Record Labels offer an artist two main areas of service, firstly the money to actually record and make a record; and secondly the distribution channels, marketing budget and contacts to promote the record to the audience. Here we’re dealing mainly with the first half of this relationship, if you haven’t got a label how do you raise the money to make and release an album?

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Steve Lawson was one of the panelists at Un-Convention this year on a panel of musicians and artists who had carved out unusual careers for themselves in the ever changing music world. Steve is an extremely respected bass player who as well as doing session work also plays solo bass sets which he himself describes as a concept sounding more like a dare than a gig.

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