British Urban Collective hits Hull!
'Its not often that well meaning community projects produce genuinely compelling results, but Urban Collective is a noble exception' IDJ Magazine
British Urban Collective is a FREE nationwide youth music project that empowers Collectives of young people to write, record and promote their own albums for independent release under expert guidance.Over the past four years the project has operated successfully in the capital as London Urban Collective, where more than 200 young artists have collaborated to produce several albums, a feature film, documentaries, music videos and dozens of live shows. You can see some of their work on www.londonurbancollective.com.
Now British Urban Collective is launching nationwide starting in five (5) UK cities this year:
- Glasgow
- Manchester
- Hull
- Belfast
- London
- Collective's in each city will be chosen from open auditons. We are looking for solo artists, bands, rappers, mcs, crews, producers, managers and aspiring session players. Anyone aged 16-25 yrs can audition in any genre of music.
- The project team will select 30 people and then will they begin a week of training in all aspects of the music business from vocal, to song writing to performance and camapaign management.
- If they pass the training week the Collective are then empowered to write, record and promote their own album in a major recording studio under the expert guidance of Freeport Records and the Urban Collective team.
- When all five cities have completed the project a panel of music industry execs will select the best three (3 tracks) from each city for inclusion in a CD release and major London showcase infront of major labels.
- All the other tracks recorded will receive a global digital release through Freeport / Universal Music - so no one really misses out. Each artist will also get an updateable profile on this website for their tunes, links, biogs and photos.
- British Urban Collective will build a start-up recording studio in each city and train up several of the Collective's aspiring producers in Logic so they can operate their own studio, and
- The Collective will create their own live event steering group and manage a start-up budget for live gigs and promotion within their area, in partnership with national independent promoter Curious Generation.
Watch out on www.hullvibe.co.uk for coverage throughout the whole event including latest info and pics plus Hullvibes Lucy Clark will be helping judge at auditions at The Warren...see you there!
