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Weeks and weeks ago, I was ‘tagged’ by the very lovely and talented Ben Ellis of RedCatCo, in a blog-meme about best practices in social media. It’s a great subject, because with social media stuff being as young as it is, we’re not as clued up on how to ‘use’ it as we are with [...]

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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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OK, I promised a greenbelt round-up, and that’s still on the way, but first (this is backwards, I know) some thoughts on how video worked for us at Greenbelt. By ‘us’, I mean the social media monkeys that were trying to get Greenbelt’s web-presence away from just being a static website into something a little [...]

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The other day I wrote my first post for MusicThinkTank.com - a really great collaborative blog with contributors from across the spectrum of ‘what’s happening in the music industry these days?’ - I was really excited to be asked to blog for them, as there are some fantastic thinkers writing for the site that I’ve [...]

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[This started out as being my first post for MusicThinkTank.com, a site I've been invited to blog for, but ended up far too long to post there, so I'll put it here, and post something else there... ]
So Trent Reznor has gone one step further than he did with Ghosts, and is giving all [...]

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So, from my own ill-formed thoughts on how to use Social Media as a way of connecting with an audience, I started reading more about the way other people were doing the same thing, and watching what other musicians did. There’s been a lot of cross-pollenation, as musicians who’ve taken some of my ideas have [...]

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Steve Lawson has been one of the most inspiring and creative solo bassists to come out of the UK in recent years. His solo albums and collaborative projects have been the talk of the world-wide bass community and have drawn enthusiastic reviews in the press. His latest album ‘Grace And Gratitude’ finds him [...]

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choice quotes
“Steve’s complex array of sound and rare, intimate
touch are rapidy turning him into one of the most
influential bassists in the world” - bass guitar magazine
“Lawson’s writing and his phenomenal command of the possibilities of looping creates a compelling and surprising variety of sounds one would never imagine the bass capable of producing.” - [...]

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“SL - Michael, when you started playing solo bass, there was very little repetoir, and certainly very few precedents for people making a career out of it, or doing whole live gigs like that - who inspired you and what were the pivotal events in your coming to a position where playing solo was a [...]

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