I decided that my lonely living room needed to be used positively as I live in shared accommodation and no-one really congregates there. I sent a few texts and invited my London friends to bring their instruments along, nibbles and drinkies. It turned into a quassi therapy session, old youth orchestra friends lacking confidence in [...]

Spitalfields Music MAAS scheme is going well, my first placement is with a primary school in Tower Hamlets and City of London Sinfonia (CLS), it started on Tuesday. I was asked to compose a song about dance; bee dance. So we did some research and I learnt about the waggle dance. John set met the [...]

Yesterday I worked at Core Arts – a community arts and mental health charity in Homerton, Hackney. The organisation started bottom up – director Paul Monks was working in his studio one day, when mental health patients from the nearby psychiatric hospital wanted to join in…. At Core, no questions are asked about members mental [...]

Nice one to the guys at Substrakt for sorting my uncle out with a nice website for his Master of Ceremonies work. Check him out although not sure whether he spits bars though…

Well hello there! I hope this pre-summer lushness is sustained, sunshine makes the UK a nicer place. Smiles, and conversations! Woohoo! I feel it’s time for a lil Bobbie update, things are going well at the moment, one or two hiccups but I am philosophical about them… • The Spitalfields Music Apprentice Animateur Scheme is [...]