03/04/11

We’re at HOME again at Dartington on 24/25 June!

Following a fantastic inaugural one-dayer in 2010, we’re once again working with Dartington to produce HOME – a world music festival with acoustic music at its heart. Off the back of the success of last year’s sellout, HOME has been expanded to two days this year – 24/5 June. We’re very excited about the line [...]

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03/04/11

Murray Lachlan Young: Burlesque, a new play. . . your chance to buy a piece of the action!

the hub first worked with BBC 6 Music poet-in-residence Murray Lachlan Young on our 2009 Phrased & Confused tour. We’re working with him again now, to help raise money for his new play Burlesque. We’ve been working with the team at WeDidThis to involve fans in the development of the piece, and raise money along [...]

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07/04/11

New Music Plus… North West: Tate takeover and check out our new films

‘I left today with the sense that it’s actually an exciting time to be an independent producer!…’ On 15 March the hub and PRS for Music Foundation joined forces at Tate Liverpool for the closing public event of our New Music Plus… North West programme. Panellists and audiences from across the performing and visual arts [...]

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07/02/11

Parliament launches national music competition for artists and venues

Earlier this month Mike Weatherley, Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, launched Rock The House, a national music competition in search of talented new artists and venues from across the UK. Rock The House is a music competition with a political twist; as well as showcasing unsigned bands and artists, it will raise political awareness [...]

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08/05/10

Mayoral Advisor on Culture to give welcome address at New Music Plus…event at City Hall

Munira Mirza, the Mayoral Advisor on Culture at the Greater London Authority is one of the speakers lined up for the New Music Plus…Co-producing for new audience event taking place at London’s City Hall on 10 June. Programmed by the hub and the PRS for Music Foundation, other speakers confirmed so far include Stuart Brown [...]

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12/05/10

Insulting Cabaret – behinds the scenes action; poet Ross Sutherland plus public readings of Mills & Boon

Back for a stonking third year , the hub produced the Insulting Cabaret for our friends at International Pen. The theme for this year’s outing at the Southwark Playhouse was ‘love and hate’ and the evening featured an impressive mix of writers, musicians and poets. Our compere for the evening was the fantastic poet Ross [...]

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