Performing will be:

• Sam Tom Wright
• The Boy I used to be
• Underground Parachutes
• Defined Music
• And of course, Heather.

Tickets are £3 on the door of the Kings Centre (home of the HOPE project). Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.

At the gig we also launched the HOPE Music Mentoring 500 Club. This is our plan to raise some money to finish sound proofing our rehearsal and recording space. Check out the trailer for more information.

You can follow each of the bands on Facebook or MySpace and become their fans! This is a great way of keeping in touch with them and finding out what they are up to:

• Split Personalities
• Heather Bailey
• Defined Music
• Zoo In The Sky

So come down to the Kings Centre on Elm Grove, 7pm on Thursday 8th April 2010. That is next Thursday!!

Entrance is £1 on the door and the line up includes:

• Split Personalities
• Heather Bailey
• Zoo In The Sky
• Defined Music

For more information check out the Facebook event (and also let us know you are coming!)

Firstly they also will be playing at the Portsmouth Variety show alongside Defined Music. Get down to the New Theatre Royal on the 16th April to see both bands.

Secondly, the SP’s have been back in the studio to do some more recording and CD’s of their latest efforts will be on sale at the Variety Show gig (along with as much other merchandise that we can squeeze in the van). We will get some samples of their recordings available for a sneak peek soon.

And finally check out their new website www.splitpersonalities.co.uk.

Zoo In The Sky are playing at the Edge of the Wedge on 17th March – more details can be found here.

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1. The project received some money from Young Money to replace some tired musical instruments and to improve our video equipment. We are really grateful for this money and it will make a big difference to what we can offer here.
2. One of our bands DefinedMusic has recently been auditioned – and got in with flying colours – to the Portsmouth Variety Show happening in April at the New Theatre Royal. This will be a great opportunity for these guys to really show their stuff in a great venue to a large amount of people. These guys have been busy on their website – check out their amusing Video Blogs…
3. Split Personalities, although having suffered with illness over the last few weeks will also be auditioning for the variety show in the coming weeks and we reckon they’ll get in with flying colours!
4. Zoo In The Sky are booked in to record a demo in the studio over February half term. They are a very well respected local band and haven’t had the opportunity to do a decent demo yet. We hope to put that to rights!
5. Heather Bailey is hard at work on her acoustic sets and we hope to do a ‘lounge’ gig one afternoon in the future to give Heather the opportunity to perform. Keep your eyes peeled for more info on that one….

• Split Personalities: After the last academy, the Big Shot Bandanas split and joined forces with Split Personalities to form a new and exciting band. These guys are hungry for gigs and we’ll be working with them on their live performances and recording some demos.
• Defined Music: A newly formed three piece, these guys have some gigs lined up and will be working with Backbeat to do some work on their material, their original songs and doing some recordings.
• Zoo In They Sky: A highly experienced young band who are up for recording some of their songs to produce a really class demo.
• Heather Bailey: Heather is a solo acoustic act who is working with Backbeat to sharpen her performance, her songs before getting stuck into some gigs.

Some exciting things going on. Check out the band websites (which are new) for the latest info…

I will be doing the rounds giving them out but if you want to pop into the Kings Centre and grab one then you are most welcome to do so.

One thing that really helps us is to find out what you thought of the academy (for those that were involved). If you have 30 seconds please can you answer a couple of questions and let us know what you think! You can find the questions by clicking here.

Order More Copies

Each person who took part in the academy will get one free copy. However additional copies can be purchased at the rock bottom cost of £3 each. If you would like to obtain some more copies by emailing us, phoning us, or popping in and asking for them.