses, teaching and consulting as we went round.
It was a whole lot of fun, and a great way to share some of what we’ve learned about social media for [...]

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[I have a lot of very bright, creative, wonderful friends, doing fascinating things with music and social media and news and all kinds of other areas of human life that make the world a better place. One such friend is Jemimah Knight, a hugely talented journo - and bassist - who authored this lovely essay [...]

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If you’re an avid watcher of my various online streams - be it Twitter, Facebook or Friendfeed - you’ll have noticed over that last few days I’ve been talking about, and link to, BeyondBassCamp.com.
It’s a series of monthly masterclasses, inspired by the ones I give in California every January - for the last 4 or [...]

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I spent a lovely few hours today with David Stevens, a wonderful musician working mainly with abstract drones and soundscapes, often using bowed strips of metal to create the most amazing textures.
We met through Tuttle, and have been talking for a while about recording together, and today it finally happened, though not without an hour [...]

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Good news - the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album, Numbers, is now available from CDBaby.com.
CDBaby is one of indie music online’s big success stories - it started out as just a CD shop, but has become a site for hosting band websites and most successfully for distributing digital music to the big online stores like iTunes and Amazon [...]

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Tonight’s our last night in Nashville, the town that both Lobelia and I think is the US city we’d be most happy to live in were we to move here… It’s so full of amazing people, and has an incredibly vibrant and exciting arts world. Ironically perhaps, it exists a long way outside of the music scene that makes Nashville famous, but throughout the city there are people producing amazing and vibrant art, music, and writing.

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OK, let’s jump straight into part 2 with a few of the fears musicians have when making ourselves available to talk directly with our audience.
We’ll look at 3 areas we often get wrong when interacting with our audience, which are:

How to treat your audience like friends rather than your ‘target market’. (notice I keep [...]

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I’ve finally got round to writing a page on this site about social media consulting - helping out other artists, labels, students etc. with understanding how having a conversation with your audience is preferable to shouting at them.
I’ve been doing this kind of work for years - over the last 7 or 8 years, I’ve [...]

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Some things are hard to find out, but worth the trouble.
Like discovering that your average gig attendance is 51.5057 - precisely -0.130506 on last year figures.
Or maybe it’s calculating the real cost of travel - approximately 51.5057 kJ of energy/mile, which is -0.130506 less than it was in the age of the camel-train.
Stats on, [...]

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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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