As part of the Ipswich Borough Councils Access All Areas Weekend at the Town Hall (17th – 19th February), Music business expert Phil Pethybridge is offering a free workshop to help local musicians get a grasp on the non-performing side of your music career.  Find out about marketing, distribution, touring, making money from music and much more.

Phil’s background is in event management, touring, marketing and promotion having started his career at Sony Music helping to develop artists such as The Coral, The Zutons and Beyonce.

Phil has gone onto run several festival stages including the Secret Garden Party and Cambridge Folk Festival.  Phil also runs Neon Street – A marketing service for musicians, and YourMusicBusiness.co.uk - A new start up business to support enterprise in music.

Phil is also the music Business specialist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and music business specialist on BBC Introducing Cambridgeshire

Phil will be supported by aspiring singer songwriter Ethan Ash who having come off tour with Suffolk’s very own Ed Sheeran, will be sharing his story on building a professional music career which makes him a living.

This workshop takes place on Saturday 18th February at 10am in the Town Hall.  However, there is limited space.

To reserve your space please email: phil@neonstreet.co.uk

Tickets will be on a first come first serve basis

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A group of media students from across the East of England have produced series of radio programmes to be broadcast across several community radio stations.

The students worked with The Co-operative Central and Eastern Membership team to produce the six-part series of programmes, named “Co-operative Shorts”, which detail the development of the co-operative business model from its roots in 1844 Rochdale, to modern day.

The project comes as part of Co-operatives Fortnight 2011 (25 June – 9 July), an annual campaign from the UK’s co-operative sector that aims to raise awareness of how co-operatives offer an alternative, innovative and successful way of doing business.

Media students from Cambridge Regional College, City College Norwich and CSV Ipswich used the project to develop their understanding of media production and gained practical skills and experience in broadcasting throughout the project, which ran from (November 2010 to May 2011.  Broadcasting professionals, Pamela Mungroo and Phil Pethybridge, supported the students during the project and worked with them to develop their understanding of the co-operative movement.

As well as looking at The Co-operative Group’s ongoing worldwide initiatives, such as Fairtrade and tackling global poverty, three episodes from the series have been dedicated to local co-operatives across Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. The local co-operative’s were chosen by the students and demonstrate the diversity of co-operative’s across the region; from jazz clubs to amateur theatre companies, bee-keeping and markets.

The series of “Co-operative Shorts” are also now available to listen to and download online, or pick up one of the 1,000 limited edition CDs which have been produced to celebrate Co-operative’s Fortnight.

Sabina Crouch, Co-operative and Membership Officer for Cambridge and East Anglia said: “The theme of this year’s Co-operatives Fortnight is ‘Yours to Share’ and this project is a fantastic example of how we encourage local communities to work together and share their experiences co-operatively.

“The students have created an inspiring series of programmes, which demonstrate just how diverse the co-operative group is, and the vast number of co-operatives that currently thrive in the local region, as well as demonstrating the roots of the early co-operative movement in Rochdale.”

To listen to, or download the series, please visit www.neonstreet.net/coop

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Band members Howard Kaye (vocals), Darren Watts (keys), Mat Griffiths (guitar), Tom Gandolfo (bass) and Ryan Holt (drums), met through chance encounters after moving to Brighton from all over the UK in 2008. They began rehearsing together immediately and quickly developed a unique style of song writing, creating ways to weave each instrumental part while retaining their trademark energetic dance beats.

The band’s music bridges the gap between chart-topping pop and intensely clever live technology, and has gained them a legion of fans through their pitch perfect, high energy live shows.

Mentored at the time by the team behind The Kooks, The Special Ks embarked on a nationwide college tour, and were loved for their individual style and memorable tunes. Soon after, the band beat 3000 other acts to be crowned winners of the BREAKOUT FESTIVAL. The final showcase held at London’s former Carling Academy; the band went on to play at the Breakout Music Festival main event in the Maldives broadcast on MTV and Yahoo.

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The audio will be presented and researched by young media students from across the east of England. Each package will look at different business within a county from the Eastern Region and how they have embraced the Co-Operative business model.

The audio packages will be available online for everyone to listen to but also made into a 1000 run limited edition CD which is to be handed out at the Co-Operative festival in June 2011.

The project will also allow young students from across the East of England to learn skills in the production of audio programs as well as gaining a greater understanding into the Co-Operative business model.