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About Me

Simon Little is a session bassist living in London.

Perhaps best known as the bassist with The Divine Comedy and Clare Teal , he also tours regularly with Maggie Reilly, Lea Delaria, Jonathan Jeremiah and Chris Difford. As a jazz bass player he plays regularly with Ian Shaw, Symeon Cosburn, Nina Ferro and Esther Bennett. Simon has also played with Duke Special, Nick Cave, A Girl Called Eddy, Beth Rowley, Ben Folds, Norma Winstone, Claire Martin, Boo Hewerdine, Ryan Edwards, Alan Barnes, Polly Gibbons, Sarah Moule, Julie McKee and The Ronnie Scott's Allstars amongst others.

You can check out Simon's official blog site at Blogger . And don't forget to have a look at the Reverb Nation site and sign up to the mailing list. You can also follow updates on Twitter if you're that way inclined. Simon has also just started a solo bass podcast, you can check it out Here or on iTunes . Search for Simon Little's Podcast. Very imaginatively titled that one.... Simon plays Electric, Upright and fretless basses and the Chapman Stick . He currently uses Warwick basses and amps, and Elites strings. And if you ask him nicely, he might play the musical saw for you....

Discography:
Get Happy (2008) Clare Teal,
The Last Temptation of Chris (2008) Chris Difford,
What A Woman Shouldn't Do (2008) Julie McKee,
Paradisi Carousel (2007) Clare Teal,
Victory For The Comic Muse (2006) The Divine Comedy,
Drawn To All Things (2006) Ian Shaw,
Rowan (2006) Maggie Reilly,
South East Side Story (2006) Chris Difford,
Breakfast with the Blues (2006) Symeon Cosburn
Whatever It Takes (2006) Jai Cavill
Live at the London Palladium (DVD 2004) The Divine Comedy,
Absent Friends (2004) The Divine Comedy,
Vollmilch 2004 - Das war Haldern (2004) with The Divine Comedy
Just In Time (2004) Esther Bennett, The Very Thought of You (2003) Lol Williams Band

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Member Since: 3/20/2007
Band Website: simonlittlebass.blogspot.com
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Influences:

Eberhard Weber, Tony Levin, Steve Lawson, Jaco Pastorius, Stuart Zender, Scott LaFaro, Marcus Miller, Pino Palladino, Tal Wilkenfeld, Gary Peacock, Bootsy Collins, Jonas Hellborg, Eddie Gomez, Trey Gunn, Peter Hook, Danny Thompson, Ray Brown, Mick Karn.....

....and my teachers: Barry Glynn, Steve Watts, Jeff Clyne, Martin Hathaway, Simon Purcell, Pete Churchill, Kevin Rundell, Jan Bunting, and Claire Whitehead.

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Chris Difford Music Video for 'Fat As A Fiddle' (Stiff Records)

The Divine Comedy 'When The Lights Go Out All Over Europe', Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival

The Divine Comedy 'To Die A Virgin' Live on Jools Holland 2006

The Divine Comedy 'Come Home Billy Bird' Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival

Some Of My Favourite Artists & Albums From Last.fm .......

Record Label: Artists on Universal, Parlophone, Warner, Linn..
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Hector Zazou...

I just found out that one of my favourite composers and musicians, Hector Zazou, died on Monday aged only 60. According to various reports, Hector had been seriously ill for several months and had had...
Posted by Simon Little on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:00:00 PST

New Chapman Stick Tune!

Hello folks,Just to let you know I've just recorded my first solo improvisation on Chapman Stick for the Solo Bass Podcast over at Podbean. It's been exclusively solo bass until now, but I've been lis...
Posted by Simon Little on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:28:00 PST

::New Blog:: Visit my Blogger site to subscribe!

Hello folks.I've just posted a write-up of Maggie's show in Poland at the weekend on my Blogger site Here. Just click on the link and you'll be magically transported into my weird and wonderful world ...
Posted by Simon Little on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:33:00 PST

Exclusive Download Track for Reverb Nation Fans!

Hello folks,Hopefully some of you who read my last blog will have checked out my new Reverb Nation page, where I've been posting tracks from my Solo Bass Podcast.Today I posted a brand new solo bass t...
Posted by Simon Little on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:32:00 PST

New Reverb Nation page!

Hello folks,Please take a moment to check out my new Reverb Nation page and sign up to the mailing list to keep up to date with what's going on with my new solo bass project. There's a link to the mai...
Posted by Simon Little on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:53:00 PST

New Facebook Music Page

If you are a Facebook user, please go and have a look at my brand new Facebook Music Page and, if the mood takes you, become a fan! (it's a very exclusive club thus far) It's a bit basic at the moment...
Posted by Simon Little on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:51:00 PST

Recording Solo Bass: Some thoughts on my new Podcast..

As some of you may already know, I've recently set up a solo bass podcast through Podbean. This is something I've been meaning to do for a number of years now, but it's taken my recent slump in gig ac...
Posted by Simon Little on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:13:00 PST

Back with The Divine Comedy at Wychwood last night...

The Divine Comedy headlined the Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse last night. It was only the forth year the festival has been running and from the sound of it it's getting bigger every year....
Posted by Simon Little on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:12:00 PST

New Podcast up and running (hopefully!)...

I've just managed to put together a little podcast on Podbean. My intention in future is to post up some of the solo bass and Chapman Stick stuff I've been working on, but for the moment I'll be occas...
Posted by Simon Little on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:10:00 PST

Maggie Reilly Struer Festival: A Field Report

Hello folksJust got back from playing a festival in Struer with Maggie Reilly. Struer is a city in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in Western Denmark (I nicked that little snippet from Wik...
Posted by Simon Little on Mon, 19 May 2008 04:39:00 PST