Hello and welcome to the music special
of Hackney Live, the first broadcast
in a brand-new online platform for the
creative industries and arts sector in
Hackney
Brought to you by Hackney Council on
tonight's show
we partner with the Rising Tide Youth
Music organization who support young
people
In given opportunities to practice produce
and perform music in a variety of
different places
this being the newest and arguably the best
I am your host for this evening
my name is the last skeptic and I'm very
very very excited to announce that we
have a whole host of features this
evening
including a panel with industry geniuses
there will be answering
my questions and yours and speaking of
that
make sure you tweet us with the hashtag
Hackney Live
with all of your questions for this
evening and I will be talking about them
a little bit later on
also we've got a special live
performance from up-and-coming singer
Jesse who is incredible isaw him in
soundcheck
and very very excitingly,  Labrinth the
world-famous Labrinth
has given us a very very special short 
song
that he's created just for tonight and we've
got part of his live band in the studio
about to show us how they take it from
the studio all the way to live
performance
and right about now I'm gonna go over to
that very band and talk about
how it comes about, Stevie McKenzie
musical director of Rising Tide thank you
very much for being him
No problem bro
what's what's the best way to start
taking a song from its
original elements in studio to its live
performance
just very simple really just argument to
do very basics
which is the cords, melody and beat
really and then just building on that and
creating
the beats of a song
So what part sequence would you like a start out on
to kind of work on this song
keyboard and the cords and then go with the guitars
and then go with the guitars
and puttin on the melody and then the
drim section would join in
and Hey Presto!
and so what you gonna start working on
now for us today
We're gonna start with the chorus and yeah, just gonna get it to work
Right,we're gonna leave these guys alone
Alright guys so lets have a listen to the track, we have had a track before
So lets have another listen and then start
building the song
alright Alex if you'd like to just jump on
the cord
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Yeah, that's great, if you'd like to play the chord with him now.
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Right, so Martin if you take the melody line instead of playing the chords
 
and maybe later on will put more stuff
on the
on the track and beef it out and you just take
the glory role am just let me set now
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Sweet
Yeah, cool so lets go through that
now then we will move on to the rest.
Yeah go for the strings yeah go for the strings on top
Yeah we're just gonna hold a steady beat for the first chorus |MUSIC|
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Yeah that's sweet  I'm gonna move onto
the verse and then start building on the verse |MUSIC|
As the band finishes working out how to take the chorus from studio the live
right about now we're going into part
one have our exclusive interview with
Labrinth
Hey there guys I'm Labrinth and welcome to my studio
 
music: "Labrinth come in"
in a record when I sometimes simplicity
is as a very healthy thing especially
when you have a song over record and
A lot of artist some artists are very
cause are very creative, sometimes
when they get the idea is very and very
they get very attached to their ideas is
and
wherever they're going with the
ideas they usually just stick with
whatever what the first thing that they
they make because it came from the heart
but that's always a good thing and I
always tell someone to go with their heart
but what a producers able to do just like
if
you know if you think of Spielberg or
the directors making a film
when Spielberg makes his big idea and he
goes crazy and he's a
i want aliens I want this and i want that
what they it when you're making a film
you have someone called
an editor and what they do is edit out
certain things are unecessary
in your song and that's what a producer
would do aswell also if I hear
an extra chorus that might not
be necessary or
an extra cord that we could simplify
and it would still mean the same thing
will still come across the same way
then that's my job to do that is to be
able to simplify record so that
am when a listener
when a listener hears a record
able to just listen
about feeling like woah! that's a bit too
much or
and that kind of you know it
strikes you is kinda you know a a
like it's not supposed to be there or it
might be uncomfortable for the listener
so that's what a producer does i is kinda
smooths out the edges
whereas in our eyes it's like a crazy
you know you know going just
throwing paint at a canvas, a producer
kinda organizes that great piece of work
into something that is: listenable or apporachable
welcome to the very very
first
sit down panel discussion of  Hackney Live
and it gives me great pleasure to
instroduce four fantastic guests
for this evening
starttng with Paul Ryan, artist manage
our
we have Quaku  also an artist manager
we have Gabin from Rising Tide and we
have the fantastic Cushe Bailey
as selected by BBC to play
at the Hackney Festival last year thank
you very much for coming down
I'm gonna get a straight into the
questions. Paul how
does someone's get started an industry
how did you get started in the industry
Wow that's a big question erm.. it started
off just having a love for music
when I was young I was a DJ
even before that knicking my mom's record
collection knicking  my dads record
collection
take it to my little i don't even know what it
was it was a one
deck stacked system and used to pretend i was DJ'ing to
massive crowds in Wembley Stadium the
old Wembley, not the new one |Laughs|
Haha and it just branched from there you know, just getting my
myself some decks and playing music to my
friends
Going to youth clubs you know being
the resident DJ on my estate
and then going to college and I became
a journalist, music journalist
and that was my first formal introduction
to the music industry because as a music journalist was freelancing for
various publications for years and geting to meet people in the industry both artists
and Industry executives
and then it was just a natural
progression from being a journalist I
became a
PR person set up my own PR companies
Last Skeptic: You've done every single angle of the music industry
Jamison
PR and management
Last skeptic: and so so you from
there you took it and you when you know
I want to manage artists and so however
how would a a young person who wants to
get into the game of artist management
what inspiration could you give to them
from
nah nah
I I think with management
it starts off, or for me it stared off with
having a friend of mine
who was a singer, her name was Kelly Lerock
met her and you know became friends and
she said one day oh you know you
You should go into management, why don't you manage me
quite organized which i don't know where she got that from, cos i was never
and still am not organized
and then it just like me so you know any
young people who want to go into
management
you know it's about you know if you've
got a friend who's a singer
or an artist and you think you could
organize them
because that's the main key thing about
being an artist manager
you have to be organized yourself and
you have to know how to organize people
it's all about people skills if you
don't have those skills then
it becomes hard 
Last Skeptic: and quick you if you've
got a similar experience iin artist management
management
as in terms of  my route to getting there 
 I think a little bit of both
way
how did you get how did you get into
it yourself look a lot like to let them go
everywhere in the world when it when I
was a a younger and my clothes were a bit baggier
here
six pack was tighter and now it's
the other way around
I was an artist myself came like Paul
said from a love of music
I'm just growing up and being into music, Mydad, my mum, my older brother
music journalist as well and I used to
rap when I was younger
did that for five or 10 years and then
at the same time I've always been into
just general production, TV production
music production
so I went to university being an African
boy couldn't tell my parents im gonna
go and do music also had to do some education i try to do something that I enjoyed which
was
television production, i started  producing
our music videos
and I was pretty much managing  my group
we got a record deal
and stuff like that,  years and years
ago back in the day
and then that's it's all kind of Stayed
within the media so I i produce TV
music videos and then I ended up falling
into music management I have no idea how
I met a young gentleman who we met
I enjoyed his music I understood
where he was in his career and I could see
a lot of parallels to where I was maybe
ten years before you
and I said you know what if you just
need somebody who's been through it a little
bit
Who can give you good advice and
guidance, cool
Thats how it started  but that developed
a lot further
Last Skeptic: and that touches on something
very very important
within the music industry which is
having the guidance of someone
and that's where the a someone like Rising
Tide will come into it
So Gabin tell us about rising Tide and how it
encourages and provides  that guidance for
for young musicians coming up
well i mean rising Tide is kind of famed for its
grass roots door way so to speak, a lot of people
young people come into Rising Tide
because a friend goes there
all for summer program something quite
in their minds quite small, might be a two
week project
and what Rising Tides able to do is one
expose their talent to themselves
and in them to be able to
introduced them to the right people here
that will inspire them to
to take the next step and you know
with every one of our success stories
or success stories
on the way , you know the thing
is that
the commitment from the young person is
is key  without that commitment
You can introduce them to every last person in the music
industry
but they won't pick up that, that's a
skill as a career
so once they've been exposed to that
talent we recognize their commitment then
we just
we basically open every last door that we can for them
Last skeptic: So tell us like
some of  the names that
perhaps some of  the people watching right now
to give them a bit of inspirated to show that
the people have come your doors, some of the names of the people that have been
been to your program 
Gabin: well I mean Stevie
steven is MD in today
came iin joined with a school project
just to
start up a band, he would get embarrassed if i started talking about it too much
and he's still here today that was
something like  ten years ago
and then you have Labrinth come through obviously
he was studying at school
with Steven and the rest of
their siblings and they used to come into rising Tide
just kicking about, just following his older brother really
and then just you know eventually he
started producing
he started producing when he was around the time of Rising Tide
it was something he would get into and
and the kind of things we did at Rising Tide
was you know, just give him a sound
modeul, we gave him asound module and said you know
check that out, go away, he went away for the weekend
when he came back he could use it
more than better than anyone else in
Rising Tide thats
that that's the commitment i'm talking about
Last Skeptic yeah, yeah and it's the perseverance as well
and thats
that is so key in making it within this
industry is kinda persevering
you need the talent like that obviously needs to there
be there but
if you don't have the commitment and the
drive to take it further
yeah it's kinda no point , you need to be in it
and Kersha Bailey perseverance as
a young musicians a young singer you know
know that's
obviously key to your success well I
started off
and singing from when i was about four
and I always had the influence from my
mom, she was always singing and i guess
I just from there when I went to Rising Tide too
I went to Rising Tide through Stevie Mack
It allowed me to branch out and just
experiment with my vocals I'm when you're at
home you can only do so much for you
people is almost
shedding other vocals and  just finding
out about yourself
able to what you're not able to do and just keep practicing
vocals, and after a while i picked up a guitar
and other musicians there  who would
teach me scales and what not so it was good to
be in that community and that envirorment
what kind of advice would you
give to young singer this you know this
home right now watching you
who will see your performance a little bit later
Kersha: I  would say
definitely practiced if I get tired
sometimes gets tedious you must like
 
like reach the moment way and you keep
up with him but nothing's happening and
you
things records is something that you
need to step back and just keep doing it
practice does make perfect, it will make everything perfect after a while.
so i would say stick to it
the perseverance and from singing and
learning you ended up on the BBC
Introducing stage last year tat the Hackney
festival
that was pretty cool It was kinda surreal, i almost cried on stage
Because to be able to perform on such a amazing
amazing platform that is not just people
standing in front of you
people listen to me from across the world BBC was readlly really cool
there was some stuff with my music and
some rising tide had allowed me to
perform
sigh I was amazing what's coming up next
for you now
I do have some things in the
pipeline I am looking to release the EPC
and I do have an album that is on itunes called Beyond the stars and that's going
really well
Last Skeptic: listen we're gonna come
back to the panel
very shortly but right about now we're
gonna move back over to the performance
area
and see how to band is doing  see how
 the house band is getting on with the song
Stevie 
Stevie: How you doing
Last Skeptic: I'm good, I'm good
we've done the chorus so what's
next for the song 
I think we're just going to move
onto the verse
the part where the message is put
across
and  the rule detailed of the song
so we're gonna move to that part
Last Skeptic: The meat and bones of it?
Yeah, there you go
Gonna get to it, so lets just take a listen tot he verse.
 
and then start building
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Sweet, alright |MUSIC|
Hold on, so lets do, if you
go into arose sound just to give it 
the fullness because obviously
see on a track we've got piano already
and then, lets go again
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Alright yeah lets hit it
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Hey there guys, i am Labrinth and welcome to my studio
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to separate the artist producer and
musician
basically just i
give them their moment if you put it like
that so when I'm working on a song
i will focus solely
on the artist side which is more getting inspired
and trying to put  my ideas on to paper
or what ever machine im
working on
and then  I use the musician to
make the song when
and throw down chords or little
techniques that
that people will enjoy a
musician would listen to and really
enjoy
and then II bring out the big producer
and I'm
and then organized that into something that is
listenable and something that people
can enjoy
right about now we are entering into a
very very exciting section of the show
tonight
well we go over to social media guru Bee but
before we do
the house band have a little bit of a
special introduction
Have the band bring me in with a bit of Beyonce
Here  I am giving you some updates
on what you've been sending us in by Twitter
and
Facebook we have Visual Marvelry
Shooting the first Hackney Live session, feeling the music
Band is kinda awesome
Amami Smith hypnotized by what's going on
at Hackney Live
who wouldn't be to be honest I'm
hypnotized by
our hosts beard, don't know if any of you guys are
Sundial sends best of luck with your first transmission.
Thank you
 
and ConcordSUY in concorde watching the ting dem
So glad he just said ting dem so
So that i could say it live on camera, Kendall foster
the host has an epic beard
it doesn't take that much, don't make him gassed
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and, so honoured to have a bit of Beyonce
so Bee, how you feeling about this old
social media
extravaganza that you're going through today
i love URL's URL's  are my life
in IRL
are you expecting any special tweets from
anyone special
I'm hoping that my boyfriend sends me loads of like sexy tweets
Just to spice things up for Hackney Live
Last Skeptic: Okay, cool this is gonna happen
through the
the crack team filter is that we have
out there night you don't think so
No, no, we're pretty awesome with the production
 
We just about let the beard tweet in
How many more ebard tweets were there that i didn't get to see, this is quite
upsetting
thank you well thank you very much Bee
we're gonna come back to you later on
right now it's time for a live
performance
he is a new upcoming Talent coming
through Rising Tide
and he is here tonight I'm very very very
proud to present
J Apia
Yea |MUSIC|
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|MUSIC| \Laying back in my bed looking up it's so lonely|
|MUSIC| |Looking back growing up i wish someone had told me|
|MUSIC| |Lifes a pack of cards you play them well until you|
|MUSIC| |We used to dream so big but|
|MUSIC| |what happened to that kid,uh, work hard keep your head down|
|MUSIC| |Thats how she raised me na na|
|MUSIC| |Im trying hard to break out of this cage that enslaves me|
|MUSIC| |No tie and no suit so they're calling me lazy|
|MUSIC| |Just words and this guitar i hope they break these walls|
|MUSIC| |And i|
|MUSIC| | Aint rich yet but im trying, i saidim really really trying|
|MUSIC| | I'm trying, i said i'm really really trying, just bare with me|
|MUSIC| |Bare with me yeah, bare with me yeah|
|MUSIC| |Bare with me, yeah|
|MUSIC| | I ain't giving up, giving up, oh no no, not giving up|
|MUSIC| |When sometimes your closest expect you to fail|
|MUSIC| |fail now uh|
|MUSIC| |Whilst those far away are wishing you well|
|MUSIC| |it seems the only way to Heaven is go to through Hell\
|MUSIC| |And i will wait patiently but|
|MUSIC| |would you wait for me, work hard, keep your head down as humble mother raised me|
|MUSIC| |Yeah yeah, trying hard to break out|
|MUSIC| |out of this cage that enslaves my mind|
|MUSIC| |No tie and no shirt so they calling me lazy|
|MUSIC| |Just my words and my guitar i hope they break these walls|
|MUSIC| |And i ain't rich yet but im trying im really really trying now|
|MUSIC| |And i ain't rich yet but im trying im really really trying now|
|MUSIC| | just bare with me, just bare with me yeah|
|MUSIC| |Bare with me yeah, cause i aint giving up, giving up|
|MUSIC| |My name in lights isn't the only thing|
|MUSIC| | I'm wishing on a star, and i am thinking about|
|MUSIC| |the future isn't just for me its for us, iall i need is your trust|
|MUSIC||MUSIC| |And i ain't rich yet but im trying, i said|
|MUSIC| |really really trying, just bare with me|
|MUSIC| |Bare with me yeah, bare with me|
|MUSIC| |Bare with me|
|MUSIC| |yeah, cause i ain't giving up, giving up|
|APPLAUSE|  Ladies and Gentlemen
thank you very much man that was incredible
really, really appreciate that, you're one of Rising Tides
upcoming talents how
important is Rising tTde and
organizations like that for
young people in Hackney try again to
get into music 
I think there is loads of talent in Hackney
and it hink that a place like Rising Tide provides a platform
a go-to place where you can just develop your skills
like Kersha was saying earlier on, and you can just find loads of friendly musicians that
that can help to improve you, and it is a bridge to the industry that you might not know
how to cross, so it is a really important organization and you know, i love 'em
Last Skeptic:And so the guidance of
of people at rising tide really helped
your song writing ability
your skill
yeah 100 percent I mean, just being in a place where there is loads of other musicians
and songwriters you kind of learn from
everybody else in the building, there is loads of guidance, loads of live shows
opportunities that you would not get, and so, yeah, Rising Tide
Last Skeptic: So how important is
an experience like this for you like in front of all the TV cameras and
fantastic crew of people 
its nerve racking
is a bit different from then on a live
show, it's fun nevertheless and
Yeah, i've had fun
Last Skeptic: It's alright no one has fallen over yet i mean
not yet cuz I probably will do that when
I'm walking back on
and so what is next for you, whats next for you
Erm more music
and videos more blog just kinda trying
to stay creative
yeah excellent and where can people find
more about you
My Twitter is Jesse Sings, it's J E double S E sings
One word, and that's my first name and
and my website is www.jappiah.com
Excellent, how do you spell that
It's J
wow this is a blowing my mind,
slowdown
A double P I A H, so its a Ghanian surname
it's a fantastic surname, thank you very much J Appiah for being
being here tonight and right about now I'm
moving back over to the panel to carry
on
a panel discussion this is a very smooth
Jools Holland walk, i hope you like my turn
i practiced that earlier we're gonna go
back
and discuss artistmanagement for a second
here
and so Paul as an artist how do you start getting the attention of professionals
like yourself like a manager or a ANR
social media
As we just saw, the Twitter, Facebook..
SoundCloud bank and whatever however you
get yourself out there
use the technology which is at your disposal
because years ago we didn't have none of this
this it was really hard
add to control the music industry very
much within
the big record companies i think it was the big six at the time, went down to the big five
and i think its now the big four
now with the advent of the Internet
you know it's
you know it's so easy to get yourself
out there but its even
even harder to sustain that, so what i would say to any young
young musician singer rapper, poets
whatever you do
tap into social media get your stuff up
online
keep working your your site's build your
fan base
and continuously service the fan base
in other words give them
maybe a free exclusive track or
free tickets to one of your gigs or you know
even a free wristband
Snapback |Laughs|
So is key being creative with your idea and how to get your music out there?
there
also most importantly continue to make
your music
because that is the most important part
of it yes I'm but what do
what catches your eye
when it comes to like a
you know a young musician if they if
they got help that
on the social media they're doing all this stuff
what brings the spock
with them gentler or so minutes J mark
speak about that when I met him it was
his voice, had  a look had a sound but
the fact that he wrote
was very very important it was that he
could always create
music and have a career as a
singer as a performer but also as a writer
so it just gave a
longevity so they could have an entire
career which he could you know
dedicate his life to that's when you me
a young artists like that to you
immediately see
like the next five years that you've got
planned for them 
well
it's not necessarily just about what you
have planned for them that's what they
have planned for themself
what I've always said to him on this
those two things I've always said what
one is
it's all about the music do we can we
can set up all forms of
blogs orcelebrity endorsements or
whatever it is but if the music is a
strong and you don't continue to make
that strong music that really
reflects you can you believe in there's
no point in not doing anything you call
market something that's right book
You can't market something that is rubbish |Laughs|
but it's a little is a little bit harder
if it's true and if it's good you can
make it work
the main thing that I would say to him
and that's it from the very beginning
first started working together was invest in yourself ,your just because you have a
a manager or because you have people who
believe in you doesn't mean anything
it's your career
so you should wake up early, i shouldn't have to wake you up you
you should wake up you should reach out
to people like Paul said on Facebook or Twitter
Twitter
online, you should be going out doing shows, reheaarsing
i shouldn't be the person saying to you, have you, have you done
your blog, have you rehearsed, you need to be doing that all the time
that shows that you're serious that shows that you're taking it as a career
and to try and apply yourself to it so
that makes a manager's job
or PR persons job  is your a little bit easier
you know your you're ready to go yeah
everybody else has to catch up with you
yes that's how we look at it 
And thats a very very important aspect to it
then
Gabin,how do you, i'm a guess that's a main part of what
what you look for in someone to take on
for the program is the fact that they've
got that
own initiative to get on with it and getting
every day and and record
Definitely, i mean you notice it 
straight away you know that the person
standin'
at the door waiting to get in when I
when i unlock in the mornin
and person i kick out tonight when im trying
to go home
is usually the person that is working, working
the hardest, you know
you know, a lot of young people come into Rising Tide
and they hear about other peoples successes
and the first thing they say is, how long is it gonna take me to get big
and we look at them and just straight through them
what are you what did you just say you
know as well own say to them no
its how long you gonna work at it , you know its
you know as Quaku, said, if the music's there and the talents there
you know there needs to be
something for people people to buy into
I keep on saying especially to the young people in Hackney
you're writing music for people around the world
you know stop thinking you write music
for people in Hackney
yeah you know and you know as i said
we have a lot of young people come in
who don't really have any any idea of
career in music and they they just wanna
do if for fun
as a pass-time and that's great and we we
support those people
and some people stay with us for a
long time doing that that's not a problem
but then the ones that actually wake up
one morning and say
I really wanna do this as my job you
know
there needs to be a certain level of yes
talent
yes a commitment they also need to be a
nice person
industry is very small and you know people
walk in to say
not working with him he upset me or she's a diva
working for her, and that can happen very quickly
an up-and-coming you don't need that on
your side we just try and get them to be
whole round for well-rounded young
people first
and great artist
Last Skeptic: And Kersha is one of these fantastic artists that you helped along the way
indeed indeed, definitely is |Laughs|
And Kersha so you had this fantastic experience at Rising Tide
and at what point did you realize that it
was that you had
very quickly cause i've got to rush off to live
performances what point did you realize
that
it wasn't a hobby it wasn't just personal
therapy that you were making music as
you you wanted the whole world to hear
yeah that for when I singing and college
I started performing
it was never a hobby this was something
I wanted to do you think
I was gonna make sure everything I need
to do to be on point
was gonna be done yeah so yea never
a hobby and was never going to be a hobby
so yeah
Last Skeptic: listen thank you very much
panel for this section
we will be coming back to the panel very
shortly with your question so make sure
hashtag Hackney Live you tweeting and hit us back with your questions
so Stevie you've worked on the chorus
and the verse the song
yeah what was the next part was the
other important parts of the song that
we need to get together
this is probably
like a more dreamy part of the song, this is a bridge
kind of fills in all the little gaps of the story
and we're gonna work on that
to see what we can do
I'll let you guys get on
okay so guys the bridges a bit
it's a  rough copy of the song, so we're just gonna listen to that
get the chords and then just build on it
I've put us a few things of the program in to really
to really fatten up the sound and stuff so lets get into it and see what we can do
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Erm so
Let's, it's pretty much
on the on on just the beat of the other one
which is the E so lets
just see if we can just hit that and
then
would slightly change, cause i think its a bit regimented
lets get the rythm we've got now and then we'llmove forward
so just do one cycle round
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so lets do, hit on the one for the first one
and then the rest of them we'll do
alternative yeah and then
would do to cycle again yeah aand at the end of the cycle
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and then we'll go into the chorus yeah, so that Motown uhm
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Yeah, that'll be sweet, yeah it's just really nice just gonna keep us
flowing and take us into the chorus and take Kersha
and take Kersha all the way into the sky, cloud nine
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that sounded sick i can't wait to hear the song
at the end of the show right about now
we're about to watch a video
That doesn't have Labrinth in it is a part of the upcoming career advice
series where amazing
radio presenter she is also amazing
but its amazing radio thats the name of the
station
roof Barnes is talking about getting
into the radio industry
and a very interesting important part
of the industry, enjoy it
hello i'm Ruth Barnes and I'm a radio
presenter and these are my top tips for
getting into the radio industry
I think the second one on my list has
got to be social media its the buzzword
of course at the moment in terms of radio
radio loves to think of itself as being
360 its on
every social network going so for you to
be attracteive for someone to give
work experience or your first job it's
essential that you have a presence
on social networks get yourself on
Twitter get a Tumblr going
have a nice Facebook page have a blog
going have a presence have something to
say more importantly
and have an identity, that  online identity on
social networks
can come in so-so handy and just makes
you look
way more hot than the other candidates
saying social media so ridiculously
important
let's go back over to a social media
guru Bee to see if we have anymore
excellent tweets about my beard Bee what you saying
Bee:  just ignoring your beard to be honest
not the star of the show its the band
because they're awesome, and obviously the lovely panel
We've had some pretty great tweets come through Babyyyyy with
all of the Y's One word,..inspiring
Which is really really good to hear, we like to hear that people are getting inspired
let go and let God nice vibes in the
Hackney cafe
its nice to know people are watching us from the cafe, it's kind of
get trapped in a little studio vibe over here
Carl Sanderson, Rising Tide are very
very supportive have any questions for
rising tide by the way
or any one of our panel, don't forget to keep tweeting in Joseph Bond |Laughs|
Wow the social media girl is a babe |Laughs|
flattered
So no tweets about the beard, but i'm a bit of a babe apparently
That is quite nice...Sarafina
this Jesse guy sick vocals, we only have the best for you here for you so stay tuned
we have a lot more coming in store so if
you want to tweet us
Don't forget interact with us through Hackney Live, hashtag or tweet us at Hackney Live
or you wanna keep looking at updates of our
Facebook photos just go to
Facebook/HackneyLive back to beard
Hopefully i'm more than just a beard to you Bee
but you know
its okay so right now this is
the part of the show
where we disregard  the preset
questions
like it's nothing and we ask the burning
questions from you guys which
if we don't have any I just lost all my
questions so be pretty awkward
so you to pick them up just in case
panel
we have some questions for you from the
audience thank you very much to a lovely
runner, Seb
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ConcordSUY or is that  S S U I
will there be a youth club tour for
local artists I'm guessing this is
a a rising tide question
Gabin: Erm could be
we're talking with Young Hackney a lot about  about lot of different things
with all of the new hubs in Hackney
sprung up,we could do that, we've never really thought about that, it's a good idea
So you could take like
all the young artists in
and give their first kind of experience
of the live realm
We do a lot of School tours and College tours and stuff like that, but we've never done a
youth Club tour
Just to add to that im assuming its concord
Concord on Kngsmead estate myself and Gabin grew up in Kingsmead
and we used to go to concord when it was called Clapton Rangers?
Clapton Rangers youth club so big shout, which camera is it? that one?
Big shout to everybody at Concord Kingsmead Estate, especially everybody who lives in Eggbert
house, carry on |Laughs|
I I think this is a question for Kersha
I believe we touched on it a little bit earlier but we had to cut you short
Gordon asks
what are you hoping to do in the future
A music related question, you know
Well im definitely checking out touring opportunities, trying to put a proposal together at the moment
for Arts Council and a few other
companies who are willing to put
money towards music project so touring and yeah, just travelling, i really want to branch
and go into Europe, and just travel and perform my music
well there's a lot more about that's what
we're focusing on at the moment
And Quaku we've got a question for you
Do uou |Laughs|
It was probably Paul, we touched on earlier like how the
the industry now is is is kind of
like blown wide open so young artists
can get out there because of so many
different opportunities so kids coming
up now
would probably feel like they're not
just searching for a dual major label
deal just
to be successful,  how do you feel
like be how much do you feel that
encourages
like kids to really get into this I
think it's very encouraging because
if you go back a few years we didn't
actually have access to the audience
that's what is that the a radio station
just gives you
a means to get to an audience, a TV station does the same
a record label helps you get to a bigger
audience
and now with the internet with the
the high speed on your mobile.phone you
can get your music
your face your video your performance to
an audience
not necessarily just in your area you can get
to anywhere in the world
and I think that's really encouraging
and inspiring for everybody
um what it also does is it helps you
workout
Where your fanbase is, because you can get some feedback from them aswell, which
you couldn't do it before so you can put
out a blog or you can
put out an EP and who's tweeting you, see who's email'ing you, who's
following you on Facebook or whatever and you find out, okay
it was going to be girls like me but
guys
like the relate to what I'm saying
like Drake, whatever, you know so those things
are wonderful and then if you want to
then take it to
to some kind of label whatever you
you've got that to say
look i've got a following of 20,000
people would you mind so
I can fill out a quite large venue if
you if you
put me on tour or a gig or something like that, so i think it gives you all sorts of collateral
that we didn't have before
Last Skeptic: that's excellent, it kind of takes you back
mixtape aesthetic aswell
like  where you just sold you know 10,000
mixtapes and then you form actually got
your fan base
but we've it was that the decline of
like CDs iand all that
it just, it just kind of blows it wide open
well the thing is, then you get to the idea of, am i giving it away for free or
am i selling it, thats another discussion altogether, obviously when you had a mixtape
you say oh give me a fiver, and you can have my mixtape and now its kinda like well
here's, here's lots of music for free
its about get your music heard yet
looks at you music is very different to
say a see a film you may pay to watch a
full ones where with music you may hear
a lot of times and then decide to pay for it
yeah either you buy will you go and
support it
and a performance so it's a a slightly
different model to how it was
is very very important to get as much
music to as many people as possible yeah
definitely and on that no we have a
tweet from Bee, you  gonna read this out for us
and ask us the panel
Hopefully gonna read it out for you, and we've got a tweet from Jake Wilson
what's it like being on a live TV show I
Paul |Laughs| since you was there with the most mischievous smile
Paul: uhm, yeah mischievous
um you know what is it at anytime you know
that something can actually go wrong
or go really really right, you know im sitting here thinking
should i say, should i say that, or maybe i should or maybe i shouldn't
Nudge Quaku because he is falling aswell, there you go
|Laughs| yeah, but it's kind of fun
less uniforms the proposed to hermès
have I'm
yeah love with you the lush als
I'm actually only falling aswell because Paul is talking
every time you guys go over there
woah woah woah you saying you're weren't
paying full attention
I was hoping tottenham lose, and Gabin's hoping toteenham lose aswell |Laughs|
So Kersha is this your first live TV experience Kersha
Yeah it is, it is nerve racking not gonna lie, you don't wanna waffle on
to the point sso yeah, its an experience
I believe we have one more question
Bee
Bee:we  have one more question
and before we just  get up on the screen if
you have any more questions just tweet us
said the panel can
answer all your beautiful questions Spine The Film
can you ask skeptic about his new album
heard good things
such a superstar on the show, it's not just his beard its his music career aswell
thank you very much for the question
erm |Laughs|
well 
Bee: Are you tweeting yourself?
that was basically me tweeting myself, thank you very much Cara for that question
and uhm yeah' i have a new record out, April 29th
it's called thanks for trying, and on that note!
to check on the band and see how the
progress is going on
it's sounding very good so far Stevie thank
you much for again for being with us
today
How is it all sounding
Stevie: it's sounding really nice
obviously the legend that is Labrinth has done us
done us a great justice, and he has made some parts in there that are really musical
and but also really made it uhm
and translate over to the common
it's going well, it's going nice
yeah definitely man was gonna get onto
it just gonna go we gonna go
them even try and get the whole song done
So yeah, if you'd like to leave us to it.
as seeing as the band are  very almost there
let's see the last part %uh exclusive
interview
Labrinth and we will be back very very
shortly to see the song
and its completion enjoy hey guys I'm
Labrinth
and welcome to my studio
Seeing the importance of a producer
is that if you think of a company
or back a factory
a producer is like the
the guy that coordinates how the product
is made
so if you think of a producer as
the overseer that the captain of a ship
that's what a producer does
so basically they have to especially
back in the day like quincy jones
and all all the big producers like that
used to like
you know have to score records and
sstuff like that, they have to
they had to coordinate what the
musicians are gonna play
have to organize what the tsinger is gonna
sing so they have to get the right to
together, they have to get
the composer's together to help make
this record work
and so to me
a producer is very important
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thank you very much that was absolutely incredible
Big big shout out to Kersha Bailey and Labrinths live bands for coming in
We have reached the end of our show, it is just about time for me to sya
thank you to everyone from rising tide for curating the first Hackney Live
hackney live music special big big big
shout to the wonderful band
shout out to the panel Paul,Quaku you and
Gavbin and of course
Kersha big big big shout out to a
social media guru Bee
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everyone in the studio Seb white and most importantly Hackney council for making
this happen
and do not forget this is very important
tune in tomorrow
at 7 p.m. where we will be having Ricky
Norwood aka Fatboy from EastEnders
presenting a show curated by East London
danse make sure you go check how it's
gonna be incredible
featured performances another industry
panel and a star
a lot more stuff that makes me go do I
keep sweeteners hashtag hackney live
thank you very much again it's been
emotional a bit closer to see my name is
the last skeptic
bigup yourselves
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