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The Undisputed – album and video

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We’re proud to present the album ‘Journey’ – created by a group of young people from East London who formed band ‘The Undisputed’ on Making Tracks this summer. The project was run in partnership with The Prince’s Trust Get Started.

As well as producing the original music, they created their own radio shows, ‘Jazzy K’ and ‘SKJK’, which are included at the end of the playlist.

They also worked with Mediorite to create this vibrant video for their track ‘Melodic in the Mist’ – featuring Jahanzeb, Kye and Jazz, edited by Jahanzeb.

 

New release day! Making Tracks in Newham

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Drum roll please… the latest album made by young people in Newham on the Making Tracks programme is ready for your listening pleasure!!

For this project there were two groups, which formed the bands ‘Golden Jets’ and ‘Drillers’.

As well as creating, performing & recording original tracks, each group produced their own radio shows, which are included on the playlist below.

This project was supported by National Foundation for Youth Music, Charles Haywood Foundation and Newham YOT.

 

Making radio

Presenting ‘Best of Me’ by The Late 8ights

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We’re excited to present the latest album made by young people on Making Tracks; listen below to ‘Best of Me’ by The Late 8ights – a new band formed on a project in June in partnership with The Prince’s Trust Get Started at their Morgan Stanley Centre in Poplar.

As well as writing some brilliant original music together – they spent a day learning about how to create their own radio show! They called the station ‘Woody Radio’ and the show ‘The Tea’ – it’s track 5 below.

Making Tracks in Newham

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We’re very excited to be back in Newham, East London, this week, working with a group of young people towards their first live performance as a new band on Thursday!

 

RSVP to projects@irenetaylortrust.com to attend.

YOUNG PRODUCERS: PARADOX & NIROBI 2

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Young Producers is a new project for young people who have taken part in Making Tracks, supported by the Arts Patron Trust. Nirobi and Paradox are collaborating to put on a gig involving other young people and will be blogging about the process.

Sign up to attend their event ‘Voices of a Generation’ at the Lighthouse, Shoreditch, on Wednesday 25th July here.  

Paradox: For session 2 of Young Producers project, we went to a show at the Roundhouse with different performers and it was an hour long. The way it was set up was different, with white pillows on the ground, sat on the ground watching.  There were performers performing spoken word as the whole show was a spoken word piece about a part of a person’s story. At the start the performers would have a little interview, there was audio of an interview, and then they would perform a piece. It was immersive, and they put music behind their poetry. Some of it was interesting …

It made me think I don’t want too much spoken work in our event because it’s not for all the audience – some were engaged, and some weren’t. It was different, I have never been to a show like that before – it felt very abstract as there were dancers as well. A female dancer performed, and I didn’t know if she was part of the performance or not.

If I could take one thing away from the performance, it would be collaboration.

Nirobi: They put pillows on the floor, made it very intimate – the lights weren’t very bright, you could just see a silhouette of the performer, almost like a projection of them. Then they would say someone’s name with the projection and a little audio after that. Behind each piece there was a backing track, so it would be like they’re doing a spoken word piece over an instrumental.

There was one piece by Caleb, who was quite political, and he was talking about religion. I thought it was quite cool the way he expressed his opinion. I liked the fact they used the audio because it gave it a different feel, as otherwise it would have been quiet and you’re just sitting there.

If I could take one thing away from the performance for ours, it would be the audio. Before people perform, there was this interview of their part of them they feared most, and then afterwards they would go into their poem.

Sign up to attend their event ‘Voices of a Generation’ at the Lighthouse, Shoreditch, on Wednesday 25th July here.  

Young Producers: Paradox & Nirobi 1

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Young Producers is a new project for young people who have taken part in Making Tracks, supported by the Arts Patron Trust. Nirobi and Paradox are collaborating to put on a gig this month involving other young people and will be blogging about the process.

Our Personal Development Coordinator Lauren caught up with them at the end of day 1:

Lauren: So how have you found your first day in one word?

Paradox: Good, still.

Nirobi: Interesting, started off understanding how to structure an event. We brainstormed ideas for what we’re going to talk about, and then now we’re checking venues, which is awesome. We get to see the kind of venues that are out there and what would be good for this type of event.

Lauren: Getting first-hand experience of what working with venues is like.

Nirobi: Yes exactly.

Lauren: Things don’t always go to plan…

Nirobi: Yes, one of the venues was closed, but luckily I’ve been there before so I know what it looks like downstairs!

Paradox: Probably not going to use it though, because that was disrespectful, they don’t deserve customers.

Nirobi: They don’t deserve our amazing talent and art! But we got this one, this current venue we’re checking out, called The Lighthouse and we’ve been to Hoxton7 as well, nice and intimate – I liked downstairs.

Paradox: Just looked at three or four venues and chatted to the booking agent, to see how many people go there on the daily, having a show and thought about what venue would be best.

Nirobi: We looked at the sizes and how many people we could fit in there… one of them was 300, so we’re looking at it realistically and seeing that we don’t want to have too big of a space and then it might look empty and not be as ‘lit’. Whereas if it’s smaller and intimate… plus, people that are already coming in from the street, so that’s possibly a better idea but we’re still thinking about it.

Lauren: Any learning?

Nirobi: I’ve never really looked at the logistics of how you put on events. I just go and think ‘wow this is amazing’, but actually it’s a lot of work!

Paradox: It’s good to get an idea of, when you see a booking agent, what questions you need to ask.

Nirobi: I want to develop how to promote and get people noticing more.

Don’t miss the gig on 25th July at The Lighthouse (62-68 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3A)!