Dr SoloBassSteve
@solobasssteve.bsky.social
'Britain's most innovative bassist, no contest': Bass Guitar Mag. 🎯
Bass person. Bike person. Lymphoma-remission person. PhD in artist-audience communities and their impact on the music.
www.stevelawson.net
he/him/doctor
Bass person. Bike person. Lymphoma-remission person. PhD in artist-audience communities and their impact on the music.
www.stevelawson.net
he/him/doctor
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So in Steve-news, I handed in my corrected PhD at the weekend, and on Monday got the news that the corrections had been accepted and I'm Dr Steve. So that's nice.
Ten f'king years. Been napping a lot this week.
🙏🏼
Ten f'king years. Been napping a lot this week.
🙏🏼
there's only one use of AI that I'd REALLY like to see...
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
there's only one use of AI that I'd REALLY like to see...
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
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From @solobasssteve.bsky.social
50% discount on music across the site. The subscription is reduced to £22 a year if you sign up over the weekend (& that discount will stay in place for you as long as you remain subscribed)
The discount code is 'blokefriday'
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/community
50% discount on music across the site. The subscription is reduced to £22 a year if you sign up over the weekend (& that discount will stay in place for you as long as you remain subscribed)
The discount code is 'blokefriday'
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/community
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November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
From @solobasssteve.bsky.social
50% discount on music across the site. The subscription is reduced to £22 a year if you sign up over the weekend (& that discount will stay in place for you as long as you remain subscribed)
The discount code is 'blokefriday'
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/community
50% discount on music across the site. The subscription is reduced to £22 a year if you sign up over the weekend (& that discount will stay in place for you as long as you remain subscribed)
The discount code is 'blokefriday'
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/community
Tax the super rich, you fucking ghouls. It's that simple.
Start acting like the party of Labour.
Start acting like the party of Labour.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Tax the super rich, you fucking ghouls. It's that simple.
Start acting like the party of Labour.
Start acting like the party of Labour.
So, from what I understand of these budget commitments, there's literally NOTHING that eases the financial crisis that literally everyone on a normal wage is feeling right now. Freezing personal tax levels is a ginormous step backwards when wages have already stagnated while costs have sky rocketed.
Oh fuck I used to be a political reporter, can't help myself. Here's the big tax policies from the leaked budget.
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
So, from what I understand of these budget commitments, there's literally NOTHING that eases the financial crisis that literally everyone on a normal wage is feeling right now. Freezing personal tax levels is a ginormous step backwards when wages have already stagnated while costs have sky rocketed.
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New & Notable: Bristling avant-rock from Sebastian Rochford, with pinpricks of guitar, free-jazz openness, and sudden bursts of velocity and melody.
Finding Ways, by Sebastian Rochford & Finding Ways
10 track album
sebastianrochford.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New & Notable: Bristling avant-rock from Sebastian Rochford, with pinpricks of guitar, free-jazz openness, and sudden bursts of velocity and melody.
@robert-brook.com what a truly heart-expanding joy it was to see you today, friend. That made me really happy 😊
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@robert-brook.com what a truly heart-expanding joy it was to see you today, friend. That made me really happy 😊
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
in other news, I'm revisiting this live improv album I recorded with @danielberkman.bsky.social about 13 years ago for the first time in a while. Playing with Daniel is a completely unique experience. Just endlessly satisfying exploration :)
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/serend...
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/serend...
Serendipity, by Steve Lawson and Daniel Berkman
7 track album
stevelawson.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
in other news, I'm revisiting this live improv album I recorded with @danielberkman.bsky.social about 13 years ago for the first time in a while. Playing with Daniel is a completely unique experience. Just endlessly satisfying exploration :)
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/serend...
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/serend...
so, I got a DMCA notice from X about my account. I click the link (after checking it's not a phishing scam...) and it opens to a bunch of Ts & Cs in French...? WTF?
Man, I miss Twitter. Early Twitter especially, but even just plain ole' pre-fascism Twitter would do now...
Man, I miss Twitter. Early Twitter especially, but even just plain ole' pre-fascism Twitter would do now...
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
so, I got a DMCA notice from X about my account. I click the link (after checking it's not a phishing scam...) and it opens to a bunch of Ts & Cs in French...? WTF?
Man, I miss Twitter. Early Twitter especially, but even just plain ole' pre-fascism Twitter would do now...
Man, I miss Twitter. Early Twitter especially, but even just plain ole' pre-fascism Twitter would do now...
it's not really had much of a fanfare, as I've literally no idea how 'media' works these days, but my latest album Amsterdam feels like a bit of a high water mark in my recent output. Give it a listen if that sounds appealing :)
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/amster...
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/amster...
Amsterdam, by Steve Lawson
6 track album
stevelawson.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
it's not really had much of a fanfare, as I've literally no idea how 'media' works these days, but my latest album Amsterdam feels like a bit of a high water mark in my recent output. Give it a listen if that sounds appealing :)
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/amster...
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/amster...
was going to buy a new phone a few weeks back (replacing decrepit phone from 5 years ago). 15 y/o son says 'wait for the Black Friday deals to kick in'. Dude just saved me £80 :)
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
was going to buy a new phone a few weeks back (replacing decrepit phone from 5 years ago). 15 y/o son says 'wait for the Black Friday deals to kick in'. Dude just saved me £80 :)
@alexskolnick.bsky.social dude, listening to The Breakdown now (about to buy the album on Bandcamp :) ) just beautiful playing... it's most interesting to hear someone with a such a similar list of influences to me play a solo full of harmonic ideas that feel so familiar. A voice from 'home' :)
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@alexskolnick.bsky.social dude, listening to The Breakdown now (about to buy the album on Bandcamp :) ) just beautiful playing... it's most interesting to hear someone with a such a similar list of influences to me play a solo full of harmonic ideas that feel so familiar. A voice from 'home' :)
in a lesson that touched on looping strategies the other day I played this amazing performance by John Lester - such a great song & such a beautiful & bizarre half fretted/half fretless instrument built by my friend Rick Turner. Loved playing midwife in that project!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhYi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhYi...
John Lester - So Many Reasons [Live Looping]
YouTube video by John Lester
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
in a lesson that touched on looping strategies the other day I played this amazing performance by John Lester - such a great song & such a beautiful & bizarre half fretted/half fretless instrument built by my friend Rick Turner. Loved playing midwife in that project!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhYi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhYi...
oof, the Nova Twins Tiny Desk gig is properly amazing - some seriously top-drawer pedal abuse going on in Georgia's bass playing. For the nerds, her use of the Source Audio Hot Hand is just brlliant :) I've got a new bass hero.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOi...
Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
oof, the Nova Twins Tiny Desk gig is properly amazing - some seriously top-drawer pedal abuse going on in Georgia's bass playing. For the nerds, her use of the Source Audio Hot Hand is just brlliant :) I've got a new bass hero.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOi...
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Some dude brought his pet owl on the train and I feel like I'm in an episode of Nathan Barley.
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Some dude brought his pet owl on the train and I feel like I'm in an episode of Nathan Barley.
Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars by Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians is still perfect in every way.
And the late great Brad Houser's bass playing on it is all time top 5 favourite bass things for me 🙏
And the late great Brad Houser's bass playing on it is all time top 5 favourite bass things for me 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars by Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians is still perfect in every way.
And the late great Brad Houser's bass playing on it is all time top 5 favourite bass things for me 🙏
And the late great Brad Houser's bass playing on it is all time top 5 favourite bass things for me 🙏
I spent some time today/yesterday rummaging through bass forums and Reddit threads looking for mentions of me... It's instructive to know how one is being spoken about, as much as a small business best practice thing as as a human being... It's nice to find you have advocates in unlikely places.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I spent some time today/yesterday rummaging through bass forums and Reddit threads looking for mentions of me... It's instructive to know how one is being spoken about, as much as a small business best practice thing as as a human being... It's nice to find you have advocates in unlikely places.
anyone else struggling to remember what their jobs were before COVID? I've always had a portfolio career, but it feels like a whole bunch of shit just got left behind in 2019/2020 and I never remembered what it was to start doing it again 🤷🏽
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
anyone else struggling to remember what their jobs were before COVID? I've always had a portfolio career, but it feels like a whole bunch of shit just got left behind in 2019/2020 and I never remembered what it was to start doing it again 🤷🏽
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the new translation of my last book is a good reminder to boycott watkins media
open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
On the new translation of Capitalism: A Horror Story
On my "monstrous progeny"
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the new translation of my last book is a good reminder to boycott watkins media
open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
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#NowPlaying
LEYlines V - @solobasssteve.bsky.social, Andy Edwards & Phi Yaan-Zek
This is definitely Prog
pyzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ley-li...
LEYlines V - @solobasssteve.bsky.social, Andy Edwards & Phi Yaan-Zek
This is definitely Prog
pyzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ley-li...
Ley Lines V: Mighty Morphin Tower Rangers, by Steve Lawson, Andy Edwards & Phi Yaan-Zek
3 track album
pyzmusic.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#NowPlaying
LEYlines V - @solobasssteve.bsky.social, Andy Edwards & Phi Yaan-Zek
This is definitely Prog
pyzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ley-li...
LEYlines V - @solobasssteve.bsky.social, Andy Edwards & Phi Yaan-Zek
This is definitely Prog
pyzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ley-li...
today I remembered a thing in a lesson about looping that I hadn't watched in a while - Bernhoft, "Sunday". Absolutely incredible 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEa...
Bernhoft "Sunday" 1: Man Live fra Kampen Bistro
YouTube video by johansf
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
today I remembered a thing in a lesson about looping that I hadn't watched in a while - Bernhoft, "Sunday". Absolutely incredible 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEa...
Properly brilliant speech. First sign of real hope in US politics in a while 🙏
The full speech by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is well worth watching for UK politicians and Americans alike www.youtube.com/live/y7ysB8K...
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Properly brilliant speech. First sign of real hope in US politics in a while 🙏
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#NowPlaying: @solobasssteve.bsky.social and @basspope.bsky.social: On The Town: Live In Newcastle 2025: I've not heard John play before and it's nice to attach some notes to a Bluesky friend's name. You'll need a bandcamp subscription for this one, so... get one 😀
On The Town (feat. John Pope), by Steve Lawson
4 track album
stevelawson.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#NowPlaying: @solobasssteve.bsky.social and @basspope.bsky.social: On The Town: Live In Newcastle 2025: I've not heard John play before and it's nice to attach some notes to a Bluesky friend's name. You'll need a bandcamp subscription for this one, so... get one 😀
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I’m on a @solobasssteve.bsky.social release! Recorded live in Newcastle earlier this month. What a joy to play with Steve!
hey, all y'all Bandcamp subscribers, I just released a new thing, the live recording from my show in Newcastle last month - it's called On The Town, & it's here: stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...
if you're not currently a subscriber, you can get this and 100+ other albums via the same link.
if you're not currently a subscriber, you can get this and 100+ other albums via the same link.
On The Town (feat. John Pope), by Steve Lawson
4 track album
stevelawson.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I’m on a @solobasssteve.bsky.social release! Recorded live in Newcastle earlier this month. What a joy to play with Steve!
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#NowPlaying
On the Town (feat. John Pope) - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
music.stevelawson.net/album/on-the...
On the Town (feat. John Pope) - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
music.stevelawson.net/album/on-the...
On The Town (feat. John Pope), by Steve Lawson
4 track album
music.stevelawson.net
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#NowPlaying
On the Town (feat. John Pope) - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
music.stevelawson.net/album/on-the...
On the Town (feat. John Pope) - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
music.stevelawson.net/album/on-the...