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. 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) Towards a Better Question (2017) PS, You Are Brilliant (2017) Small Is Beautiful (2017) Collaborations Conversations (2003) with Jez Carr For the Love of Open Spaces (2003) with Theo Travis It's Not Going to Happen (2003) with Theo Travis Calamateur v Steve Lawson (2007) with Calamateur Live in Nebraska (2008) with Lobelia Numbers (2008) as Lawson/Dodds/Wood (with Roy Dodds & Patrick Wood) Slow Food (2010) with Trip Wamsley Infralab (2010) with Trip Wamsley Live So Far (2010) with Lobelia (wife) Hidden Windows (2012) with Neil Alexander Invenzioni (2012) with Mike Outram Nothing Can Prepare (2012) with Andy Williamson The Fingerpainting Sessions (2013) with Daniel Berkman Diversion (2014) with Jon Thorne Marinate (2014) with Julie Slick Tangents (2014) with