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…
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…
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…
The English rock band the SMALL FACES were active from 1965 to 1969. Small Faces were part of the Mod revolution of the 1960s and their sounds continued to inspire artists such as Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher well into the 21st Century. The band consisted of East London lads Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Steve…
Since graduating from the Academy of Contemporary Music in 2012 guitar player CARMEN VANDENBERG has hit the ground running – fast tracking a career in the music industry. She performed in BONES alongside singer ROSIE BONES on a sold out European tour, she has also worked with Roger Taylor, Dave Stewart, Kate Nash, Roger Mayer and…
The English folk musician, singer-songwriter and mult-instrumentalist Dave Swarbrick has died — 3 June 2016. Swarbrick is most famous for his work with Fairport Convention [1969-1984] and, in particular, the innovative Liege and Lief album (1969) which featured the vocal talents of Sandy Denny and kick-started the electric folk movement. Born in New Malden, Surrey, the family…
Rocking Surrey 