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Vlog: Berklee Semester 6 Wrap-Up 

Six down, two to go! 

Links to stuff I mention in the video: 
Berklee: https://www.berklee.edu/ 
Seven Spires: http://sevenspiresband.com/ 
Mike Kerr: http://www.mikekerr.net/ 
Queen Boudicca: https://www.facebook.com/queenboudicc... 
NAAM: https://www.namm.org/

Vlog: Berklee as a Rocker/Metalhead Semester 5 Wrap-up 

Five semesters down, three to go!

Links to stuff I mentioned in the video:
Rich20Something (this is not a sponsored video)

Vlog: Berklee as a Rocker/Metalhead Semester Three Wrap-up  


Lessons learned this semester: keep your friends close and don't lose sight of your end goal!

Video: What's in my (gig) bag 


A little twist to the What's in my bag tag :)

August Favorites 

Video: Singers, get your voice back! 

What I do when I wake up without a voice. Lots of tea (Throat Coat or Lemon and Ginger are my favorites), warm drinks, food that is nice on the throat, lots of steam to loosen the phlegm in your throat, gentle warmups will do the same-- the mild vibrations caused on your vocal chords will both loosen the gunk and also massage your chords back into a functioning state.

At every music school there are always vocalists who show up to class whining about having no voice. In some cases this is a perfectly valid excuse from participating in class (I had a friend who came in one Monday morning after spending the weekend tracking vocals for his band's album), but for a lot of others, it's laziness or a lack of knowing how to take care of their instrument. 

If you're a singer willing to pay to attend music school or even just voice lessons, why let it go to waste because you happen to not like the song study that week? Learn how to take care of your voice, ladies and gentlemen-- this is what works for me, I hope it will be helpful in learning how to care for your own instrument.

So there you have it. Get off your ass and warm up. No excuses.

Music: "Alive" by Seven Spires. Used with permission.

Vlog: Berklee Semester 2 Wrap-up 


I've completed my first year at Berklee College of Music! Here are my thoughts so far as a metal vocalist studying here :) 

Vlog: Rock n Roll Shopping in New York City 


I went to NYC for a day of awesome punk/rock n roll/metal shopping at these fun stores:

Side stop at the Nintendo World Store
 
And then on to:
Trash and Vaudeville
Search and Destroy
The Cast
The Great Frog London NYC 
Grit n Glory

Trailer for my new EP "The Cabaret of Dreams" 

Vlog: Berklee as a Rocker/Metalhead Semester One Wrap-up  

Thoughts on my first semester at Berklee College of Music. If you're interested in hearing more about semester one:

Vlog: Why I'm Going to Uni in America 

Some of you might have heard that I will be moving back to America this summer so I can attend Berklee College of Music in Boston beginning in September. These are some of the questions people have been asking me that I wanted to address. Thank you for being so supportive during our time together in the UK and Holland :) 

MIDEM 2013 

 
MIDEM is an international music business conference, which is held annually in Cannes, France. I went for the first time this year, and it was a real eye opener :p 


Coming into the Nice airport. England was cold and wet when we left.


Gonna get girly on you and show you what I wore :) Here's me, day 1...


... day 2...


... Day 3 (was raining, so reverted to my comfy clothes hahahaha)...


... day 4 xD


The Korean Pavilion had new displays daily--it was fun to go by and see who they had up. Here's me with CN Blue.


Time to go back to England? NEVAAAHHHHHHHHRUH


There are talks for everyone. Here's pianist Lang Lang. 


And Mark Hoppus from Blink-182.


As well as loads of music business presentations. I learned so much in four days, but I hit major overload on day 4 :P


In the evenings there are performances--both in clubs (here's We Are FM)


and in the specially built venue: The Magic Mirrors. I can't remember who this is, but we really enjoyed Archive's show on the third evening.


If you are in the music business, even if you're just a student like me, I would definitely recommend attending MIDEM if you can. I learned an incredible amount in four days! If you go next year, let me know and let's meet up ;)

Kobra and the Lotus Release Show in London 

Here are a few photos from the Kobra and the Lotus album release show at The Borderline on August 13:





THE MERCY HOUSE



HORNET