Brain Food #4: True Romance.

Nope, they are not from the 60s, 70s or the 80s.

These guys played at our Christmas Party in 2007 and since then have gone on to sign a deal with XL recordings and win the Glastonbury Emerging Talent comp (to mention a couple of their achievements).

Find your flares and break out the instant sideburns. If this doesn’t put a smile on your face you might wanna check your pulse. Immediately.

[Duane]

Audition Your Frustration

We’ve all seen the mad scramble every time Big Brother has it’s yearly audition but when it’s not just for naked fame and glory, how many young people are interested in getting on TV and getting their voices heard?

Well, we are about to find out.

Enter studentvoice.tv. The English Secondary Students’ Association (ESSA) is collecting young people’s views on education for a Manifesto which they will present to the people in charge of education in the UK.

Young people aged 11-19 are invited to get their point across via the fresh and easy medium of YouTube.

And as if having a say in how the £62.2billion education budget is spent was not enough, the best of all vids will feature on Channel 4.

If you want to find out more then check out www.studentvoice.tv

[Duane]

OK, I know I’m pushing the BB reference but that logo looks so cool up there.

The End.

The Song That Started It All

The conversation, that is.

5 years time, by Noah and the Whale. Possibly the cheeriest song this side of the new millenium.

Note. The video above is not the official, as Universal won’t allow it to be embedded from YouTube. God only knows why.

With a Hippety-Hi and a Hippety-Ho

The first draft of the Sense training day is done diddley done. It was a labour of love and I am still looking for ways of making it even better. I will be getting Safiya and Duane’s feedback over e-mail in the next week so I can incorporate their thoughts and ideas.

The training day is going to be for the steering group. It should be about 3 hours long and we have LOTS to cram into the day. All the major decisions will be made by the steering group on this and we need to make sure we get it right! As the organisers, we need to make sure they have the necessary training and support to fulfil their roles.

What we will cover on the day:

• History of Sense
• The future of Sense – where are we going with all this?!
• What’s out there now
• Skills and further training
• Rewarding young peoples work.

I have tried to keep the day interactive, interesting and professional. We are looking into having a cool venue too, and hopefully a special guest over lunch. Exciting stuff. I had a conversation (it was over text message, does that still count as a conversation?) with Duane random music videos. I like Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club. The dog looks like Spike from Rugrats which reminds me of being in year 3 pretending I was Tommy Pickles, while Elicia was Grandpa…

Is the song about drugs? Love? Loving black music? Enlighten me.
Save the URL and blare the song out when the days are dark and you need something only a happy song will cure.