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Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence.

This seems relevant in a couple of ways. Music is a part of every single person on the planet, in one way or another, at some point. It affects us, it affects animals, we have sent music up into space, just in case someone passes by. People even play music in the greenhouses where they grow their prize winning marrows.

11 out of 10 understands what music means to the universe. In the last few months we have done the most we can with the tools available, to create and compliment the music we have here in Norwich. There is so much talent, and so many people need to be acknowledged for what they do.

At the moment, we are putting the finishing touches to the videos we shot with the BBC. The artists we worked with will be going onto the BBC Introducing show, to talk about their music, and the videos will go online at the same time. We will let you know when these are happening.

Not only that, but our room at TTSF was amazing. It was a chilled out area, filled with games, cake and most importantly, some stunning, local unplugged music. We can't wait to do something like this again. Thanks to Craig Hill for giving us the opportunity.

As the college term is coming to an end, some of us are moving on to different things. This project was intended to get us some amazing grades, and we have done that. However, my love for the work we have done has simply grown and grown as time has gone on. 11 out of 10 is not going anywhere.

I intend to get investment in the business, enabling me to buy equipment and software to work on projects with the same quality and purpose as we have this year, even delivering work more regularly and routinely. The other thing I am desperate to do is be able to carry on working with the friends I have made, on a long term basis, and bring in other people who have ambition and drive to make 11 out of 10 the best it can be.

If this sounds like something you might want to know more about, then keep an eye on our website and social media. And if you want to get in contact with me specifically, email [email protected]

Emily

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11 out of 10 Collective are back!!! 

This time we have been given charge of the cafe bar room at the waterfront in collaboration with The Tilting Sky Festival, we are going to turn this room into an acoustic room with so much original/self written music that will keep your ears tingling and your brains excited for the whole night....

Artists confirmed so far (more to come)....

Connor Miller

Jos Brunwin

All My Youth

The Old Times Sakes

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Record Store Day & Rhythm Roulette

Not only was today my first experience of Record Store Day but the date of 11 out of 10 Collective’s first official release! If you’ve been following the news on our page you’ll know we started a project called ‘Rhythm Roulette’ and the finishing touches were made yesterday. The final product was put on sale today in Blossom Records - which has unfortunately closed down, however I’m am most definitely positive that we will see them up and running again. You can find Blossom Records on Facebook - they are really lovely and helped us out today by letting us sell our cassettes in their store, plus they are incredibly creative which we LOVE. They will continue to sell their products online and I highly recommend them, it would be great if people could continue to support them.

Since I started at Access to Music I was always a little scared that my decision to be a student there may not have been the right one, but this project has proved to me that this is exactly what I want to do. I’m not entirely sure how staying at college until 11.30pm helps me decide this but it does. I have always said I’d love one of those crazy music industry job where you work for zillions of hours in a row and sleep for like 43 minutes (okayy, that may be a little over dramatic but you get what I’m saying). I basically had a first taste of that yesterday, I went to my work at 8.30 that morning, then dashed to college, finished the tapes, went home for sleep and was back in Norwich by 9AM this morning and it was perfect - I was in my element. So after all our effort I was exceptionally impressed by how AMAZING the cassette tapes looked once we had finished them. It was a long process that took me and our lovely tutor Wendy around 8 hours but it was sooo worth it. If I could do this EVERY day I would be an extremely happy (not to mention tired) Holeigh.

I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this post, I just wanted to share my excitement with people. And finally I should really thank everyone who was involved including the tutors who made this all possible: Frank Marrow, Chris McLeod, Luke Sanger, Liam Keeler and Fred. I also need to do a special THANK YOU to Wendy Roby who came into college to help me finish the cassettes but not only this, she continues to help and support out little collective and puts in as much time and effort as we do, and for that we are very grateful. And last but not least all 13 of our artists/producers: Tyler Convery, Jordan Gurney, Miles Hunt, Oskar Allen, Jethro Collier, Aidan Johnson, Andy Titcomb, Olly Abel, Joe Marks, Joe Burrell, Billy Ross, Logan Forge and Paul Connolly. You were brilliant and produced some magical tracks - it was a pleasure to work with you all!

If anyone would like to buy one of the LIMITED EDITION Rhythm Roulette tapes we have some left so please come and see me or anyone associated with 11 out of 10 Collective.

Now all that excitement is over I guess I best look forward to going back to my real job in the real world tomorrow - one day I will live a real life in this magical music industry job I speak about above.

- Holeigh -

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Rhythm Roulette - Day 1

Today (Monday 8th April) 11 out of 10 Collective started to film the DM (digital musicians) students from Access to Music. It has been a very productive day! We had 10 students to film and half of them have a finished track, and they are sounding pretty awesome considering the restraint the DMs had to work with - I’m impressed.

I started the day pretty apprehensively as I didn't really know how it would turn out but once we set out on our mission to film the DMs picking their 3 vinyls with the budget of £3 my confidence seemed to grow immensely and by the end of the day I was confident we could achieve what we had set out to do.

We spent most of the day filming the students. The highlight for me was watching them pick their vinyls - the way they were looking for different instrumentation's and beats, and the way the genre they first picked seemed to changed through the process. I also became rather impressed by the way they were speaking - I mean it was normal English - but it was so technical that I felt they were speaking another language, maybe there is DM language? However I am certain by the end of tomorrow I will be speaking it fluently. We also filmed some of them sampling and listening to the tracks with Fred who then assisted them with copying the bits they thought they could use. Seeing their faces when they listened to what they had brought and figuring out what parts they could use was quite entertaining as well as the dancing and head bobbing. I’m not going to lie I also did my fair share of dancing and foot tapping, it was kind of impossible not to.

I feel like we got some really great footage from all the elements of today and to film the process of the development of the DM’s track was like magic - every time I re-entered the room their tracks had progressed.

It’s really exciting that some of the DMs have finished their tracks and as well as this it has been really nice to get to know them as people and have them ask us what we do. All the musically influenced students at Access seem to be intrigued by the Music Business course and when we explain what we do they look quite jealous and ultimately they seem to learn that we are the people that they should come to when they want to get something done.

It was really nice to hear such positive feedback about what we have been doing today and the DMs seemed to thrive under the spotlight and the pressure of making a new track from 3 vinyls in the price bracket of £3. With that in consideration you can imagine it really can’t be at all easy and the material we have witnessed so far is pretty incredible.

I’m really starting to look forward to hearing/seeing the finished product!

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Our beautiful, hard-working, generous, kind Managing Director Emily is putting on this kick-ass show next Friday. It's going to be full of raw, blues, garage, indie rock from some of Norwich's best.

Also, in conjunction with what we are doing for The Tilting Sky Festival, we can offer all the people who come along to Olives a whole £2.50 off TTSF. So, you will be getting 2 amazing nights for 50p less than if you just got TTSF tickets!

If you are interested, just see one of the members of Delay, or our super cool, brilliant, stylish Managing Director Emily.

(Not written by the gorgeous, fun, creative, sweet Managing Director Emily)

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Music Quotes

We asked some DM students taking part in the Rhythm Roulette project to pick or make a quote related to music that inspires them.

“I don't care much about music what I like is sounds”.

“A good composer does not imitate, he steals”.

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain”.

“Without music, life would be a mistake”.

“You are the music, while it lasts”.

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”.

We will all be inspired I’m sure, after Rhythm Roulette.

Rob

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Secondhand Sureshots - The Process

The Access To Music Digital Music students will take a trip to charity shops near Cinema City. They will be looking for 3 records/vinyls by artwork, producer, label and whatever pleases them or makes them feel like it will be a good record. When they come back to college, they will sample these 3 records and put them all together in one track. These will then be placed back in the store, secretly, to be sold to the public.

The idea came from Dublab Dublab Records Secondhand Sureshots.

Rocket Science? [Personally] sure, but they seem pretty relaxed and confident about what they will do. No doubt it will be hard work.

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-- Tatyanaa

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Holeigh and Emily's trip to the UEA

When faced with the word “workshop” I expected team-building exercises, idea pitching, and maybe even a bit of colouring in. However, Holeigh and I were sat in a semicircle of around 10 people, facing a man who talked at us for three and a half hours. That’s the length of the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring.

Having said that, it wasn’t boring; it was fascinating, informative, and will go a long way to helping my understanding of how to structure my business plans, and speak to other business type people - which used to be a rather daunting idea.

The 8 other people were all in the same boat as us. They were fledgling business owners and partners, invited along to the UEA Business School to learn a little bit about how to secure investment from different sources from Walter Herriot, OBE - a renowned business innovator. It was exclusive; there were only 10 seats set up, and enough mugs for coffee and tea for us, but only us. Holeigh and I were very kindly invited to come along by Saffron Hunt, proving it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, and how well you impress people with the work you put into things.

Saffron Hunt is Miles Otto’s mum, and she came along to see what japes we were getting her son into whilst we filmed him for BBC Introducing. Wonderful Wendy wowed her with stories of what the collective was doing, and it worked.

During the afternoon, we were given a thorough, yet easy to understand booklet, which Walter Herriot went through and talked about in more detail. I think we managed to write about five pages of notes each, and my ideas for 11 out of 10 started ordering themselves a little better, rather than just being a lump of mashed potato full of business conceptions which contradicted themselves.

I won’t go into the details of what we discussed, but I do know that I want to get this business invested in, keep it going and make it a part of Norwich. So don’t be afraid to give us some support by coming along to our events, giving us a shout out, or even getting involved in what we are doing.

I would like to say a big thank you to Walter Herriot, OBE, for taking the time to speak at length to people who are on the first steps towards building something from scratch, by themselves, which some see as an endeavour which might not even be worth the effort and risk during this current financial climate.

I also want to say thank you to the ladies from the Low Carbon Innovation Fund - especially Saffron - who work to reward green, innovative businesses with EU money, and lots of it. They want to give this money away, so the EU keep giving it to them, so if you are interested in what they are doing, head to www.lowcarbonfund.co.uk.

Emily

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Access to Music’s Secondhand Sureshots ‘Rhythm Roulette’

Secondhand Sureshots from Sanchir Enkhbayar on Vimeo.

Since we formed the 11 out of 10 Collective we have been involved in some pretty incredible experiences and being the creative little collective that we are people seem to notice what we are doing, it’s the best thing to have so many people approaching us and asking us what we are up to.

A while ago we managed to turn a small room which we called ‘The Music Business Chamber’ into a studio and helped to film various activities on development day. We have been in demand ever since and have received our next opportunity which is to film the DM (digital musicians) students in their activities in enrichment week and make a short film out of it. It’s a really exciting opportunity for us to participate in! 

We are going to replicate the ‘Secondhand Sureshots’ film with our own version ‘Rhythm Roulette’. We are going to be interviewing some of the DM students to get a feel for what it’s like to be inside their heads, it’s difficult to know what they are thinking as they always seem so drowned in their music, in a little world of their own - I always know when I see a DM, they constantly wear headphones, I assume they are addicted to music. I can’t wait to know a little bit more about them, I also can’t wait to work with them on Monday and Tuesday. Monday and Tuesday (the 7th and 8th of April) we are going to visit the second hand record shops and charity shops near our college, to film the DMs students while they pick out some tracks to sample. We will then be filming them mastering their finished tracks and asking them some questions about what they are doing. We hope to keep the Tumblr updated while this is all taking place and can’t wait to see the finished product - both the film and the tracks - we have lots of tricks up our sleeves.

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Is Drum and Bass killing the underground music scene???

Just posting today to express some of my personal opinions about DnB nowadays and how it is effecting the music scene, especially when trying to organise events and gigs in pubs, clubs and other indoor areas.

I'm not saying that the music itself is lacking anything at all, I can be quite partial to a good piece of DnB every now and again, it's the rude boy mentality that seems to follow it like a fly to a piece of shit. I have attended too many events recently that have either been cut short or just ruined by too many little thugs suddenly appearing and what could have been some amazing vibes turn into everybody wanting to have a fight.

Also once comes the DnB usually follow the MC's obviously some of these are so talented that they have the ability to keep everybody on such good levels, but I'm sure you have heard and I would like to think you can agree that some of them... well I don't think I should finish that sentence as writing this on behalf of our college collective but I'm sure you get the gist. I do agree that a small piece of the right tunes can be good at an event, I have a couple of DnB DJ's playing at my next event, but people need to think about the people they are booking a lot more to try to bypass the crap atmosphere that is so hard to avoid with it and whilst organising an event you need to remember that a chain is only as strong as its weakest leak. 

If you have read this far all I really have left to say at the moment is nice one for listening to my little rant, and bring back the old-skool vibes and leave the rude boy culture for somewhere else other than our local music scene.

Harley Searby (Barntrance Events) - 11 out of 10 Collective, Access To Music

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At It Again !

Greetings All !

Everyone has been wondering what we are up to...well, a lot.

Before half term we came up with ideas for set design for Electronica artist Miles Otto. The inspiration for our set was Rachel Whiteread’s installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

(Photo by: Loz Flowers)

Our spin on her amazing idea was to project Liam Roberts’ prodigiously spectacular visual art onto the white boxes, creating a kind of cubist landscape.

After half term, we were hands on - full steam ahead - hunting for the illusive cardboard boxes and then we painted them white. Took us a whole day to get it all ready and we made a little mess [in this context, the word ‘little’ might be the same as ‘big’...Oops] but we cleaned up after.

The team has worked really hard for tomorrow’s filming and we hope [and I’m almost sure] it will turn out awesome. Let’s not forget that the reason we are called 11 out of 10 is because we are willing to go the extra mile.

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Announcement!! CAUSTIC DELAY AND MILES OTTO ARE NEXT TWO ACTS TO BE CHOSEN IN 110UT0F10 / BBC INTRODUCING PROJECT

11outof10 are pleased to announce the next pair of artists to be chosen for our Live Lounge style collaborations with BBC Introducing. 

The acts chosen were Caustic Delay and Miles Otto.

Miles has built up quite a following with his very own brand of electronic music. Some of his big influences are The Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin to just name a few.

Miles's major string to his bow is that he plays everything live when performing, as can be seen from the picture above as he is surrounded by his arsenal of instruments. 

  Caustic Delay are a four piece instrumental Progressive Rock band. Their big influences in music are bands like Tool and Mastadon. 

All in all these two acts serve up an interesting, and also incredibly diverse recipe.

Here is a video of Caustic Delay performing at the Blueberry a few weeks back.

And this is a video of Miles performing at Strawberry Fair to give you guys a taster of what to expect from these two exciting acts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqRIRNeMmpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj0ZP9_IyGg

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Part 2 of our somewhat revealing interview with ATM Norwich tutors Alex, Dan and Ian. By the way, we will get better at this!

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Some of ATM Norwich’s finest tutors come and have a chat with the 11 out of 10 Collective on development day a couple of weeks ago. Part 1.

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Emily interviews Snoz from The Blackout

Gareth “Snoz” Lawrence is the drummer for heavy rock band The Blackout, and thanks to a lovely PR lady called Hayley, I was allowed to meet him for an interview before their Waterfront gig on the 19th of January. It was the first time I had conducted a serious interview with a proper well-known person, and it happened to be the drummer for one of my favourite bands. I thought I’d be far more nervous.

But Snoz walks into the room like he’s an old friend from school who simply wants a catch up and a pint. Even though all of the interview techniques I learned about years ago in college are constantly running through my head, I can’t quite relax enough to sit back on the sofa like he does. It’s Snoz from The Blackout!

“This is the first time I’ve done this,” I say, turning on the dictaphone.

“I’m gentle, honest,” replies Snoz.

The dates for The Blackout’s Final Party tour, showcasing their fourth album Start the Party for the “final” time, which is on its way around the country at the moment, were originally set for October, but towards the end of the fifth show in Manchester, vocalist Gavin Butler suffered from a hemiplegic migraine and had to leave the stage. The dates were rescheduled, giving Gavin enough time to rest, under doctor’s orders.

I go straight into some questions, firstly asking Snoz how the previous night of the tour had gone. The band played their 2009 album The Best in Town from start to finish at the Islington Academy.

“It was pretty good. It was already sold out anyway. No one brought their tickets back, which is good.” He sighs with relief, “we panicked about that.” I recall seeing post upon post from the members’ and the band’s social media pages, letting people know the situation, and how they could get refunds if they couldn’t make it to re rescheduled dates. It was almost as if the had expected a huge backlash.

“The venue said oh, we’ve got another night free if you want to do another show. We tried to make tickets as cheap as we could and just thought ‘let’s try and do something a bit special.’ We didn’t think anyone would turn up for it, but it was rad, it was wicked.”

Snoz had tweeted earlier on in the day that he had met fans in Islington show who he hadn’t seen for years, and his eyes light up as he tells me the same.

“All the kids that used to come and see us years ago have obviously got a bit older now, they got jobs and stuff, but they all came to the show last night. It was amazing.”

The band have been playing a lot of the album on this tour anyway, “but from start to finish, it was just like a nostalgia thing for a lot of people I think. Which is weird, because I feel as though we haven’t been a band that long!”

I then ask about the issue behind why the tour had to be cancelled. “Yeah,” Snoz sighs, “Since we played proper shows, you know, where people actually come and see us, we never cancelled a show. This whole tour being cancelled was gutting.

“Gavin was like, ‘ah, we’ll work it and try and see if I’ll be alright.’ Thing is we couldn’t risk it, because he’d had this thing a couple of weeks before, and obviously hadn’t rested enough. We’d done two weeks of touring and then it happened again and we were like, ‘we can’t take the risk because next time you don’t know how bad it might be.’ It broke our hearts.

“We got a motto in The Blackout, ‘if it can go wrong, then it will go wrong’.” He goes on to say that the band found the Latin translation and wanted to put it on a t-shirt. “It turns out that was wrong! If it can go wrong, it will go wrong! Lucky we didn’t put it on a t-shirt, because it would be like, ‘what does that mean? A squirrel is up a tree, and you like it?’ You know what I mean?” Snoz bashes the fake leather sofa, albeit gently, with a clenched fist. Frustration was the key word for the band in 2013, thanks to setbacks similar to that one, and ending with the tour cancellation “last year was a nightmare, and then it culminated in that.”

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Thursday 16/1/14 at the BBC

Here are some pictures from our studio masterclass. We looked at how to use cameras, different shots, lighting, and how to make our videos really original and interesting.

  We came away with loads of ideas, and are really looking forward to putting them into practice.

Emily

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BBC Introducing

We've been chosen to curate, organise and film some live sessions for BBC Introducing Norfolk. The artists we choose for these sessions will all come from Access to Music (our music college), and will also be interviewed live on air. 

The two artists we've chosen for our first session are the amazing Jodie Richardson and the brilliant ElSkin, who both work really hard, and we feel deserve this great opportunity. So keep an eye on our progress on here, our Twitter page and the BBC Introducing page.