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To join the BBM/BMC mailing list, please write to: editor@britishblackmusic.com subject: put me on your mailing list STOP PRESS: The Jan. 15 debate/workshop was a resounding success. Report will soon be file. In the meantime, if you're interested in the Saturday Feb. 26 one-day music business overview course & showcase, or the Black Music Records & African Crafts Fair VI on March 19, scroll down for more information. STOP PRESS: Recording of the ‘UK Celebration of Urban Music’ has been postponed till Thursday 31st March, as the new ITV broadcast date has been re-scheduled for Sunday April 3 2005. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. We’re informed a change in transmission date meant having a recording date closer to transmission date in order to keep the televised show “fresh”. We hope to keep you informed, as the response to allocation of places has been fantastic! So please hold off sending ANY query on matter until we send further mail on the show. Welcome! It’s
great to be back on the superhighway after an interminably long delay in our new
broadband supplier Homecall getting its act together. We are very much under the
weather, so this is a stop-gap posting. As it’s Feb. 14, so we’ve got a Valentine give-away. Click to enter. We would have loved to have offered the fine ‘Lover’s Rock’ (Kickin) compilation too, but we did that last year. Nevermind, you can click here to read about Kickin Music boss Peter Harris, who put that compo together. So UK music
industry award show BRITS 2005 is over, but the controversy rages on. Oh, and
we’ve got hundreds of places to offer for the next black music, or should that
be, urban music, awards show – just read on. But first, with
his sophomore album ‘A
Grand Don't Come For Free’ (679/Locked On/Warner Music)
having topped many year-end polls (not mine, though we found it very
interesting, and ‘so English’), it’s not surprising that The Streets
nabbed the Best Male Brits gong, whilst Joss Stone picked up Best Female.
However, the jury is still out on Joss winning Best Urban. This is what hip-hop artist Ty had to say on the BBC Online
debate on this particular Joss win: “I'm
not really comfortable with the word urban. It's a word that's been manufactured
in this country and America to describe black music. The word urban seems to
cover such a broad range of black music that it's wrong. “How
far are the Brits removed from inner-city music and what people are doing? It's
so far removed that I don't expect them to get it bang on. The music industry
isn't championing music from our particular genre very well anyway.” We’ve
been there with the ‘urban music’ v ‘black music’ at many a Black Music
Congress debate. Anyway, the good news is that Mark Anthony, the man who created
the Black Music Awards, a forerunner to the MOBO Awards in the early ‘90s, is
back in the game with a twist. He’s
launching ‘The
UK Celebration Of Urban Music’,
a TV-centred show that chronicles
urban music and charts the significant movers and shakers in 2004. Like
come-back girl Jamelia, BRIT-winning
Lemar, much-touted ‘newcomer Estelle, and new boy Nathan. Hosted
by Richard Blackwood, expect soul sensation Joss Stone, Brit-Asian R& B
singer Jay Sean, crossover jazzer Jamie Cullum and multi-platinum selling
artists Amy Winehouse, Jamelia and Lemar, plus newcomers Estelle, Shystie and
Nathan to feature alongside the established British talent. Invited
guests include the cream of urban music talent and British stars from stage and
screen. This prestigious, seated event will be held at La Palais in
Hammersmith,
west London on Wednesday Feb. 23 postponed until Thursday March 31). It’s filmed for broadcast on
ITV on Sunday April 3.. Fancy
being there in the thick of things? Of course you do! Well BBM/BMC just made
your dream come true, because we’re charged with giving away hundreds of
places, and best of all, it will cost you nothing! Just come with an attitude to
have fun, and let’s have more cheering than booing!! All
you have to do is to use this link: (suspended
until further notice Urban
Celebration Place(s) Request), and only that, as it will
automatically be responding until we have no more places to offer. All you do is
enter your name, phone number(s), email address(s), and number of places
required. There
are a few VIP places available, but you’ll have to prove you’re in the
business. For VIP passes, use this email link:
(suspended until further
notice Urban
Celebration VIP Passes giving your name, phone number(s), and
your company name or business. Liggers better not test, because we’ll check
your bona fides! The 'What Can We Do To Build A British Black Music Industry?' was one of our best. If you weren't there, we launch our gallery with photos supplied by Patrick Thomas. Click on gallery to catch some of the flavour of the debate. The next BMC debate will be in early June. After all that talk, we'll find out what people have done since January. It's entitled: 'British Black Music: Where Has It Got To?'. Then we'll meet in January 2006 with 'British Black Music: Do We Have Cause To Celebrate?'. Africa's big in the arts and culture media due to the mega multi-media branded Africa 05 taking place across London Feb-Oct 2005. BMC will be taping into its own Africa programme - more on that soon. Talking about things African, check out the the free Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lecture on Saturday Feb. 19 or Joe's African charities-tagged after-party on Tuesday Feb. 15 (see listings below). Don't forget our own projects, the workshop/showcase on Saturday Feb. 26 (guest artist is rapper Slim Dutty) and Fair VI on March 19 either on the left on listings below. Bye for now. Kwaku Posted Feb. 14 2005 Kwame
Nkrumah Memorial Lecture 2005
Come and listen to the words of the great Ghanaian pan-Africanist read by North West Saturday School headmaster Alexander Boadi come alive, and see the School children role play key moments in Ghana’s fist president’s life. Special guest: Samia Nkrumah (daughter of Kwame Nkrumah) Saturday 19 February 2005, 6.45pm Free entry, but donations welcome. There will be displays, book sale, and raffle to raise money for one of Brent’s leading supplementary schools. Capital City Academy, Doyle Gardens, Willesden Green, London NW10 3ST (near to Willesden Sports Centre). Buses 206, 226. Alex Boadi North West Saturday School headmaster 07946 302 342/07956 258 512 Women in Music
Symposium: "Cross-cultural music: what difference does gender
make in the 21st Century?"
Harry Leckstein,
Freeport Records. M: 07796 950 406. E: harry@freeportrecords.com "My sole
purpose is to fulfill my mission to give artists in the BME communities the
platform they deserve in art, entertainment, social issues, education etc...
This channel enables me to keep my promise." Got the picture? Now get into
the picture by contacting Ewemade.on 0207 544
1054. eorobator@bmetvfm.com, www.bmetvfm.co.uk African
Charities & The Joe After-party Producer
Diligently Seeks Young Pop-R&B singer
BBM?BMC Poll BBM/BMC partner BTWSC has a music industry overview course for Harrow youths, and a music & media project for Brent youths. It has a one-day music business workshop & live showcase session for all, especially those fropm Harlesden & Stonebridge, north-west London way on Saturday Feb. 26, 3-8pm. Guest Artist: Slim Dutty. Scroll
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£Free,
but it’s advisable to pre-book, especially those that want to be on showcase,
by emailing info@btwsc.com
or editor@britishblackmusic.com
or calling Ms Serwah on 020 8450 5987 There was a great feedback from a similar event held in Forest Gate in November and Stanmore in January. So we have decided to replicate it at Stonebride in north-west London. It’s open to young people and adults from any borough, although our focus are those from Harlesden & Stonebridge. The first half of the programme consists of music business workshops, and the second half will focus of A&R surgery and live showcases. If you've got a demo CD, enter it into the A&R lucky dip for immediate response. If you're a singer, MC or rapper, you could enter the open mic showcase, which ends the programme. Performances also include up & coming singers and poets. Limited space, so it's advisable to pre-book for course and performance. Also, click for information on BTWSC's free music & media courses and projects for youths in Brent and Harrow.
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The outcome of this meeting should help inform the debate of what others are already, or planning on, doing to help build a British black music industry. We already know of these initiatives, such as Choice FM's 'UK Cuts', Urban Music Awards' 'Buy British', plus there's Afreex's 'Union Black', and the old radio campaign waged by MSI Asylum/Gran Kru's Bandit (anybody know where he is? Tell him to get in touch!) If you'd like an invitation to this meeting, please provide a brief background of your pro-British initiative by email. If you can't attend, but would like to make known of your initiative, email us the information in good time: editor@britishblackmusic.com. The BMC is working on two campaigns: Brit On The Bill (BOB) is to encourage promoters to put at least one British act on any bill headlined by a foreign act (click for background). We are also proposing that June be set aside as British Black Music Month (click for background). We feel that October has become too crammed with Black History Month activities, we need space to highlight British black music - not just in song and performance, but also with talks and historic programmes. |
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The Black Music Records & African
Crafts Fair VI
Our fairs now have an open mic session for
conscious (and that means NO four-letter words!) artists and poets, plus
organisations with something to the community. March 19, 12.30-5.30pm
at: Tavistock Hall, 25 High Street, next to the KFC, Harlesden, London
NW10.(Willesden Junction BR/tube station. Jubilee Clock stop: Buses 18, 187,
206, 220, 226, 260, 266). Admission is free. Stall: £20 Location
map Click for booking form. |
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BRITISH BLACK MUSIC LIST 2001 (See what people thought were the essential British records in our 2001 poll. We'll soon announce details of how to nominate records for the 2005 List). |
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Diligent Music boss songwriter/producer Olu Sola is looking for young, early 20's female singers to either to front a pop/R&B project as a solo act or a trio. Most of the material for the first album has been recorded. Good, strong voice, and right attitude required. You will have to be available to do a live audition on Saturday January 22, between 7-8pm at the One-Day Music Business Course & Artist Showcase for address and directions. To contact Olu on diligentmusic@hotmail.com or 0794 779 2154. |
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