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.

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.

Thank you to all who have paid for this term and could those whose fees are still outstanding please see Ros this Saturday. Fees are £98.00 for band members and £148.00 for individual tuition with cheques payable to Towcester Rockschool.

Already this term Korrozion and Behind Closed Doors have played at The Mark 11 Gig in Nether Heyford in support of Meningitis UK and this Saturday, 21 January, bands are playing at Charity Rocks in Towcester and The Y Factor in Northampton.

Charity Rocks is at The Town Hall Towcester at 7.30pm and is in support of the Mayor’s charities. Epic Fail, D-Fault and Behind Closed Doors are playing, with some Rockschools bands from past years. Tickets are available from Towcester Rockschool on Saturday afternoon and also on the door on the night.

The Y Factor is taking place at the Picturedrome in Northampton and Korrozion are performing there.

So a busy start to the year for several of our Rockschools bands and there will be more news of forthcoming events soon.

David Taylor
Director
Rockschools

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!

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.

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.

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

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.