Last night Savanna and I had the chance to go and see two queens live – Mahalia and Hamzaa at Mahalia’s sold out Roundhouse show 25/11/19. Hamzaa supported Mahalia on her UK tour and it was a delight to finally see her perform ‘Sunday Morning’ live – especially seeing the crowd sing it back to… Read More »
Category archives: Art & Music
Small Green Shoots has entered the big leagues…….
The fancy schmancy Artist and Managers Awards have made us their official charity partner! Whoop-Whoop! Not only have they recognised all the hard work we put in to support emerging artists and creatives, they also know any money raised is going to us “The Young Shoots” to help us with things like workshop leaders, buying… Read More »
Poet in da Corner review
From the seminal album that shaped parts of a 100,000 teenage-hoods “Boy in da Corner” comes “Poet in the Corner” by performance poet and Grime artist/exponent “Debris Stevenson”. Hailing from a Mormon family in London’s Seven Kings, she has taken her story to the stage at the Royal Court, and with artists in the audience… Read More »
Smiles, Colours and Rainbows
Pride Festival London city is set to be a sea of rainbows and smiles over the weekend. Filled with colour and passion celebrating its 46th year this Saturday 7th of July. Wide range of arts to be performing such as Theatrical performances from the cast of West End show Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Aladdin, The… Read More »
Violence and Music or Music and Violence?
So, this weekend saw 4 men stabbed at the GarageNation festival after a fight in the VIP Section. 2 airlifted to hospital and people describing poor security and chaotic scenes as the music went on around them and the other 15,000 ravers. There have been stabbings at both Wireless and Parklife amongst others in the… Read More »
Is Streaming The New Buying?
The rise and rise and rise of streaming! We all live on YouTube, Spotify, Google Play …and we knew streaming was going to take over, but now it’s taking over the charts, well sort of. Since YouTube was first launched in 2005, it’s had 20 music videos reaching over the 2 billion views mark. A… Read More »
The Rise of Octavian
Octavian has been on the rise as a quality emerging artist for quite a few months now.. The London rapper really grabbed attention when Drake appeared on his Instagram dancing to his single “Party’s Here.” Last week at London’s Jazz Café he lit up the stage as a natural. Pacing the stage like he was… Read More »
Refugee Week
People! This week is refugee week, which takes place every year all around the world. In the UK, it’s a week of programmes celebrating arts, culture, education, exhibitions, film screenings, theatre and dance performances, concerts, football tournaments and public talks as well as creative activities in school that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the… Read More »
Music Week Awards 2018
The great and the good of the music industry were honoured at the annual industry knees up – we mean The Music Week Awards 2018 yesterday. The ceremony returned to the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and was sold-out. Choc-full of music executives and global superstar Dua Lipa. The night was full of memorable moments… Read More »
OUR MERCURY AWARD PREDICTION.
The Mercury award is today and everyone is trying to put their best predictions forward. ‘Albums of the Year’ celebrates and promotes the best of UK music, recognising artistic achievement across a range of contemporary music genres. This year’s nominees are as follows: alt-j – ‘Relaxer’ Blossoms – ‘Blossoms’ Dinosaur – ‘Together, As One’ Ed Sheeran… Read More »