Thanks to everyone who has been involved with the street dance project over the last few weeks. Here’s a quick look at the last session and the party that brought the project to a close:

Eastside Street Dance - Week 4 from Eastside Shed on Vimeo.

Hopefully you all know by now that there will be no street dance this week, but we’ll be carrying on as usual again on Tuesday 11th August.  If you couldn’t make last week’s session, here’s what you missed:

Eastside Street Dance July 09 from Eastside Shed on Vimeo.

Just to remind everyone that future street dance sessions will be taking place on the following Tuesdays:

- 28th July

- 11th, 18th, 25th August

Beginners are welcome and encouraged to come along and get involved.

Here are some of the highlights from last week’s street dance session that was held on Roman Road. If you’re interested in coming along this week, you can meet up with the group for the next session Eastside Youth Centre on Tuesday 24th July, at 6.30pm. We will then be moving on to Roman Road, just next to the Ideas Store side entrance.

Roman Road Street Dance from Eastside Shed on Vimeo.

The first night of street dance was a great success and thanks to everyone who came down.  The group met at Eastside Youth Centre at were joined by lots of other young people who started getting involved once the dancing started on Roman Road.

If you’d like to get involved, you can come down to Eastside Youth Centre at 6.30pm next Tuesday, and beginners are of course welcome. If you’re late and can’t make 6.30, you can catch up with everyone else on Roman Road, just next to the Idea Store side entrance.

Here are a few pictures from last night and we’ll also be putting up a video up soon.

We’re proud to announce that we’ll be starting a street dance project next Tuesday, 14th July, thanks to funding from D’Oyly Carte and the Bromley-By-Bow Centre.

The project is open to all young people living in the Roman Road area and you don’t have to be a member of Eastside Youth Club to get involved.  Beginners are of course welcome and it’s also fine if you’d just like to come along and watch.

We’ll be filming the project as we go along and videos will be uploaded onto this website each week.

If you’re interested in coming along, we will be meeting at Eastside Youth Centre at 6.30pm on Tuesday, 14th July.

Future dates will be as follows (all Tuesdays):

14th & 21st July;

4th, 11th, 18th, 25th August

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!