Dr SoloBassSteve

Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'

All Back To Mine, by Steve Lawson 4 track album

#NowPlaying
All Back To Mine - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
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Once Upon A Time, by Steve Lawson 4 track album

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Once Upon a Time - @solobasssteve.bsky.social

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The front cover shows a calm sea

The inner cover with my light trails photo, taken at a gig

The track listing and credits

#NowPlaying: @solobasssteve.bsky.social : Grace And Gratitude: 2004. One of my favourites from the days when Steve made actual CDs, not least because I took the photo on the inside cover.

ha! Yes, quite, it was a little tricky to work around 😂

It seems like the rollout is all over the place. Was apparently started in September, but I only started getting the messages today!

uhm, is anyone else getting the 'subscribe to meta for £2.99 a month to not see ads' thing? Any conversations happening on Bluesky about it? Analysis? what gives?

right? I spend a lot of time telling my students this... they aren't suddenly a pile of shit, and it will get better again soon ;)

also music advice... 🙏🏼

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

I swear the chatgpt prompt for 90% of what I see on FB these days is "simplify the Wikipedia entry about ******* and add a bunch of random vaguely believable lies for absolutely no reason other than clicks."

It's insane how many outright lies are being shared by otherwise smart people 😬🫣

Surely there's a point where all the defections start being a bit of a burden for Reform? Can't really go around acting like insurgents against the political class when you are simply half the Tory party can you

On The Town (feat. John Pope), by Steve Lawson 4 track album

#NowPlaying
On The Town (feat. John Pope) - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...

YouTube video by Steve Lawson Steve Lawson - Marry You (Bruno Mars reharm)

just put the full version of my Bruno Mars reharm on YouTube... partly as an experiment to see if it gets taken down... No idea how copyright works on things like that... Anyway, let's see if the people of the YouTubes enjoy it :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgT...

"David Bowie was Lego" - wrote this 10 years go:
www.stevelawson.net/2016/01/insi...

This is wholly pointless. This weird response that evidences zero knowledge of the context for my comment is all I know of your existence. It does not bode well for any future meaningful reaction.

I wish you well, but hope you manage to avoid my posts from now on.

Well, this sounds like the beginning of a really fruitful conversation with a curious and humble person. Nice to meet you.

I love this album 🥰

People saying that everything went to shit when Bowie died seem to be forgetting everything the Tories did from 2010-2015.

My friend @solobasssteve.bsky.social has had his identity stolen on Facebook under the name ‘Flavian Rhys’ (not a name that sounds like it exists to me) so I searched it to report it and… wow…

Let's see if I can actually manage to post a video here 🤷🏽

Lil' bit of a reharm of Marry You by Bruno Mars, along with his slowed down and pitch-shifted original vocal :) Telling new stories with existing songs...

Christmas In Tegucigalpa, by Steve Lawson 2 track album

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Christmas In Tegucigalpa - @solobasssteve.bsky.social

music.stevelawson.net/album/christ...

Digging through my PhD notes for ideas that might be useful. Here's a little thing on the distinction between "user generated content" and what I've called "community originating context" :

www.stevelawson.net/2026/01/from...

Meet the first names for this year's lineup - Greenbelt We thought we’d get 2026 off to the best of starts with our very own New Year’s Honours list, and share with you a sprinkling of our first, early names for this year’s festival, Let It All Go. With ju...

We’re getting 2026 off to the best of starts with our very own New Year’s Honours list - a sprinkling of the very first, early names for this year’s festival. We’re so excited to welcome all these folks, with many more to come… Find out more here: www.greenbelt.org.uk/meet-the-fir...

Why DIY is a Methodology not an Ideology Two things have recently inspired me to get this concept out in the world. One is the number of artists who have jumped headlong into doing things on their own in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, an...

While looking for something else entirely, I stumbled across this blog post, "Why DIY is a Methodology not an Idealogy". Perhaps useful for those of you contemplating career moves as an artist :) x

www.stevelawson.net/2020/05/why-...

A New Year essay, "On Deliberateness" - worth a read if you're pondering resolutions :

www.stevelawson.net/2026/01/on-d...

I would love that 🙏

Saviour in the Dark, by Cooktaroo 2 track album

#NowPlaying: Cockatoo: Saviour In The Dark: 2025. A @solobasssteve.bsky.social project with vocalist Mille Turner. My first new album of 2026, although technically it was released in 2025.

Selfie of Steve Lawson looking to the camera, sat on a couch with a half smile and sleepy eyes.

HNY, friends. 2025 has been a complex year of a few highs coupled with a whole lot of soul searching & uncertainty. Here's hoping that some of those things find their joyful resolution in 2026, alongside a whole lot of music, teaching, writing & PhD related shenanigans 🧑‍🎓

After yesterday's post about playing fretless bass, here's one about why I still teach one on one in the age of online courses...

www.stevelawson.net/2025/04/why-...