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Red Bull Reporter – Music Academy touches down in London with 30 nights of Events
Feb 3rd
Red Bull Reporter
February 7 – March 12, 2010
The Red Bull Music Academy brings its full programme of artists and events to London for the first time ever in February, hosting a truly unique and diverse festival of sonic innovations in the city’s most inspiring venues. Honouring the past, while keeping a scalpel-sharp sight on the future, the five-week series of cultural collisions will bring something for anyone who ever was or ever will be interested in keeping the pulse of the latest sounds sweeping the globe.
The line-ups feature legends in their own right, ranging from Soul ll Soul, Goldie, Carl Craig, A Guy Called Gerald, to the Heritage Orchestra, Moodymann, The Scientist, Roots Manuva, Red Bull Music Academy alumnus Flying Lotus, and many more. They’ll share studios and stages with the Academy class of 2010, 60 of the hottest young tune slingers from all around the world. The sparking frictions, where different fractions meet, the very moments when people from the most diverse backgrounds come together and creativity materializes: This is the very essence of the Red Bull Music Academy.
Red Bull Reporter is giving wannabe reporters the chance to experience some of Red Bull Music Academy’s amazing events. Check out the assignments on offer below. Reporters will be chosen around a week before each event so get applying!
Vice magazine & The Red Bull Music Academy Special
Tuesday 9th February (evening) at The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch
REPORTERS WANTED: 1 x writer and 1 x photographer (over 18yrs old)
Vice Magazine’s music editors present their favourite female artists
from the roster of Academy participants at the infamous Old Blue Last in East London.
Red Bull Reporter is looking for a writer and a photographer to head East and cover this Red Bull Music Academy event. You will hear participants from Australia, Greece, Mexico, Peru and Spain and more and review the evening – let us know which artist inspires you the most and we will get you some time with her.
Check out the assignment listing and apply here: http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/01/red-bull-music-academy-at-the-old-blue-last/
Book Slam – The Red Bull Music Academy Edition
Wednesday 10th February (evening) at Shoreditch Town Hall
REPORTERS WANTED: 1 x writer
Join Red Bull Music Academy and Book Slam, London’s only literary nightclub, as they explore London’s counter culture with a night featuring underground poets, authors, comedians, DJs and live music.
Red Bull Reporter is looking for a writer to attend Book Slam. Not only will you get the chance to hear readings and performances from some really cool writers, you will interview two authors Dreda Say Mitchell & Alex Wheatle on their latest works and what inspires them.
If you have a genuine passion for culture and think this assignment has your name on it, check out the assignment listing and apply here:
http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/01/book-slam-the-red-bull-music-academy-edition/
A Day in the Life of the Red Bull Music Academy
Friday 12th February at Red Bull HQ
REPORTERS WANTED: 1 x writer (over 18yrs old)
The story of Red Bull Music Academy is a unique one and we want a Red Bull Reporter to come and experience it from the inside. 60 of the hottest up and coming artists from all over the world are coming to London to learn from and create with legends like Soul II Soul, Goldie, Carl Craig, Roots Manuva and many more.
On this assignment you will be able to check out a lecture or two, chat to some of the participants and tour the Academy and head to the dedicated event in the evening.
Check out the assignment listing and apply here: http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-red-bull-music-academy/
The Red Bull Music Academy Presents 3-D Soundclash
Thursday 18th February (evening) at The Royal Albert Hall
REPORTERS WANTED: 1 x writer
Take an iconic location, add Martyn Ware’s 3D Audioscape and you have some kind of audio version of Avatar . We’re all aware of music’s power to transport us to another place and Red Bull Reporter are searching for a budding young music journalist to take us and our readers on this journey.
The historic and beautiful Royal Albert Hall sets the scene for this assignment so if you have a passion for music and truly new experiences this could be for you.
Check out the assignment listing and apply here: http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/01/the-red-bull-music-academy-presents-3-d-soundclash/
Red Bull Music Academy x A Taste of Sónar
Fri 5th March & Sat 6th March (evenings) at The Roundhouse
REPORTERS WANTED: 1 x writer and 1 x photographer (over 18yrs old)
Sonar is back and Red Bull Reporter needs a writer and a photographer to head to the taster event in London!!!
Since its inception in 1998, the Red Bull Music Academy has built an
unparalleled reputation for unearthing those studio wizards who shape our musical
future. Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, J-Wow of Buraka Som Sistema, Aloe Blacc and Mr Hudson have all been students at the Red Bull Music Academy at some stage of their remarkable careers.
This is why, for the very first time in its longstanding partnership with the Barcelona-based festival, the Academy has been commissioned to curate the emerging talent stage at Sónar’s taster event in London.
Check out the assignment listing and apply here:
http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/01/red-bull-music-academy-and-a-taste-of-sonar/
The Red Bull Music Academy presents 12×12’’
Thursday 11th March (evening) at Scala
REPORTERS WANTED: 1 X photographer (over 18yrs old)
The Academy pays tribute to London’s thriving scenes, hardcore
and beyond, by inviting twelve landmark producers to the stage who all present their biggest anthem that helped shape a new generation in sound.
Red Bull Reporter are looking for a photographer to capture the strong visual element of this event.
Check out the assignment listing and apply here: http://www.redbullreporter.com/2010/01/the-red-bull-music-academy-presents-3-d-soundclash/
Further reading:
Redbullreport.com
Red Bull Music Academy
Rbmradio.com
Red Bull Bedroom Jam 2010
Jan 27th
Red Bull Bedroom Jam is a weekly webcast to offer bands the chance to record, tour the UK and hit some of the best festivals this summer. The new, revamped season will offer young bands throughout the UK, who upload their videos and get the opportunity to perform on the live webcast as well as tour the hottest festivals and spend time in the studio – with the outright winner securing a two-week recording session at Red Bull’s brand new, state of the art studio in London with a top producer as well as a UK wide tour.
Red Bull Bedroom Jam will begin from 15th February 2010 every Monday at 5pm over at redbullbedroomjam.com
There’s a trailer available for this year’s Bedroom Jam series, encouraging bands to upload their own demos and win the chance to be in the webcast – from their own bedroom… The trailer shows what happened to one of last year’s bands, Don Broco [image attached] – who played one of the webcasts and went on to play at the Camden Crawl, Underage Festival and Download off the back of it…and explains what you have to do if you want to be a part of it this year.
