Over the past 14 years ACM, based in Surrey, UK, has developed some of the most innovative music industry education currently available anywhere in the world and offers full and part time courses in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Music Production, Creative Sound Design, Music Business and more.

Whether you enrol on a part time entry level beginners course or a ground-breaking full time course, you will receive the best possible vocational training from our internationally acclaimed faculty and have access to some of the finest education facilities available anywhere in the world. If you are serious about your music education then this music college in Guildford is where you need to be!

For more information about our courses and everything else that ACM has to offer, please visit our website: http://www.acm.ac.uk/

Q and A are a four-piece, London based band comprising Emma James, Rory Thomas, Joe Wheeler and Johno Donacchie. The band formed in 2012, motivated by a common desire to create an exciting, innovative and unique brand of guitar-driven music fusing an unusual combination of musical influences from a wide range of sources.

The band has aimed to avoid falling into genre convention, instead choosing to incorporate elements from apparently disparate artists and genres, from Michael Jackson to Sonic Youth, free jazz to drum and bass. 

The foundation of their sound is Joe and Johno’s rhythm section. Melodic bass lines, underlined by aggressive, cyclical drumming provide a backdrop to Rory’s intense, thrashing guitar playing and richly textured, powerful vocals, and new addition Emma provides a ghostly, smoky, soulful vocal counterpoint to the band’s sound. Rory’s lyrics are often cryptic, sometimes surreal and flavoured by a dose of black humour. Often featuring recurring characters, the lyrics provide the script to the band’s cinematic musical design.

Currently the band is self-producing an upcoming four track EP, due for release in September. You can hear some of the band’s demo quality tracks on Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/qandaband. For more information, please find them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or email them at qandaband@london.com.

‘Dead Boyfriend E.P.’ available September, date TBC.


For Bookings & Press Contact:

qandaband@london.com

A Japanese rock band with a strong Western influence. A style that can only be described as: “Shibuya meets the Sunset Strip”.

All music and artwork entirely self-produced.

Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

Mikey Thomas

Guitarist, songwriter, producer, beer drinker. 

Guildford

My band page! https://soundcloud.com/hanshotfirstofficial

My youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg11wqZMejUzJj4djmKiIMQ?feature=mhee

Working closely with the talented group of musicians that is The P.I.C https://soundcloud.com/van-deventer



As a wise matey once said:

"Most people dont know a Banger, even if it comes with Mash"

Partners In Crime Productions began as simple multinational collaborations between talented artists and DJs, and has since grown into a global production group dedicated to creating GOOD music.  London local Producers/DJs Van Deveneter and Shaka Omwony were instrumental in bringing together the other founding members: the well-known guitarist sensation Mike Thomas, San DIego-based Producers/DJs Peter Martinez (DJ Paydro) and Chris Quam (DJ Tha FZX) and producer Alex Beswick.

Our Productions are verstalie and range from anything from deep and minimal house to hip-hop and anything and everything in between.  Our productions emphasize creativity and originality, we discorage typecasting music into "genres" for certain people.  Our distinct global roots inspires a creative environment where truly good music can be enjoyed by people from all backgrounds.  

For Bookings

Contact our management , David Jones on - dj.bookings@astralentertainment.com

Remixes , Collaborations and Production

Picproductions00@gmail.com

Clubs/Cities played :

London : Cirque du Soir , Juju , Apres , Amika , Cuckoo
Spain : Sala Winds , Chango
Las Vegas 
San Diego

Other private parties including google, Credit swiss and Matches + Ashanti Fashion.

AnExitStrategy was born in February 2010 by Guitarist/Vocalist Jack Schouten and Producer/Keys player Alex Beswick.

The music blends hard hitting, guitar based rock with the soaring synths and hooks of Drum and Bass - a genre soup laden with catchy verses and massive choruses.

Based in UK musical hub Guildford, the band began playing to excited audiences around the area who didn't know whether to dance or mosh. Supporting the likes of Imperial Leisure and Subsource in venues such as the Lexington Islington and the Boileroom Guildford. Among supporting rock and ska bands, AnExitStrategy have supported dubstep/brass duo Jazzsteppa and European dubstep producer Son of Kick.

AnExitStrategy's music has evolved - releasing their second official single 'Time and Vice Versa' in october 2012, a more melodic sound has risen from the bands rock and metal roots. joined by drummer Sim Cracknell and bassist Mikey Thomas, this Autumn AnExitStrategy will release three brand new songs peppered with hooks and pounding melodies.

I'm Stu, i'm a songwriter, guitarist and singer. My songwriting ethos is "if i like it, i do it". 
Its ROCK music, with a band, without a band, whether its post this or punk that, II don;t really care much for genre classifications and such, thats for people who write about music, and describing what i do on all these websites is a fucking chore! On here is a collection of things i have recorded with the band, or on my own at home. I'm currently rehearsing with a new band, watch this space.

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