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It’s amazing what you can find looking at your web-stats - I was browsing through mine, seeing who had linked back to this site, and found a review just posted on a blog in January of this year, of And Nothing But The Bass (my first album, for those of you a little late to […]

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It’s the big buzz-concept in the online world - the new currency is attention, recorded music can be duplicated at zero cost, so we should all give it away in order to promote ourselves as a brand, and the caveat often added to this is that we make our money off live shows.
OK, let’s contrast […]

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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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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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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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I’ve just seen that my 2004 album Grace and Gratitude is now available on Amazon.com for download - $8.99 for the whole album, which is less than a fiver if it works from the UK… is that good? ;o)
And in keeping with my current obsession with Youtube, here’s a video of the title track (not […]

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…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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I’ve just seen that Behind Every Word is now available on the Amazon.com download store - all DRM free pretty high-res downloads, apparently available to anywhere in the world. So at $8.99 US, it works out a pretty good deal!
click here to go there - I think my other solo records should be up there […]

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One of the biggest shifts in my music knowledge in the last year has been my now-obsession with The Blue Nile - I’d owned a couple of their albums for years, but never really listened to them much until going through my iPod earlier in the year finding undiscovered gems and fell completely in love […]

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Sarda just sent me a fab link to zdnet’s blog of digital music industry facts and figures - here are three at random -
1. Top music retailers in Q1 2007: Wal-Mart, Best Buy, iTunes, Amazon, Target
2. 72% of online Americans listen to music on their PCs
3. 10% of all music sold in Europe in 2007 […]

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