What is the role of the rhythm section within a band? Are you a bass player looking to work with a drummer or a drummer looking to work with a bass player to hone your musicianship skills? If you aim to be a top-level session musician or just get better at what you already do, this […]
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Unless the music is stopped now, the human race, mumbling, snapping its fingers, twitching its hips, will sink back into an amoebic state where it will take a coagulation of hundreds of teenagers to make up a s single unit of vital force, which once formed, will only live on sedatives.” Quentin Crisp Wow, he said […]
“I’ll never make it. It will never happen because they’re never going to hear me ‘cause they’re screaming all the time.”Elvis Presley Your newsletter correspondent knows the feeling. People do scream when she sings, but perhaps not for quite the same reasons as those who screamed and fainted for The King. There’s a reason those […]
“Ava was there in the morning, now she’s gone She’s reborn like Sarah Vaughan” (October Song by Amy Winehouse) We thought a song about Amy’s dead canary would, um, put things in perspective, in the sense of the necessity of things having to die, to come alive again in Spring. Or something. We just needed […]
“Someone just got me a shower radio. I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.” Jerry Seinfeld As a lifelong bathtub and shower singer, I can relate to some extent, but it’s been pointed out to me that my not so mellifluous tones can shatter glass […]
QUOTE OF THE MONTH“To be honest, my music taste is so hard to describe, like it’s literally everything except for the songs I don’t like” – (unattributed, but we’re thinking American Teenager on a first, and possibly last date) Don’t you love it when someone seemingly inarticulate manages to convey, with casual stupidity, a truth […]
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”Albert Schweitzer We at the coalface of the Premises couldn’t agree more so, while getting on with helping bands and artists make lots of glorious noises here, we also have a one-cat-out, one-slightly-used-cat-in policy. Of course we miss Doris, who’s loving her […]
“She’s simply awesome, oooh She dashed by me in painted-on jeans All heads turned cos she was the dream In the blink of an eye, I knew her number and name“ Billy Ocean Welcome to June, and though we have mainly made The Premises a Platty Joobs free zone (that’s Platinum Jubilee in posh English […]
Rhythm Section Masterclass for electric bass players and drummers: 11th Feb with Yolanda Charles MBE
/in All News, Workshops and Courses /by PremisesWhat is the role of the rhythm section within a band? Are you a bass player looking to work with a drummer or a drummer looking to work with a bass player to hone your musicianship skills? If you aim to be a top-level session musician or just get better at what you already do, this […]
December 2022 Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by PremisesUnless the music is stopped now, the human race, mumbling, snapping its fingers, twitching its hips, will sink back into an amoebic state where it will take a coagulation of hundreds of teenagers to make up a s single unit of vital force, which once formed, will only live on sedatives.” Quentin Crisp Wow, he said […]
November Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by Premises“I’ll never make it. It will never happen because they’re never going to hear me ‘cause they’re screaming all the time.”Elvis Presley Your newsletter correspondent knows the feeling. People do scream when she sings, but perhaps not for quite the same reasons as those who screamed and fainted for The King. There’s a reason those […]
October 2022 Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by Premises“Ava was there in the morning, now she’s gone She’s reborn like Sarah Vaughan” (October Song by Amy Winehouse) We thought a song about Amy’s dead canary would, um, put things in perspective, in the sense of the necessity of things having to die, to come alive again in Spring. Or something. We just needed […]
September 2022 Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by Premises“Someone just got me a shower radio. I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.” Jerry Seinfeld As a lifelong bathtub and shower singer, I can relate to some extent, but it’s been pointed out to me that my not so mellifluous tones can shatter glass […]
August Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by PremisesQUOTE OF THE MONTH“To be honest, my music taste is so hard to describe, like it’s literally everything except for the songs I don’t like” – (unattributed, but we’re thinking American Teenager on a first, and possibly last date) Don’t you love it when someone seemingly inarticulate manages to convey, with casual stupidity, a truth […]
July 2022 Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by Premises“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”Albert Schweitzer We at the coalface of the Premises couldn’t agree more so, while getting on with helping bands and artists make lots of glorious noises here, we also have a one-cat-out, one-slightly-used-cat-in policy. Of course we miss Doris, who’s loving her […]
June 2022 Newsletter
/in All News, Newsletter /by Premises“She’s simply awesome, oooh She dashed by me in painted-on jeans All heads turned cos she was the dream In the blink of an eye, I knew her number and name“ Billy Ocean Welcome to June, and though we have mainly made The Premises a Platty Joobs free zone (that’s Platinum Jubilee in posh English […]