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September 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Geek · Managing Information Streams · Random Catchup

Post-greenbelt. How Was It For You?

August 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments

We’re home from Greenbelt. Will do a proper blow by blow account soon, but for now, a few thoughts on a Qik video (I am as tired as I look in the vid )
Please post links to your own Greenbelt blogs, videos & photos in the comments below…

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Tags: Geek · Musing on Music · Random Catchup

Interview with singer/songwriter Martyn Joseph…

August 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Another lil’ interview, that brings together so many of my interests Martyn’s an amazing singer/songwriter, and has been running his own label for over a decade. He’s recently been opening for Ani DiFranco in the States, and has been through so many different parts to his career, from churchy-singer-dude in the 80s, to Sony-signed [...]

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

Interview with Frank Schaeffer of the Huffington Post…

August 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Ok, this one’s GREAT - just had a lovely chat with Frank Schaeffer of the Huffington Post - a fascinating writer, thinker and speaker.
As Loudmouthman says in his comment to the post below, “Is Greenbelt becoming the UK SXSW?” - seriously cool stuff:

With speakers

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Tags: Geek · journalism

Interview Pt 2 with Carl Morris from Sleeveface.com

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments

And here’s the longer interview - should be more coming soon!

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Tags: Uncategorized

Interview with Carl from Sleeveface

August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Did a little interview with Carl from Sleeveface.com today, in preparation for a bigger chat we’re going to have tomorrow, at 3pm, which will be streamed live at qik.com/solobasssteve
Here’s today’s chat -

There’s loads more video from today over at qik.com/solobasssteve, and we’ll be streaming tonight’s Lawson/Dodds/Wood gig live there at 11pm (that’s in [...]

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Tags: Geek · Gig stuff · gig dates

Two Spearhead interviews

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Oh yes. Oh yes indeed - me interviewing first Carl Young and then Michael Franti from Spearhead. Such lovely blokes.

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Tags: Geek · Musing on Music

Interview with Jon Birch of Asbojesus…

August 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here’s a lil’ interview with the marvellous and lovely Jon Birch of Asbojesus.wordpress.com - he’s fab, his blog’s fab, and the interview’s pretty cool too…

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Tags: Geek · Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc.

What Is Greenbelt?

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s my attempt to answer the question, ‘What Is Greenbelt?’, for those of you that have been wondering.

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Tags: Geek · Random Catchup

A new blog post and another QIK vid…

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s only friday afternoon, the Greenbelt site isn’t even open yet, and I’m already working like crazy.
I’ve been posting loads of videos at www.qik.com/solobasssteve (damn, I’m going to HAVE to get myself a Nokia N95 after I give this trial one back. It’s WAY to useful!) and have just written another post for Creative Choices, [...]

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Tags: Geek · Random Catchup