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Timeline and Trivia

May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

Musical Equipment Used
- Modulus Graphite Basses (6 string fretted and fretless and 4 string fretted), A Rick Turner 5 String Renaissance ‘Amplicoustic’ fretless bass, Accugroove bass cabinets, the Looperlative LP1 for looping, Lexicon MPX-G2 for processing, an E-Bow+, Bass Centre Elites strings, East-UK preamps, Evidence Audio cables. And I carry my bass around in an […]

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Creativity and Socially Networked Marketing - the good and the bad.

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

So much is being written about the egalitarian nature of online distribution, it would be easy to believe that all our worries as wannabe professional musicians are now over. We all know that we can get a myspace page and a facebook music page, a reverbnation widget and a last.fm page, just like the big […]

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Tags: cool links · the future of music · tips for musicians

New Steve Lawson and Lobelia EP to download

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

You may remember back in December, Lobelia and I put out a limited edition CDR release of our live in Nebraska EP - 5 tracks taken from our forthcoming live album (release date TBC!)
Well, it’s now avaliable for download from the online store here - for &3.50
It’s over half an hour long, and the track […]

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Tags: Music News · Musing on Music · cool links · site updates · the future of music

If you want me, you can find me…

February 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

…left of centre? well, yes, but also at these places (just as a recap, in case you missed some of them!)
Facebook
Reverb Nation
iLike
Last.fm
iSound (I’d pretty much forgotten that this one existed!)
MySpace
YouTube
and then just for buying stuff there’s
Cdbaby (there are a host of other MP3 stores linked from here).
iTunes
Emusic
Amazon.
….and also on Rhapsody, Napster and god-knows-where else!
Which of […]

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Tags: Music News · Musing on Music · cool links · the future of music

Traveling with music gear - prepare for the worst!

February 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

One of the favourite points of discussion amongst touring musicians is the whole twisted world of planes and instruments. From baggage limits to carry-on details, plane-side checking of bags, to buying extra seats for cellos, there are a million different takes on it, thanks to airline policy being so utterly baffling most of the time.
For […]

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Tags: tips for musicians · travel

Bass 2.0?

October 21st, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Musing on Music · bass ideas · tips for musicians

more on filtering out ‘junk-music’ in a digital age…

October 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Geek · cool links · the future of music · tips for musicians

Four gigs coming up in the London area…

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Gig stuff · Musing on Music · gig dates

Steve Earle interview…

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Musing on Music

My Music on EMusic…

June 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Music News