Hey all,
I’ve uploaded a new recording of ‘Never Let Me Down’ which I recorded a couple of days ago. Those of you who have heard it before will notice the addition of an acoustic guitar part, played by Sean Grant (lead guitarist of Terrapin Trainstation, and also writes some incredible acoustic solo stuff which you can [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Links, Music (Recordings), Music (general) . Tags: myspace, Recording, reverbnation, Sean Grant . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
Tomorrow night, Tuesday 15th April, we’ll be playing at The Hope & Anchor in Islington. The other bands on the line-up are The Furbelows, The Wutars, and Geisha. Entry is £5. We’ve never played there before, but from the photos on the website, it looks like a nice, intimate venue.
Hope and Anchor
207 Upper Street, Islington, London, [...]
April 14, 2008
Categories: Music (Gigs), Music (Recordings), Music (general) . Tags: acoustic, b-sides, geisha, hope and anchor, islington, liquid studio, single, terrapin trainstation, the furbelows, the pitz, the wutars, tmd records . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
Before Christmas we were signed to an independent label, TMD Records, and since the new year we’ve been working hard on our first official release. It’s nearly ready… Recording is all finished, mixing in progress, mastering and artwork to be done. There’s going to be eleven tracks, some that a lot of you won’t have heard [...]
April 5, 2008
Categories: Links, Music (Gigs), Music (Recordings), Music (general) . Tags: album launch, milton keynes, new cassettes, terrapin trainstation, the pitz, the shapes . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
 The Warwick.de Forum is almost certainly the most friendly and most informative I’ve ever been to. There’s no stiff competition between members, no boasting about skills/equipment, just high spirits and the common interest of bass playing and music.
Whether you own a Warwick bass or not [ though you should...! ], if you admire them or just [...]
April 4, 2008
Categories: Links, Music (general) . Tags: bass, forum, music, Warwick, www.warwick.de, www.warwick.de/forum . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
The UKs leading solo bass player, Steve Lawson is giving out two of his albums for absolutely nothing - Lessons Learned from An Aged Feline Part 1, and part 2.
For Part 1, head over to Steve’s last.fm page, and for Part 2, sign up to the mailing list at his Reverbnation page
Also, singer/songwriter/solo-bassist Seth Horan is giving [...]
April 2, 2008
Categories: Music (Recordings), Music (general) . Tags: between two oceans, download music, free, free music, happenstance, last.fm, lessons learned from an aged feline, mp3s, myspace, reverbnation, seth horan, singer, solo bass, songwriter, steve lawson . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
Tomorrow night, Tuesday 1st April, I will be playing a solo set at Stantonbury Theatre (Milton Keynes). If by any chance any of you reading would like to show up, I suggest you make an appearance about 7:30pm to get a seat.
It’s a nice little theatre actually. I’ve played there once or twice before, but never [...]
March 31, 2008
Categories: Music (Gigs), Music (general) . Tags: british legion, club life, gigs, kev cooke, live, music, newport pagnell, stantonbury, terrapin trainstation, theatre, wellingborough . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
Attempt number infinity at trying to use blogging for a less casual and more useful purpose.
 So, now is a good a time as any to link you up the review by Craig Short of MK music e-zine, Ampjam.net.
 The gig was at The Dolphin, in Bletchley with myself, Yolanda Charles, and Steve Lawson on the line [...]
March 31, 2008
Categories: Music (Gigs), Music (Reviews), Music (general) . Tags: AMPjam, bass, bletchley, gigs, kev cooke, live, milton keynes, music, review, steve lawson, the dolphin, yolanda charles . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments
Welcome to my wordpress blog… I’m Kev, and I’m a bass guitarist. I play for a band called Terrapin Trainstation and I play as a solo artist too. Please, check out my music -
http://www.myspace.com/kevcooke
http://www.reverbnation.com/kevcooke
http://www.youtube.com/user/kevcookebassguitar
March 10, 2007
Categories: Music (general) . . Author: Kev Cooke . Comments: No Comments