News and Announcements
New Instrument!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Well, new to me, that is.I recently started learning fiddle. I figured that, as I have now spent several years sucking at guitar, bass, mandolin, bodhran and tin whistle, I might as well be useless at something really different and interesting. And it is really interesting. This is an instrument that manages to be fun [...]
Coming Soon:Instrument Lessons/Bluffers Guides
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Yup, we’ll be introducing some tutorial and reference material for beginning instrument players. Eventually we hope to have whole, structured learning courses for a number of instruments, but these will obviously take a while to build up so we’ll do it in installments.
Some of the initial lesson articles will be in the form of quick-start [...]
The Gig List and Gig Feedback
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007A couple of new facilities for those of you who perform, or who have friends who perform. We will promote your gigs here if you email us the details in advance. We will also publish your reports of gigs you have played - how they went, what you played, what you learned from the gig [...]
Help Us Out (and Maybe Yourself)
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Our web stats suggest that the posts with video in them are the most popular. Well, that’s fine, we’re happy to include video when we can.
Of course, variety is the spice of life, so the more different videos we have the more we have to offer. Oh, we could trawl Youtube for video but we [...]
A Brief Interlude…
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007OK, this will either convince you that informal live music is fun, or it will horrify you to the extent that you will never go near another pub jam session so long as you live.
Below are a couple of videos from a local pub jam last night. All very relaxed.
If you are just starting out [...]
Welcome
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Welcome to DIY Live Music.com.
We have just launched and as yet the content has still to be added, but don’t let that put you off. Please do check back regularly and watch as we grow the site into a great resource for anyone who performs, or would like to perform, live music.
We will be adding [...]