Blue Story was a special type of film. One infused with a comedy, romance and food for thought. It is the most refreshing thing to see Black celebrities and influencers who don’t usually get much love on the big stage, earn £1.3 million pounds in its opening weekend, despite controversial screening bans. The film stars… Read More »
Category archives: Events
Mahalia and SGS take the Roundhouse
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 »
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 »
Noah Carter @the Camden Assembly
The Camden Assembly was set alight by Noah Carter on Wednesday night. Whilst waiting for Noah to come onto the stage the audience were warmed up by the DJ who played a range of music from afrobeats to pop. Noah’s arrival made the audience’s energy levels rise, people were dancing and singing/rapping along to all… Read More »
Small Green Shoots x The Artists & Managers Awards
“We aren’t a big operation, but we punch above our weight and it is simply incredible that the Music Managers Forum & Featured Artists Coalition have recognised a small grassroots charity like us to support. The whole crew were stunned! Every pound raised will go towards our Young Shoots scheme providing real opportunities for a… Read More »
AIM Awards 2018
Last night The Brewery, Clerkenwell was crammed with a musically talented and inspired audience celebrating the AIM (Association of Independent Music) Awards. Hosted by Mistajam from BBC Radio 1 and HQ Trivia’s Sharon Carpenter the Awards were punctuated with brilliant performances, one in particular from Nadine Shah who we hear has also been nominated… 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 »