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I’ve FINALLY got round to adding the latest bunch of gigs to Reverb Nation. The first of which is this sunday, at the Brickhouse, on Brick Lane in London (deets below in the gig cal widget).
The gig’s with my new trio with Patrick Wood and Roy Dodds - two of the most amazing musicians I’ve […]

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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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Right, I’ve got loads of fascinating stuff to blog about (no, really), but that can wait, cos right now, I’ve got loads of great free music to tell you about. First up, Lobelia is giving away a whole album of voice ‘n’ piano stuff on Reverb Nation. The album, called 040515 (the date it was […]

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Was just editing the MP3s page on my site to reflect the fact that everything on there is now fully streamable, when it occured to me that the Last.fm widget on there for LLFAAF Pt I makes all the download tracks from that album available direct from the widget… So here it is!

Don’t forget, you […]

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Much to blog about, but real life getting in the way of cyber-time at the moment. All good (if you want to keep track of that stuff, sign up for Twitter and follow me.
Anyway, what is worth mentioning just now is that all the recent activity on my Reverb Nation page, with the free album […]

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Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but you can download all of Lessons Learned from An Aged Feline Pt II from the widget below. It’s a four step process, as follows:
1. click the word ’songs’ at the top of the widget.
2. click on ‘What Was Going On’
3. put your email address into […]

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So much is being written about the egalitarian nature of online distribution, it would be easy to believe that all our worries as wannabe professional musicians are now over. We all know that we can get a myspace page and a facebook music page, a reverbnation widget and a last.fm page, just like the big […]

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Here’s a load of more general twitter tips, based on my observation of what goes on on there, and in no small part based on the things I’ve got wrong, and the twittering faux-pas I still make, but designed to help us use Twitter as part of a well-managed information filter… (I’ll blog about something […]

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OK, let’s get practical about the use of Twitter for musicians.
Here’s a list of possible uses, that I’ll then break down (in no particular order of significance)

spreading rumours
publishing gig dates
inviting discussion
interaction with fans
promoting friends
developing a brand
personalising your website
keeping your site updated
proliferating info to a lot of sites
integrating with other social networks
keeping up with the interests […]

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so I’ve joined Twitter. You may remember I joined it’s main rival Jaiku a while ago, and you may also have seen the Jaiku widgets on the blog and on my site front page… Sadly, Jaiku just didn’t have the user-base that Twitter has (they probably even had to take Murray’s advice from flight of […]

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