Last Thursday we attended the industry night at the ACM SUMMER LIVE week-long festival held at the fantastic Electric Theatre and organized by students from the ACM Guildford. The evening began with some heady electronic folk, presented with a Nordic twist, by the sensational self-produced pop artist BRUCH . Her show gave us an exciting…
In June we reported that The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford, Surrey had announced the launch of their first ever SKUNK ANANSIE SCHOLARSHIP. The recipient of the prestigious award would receive a fully funded place on one of the academy’s reputable degree courses, worth up to £27,000. The ACM have now announced that…
A musician from the English rock band LOWER THAN ATLANTIS will to help give FREE music lessons at Guildford to celebrate National Learn To Play Day. With National Learn To Play Day coming up soon the ACM [Guildford’s Academy of Contemporary Music] are celebrating early by giving away FREE music lessons on 18th June at…
This Sunday we visited CLAYGATE — at the tail-end of their superbly organised MUSIC FESTIVAL week — to see the pioneering British progressive rock group CURVED AIR play live in concert at the Claygate Village Hall. Their “Air Conditioning” album (1970) is still considered “essential listening” by the prog-rock crowd. It was exciting to see…
THE ACADEMY OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (ACM), the world leader in music industry education, has announced that it is to take a 20-year lease charge for the Guildford arts venue known as The Electric Theatre. ACM’s 21-year history and 10,000 alumni legacy has made it a major player in the Guildford community, having generated and invested…
The Academy of Contemporary Music Surrey UK has announced the very first recipient of the prestigious Freddie Mercury Scholarship. The winner, Arjelevez Maxwell, was chosen due to her outstanding talent for songwriting, her passion and potential. Arjelevez will study the Music Industry Practice degree — completely debt free — and will be based at the…
Last weekend we attended WEYFEST 2016 – it is the 10th Anniversary of this perfect family-friendly three-day festival held each year at the Rural Life Centre in Tilford, near Farnham in Surrey. [@Weyfest ] We arrived on Saturday. Opening the Main Stage at the Weyfest on Saturday was the superior SAIICHI SUGIYAMA band [@SaiichiSugiyamaBand] a Surrey…
Meal Ticket were a country rock band that played the London pub circuit in the late 1970s. The Canadian performer Rick Jones wrote many of their songs. Steve Simpson and Willy Finlayson played guitars (plus additional instruments ) in the original squad and are still going strong — now performing together in the band-project known…
It is amazing to think that it took three bored art-school dropouts — suburban middle-class white boys from Surrey — to rekindle the flames of desire for the introverted music we now as the demon-ridden Delta blues. That was back in the mid 1960s and their reinterpretations have lived on. Inspiring a whole new and…
Surrey band BRIGHTLIGHT CITY have announced the release of their new single titled “Thieves” We have always thought the band is sensational, with “diamond sharp lyrics and chirpily relentless vocals” coupled with “insistent choruses that drill into your skull and find places to curl up to slumber- burst out later to surprise you…” The band…
Rocking Surrey 