Following the success of Richard Henderson’s ‘Outside The Box’ drum articles featured in Play Music magazine, Robin Henderson will be writing a series of tutorials on fresh approaches to guitar techniques.
The first article ‘Lost Licks’ will be published on the first of August in Play Music magazine. You can pick up a free copy from the premises and also view both Robin and Richard’s tutorial videos in the online lessons section of the website.
The BRIT Class Act website and Rob Da Bank are running a competition for young musicians to play at Bestival this year.
All you need to do is visit the competition website and follow the instructions to upload a video of yourself playing to be in with a chance of winning! The competition is open to solo performers as well as bands.
The Theory Of 6 Degrees, The Final Rumour and Roxxi have already uploaded tracks and the competition ends on Friday 16th of July, so make sure you get your entries in!
Last Saturday, Babyfaced Assassins played at the South Park Gardens Music Festival in Wimbledon, an annual event for selected local acts under the age of 21.
The festival was hosted by XFM DJ, John Kennedy, who picked up on the band early in the selection process, listing their song ‘Hold Me Down’ first on the event Myspace as well as playing it on his radio show!
John is said to be ‘an absolute oracle of the hotly-tipped, the seer of the next big thing, the guru of the soon-to-be-great’, so being noticed by him is a fantastic achievement for the band.
Listen out for ‘Hold Me Down’ by Babyfaced Assassins on John’s X-posure show, Monday-Thursday from 10:00 pm – 1:00 am on XFM 104.9.
Some of you may have seen us in the ‘What’s On This Summer’ section of the local Guardian this week with a press release detailing our summer workshops and the showcase at Epsom Playhouse.
Unfortunately, the paper printed last year’s press release instead. Oops!
Just to confirm, Get In A Band And Play runs from July 26th – 30th with a choice of times (9:30 am-1:00 pm or 2:00 pm-5:30 pm). The Summer Showcase will be at Epsom Playhouse on Saturday 31st July from 7:30 pm, featuring bands including Sound Proof and local favourites, The Theory Of 6 Degrees.
Look out for us again in next week’s papers (Thursday 15th July) with the correct information this time!
Realistic Rock band, The Theory Of 6 Degrees have announced their festival circuit this year and it includes Glastonbury! The band were invited to play by festival founder, Michael Eavis and will be the youngest band ever to appear at the iconic festival, alongside the likes of Stevie Wonder, Muse and Slash.
The band will be playing on the BBC Introducing stage on June 27th, with Glastonbury heralding the start of a festival tour that also includes Redfest and Guilfest although you can catch the boys a little closer to home at the Realistic Rock Summer Showcase at Epsom Playhouse on July 31st.
We’d just like to say congratulations to Theory for such a massive achievement. To see everything else the boys are up to this summer, check out their myspace for a list of dates.
The popular ‘Get In A Band And Play’ workshop returns this summer!
Students on this 5 day course form a band and take part in a number of songwriting workshops that cover everything from hooks and riffs to melody and lyrics. All bands get to take part in the Summer Showcase at Epsom Playhouse on July 31st, to compete in a Battle Of The Bands competition.
This summer also sees the arrival of ‘‘BAD’, a 2 day Band Academy & Demo Recording crash course where students learn and record a twist on a classic rock song with their own lyrics!
We’re already taking bookings, so if you’d like to take part then please apply now!
Term starts again this week for all private students and next week (3rd May) for group lessons and workshops so there’s still time to book if you haven’t done so already.
Well done to everyone who took part in the Easter Showcase at Epsom Playhouse!
Over 100 Realistic Rock students took part in the event, which included performances from Beginners To Band Members, Realistic Rock Band, Realistic Record Deal, Remastered, selected group lesson students and several featured bands.
We’d like to mention few students who really stood out for us, so well done to Josh Hayes, Ryan Poole, Alex Hamilton, Sophie Alexander, Hannah Martin, all vocal students involved in ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ and Scott Verrill and Jack Shepherd from The Theory Of 6 Degrees.
Thanks to everybody who came to watch!
Realistic Record Deal is a 10 week advanced workshop where students learn the basic skills involved in songwriting, including how to write hooks and riffs as well as melodies and lyrics. They then write their own songs and record them in the in-house studio before performing them at the end of term showcase.
The songs from this term are now available for download for £1 each.
All profits raised from these songs go straight to Children In Need- we’ve raised over £200 on previous workshops so please download both songs if you can.
More information on Children In Need can be found here.
Dishes Are Done are an alternative rock band with an average age of 14, featuring Alex S Brown, Tom Nash, Hemmy Ogilvie, Dominic Cooper and Jake Roberts.
Their sound is influenced by bands such as Muse, Led Zeppelin and Kasabian and they all share a love of rock and would like to send this message to their fans: ‘Get your devil horns ready, ‘cos we’re gonna rock your world!’
Their song ‘Broken By The Bullet’ was recorded at Realistic Rock and is now ready to download!
Radio Activity are 5 guys who bonded on a Realistic Rock workshop over a love of all things rock. James Thompson, Matt Coates, Ben O’Neill, Harry Message and Josh Brown say that their first song is a perfect cross section of their influences, listing 30 Seconds To Mars, Muse and Lost Prophets as inspiration.
They hope to ‘carry on making rad music and become the best band in the world.’
Their first song, ‘Dreams Don’t Last Forever’ was recorded at Realistic Rock and is now ready to download!
We’re now adding keyboards to our tuition options!
To start off with, we’re offering 30 minute private lesson slots to students wishing to learn keyboards, but hope to add them to workshops in the future so watch this space.
More information about private lessons can be found here.
