Festival season has begun - Glastonbury was this weekend, as well as the ‘Hard Rock Calling’ two day-er in London (went down there to see Eddi Reader play yesterday, and to see KT Tunstall and The Police today - all marvellous).
However, my usual reaction to festivals is *shrug*… I rarely see a festival line-up […]
Pick your Fantasy Festival line up
June 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Musing on Music
Getting the ingredients right: thoughts on Improvisation
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Sunday’s gig with Patrick Wood and Roy Dodds went very well - thanks to those of you who came along. The venue, The Brickhouse on Brick Lane in East London, was suitably strange - on three levels (ground floor and two balconies, the top one had beds on it!) and amazing food, and we had […]
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friends and inspiration
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Stevie Stuffs
Pillow Mountain Records - My record label
Recycle Collective - My monthly looping/improv gig 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 […]
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Timeline and Trivia
May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off
Musical Equipment Used
- Modulus Graphite Basses (6 string fretted and fretless and 4 string fretted), A Rick Turner 5 String Renaissance ‘Amplicoustic’ fretless bass, Accugroove bass cabinets, the Looperlative LP1 for looping, Lexicon MPX-G2 for processing, an E-Bow+, Bass Centre Elites strings, East-UK preamps, Evidence Audio cables. And I carry my bass around in an […]
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Reviews
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve had loads of great press for my solo albums and gigs - have a read of some of it below!
[quick quotes page]
Behind Every Word CD Reviews -
Jyoti Mishra (#23 in his 2006 albums of the year round-up).
Seth Horan (in his round up of the best of 2006)
From no Warning (in italian)
From PureMusic.com
From Sid Smith
From […]
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Bruce Cockburn interview from Nov ‘99
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Back when I was writing for Bassist magazine in the late 90s, I mainly used interviews as a chance to meet up with my musical heroes. The bass ones were easy to sort out, but on a couple of occasions I used the magazine connection to interview my guitar playing heroes as well, and did […]
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Billy Bragg, KT Tunstall, Leo Abrahams & Foy Vance live…
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
So iTunes have started doing an annual festival - itunes live. This year they seem to have a thing for collaborations, which do often, it must be said, make a gig particularly special.
And is no doubt one of the main reasons why the genius that is Leo Abrahams was on the bill - his new […]
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Cabaret, variety and the joy of artistic cross-pollenation.
February 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
I just got in from playing a cabaret show, organised by Moot, an urban spiritual community, with a particular fondness for the arts.
This was the second of their cabaret evenings I’ve played at, and once again the line up was hugely mixed in terms of artistic disciplines, but all of really high quality. There were […]
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Recycle Collective gig, Tuesday 30th…
October 29th, 2007 · No Comments
(this is cross-posted from my mailing list - thanks to the lap-top problems I’ve been really slow to send out info about tomorrow night’s Recycle Collective gig, so am putting the word around as much as I can today, giving you the chance to make a last minute decision to come and spend the evening […]
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This week in review
October 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Music News · Musing on Music · Random Catchup · music reviews