A quick round of applause, please, for the Herculean live-blogging efforts of Mr Steve Lawson.
Steve came along as an invited guest to today’s Fresh on the Net seminar for London Songwriters Week and captured the whole thing – Tom Robinson and I presenting, the thoughts of the crowd and the mood of the day.
He tweeted, blogged, videoed and even AudioBoo‘d.
Like this:
Go read / watch / listen to Steve’s whole account of what was an exceptionally good afternoon.
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Thanks, Andrew! It was a whole lot of fun, and great to have such an embarrassment of amazing material to blog. So much good stuff came out if it, I just wish the ICA wifi had been up to me streaming a lot more video… Next time ;)
Yeah thanks for cohosting the event too – a pleasure to work with you in person Andrew. So many interesting things came up, and the participants just took the ball and ran with it. Key moment for me:
Dubber: how many of you got into songwriting because you thought you’d make money from it?
Roomful of 70 songwriters: (no hands raised)
A look of dawning revelation spread around faces in the room – including mine.Declining record sales are no disaster for creative musicians cos most of us made next to nothing from our record deals in the first place.
And, of course, a huge round of applause to Tom and Andrew for a wonderfully inspiring, encouraging, positive workshop session. I’m quite sure that we all came away thoroughly energized and revitalized. I for one have lots of great ideas to follow up on.
I wasn’t sure about being ‘branded’ a rabbit at first, but they have their good points I guess! And locating the others proved and entertaining adventure.
Whilst Tom was speaking about ‘goals’, I was reminded of the old Chinese saying:
‘If you’re not careful, you’ll end up where you’re heading’!
Well done Steve – great to have your blog available (even though I was there, it’s a very handy reminder!).
Looking forward to the next one.
Regards,
Davi
I find it all slightly depressing, being reminded that ‘When the gold rush happens, it’s them that makes the shovels makes the money’.
Kevin (in bleak mood).
Take your point Kevin – tho for the record the seminar was 100% free for all participants.
Both Steve Lawson and I worked completely unpaid, and Andrew took a considerably reduced fee.
There are actually many more lucrative ways to squeeze cash from the dreams of ambitious musicians than providing them with free seminars and websites.
And people are out there too – squeezing away with bogus “management” and “publishing” services that the artist pays for upfront. Now that IS depressing…