Mar 30, 2010

MediaCamp Nottingham

The Twitter song has opened a lot of doors for me in the last year or so, and most of those doors lead to small, strip-lit rooms with flipcharts and biscuits. On Saturday I walked through the doors of Lace Market House in Nottingham to just such a scene, and entertained the assembled social media nuts, amateurs and enthusiasts with a few of my geekier songs.

The #mcn2 crowd were great, and we solved roughly 73% of the world’s problems later that evening over a few beers1. They were armed to the teeth with the usual selection of phones, cameras and recording devices, and they documented everything online. The charge of the geek brigade was of course led by Phil Campbell, who’s just set up a new video streaming studio in the building using their super-high-speed fibre connection. As soon as I arrived he sat me down to do an interview. Phil’s always enthusiastic and knows his social media stuff, so our chat was a pleasure and turned out really well. You should watch a bit of it just to check out the quality (this was streamed live!!!):

Phil also recorded a few of my songs (Dressing Up, Box Junction Heart and a rare recording of WINKYFACE) on AudioBoo. You can hear them all over on his blog, where he’s also written a post about the rest of the MediaCamp day. I love Phil, and not just because he writes things like this:

bq. Ben Walker was on usual fantastic form and that guy seems to have been born with that guitar attached to his fingers – he did a fantastic set and he still manages to surprise me with his delivery even when tired – he just goes into performance mode. You really should book him to enhance your social media style media events. Honestly, you will not be disappointed.

The CreativeNottingham people also caught a recording of the Twitter song and a few photos, and I’m sure there are other bits and bobs around the web that I’ll find eventually.

  1. I even came up with the theory (plausible at the time) that the academic institution would eventually be replaced by a giant API to knowledge, thereby freeing the talented academics from the evil grasp of the backward-looking and power-hungry universities. I may have been stretching the record company analogy a little far. ↩

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3 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. phil campbell

    always a pleasure sir, great writeup and glad you liked the video. must cross the streams and do a live unplugged hq/hd stream when I get the video/audio absolutly as perfect as I can.

    Mar 30th, 2010

  2. Ben Walker

    Definitely. Live sessions from the überstudio would be great. ;)

    Mar 30th, 2010

  3. Susi O'Neill

    Fantastic set, inspired music, loved the 12 seconds songs (though most were 10.5 secs) – where are the vids?

    Hope you make it to Nottingham again. Here’s my research I was going on about independent musicians and online distribution:

    http://www.digitalconsultant.co.uk/research

    Mar 31st, 2010