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2008 in review - Blog posts for musicians, Pt 1

December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Photo by Christian Payne AKA DocumentallyIt’s been an amazing year for me - a proper round-up of the year will be coming soon. But I thought that first I’d pull together some of the things I’ve blogged about this year. So this is part 1 of a compilation of links to my blog posts for musicians this year -

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Tags: Geek · site updates · the future of music · tips for musicians

Subscribe to this blog via email…

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I know, it’s terribly old fashioned, and I’m always complaining about it, but the simple truth is, some people prefer to manage their info all in one place - their email inbox - and that’s fine by me. So here’s the place where you can subscribe to this blog via email, and have each post [...]

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Creative blogging.

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was recently invited to contribute to a blog on a site called Creative Choices - the focus of the site is resourcing and encouraging people either in or looking to transition to employment in the creative sector. So a few us social media monkeys have been co-opted to blog about creative things. It’s a [...]

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Tags: Geek · journalism

The great “Twitter-Buzz experiment”!

June 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

OK, here’s the plan - I’m interested to see how much of a buzz a modest number of twitter-followers can create about a particular site/service/artist/whatever, so I’m running a competition, in which y’all get to come up with whatever ideas you like to send your twitter-readers back to my site, or to my videos on [...]

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Tags: Geek · Music News · Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians

Social Media Thoughts Pt 2 - The Playground Of The Curious.

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I wrote off the idea of chasing a record deal before I even put out my first album. After a series of pretty uninspiring encounters with labels via artists I was working with in the 90s, and the simple fact that as far as I could see, no-one was making any money via a label [...]

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Tags: Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians

A new review…. of And Nothing But The Bass..??

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Music News · music reviews

Twitter-peoples: welcome to my e-world, dive right in!

May 7th, 2008 · 10 Comments

OK, so you arrived here via my twitter page, and want to know more?
Short version - I’m a musician, music teacher, blogger about musical things and the miscellany of life, web enthusiast and consultant/thinker about Social media and what all this web 2.0 stuff enables us to do that we couldn’t do before, particularly as [...]

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New site, new blog home, new shop…

May 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

As you’ll have seen by now (unless you’re reading this in an RSS reader), there’ve been a lot of changes round here - the design of stevelawson.net has now shifted into wordpress, the shop is still zencart, but has been given a facelift and most significantly, the blog is now hosted here too, integrated into [...]

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photos!

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here are lots of photos of me (or of gigs I was playing on!) from Flickr.com:

click here to view the slideshow in full screen.

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New-Age Post-Rock Ambient-Jazz Solo-Bass…

May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

…And with that, we’re fast running out of hyphenated descriptions…
I’m a bass player, and much of the time I play solo. I’ve released 10 albums on my own record label, Pillow Mountain Records.
More often these days, I can also be found playing with some other people, most recently with genius American singer/songwriter Lobelia, and with [...]

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