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“Drawn by the call of bass, I’m chilling here - it’s cold inside the nave of this small church tucked away by Holloway Prison. Were he American, Steve Lawson would be filling Stateside theatres on the progressive-instrumental circuit. But he’s British, and aiming at a gap in the market that the industry’s done its best [...]

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“As a rainstorm raged outside the beautiful Art Deco walls of the old Rio Theatre there was quite a storm of another kind brewing on this venue’s new stage. Tuesday night’s world premiere ‘Bass Looping Festival’ was a great success story for hosts Rick Walker and Laurence Bedford. The avante garde event journeyed into the [...]

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I’m just back from a visit to Internet World - a trade show/expo at Earls Court for internet business peoples. It sounded interesting, so I thought I’d head down for a look.
I guess it didn’t help that they were sharing the hall with a direct marketing expo, but the feeing that one was in the [...]

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Been having some fantastic conversations with creative people of late on the subject of originality. It’s a subject that seems to lead to wildly different comments and responses from creative people, but rather too often seems to become deified or fetishised to the detriment of the resultant art.
With solo bass being such a niche musical [...]

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Had a lovely morning giving a lecture/masterclass at the ACM today. It was extra-fun because I was given a topic I hadn’t spoken on before, but was given it at too short notice to have time to prepare so I had to wing it. And it went great, at least from where I was stood [...]

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OK, for one moment, I’m going to think about what record companies did well when they were functioning (very few people that I know who were ever signed to labels had this experience, but it’s what in an ideal world labels offered artists):
1. A Label Let an Artist be An Artist - those of you [...]

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Got an email a few days ago, from a site called Schmap, asking if they could use one of my crappy phone-cam pics of Douglas Coupland in their entry about the Bloomsbury Theatre…
So here’s the link, to Steve Lawson, web-published photographer have Sony Eriksson K-810i, will travel…

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A few days ago Sarda sent me a link to this microformats plug-in for Safari. Basically what it does is, when there’s an microformat data on a page, it shows the lil’ green microformat symbol in the address bar (like where the orange RSS thingie is if you’re looking at this page in Safari), and [...]

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So, back on track - onto the task of unpacking the notion of our music being given away for ‘free’, the story going that it’s great publicity, that we’ll develop a degree of ubiquity (or localised ubiquity - is that an oxymoron???) and it will serve us well in the long run.
A lot of the [...]

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