Steve Lawson (born 1972) is a British bass guitarist. Based in Birmingham, England, Lawson regularly tours in the United States and Europe. He has supported Level 42 and 21st Century Schizoid Band, worked as a third of the political doom metal band #TORYCORE, and performed and recorded as a duo with his wife, singer Lobelia.
Lawson releases his music through his Pillow Mountain label and Bandcamp. His albums have included solo works, duets, and trio with live looping, mingling layers of sounds generated from a bass guitar. As a music journalist he contributes to Bassist, Guitarist magazine, The Independent On Sunday, Third Way magazine, Bass Player, and Bass Guitar magazine.
He teaches bass guitar in Birmingham. In 2015 Bass Guitar magazine published an in depth interview with him.
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Equipment
He uses two Modulus 6-string basses, one fretted and one fretless. He uses a Looperlative LP1 for looping and a majority of his effects are provided by the two Lexicon G2 multi-effects processors. Lawson also uses an Elrick Steve Lawson SLC signature bass guitar.
Discography
And Nothing but the Bass (2000)
Lessons Learned from an Aged Feline, Pt I (2001)
Not Dancing for Chicken (2002)
Grace and Gratitude (2004)
Lessons Learned From an Aged Feline, Pt II (2004)
Behind Every Word (2006)
Lessons Learned From an Aged Feline, Pt III (2006)
Ten Years On: Live in London (2010)
11 Reasons Why 3 is Greater than Everything (2011)
Believe in Peace (2012)
What the Mind Thinks, the Heart Transmits (2014)
Closing In (2015)
The Way Home (2015)
You Guys! Let's Just Talk About Nail Varnish! (2015)
A Crack Where the Light Gets In (2015)
Referendum (2016)
The Surrender of Time (2016)
Hands Music (2016)
Colony Collapse Disorder (2016)
Ten Years Too Late (Radio Edit) (2016)
Well - Say Hello Then (2016)
Hark-Winter (2016)
Towards a Better Question (2017)
PS, You Are Brilliant (2017)
Small Is Beautiful (2017)
Always Be The Bridge (2017
If They Had Won (2017)
Beauty And Desolation (2018)
Grace & Gratitude - Revisited (2018)
The Dudley Bug (2018)
The Long Game (2018)
How/Why (2019)
Stepping Stones (2019)
The Arctic Is Burning (2019)
The Field Of Strategic Possibilities (2019)
The Gift Of Patience (2019)
Time Is A Broken Lens (2019)
Tangled (2020)
The Aesthetics Of Care (2020)
Better Living Through Technology (2020)
Half Life (2020)
(dis)order (2020)
Hindsight (2020)
Scenes From The Dystopia (2020)
an unbearably slow collapse, after bill viola (2020)
The Root Of It All (2020)
Here. Now. (2020)
And Nothing But The Bass @ 20 - The First Concert. (2020)
Still My Soul (2020)
Listen (2020)
A 20/20 Christmas (2020)
With Trepidation (2020)
Resolution (2021)
The Multiverse (2021)
Cabinet Of Curiosities (2021)
Birmingham London Oxford Birmingham (2021)
Forward Motion (2021)
Skitter (2021)
No Through Route (2021)
Fairytale (Christmas 2021) (2021)
Covid Brain Fog (2022)
First Glimpse of the Olive Branch (2022)
Rick (2022)
TLC (2022)
The Waiting Game (2022)
Episode 50: A New Hope (2023)
The End Is Still Unwritten (2023)
Blue (2023)
Three Thin Cows (2023)
Time Stops Vol 1 (2023)
Time Stops Vol 2 (2023)
Time Stops Vol 3 (2023)
Birdsong (2023)
Days Like These, Live @ Artefact (2023)
Falling In Love With The Alien In The Mirror (2023)
Peace On Earth (2023)
In Need Of Friends (2024)
ceasefire (2024)
LARVIK (2024)
I'm Still Here (2024)
Music for Nili-People Pt II (2024)
Sleighride - Christmas 2024 (2024)
Unearthed : 2014 (2024)
Stevemas Eve (2024)
Great Expectations (2025)
Show And Tell (2025)
Ambiguous Hands (2025)
Amsterdam (2025)
HamsterJam (2025)
Once Upon A Time (2025)
Christmas In Tegucigalpa (2025)
All Back To Mine (2026)
Collaborations
Conversations (2003) with Jez Carr
It's Not Going to Happen (2003) with Theo Travis
Behind Every Word (2006) with B J Cole & Julie McKee
Calamateur v Steve Lawson (2007) with Calamateur
Live in Nebraska (2008) with Lobelia
Numbers (2008) as Lawson/Dodds/Wood (with Roy Dodds & Patrick Wood)
Live At Don Quixotes (2009) with Michael Manring & Lobelia
Slow Food (2010) with Trip Wamsley
Infralab (2010) with Trip Wamsley
Live So Far (2010) with Lobelia
Hidden Windows (2012) with Neil Alexander
Invenzioni (2012) with Mike Outram
Nothing Can Prepare (2012) with Andy Williamson
...Honestly, We Had No Idea! (2013) with Daniel Berkman
Academia (2013) with Daniel Berkman
Accidentally (On Purpose) (2013) with Daniel Berkman
Everything Is Possible In This Best Of All Possible Worlds (2013) with Daniel Berkman
Free Fall (2013) with Daniel Berkman
Nie Mój Cyrk, Nie Moje Małpy (2013) with Daniel Berkman
Compilations
Best of Steve Lawson Pt 1 (Solo, 2000-2013)
Best Of Steve Lawson Pt 2 (Collaborations, 2000-2013)
Best of Steve Lawson Pt 3 (Solos, 2014-2021)
Best of Steve Lawson Pt 4 (Collaborations, 2014-2021)
Best of Steve Lawson Pt 5 (The Longs - Solo)
Best of Steve Lawson Pt 6 (The Longs - Collaborations)
The Fingerpainting Sessions Vol.1
The Fingerpainting Sessions Vol.2