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“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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‘Guitar Gig Captivated Audience’
“It’s a gig, not a prison sentence,” quipped celebrated bass guitarist Steve Lawson during his recent intimate performance in Petersfield.
Steve’s comic aside was strictly unnecessary. His fears that an evening’s entertainment provided solely by a man and his bass guitar would send people scurrying to the bar were unfounded.
His Petersfield audience, upstairs [...]

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Stevie Stuffs
BeyondBassCamp - Monthly Bass Masterclasses in London
Steve @ MySpace - My MySpace page.
Steve @ Last.fm - my last.fm artist page.
Steve @ YouTube.com - lots of videos!
Steve @ FaceBook.com - find me on facebook.
Steve @ ReverbNation.com - loads more music to listen to.
Steve @ iLike.com - click the ‘ilike’ button on there!
Steve @ Twitter.com - [...]

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There’s a way of viewing online marketing that I’m going to characterise as Technodarwinism. [Just to clarify, I didn't invent the word, but I'm using it in this context to refer to a kind of 'survival of the best proliferated', rather than the more positive possible meaning about the continuing evolution and bettering of technological [...]

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Back at Darbucka for the first time this year, last night was my solo bass night gig with Yolanda Charles and Todd Johnson. It was a pretty special evening on a few different levels. Firstly, it was Yolanda’s first EVER completely solo gig - this is a bassist who has played to live audiences in [...]

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Here’s another video from the gig in Santa Cruz - this one is of Michael Manring and I. It’s the second half of a REALLY long improv, and goes through about 5 or 6 big changes of direction, all seemlessly transitioned, thanks to the magic of the Looperlative.
Michael and I have been playing together for [...]

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20080212T141600@stevelawson.net
20080212T141600

date
Sunday February 17th, 7.00pm-10pm
venue
Smollenskys on The Strand, London
details
Trio gig with Luca Sirianni + Davide Giovannini, mixing funky latin jazz originals, with some improvised material and a few standards!
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Luca Sirianni
Smollenskys

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I’ve just booked a really amazing gig for March 4th at Darbucka World Music Bar in Clerkenwell (the venue home of the Recycle Collective).
The line up will feature a really diverse range of solo bassists -
TODD JOHNSON - Todd is one of the finest electric jazz bassists on the planet, and is known to many [...]

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Three great reasons to love David Byrne:
Firstly, Talking Heads are one of the greatest bands in the history of music. Right now they’re also probably the most influential band on the planet, given how many crappy indie bands are trying to sound like them and failing miserably… But that aside, they made some of the [...]

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It’s all go here!
We’ll start with last weekend - two gigs, Saturday/Sunday.
Saturday’s was a gig with Lobelia in Brighton at the Sanctuary Cafe, opening for MAP - that’s and Peter Harris - both incredible acoustic guitarists, writers of sublime melodies and fantastic performers. Also on the bill before us was a marvellous singer/songwriter, Conrad [...]

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