Dear Parent/Student,

Christmas Showcase and rehearsal Information

The Realistic Rock Christmas Showcase is fast approaching on Monday 19th December @ Epsom Playhouse.

Tickets for the Christmas Showcase are now on sale from Realistic Rock reception. Tickets are £10 each or £9 each when you buy 5 tickets or more. Tickets are also available from Epsom Playhouse for £10 each (£9 ticket offer is not available).

On the day of the Showcase, students should be at the Epsom Playhouse for 6.45pm. Doors for the performance will open at 7.30pm and the performance will start at 8pm and be finished by 10.30pm. There will be an interval approximately half way through the Showcase.

Rehearsal Information

There will be a final rehearsal for students taking part in the showcase on Sat 17th Dec @ Realistic Rock.

Please make a note of the time of your group’s rehearsal:

9:30am – 10:30am: Foundation & Intermediate
10:30am – 11:30am: Rock Band & Remix
11:30am – 12:30am: Beginners To Band Members, Step Up On Stage, Rock Stars

Good luck in your preparations for the showcase, we look forward to seeing you on the night!

Get a free set of electric or acoustic guitar strings worth £6 when you spend £30 or more in the shop this Saturday, 26th November!

Realistic Rock Night @ Bar XLR continues! It’s always a great night, so if you haven’t been, come in for a whole night of live music from Realistic Rock students and bands including:

8:30 – Vertical Horizon
8:45 – Two Tone
9:00 – Water For Boats
9:15 – The Final Rumour
9:30 – Tutors
9:45 – Geoff Tester
9:55 – Remastered Tues
10:05 – Remastered Thurs
10:15 – Feature Creep
10:45 – Baundie and The Bandits

From 8:00 pm. Under 18s are welcome if accompanied!

We’ve been nominated for an award in the Epsom & Ewell Business Excellence Awards!

Check out the other nominees and information in the Epsom Guardian, on page 15. You can also view the paper online here.

It’s half term next week so there are no lessons between the 24th and 30th of October. Please note that workshops will take place on as normal on Saturday 22nd October!

Next Wednesday is the first Realistic Rock Night of the term!

Come down to Bar XLR on from 8 pm on October for live music from Realistic Rock students and bands including:

Spoken Red
Jordan
Roxxi
Babyfaced Assassins
The Very Never
Geoff
Feature Creep
Baundie & The Bandits

Under 18s are welcome if accompanied!

Term’s now well underway for private lessons but workshops don’t start until next week, from 26th September.

There are still a few places available on workshops and some private lesson spaces too, so it’s not too late to sign up if you haven’t done so already!

Win an electric guitar and amp worth £180!

To celebrate the new term, Realistic Rock are giving away an electric guitar & amp for one lucky customer on each of the open days on Saturdays 10 & 17 September. Everyone who signs up for a course or block of lessons on the day will be entered into a prize draw and the lucky winners will receive a Stagg electric ST pack worth £180 that includes an electric guitar, amp, gig bag, strap, lead & picks.

See you at our open days on the 10 & 17 September!

School opening hours over the summer period:

The Academy is closed between 1st August – 5th September. Our office opens on Mon 5th September and term starts on Mon 19th September.

You can still apply online for lessons and workshops over the summer period or please leave a message with Roger in the shop.

Please come and see us at our open days on Sat 10th & 17th September from 10am – 3pm.

Have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you in the forthcoming term!

Well done to everybody who took part in the Summer Showcase at Epsom Playhouse on July 30th and thanks to everybody who came down to watch!

The night saw performances from all Realistic Rock courses, including Beginners to Band Members, Beginners To Band Members Under 11s, Step Up On Stage, Realistic Rock Band, Realistic Remix, Remastered, Remastered 2 and group lessons and selected students.

There was also a Battle Of The Bands as the finale to our week long summer workshop, Get In A Band And Play, which ran from Monday and featured 5 newly formed bands, The Red, Little Bo Beach, Kings Of Zion, Space Chimps and Happily Never After, who all played the songs they wrote during the week. The Battle Of The Bands was judged by Gary from Rockstock, who awarded the prize of a session in the recording studio and the trophy to Kings Of Zion- well done, guys!

We’d like to give a couple of special mentions to Ultra Violet and Babyfaced Assassins who were there representing our coached bands and George Fleming for his vocal performance on Beat It and Jake Cunningham, Ben O’Neill and Joem Opina for their cover of Valerie.

Thanks to IGroover for covering the event- you can buy the photos online through their website.