This Feeling, Pirate Studios and Red Stripe update the music industry
Perfect for Brits and NME Awards month, Kate Nash (a winner of both) involved, Red Stripe, Pirate Studios and This Feeling involved in exciting new projects. There's a seismic shift in the music industry as they help create a next generation of career stars and industry moguls with the people behind The Libertines, Charli XCX and Liam Gallagher.
Red Stripe has a rich heritage of association with music and This Feeling has helped to spawn careers for the likes of Catfish and The Bottlemen and Blossoms.
Their new, twelve month partnership amplifies previous successes, including ‘Red Stripe presents: This Feeling TV.
It's already earned half a million views of performances including DMA'S (who Liam Gallagher came to watch), The Amazons, Tom Grennan, Bang Bang Romeo, Slaves (pictured below), The Shimmer Band and Rat Boy - alongside interviews with Carl Barât, Holly Willoughby, Martin Compston and Abbey Clancy. There will be four further instalments in 2018 with Radio X presenter Gordon Smart again at the helm.
Red Stripe are sponsoring This Feeling club nights nationwide as part of the above mentioned partnership and for the first time This Feeling’s energy, will be a live streamed from Red Stripe’s Facebook page. This partnership is also expanding its Earn Your Stripes initiative for budding technical staff or students to gain valuable knowledge through work experience placements, enabling the UK’s next music industry careers.
Founder of This Feeling, Mikey Jonns, said: “in a climate which is nigh on impossible for new bands to break through, or for anyone to give a care about them, with Red Stripe’s help This Feeling are able to revitalise the scene, not just in London, but the entire UK. This Feeling is essentially a coalition of venues, bands, reps, DJs, managers, bloggers, photographers and of course mad for it music fans brought together by mutual love. And it's growing, the dots are joining, the zone is strong, it's a powerful force. We’re putting on 200+ shows this year and growing and improving #ThisFeelingTV. Everyone's wondering where the next Oasis or Kasabian are coming from, well I know for a fact they're out there right now and 2018 is gonna be an amazing year for guitar music"
"Pirate Studios are a blessing to bands right now.” Carl Barât of The Libertines, pictured above playing one the Spring 2017's This Feeling assocated Pirate Studios launchesWith 150 rehearsal rooms and production facilities, the Pirate Prodigy scheme finding future festival headliners.
Three winners will chosen from a nationwide talent search and receive festival slots, unlimited free studio time, recording with top engineers, as well as masterclasses covering songwriting, management, live performance and PR. They will secure an audience with top-level talent scouts at invite-only shows. Kate Nash, will be one of the judges. She remarks; “Pirate Studios is amazing for emerging artists across the world. The Pirate Prodigy programme offers a great opportunity, I’m looking forward to hearing the talent that comes through.”
Mentors include David Bianchi and John Dawkins, managers of Charli XCX and The Libertines, Gordon Smart, presenter on Radio X and Red Stripe’s This Feeling TV, plus Katie Gwyther, Liam Gallagher’s media adviser. David Borrie, Pirate Studios co-founder said: “We have 20,000 musicians in our community, a lot are producing amazing music. We find it incredible some of these guys aren’t already household names so we thought it would be awesome if we could be the ones to give them a helping hand.” “
What could only have been dreamed of in 2016, is surpassing expectation in 2018. The newer wave independent sector not only prove that they have major suss, even on a smaller budget, but that the mainstream has an exciting feed from the spaces that Music Venue Trust protect. in this Agent Of Change year. Watch all these stories unfold. For now, follow facebook.com/redstripelagerbeer and artists, enter piratestudios.co.uk/prodigy a.s.a.p.! Below, love for Bang Bang Romeo at the Sheffield launch of Pirate Studios, All Cools Day 2017.
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