Rockschools bands are starting 2012 as they mean to go on. Top band, Korrozion, have made it through to the final of the Northamptonshire Y Factor at the Roadmender on Saturday 10th March.
50% of the vote is cast by the audience so get the date into your diaries and keep it free to support and vote for our lads.
Towcester was certainly rocking last Saturday when the Mayor’s ‘Charity Rocks’ took over the Town Hall.
A great evening of top class performances and enthusiastic support that brought together ex-Rockschools students and current Rockschools bands including Andrew Clayton; Alice and Thomas Murray; Andrew Jacques, Epic Fail; Behind Closed Doors; Rachel Kirwood and D-Fault.
Drummer, Will Roberts, deserves special mention as, following back-to-back sets for Behind Closed Doors and D-Fault, he then had to get to Northampton for the semi-finals of ‘Y Factor’, at The Roadmender. He made it, apparently with 5 minutes to spare and having broken down en route!
All proceeds of the evening went to the Mayor’s chosen local charities and all performers donated their time and talent.
‘Charity Rocks’, a star-studded rock concert, featuring award-winning bands, is at Towcester Town Hall, this Saturday 21st January from 7.30pm.
Rockschools are supporting the event and the bands performing include Behind Closed Doors, D-Fault, Epic Fail and Korrozion.
Entry is £5 or there is a discounted rate of £12 for a family of 4. All money raised will go to the Mayor’s chosen charities. Please support this event, the charities involved and the Rockschools bands. We look forward to seeing you there!
Just before Christmas, Behind Closed Doors were interviewed on Radio Northants. You can hear their interview on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnIg9bK-Ds Well done guys, you come across so well. Great plug for Rockschools too – thanks!
Rockschools has been back a week now and, already, seasoned performers and new bands are getting stuck into rehearsing the songs they will perform at the end-of-term concert. Lots of talent and enthusiasm around as usual. We are in for a good term.
Our marketing campaign kicked off over the holidays with a leaflet drop in local towns and villages. Thanks to all those who gave up their time to help with this. There are still some areas that we would like to cover so if anyone has some spare time and could help with distributing leaflets, please contact David Taylor on 07738 974220.
The first Saturday back saw Korrozion and Behind Closed Doors playing a gig at Nether Heyford in aid of Meningitis UK. The event was organised by John Tanton, father of Mark Tanton (bassist at Rockschools) who sadly died from the disease last year. Well done to everyone! The bands played very well and their generosity in giving up so much of their time for such a good cause is an inspiration.
Towcester Mayor, Cllr Martin Johns, will be on BBC Radio Northampton at 8.45am on Wednesday 11th January 2012, talking about ‘Charity Rocks’, his star-studded rock concert, featuring award-winning local bands, to be held at Towcester Town Hall on Saturday 21st January from 7.30pm.
Rockschools are supporting the event and the bands performing include Behind Closed Doors, D-Fault, Epic Fail and Korrozion.
Tickets are available now from Rockschools on 07738 974220 or from the event organisers on 01327 350995.
Entry is £5 or there is a discounted rate of £12 for a family of 4. All money raised will go to the Mayor’s chosen charities. Please support this event, the charities involved and the Rockschools bands who give up their time so generously to fund raise throughout the year.
A very Happy New Year to all our students and their families, staff and followers!
I hope you all enjoyed a peaceful and relaxing Christnmas and are ready for the start of term tomorrow, Saturday 7th January 2012, in Towcester.
The word on the streets is that Rockschools is really cool! At least according to all the people, young and senior citizens alike, that we met during our Christmas and New Year marketing campaign.
So, I am looking forward enormously to hearing everyone’s news tomorrow and, of course, I am hoping for lots of new recruits in the certain knowledge that they will be made to feel at home instantly by all our current students.
See you tomorrow
Since the death of Mark Tanton from Meningitis, a year or so ago, Behind Closed Doors have been tirelessly fundraising in memory of their bass player with all monies raised going into The Mark Tanton Tribute Fund at Meningitis UK.
This Saturday 7th January 2012 sees the Mark 2 concert (Mark 1 gig was this time last year commemorating Mark’s birthday) at Nether Heyford Village Hall from 7pm.
Rockschools’ bands Behind Closed Doors and Korrozion will be playing. Tickets for the event cost £5 for adults, £3 for under 18’s. There will be a raffle, T-Shirts, merchandise and CD’s on sale, including Behind Closed Doors’ tribute single Gone Too Soon. All proceeds go to The Mark Tanton Tribute Fund at Meningitis UK. Further details will be in this weeks Daventry Express.
Tune in to Radio Northants tomorow, 29 December 2011, between 12pm and 2pm to hear the interview with Behind Closed Doors.
It’s been a while since I blogged. I was stupid enough to crack a couple of ribs at the last concert while running into a door. You would think I would learn!
The second concert of term went really well and all the bands were fantastic. Many parents and students stayed to see the whole concert. Good to see the younger bands being given the opportunity to watch the older, more experienced ones.
Special awards were made to the members of Behind Closed Doors for the way they handled themselves after the loss of Mark Tanton last year, and for their tremendous fundraising on behalf of Meningitis UK. The Rockschools’ concert raffle (being drawn below) raised £90 to add to their impressive total.
Last Thursday, Bad Influence, who won the recent Battle of the Bands competition, were invited to play at the Vision Cafe Christmas celebrations. They played exceptionally well and I hope to add a picture or two very soon.
On Friday we had a visit from a lady called Natasha House from Radio Northampton who wanted to interview Behind Closed Doors for a special program the radio station is putting out next Thursday 29th December (time to be confirmed). When the boys had gone home Natasha pointed her microphone at me and I tried to explain what Rockschools is all about. I hope it made a bit of sense. Anyway please make a note to tune in. I will update the blog with the time of the show in the next few days.
Friday finished with the staff Christmas Party at the Green Man. Good to see some of the old boys back from Uni; Tom Mitson, Paul Tanton, Simon Mcgurk and Jess Miles back from her assignment in Mexico. Everyone really enjoyed themselves.
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