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One from The Vault - interview from BassRocket.com

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

In the process of transferring my website over to this lovely shiny new format, I removed a lot of dead links to reviews and interviews that were no longer online. Fortunately, I knew a few of the writers, and so was able to get hold of transcripts of the original interviews direct from them.
One […]

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Interview - from BassRocket.com (Jan 2005)

May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Review - Lawson/Napier duo, Ronnie Scott’s, Birmingham (Andy Long)

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

2/7/2000
“A two-and-a-half hour drive culminate in a parking space on the fourteenth floor of a multi-storey car park, thanks to some big evangelical conference or other in the N.I.A. Fourteen flights of stairs and a short walk later and here we are at Ronnie Scott’s. Blimey! This is posh. No beer in plastic glasses, no […]

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Review - Solo Show, Christopher’s, Lincoln (Michael Cowton)

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

01/06/2000
“Lincoln is not known for its musical prowess. Buying in ageing musical hiccups like Mike Pinder’s Searchers, Leo Sayer, and the occasional tribute band is about the city’s forte. Mind you, last year we did have Jools Holland appearing at the Castle. The highlight of the year, for most. So the idea to stage a […]

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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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Michael Manring on improv…

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

So the chain of links goes - the top ‘related video’ for the new duo video with Michael Manring is a trailer for a documentary about a musician called Michael Masley. Micael Manring used to be in a group with Masley called Cloud Chamber, a beautiful ‘improvising chamber group’ that made really beguiling ambient music.
So […]

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Bluffing…

February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I just watched the following video on Myspace - a hilarious clip of Fred Armisen going for an audition that he clearly has no place being at -

And it reminded me of when I did a very similar thing, albeit slightly more unwittingly. Back in about 1996/97, I had just moved back to London from […]

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