You might have noticed the links on the left of the page that say ‘Your Artist Profile Here’.  Those pages are reserved for Eastside Shed musicians who would like to have a profile page on this site.

Before your profile is posted up, we will need:

(a)  a photo of you, the kind of picture you’d see on an album cover (we can help you with that if you don’t have a picture already).

(b)  a little information for your profile:  your stage name, your influences, your style of music.

(c)  a sample track - this might be at Eastside Shed already.

That’s it!

The Eastside Shed blog can be a vehicle to promote you and your music!

Artists’ links can be clicked from this homepage to link to your Shed profile and to your MySpace page. So please get in touch by emailing us at:

info@eastsideshed.org.uk

Or come into the Eastside Youth Centre on Parnell Road, London E3 2EX.

We’ll need:

1)  Your stage name.

2)  An MP3 with your best track on it (no swearing/violence please!)

3)  Your genre (the type of music you play e.g. grime, hip hop, R&B)

4)  Your musical influences.

That’s it!  

Things are getting very exciting at Eastside Shed at the moment, with some quality music being recorded week in, week out. One of the main people involved lately has been Street Classy (pictured left).

“It’s great to have a place to record with professional equipment and a professional sound engineer,” said Street. “There’s so many people out there making music but studio time is incredibly expensive, but this way everyone has access to it. There’s nothing better than listening back to one of your tracks when it has been professionally produced. It gives you confidence and now I believe I will be able to make a career out of making music.

All the staff at Eastside Shed are very supportive, no matter what young people are dealing with, they’ll put you in the right direction.”

SAMPLE SOUNDTRACKS TO BE UPLOADED SOON!

Everyone at Shed would like to thank the volunteers from Royal Bank of Scotland who helped out with the painting work at Eastside. Your hard work and contribution was greatly appreciated.

Bit by bit, the studio is slowly coming together and it won’t be too long before we’ll be able to have the equipment fitted so that everything’s up and running.

In the meantime, Jason and Amil will still be running the Eastside Shed to keep things going until the work is completed.

 
The shell of the booth is now complete. Young people have already been invited to start producing graphics for the entrance.

We will be up and running very soon!

The sound booth and recording studio are being built with the help of young people working with Old Ford and Furniture on the Street, with funding from Old Ford and constructed by the Furniture on the Street social enterprise.

Furniture on the Street is now in its third year of trading and works with local youngsters in Bow, teaching them carpentry and supplies contract furniture.  The booth was constructed to the highest spec and has a quadruple glazed sound booth window.  The window frame was specially made from European Oak.

The booth itself is mounted on all sides on neoprene pads and four plasterboard skins, each separated by a neoprene envelope and studwork acoustically insulated with 150mm Isovar on all walls, floor and suspended ceiling.

Access to the booth is also fully DDA compliant.

Thank you to Old Ford for funding the building programme and to Rez, Hitesh, Mukesh, Amin, Junior, Emily and Nick for all their sweat in building this top-knotch facility.  You can find out more information by on the Bromley by Bow Centre website.

Now over to you, East London’s musicians of the future…

Shed are happy to announce to local young people that the Shed Arts Award programme will be delivered in partnership with the Eastside Youth Centre and funded by Bank of America through the Bromley By Bow Centre Art Force Programme.

For information on the Bromley by Bow Centre and the great work they do with the local community, click here.