New Artists Added to Sound City Lineup!
The Liverpool Festival gets some great new names added.
Sound City Festival Liverpool are proud to announce Catfish And The Bottlemen as festival headliner AND an innovative partnership with electronic music promoters, Freeze, bringing an incredible line up of electronic artists from across the world to the Baltic Warehouse at Sound City 2016!
Also playing Sound City 2016 will be Gerd Janson, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Greg Wilson, Floating Points, Hot Chip and Novelist. See the latest lineup additions below.
Off the back of winning Best Metropolitan Festival at the UK Festival Awards, we are delighted to present our most diverse festival line up yet with plenty more still to be announced.
Catfish & The Bottlemen // Leftfield // Hot Chip (DJ) // Floating Points (Live) // Motor City Drum Ensemble // Palma Violets // Greg Wilson // John Talabot // Gerd Janson // Shura // Âme // Henrik Schwarz (Live) // DJ Koze // Neon Waltz // Georgia // Dilly Dally // The Big Moon // Roman Flügel // Mano Le Tough // Novelist // Kagoule // Holy Esque // INheaven // Viola Beach // Mez // Derek Kaye // Jemmy // Makes No Sense
Sound City returns on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th May 2016 at the iconic Liverpool Waters Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool, L3 0AP.
Weekend festival tickets are limited, so be sure to grab yours from the festivals website.
A masterclass with Mark Heaney
“One of the most Jaw Dropping players in the UK” – (Rhythm Magazine)
Mark Heaney will be running a Masterclass at our Swindon centre on Friday 29th January (12pm-2pm).
Meet Mark Heaney. Mark was born in London in 1970. He started taking an interest in drumming when he was 5 years old. After showing a natural ability his father bought him his first kit when he was 9 years old. By the age of 10 he was working semi professionally in his Fathers show band playing clubs and dance halls around the country. He has been drumming ever since.
Mark has recorded and toured with many artists, producers and bands such as Tomoyasu Hotei, Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2) , Youth (Killing Joke, The Verve) Garrett Lee Aka Jacknife Lee (U2, Bloc Party), David Botrill (Placebo, Dream Theater), Andy Gill (Futureheads, Young Knives), Gang of Four (Band Member 2006-2014), Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Gwen Stefani), John squire (The Stone Roses), The Seahorses (Band Member 1998-1999), The Freelance Hellraiser, The Shining, Simon Tong (The Verve), Simon Jones (The Verve), Nick McCabe (The Verve), Simon Dawson (The Stone Roses, New Model Army), Badly Drawn Boy, Klaxons, S Hit Disco, Howie Day, Threshold and many more.
Heaney was a member of Post Punk Legends Gang of Four from 2006 until 2013. He has recorded on albums Return The Gift, Content, Ep’s Second Life, Glass and Broken Talk. Heaney has toured extensively with Gang of Four worldwide covering North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. He has also performed with the band on Later with Jools Holland, The Late show with David Letterman, The Old Grey Whistle test, Massive Attacks meltdown, ZDF Germany, Huey Morgan show, XFM, KCRW, KEXP, Radio 2 and many, many other broadcasts.
Heaney is an accomplished composer creating Epic soundscapes and Dark grooves for Film and TV worldwide. He has also written Bespoke bodies of work for many of the worlds best music houses including De wolfe music, EMI, Sony, Extreme music, Wrong Planet and others.
In 2015 Heaney formed experimental jazz Quartet Extemporize. The band features Pete Billington Keys, Stuart Henderson Trumpet and Jerry Soffe Bass.
What press have said….
“A muscular yet madly skilled player. Mindblowing” (Modern Drummer)
“Mark Heaney is a machine”. (Time Out)
“One of the most Jaw Dropping players in the UK”. (Rhythm Magazine)
“Might just be one of the most important drummers in the country”. (Rhythm Magazine)
“Heaney is a serious player, throwing down Vinnie inspired “what the heck was that”? moments”. (Mike Dawson – Modern Drummer)
“A reflection of our times, both musically and technologically”. (Percussive Arts Society)
Percussive Arts Society)
“And then he started playing and jaws were literally seen to drop, Who’s Mark Heaney then…You’ll See”. (Rhythm Magazine)
“The Bonham-esque type capabilities of Mark Heaney”. (NME)
“Sitting behind all this is dextrous drum basher Mark Heaney who is reminiscent of John Bonham in his hey-day”. (NME)
“A drummer of surgical precision”. (Andy Gill – Gang of Four)
Mark will be running a Masterclass at our Swindon centre on Friday 29th January (12pm-2pm)
A masterclass with Anton Browne
The Sing Thing..
On Friday 5th February, AMS hosted a masterclass with vocal coach Anton Browne.
Anton is a well-respected vocalist and educator in the UK. In his career, he has performed with The Len Phillips Big Band, was a resident member of the house band on TV show The Voice UK, co-wrote the Popular Music Vocals Grades for the London College of Music (as well as developing his own vocal tuition program ‘The Sing Thing’), all the while teaching at The BRIT School for over twenty years. He has also contributed material for our very own BTEC vocal courses.
In the masterclass, Anton talked students through a variety of exercises to help improve breathing, tone and range, as well as working with students to help pick out way in which they can improve their own voices.
Here’s what some of our students had to say about the class….
“Amazing – learned a lot about breathing. Must book again!”
“Very helpful and impressive.”
“I liked how he involved us in the class and asked about/worked on our problems.”
“Very informative and interactive – learned a lot!”
“Very fun – got everyone involved.”
“Even though I am not a singer, I found it really interesting.”
Find out more about Anton Browne on his website.
An Evening With Bruce Findlay
Tees Music Alliance & Academy of Music and Sound present an evening with Bruce Findlay.
AN EVENING WITH BRUCE FINDLAY
THURSDAY, 28th JANUARY, 2016 – 19:30
THE GEORGIAN THEATRE
Former Manager of Simple Minds, Bruce will be discussing the music business, drawing on his experiences as an artist manager.
Not to be missed – Bruce is a well-respected music industry figure, with a great sense of humour and some wonderful stories to tell.
THURS 28th JAN, 7.30PM, FREE ENTRY BUT WITH LIMITED CAPACITY
