Steve's Internet Stuffs

Here's something you don't often see on Bandcamp - an epic orchestral soundtrack to a film. In this case, it's a film that came out in 1916, about the first British Offensive of the 1st World War...

I've written a lot about Miriam Jones in the past. I even played on one of her albums. She's married to Jez Carr, with whom I made 'Conversations' in 2002. She's amazing - I've just started listening...

Forget any nonsense classification about 'women bassists', Yolanda Charles is arguably the finest funk bassist in the UK. A remarkable musician with an enviable track record, she took her time getting...

More ambient goodness found via twitter - I think, like Lowercase Noises, I found Emmalee because she was talking to Zoë Keating... Zoë's clearly become my go-to person for cool ambient stuff!I don...

Heres' a record I've been listening to a lot of lately. I first came across Hope And Social via their guitar player Rich Huxley (AKA Cliff Huxtable/@thehuxcapacitor) who I met through UnConvention in...

Sorry to keep wittering on about it, but Bandcamp is fast becoming THE way I buy music. I've still got my eMusic account at the moment, but if I got rid of it, I don't think I'd be any worse off for...

It's November, which means it's National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. I did it last year, and ended up with a novel that I'm deeply proud of. I love it. I've re-read it a number of times and it...

I am, it must be said, a massive Danny Barnes fan. A big fan of the man's music, and the man himself.  I first heard him playing banjo with Bill Frisell on the album, 'The Willies' - I had no idea...

I shared a bill with signalsundertests (Ricky Graham on guitar and John King on processing) at the Antwerp Live Looping Festival earlier in the year. They were excellent, so I was looking forward to...

I've just redone the artwork for the first two 'Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline' albums (the 3rd one isn't yet online, for reasons of file quality... more on that some other time)So, I guess that...

Gary Dunne's an excellent singer/songwriter, who live does some cool looping things - he played at one of the early Recycle Collective shows (before the 3 musicians/3 sets format had become the norm...

There, that heading should lead to some interesting Google traffic...  Bikini is, in fact, the name of the first tune to be released from Mike Outram's forthcoming solo album.  If you've been following...