OK, so you arrived here via my twitter page, and want to know more?
Short version – I’m a musician, music teacher/lecturer, 1/5th of New Music Strategies, writer and social media tinkerer. I blog about my music life, specifically the various things that are now possible for musicians thanks to the joys of ‘tinternet. I’m also a consultant/thinker about Social media in a wider context, particularly as it relates to creatives. I co-run a social media event help organisation called Amplified.
Your best places to start finding out what I do are my blog (set aside a while, there’s a lot of it!), and the music pages. It’s worth having a listen, honest, cos all this other nonsense is related to the music – that’s the centre of the wheel, the hub around which all the other stuffs rotates.
After that, you might want to find me elsehwere: Facebook, Last.fm, YouTube and some other places.
You’re also welcome to check out the gigs page in case I’m out and about.
Oh, and if I followed you first, the chances I found you were recommended to me, or retweeted by someone. It may also have been that I found you via something you tweeted about music… Whichever, it’s just that your feed looked interesting, so I’m checking it out – feel free to follow back or not! If you do follow me, and I tweet too much, I shan’t be in the slightest bit offended if you unfollow. My own sister did 🙂
If you followed me in the hope that I’d follow back and I haven’t, it’ll be because of two things – firstly, I don’t get notifications of new followers – there were too many, and it was taking up loads of time. I do go and have a look about once a week to delete all the spam and wrongness, so then I follow people I know.
The number of people I’m already following (2000-and-change as I write this) is already functionally too high, so I’m only adding people that REALLY interest me. If I’m not following you, it doesn’t, of course, mean that you can’t reply to things, or ‘@’ me for specific things – that’s all cool, and if we get a conversation happening, it may well be that I end up following you. But please don’t be offended if I don’t. It’s honestly nothing personal, I assure you 🙂 x
Hey Steve –
Great meeting you yesterday in HEL. Couldn’t find a contact link on yr site, so here I am.
Apropos of your comments at the OpenLab gig, I thought you might enjoy this:
http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/happy-forever/
See you in London sometime!
hi! all well? sitting in your orange survival suits on the aft deck sipping pinacoladas? did we exchange music at all? my aim is to get you to listen to my record from last year as well as a quartet concert we are releasing as soon as we get it mastered. (first master was compressed and bass destroyed, as usual is) AND to get a copy of you new trio record (dribble,dribble)
i do not believe it, i cannot even write my own name. its downhill from now for sure
hugs
TELLEF
Great, I mean REALLY great bass sound… I find your music very interesting… I wish you 100%!
Sincerely
A
I agree! The music category thing is strictly for marketing, filing or as you say for searching. After all these years, I cringe when people ask me what kind of music I play. I play MUSIC… I don’t like to say “jazz” as people form conclusions… I grew up w/Beatles, Who and Stones and love and am influenced by anything that makes a noise!
All the best
One of the most elegant notices about not following that I have read. Also, pretty realistic.