This post is inspired by two things - firstly, a conversation I had recently with the very lovely Laura Kidd. We’d known each other quite a few weeks before she finally bothered to listen to any of the music I did, assuming that because it was solo bass it would be a load of techno-wank […]
Paradigm is no measure of quality - what to do when you’re ‘different’…
July 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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measurable last.fm stat (short post alert!)
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Just a quick one: I’ve just seen that my number of listeners on Last.fm this week jumped up to 33, from 17 last week - see the list of weekly listeners here, and add yourself to it for next week by listening here.
So, in statistical terms, that’s a success, I guess, though this year, I […]
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Buzz experiment thoughts: Measuring Levels Of Connection…
June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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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Last.fm-buzzing - day one results + free stuff :)
June 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
OK, one day into the last.fm buzzing experiment, and the first thing that’s clear is that this is going to take a little longer. Twitter buzzing takes a maximum of 20 seconds beyond reading the blog post. You find a link, you twurl it, you tweet it. Simple As.
I did, however, have twice as […]
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The experiment Pt 2 - Last.fm-Buzzing
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
OK, Pt II of the experiment is an easy-ish one, if you’re already on Last.fm.
In case you don’t know, Last.fm is an online radio/playlist/social network site - the heart of it is an ENORMOUS catalogue of songs, many of which can be streamed on demand, and all of which crop up in radio stations, […]
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Social Media thoughts Pt 1 - my background and history.
May 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The last couple of months have been a really interesting time for me in terms of getting to experiment with, understand and conceptualise about the world of interactive web tools refered to as ‘Social Media’. Next week is the first London Social Media Cafe Musicians get together (we need a new title!) - so I […]
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A new review…. of And Nothing But The Bass..??
May 11th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s amazing what you can find looking at your web-stats - I was browsing through mine, seeing who had linked back to this site, and found a review just posted on a blog in January of this year, of And Nothing But The Bass (my first album, for those of you a little late to […]
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Twitter-peoples - welcome to my e-world, dive right in!
May 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
OK, so you arrived here via my twitter page, and want to know more?
Short version - I’m a musician, music teacher, blogger about musical things and the miscellany of life, web enthusiast and thinker about Social media and what all this web 2.0 stuff enables us to do that we couldn’t do before, particularly […]
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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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MP3s
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
On this page you can listen to EVERY track from EVERY album that I’ve released! Yay! Just hit play on whichever of the embedded albums you want to hear! The titles of the album link to where to buy them, or there are the iTunes buttons… You can also download all of Lessons Learned From […]
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