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Working-class musicians…

August 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about just who gets affected by decisions made about how music gets from performer/writer to audience - so much of the discussion on this stuff revolves around the wishes and careers of record company execs and ‘rock stars’ - those handful of the world’s musicians who are […]

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Telling Stories (new post on Creative-Choices.co.uk )

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve put another post up at Creative-Choices.co.uk, titled “Telling Stories…”
The premise behind it is that everything we do as musicians has a story attached, and if you’re not telling it, someone else is. It’s a theme I hope to develop more here, or there, but for now, head over to the Creative Choices site to […]

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Tags: Geek · Musing on Music · tips for musicians

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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Tags: Musing on Music · Random Catchup

Kickstarting Creativity

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

My 2nd post is up on the Creative Choices blog.
It’s entitled Kickstarting Creativity, and addresses a misnomer in the way people think about the creative process. Please feel free to comment over there too!
click here to read Kickstarting Creativity

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Tags: Geek · bass ideas · tips for musicians

Social Media Thoughts 5: Sharing the Love pt 1 - fans.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you listened to the podcast I’ve been talking about in the last couple of posts, you’ll know that one of the things I’ve been thinking about of late is how Social Media lets the story of what we do and why we do it be told in as many ways as there are people […]

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