Month: April 2012

Clap and Click with Artis

Artis Specialist and Mentor Leader Stuart Barter (Chime) once again successfully fuses music, drama and movement – in an innovative and fun way, the children have to play back a rhythm using claps and clicks depending on what part of the drum the teacher is playing. To start, the skin of the drum is a…

Marcus Miller, the baron of bass.

JAZZ. Calm down calm down! Don’t worry, we won’t bore you with different forms of music improvisation by its chordal complexity, often exhibiting ii V progressions in multiple keys… zzz. – lets just remind ourselves of one of the greats. Marcus Miller, baron of bass and sultan of session continues to perform and is coming…

Homespun and Stylish

A quiet revolution has swept the country over the last two years, like a gentle tsunami laced with, well, lace, and buttons, and knitting wool. For everywhere you look, craft has enjoyed a subtle boon, from cool knitting clubs to vintage faires to TV programmes to craft “queens” like Jazz Domino Holly. The trend hasn’t…

Our crime: BBC 3 goes behind the scenes of teen crime

Many of the crimes committed by teenagers in the United Kingdom are captured in self-shot footage from bystanders, victims, and often the offenders themselves, whilst others are caught on the four million CCTV cameras nationwide.  New BBC3 series ‘Our Crime’ explores the human stories behind these shocking real-life scenes of violence, theft and mayhem. In…