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Review - And Nothing But The Bass (Misfit City)

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

“This music is apparently what Steve Lawson makes to entertain friends. Friends who make themself known as such simply by showing up to one of his intimate gigs in London. Or in Lincoln, Watford, France, California… or wherever Lawson and his little bundle of bass guitars, E-Bow sustainers and looping devices pitch camp for an […]

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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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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!
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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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In the studio with Dave Bainbridge (video)

April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m in North Lincolnshire at the moment, with Dave Bainbridge, guitarist and keyboardist with the band Iona. Iona have been a favourite band of mine for years, so when Dave contacted me via Myspace about being involved in his new project, ‘Open Sky’, I was rather excited.
Yesterday was spent mainly improvising and finding out how […]

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Tags: Music News · Musing on Music

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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File sharing and the musical diet…

October 7th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: bass ideas · the future of music · tips for musicians

File Sharing III - a response to Jeff Schmidt…

October 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments

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Looong day!

September 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Random Catchup · teaching news

Euro Blog 3

October 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

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