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cover Ad APRIL 2020 What’s Happening? featuring EDITOR’S NOTE Hello dear readers, and welcome to SOUND. this lot: The official magazine of the music scene at 4 • Northbrook NOW Northbrook MET - It’s officially April! And In these times of fear, isolation, and a (with Christian Le Surf) 8 • Review devistating lack of bog roll; 10 • Random Schenanigans what’s been happening within the music scene at Northbrook MET? 12 • Noisy 13 • The Prototypes We’re introducing some exciting fresh faces in new music right now, as well as an exclusive 14 • Terrance Dunn review by Christian Le Surf. There’s a truck load of spicy goodness to get stuck into here, so 15 • Additional Shoutouts dive in! Now I’ll head back to quarantine, where I’m intently playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 and GET SOCIAL // consuming my stockpile collection of custard Follow us on social media and get involved! creams. Share something interesting and hey - We may just feature it... Jack Eakins, Managing Editor / Lead Designer “Don’t touch me I’m sterile!” - Patrick Star 3 4 5 /// Northbrook Sherylee Now Headington herylee Headington is a 20 year-old Pop-Country, Singer/Songwriter from Worthing, Sussex. She released her EP ‘Authenticity’ on the 15th July 2019, and more recently her single ‘Kind Of Love’ is a fusion band with a mix of nison B hip-hop which was released 13th December 2019. & jazz. All of the musicians are influenced by S a variety of artists such as: , Tom Mische Red Sherylee has stated that she’s influenced by artists Hot Chilli Peppers, Athletic Progression, such as: Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift, Sandi Thom and John Mayer, etc. also The Band Perry, and has collaborated with Yasmin U Mae on a single called ‘Challenged Individual’. “Our sound is more unique ‘cause we’re crossing these styles in our own spicy way, with many songs Currently she’s working on an album with 10 original in the making!” songs and is planning on touring soon. /// our highlights - Beautiful Broken Things “EP is on it’s way!” - Heart Turned To Stone UNISON B 6 7 Edition One Northbrook MET Get Social! APRIL 2020 SOUND Magazine @SOUNDMAG SUNNIE MIA INNAPROPRIATE & ben rolo HANDCLAP Sunnie Mia tells us how she was introduced to the world of drum & bass, with the the success of her new track, and Ben Rolo’s EP; of which she was featured. “Last year I started After months of recording This was a massive shock working with Ben Rolo, a songs, making new ones to us how well our song did; former music production and making the finishing especially as it was our first student of Northbrook. He touches, we released our release together. It gives started a music project song “view” in January on us massive hope for our post graduation, he was music platforms such as future releases and we are working with a couple Spotify, soundcloud and looking at doing a live duo other musicians but knew YouTube. It did well very act so that we can perform I was starting a music quickly, and within a week these songs as well as performance degree as we had been in contact with releasing them. We have a vocalist so he got in BBC introducing and we more to come this year with contact and I wrote the were played on BBC Radio new recordings and Bens melodies and lyrics for the Sussex the following week. EP which I will be featured songs we did together; this on; make sure to keep an was something I had never eye out.” done before. Previous to this, I was a musical theatre Innapropriate Handclap student, and ventured off Innapropriate Handclap Innapropriate Handclap Innapropriate Handclap to covering Motown soul nappropriate Handclap’s Norman Murchie has songs in performances, another bumper year ahead with gigs supporting Innocent sUNso liquid drum and bass legendary Hacienda DJ Graeme Park, the one pleasures was something I had never and only Mr Good Times Norman Jay and Include /// mingled with. BBC’s Funk & Soul Maestro Craig Charles - Fleetwood Mac already in the diary. - Tom Petty/Heartbreakers i - 80’s classic Electric VIEW With residencies at Worthing’s Beach House & the - BEN ROLO & SUNNIE MIA now infamous monthly event at Coast Cafe going from strength to strength this local DJ has recently moved into production, studying at GBMC with Techno, House & Disco tunes in the pipeline. For his DJ sets, Norm uses technics 1210’s with Q-Bert needle and exclusively uses an Allen & Heath DB2 mixer he NIE likes the usability, build quality and digital effects. mIA REVIEW /// aPRIL 2020 Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You RevIewed By /// Christian le surf aniel Johnston. Cult all varying in structure, length and icon. Lo-fi pioneer. lyricism, whether it be percussive Musical hero to many yet melodic masterpieces such as musicians including ‘Walking the Cow’ or ‘Big Business Kurt Cobain, Beck and Monkey’, acappella tracks like ‘I’ll DConor Oberst. ‘Hi, How Are You’ is an Never Marry’, and ‘Poor You’ or album that portrays a strong sense heartfelt tunes such as ‘Hey, of innocence and imagination in Joe’ or ‘Desperate Man Blues’. music. Like many albums released At the end of the day, this is a in a similar sphere, ‘Hi, How Are You’ true and honest lo-fi pop album is an album that becomes better that continues to inspire many and more lovable over time. The musicians today. instrumentation is very simple: just Daniel’s innocent and childlike voice, pianos, guitars, chord organs, HI, HOW ARE YOU ukuleles, two instrumental jazz DANIEL JOHNSTON - pieces from Johnny Dankworth and essentially anything Daniel claimed could make music. With this palette of sound comes fifteen tracks, 8 9 Edition One Northbrook MET Get Social! APRIL 2020 SOUND Magazine @SOUNDMAG \\\ Random /// yasmIN mae 19 year old pop singer/songwriter from SchenanIgans Worthing - Yasmin is currently working on her first album, and is soon releasing her first single: ‘Incomplete’. She enjoys writing really personal songs about her experiances & relationships, but is hoping to cover some Rory other interesting topics on new songs coming up. She also likes to collaborate with lots of artists/producers, she recently Innerd collaborated with friends; Sherlyee & Christopher on the production course, to “I am a passionate, talented multi- create the song ‘Challenged Individual’ which instrumentalist from Plymouth, England. I’ve has now been released on SoundCloud. moved back and forth to Sweden growing up Yasmin’s main influences include: in my youth. I’ve played in different cultures Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, in many different settings. Everything from and Ariana Grande. big stages in arenas to people’s homes, with famous musicians to people who just want to get together to have fun playing music. With these experiences, it has helped me to not only understand the diversity of ALLY V people and what impact that has on us as individuals, but also the appreciation and ALLY V’s not-so guilty pleasure /// value of the diversity in music. I love folk music but love to play lots of different styles “All I can say is that I have a massive love for of music; I try to adapt to any type of musical Teslas and it’s not a guilty pleasure since I environment. This makes me, in my opinion, a feel no guilt about it. Usually, the only way to very versatile musician”. cheer me up is to show me a Tesla.. I could never save up for my own Tesla. Because a real guilty pleasure of mine is zoe hart spending all of my money on tattoos that I really don’t need. But I’ve got over 20 now, it International hard house DJ from 1999. doesn’t hurt anybody if I get one more… Two kids and a cocaine addiction later, something had to be done. Zoe stepped Thanks to whoever’s Tesla this is...” up the meditation and is now working with a variety of sound energy experts on her new chill-out, downbeat music, and spoken words productions. /// Available via Spotify 10 11 NOISY NOISY NOISY NOISY he Prototypes are a British drum and bass duo consisting of Chris NOISYrighton three-piece Noisy continue to generate a hefty dose of buzz with Garvey and Nick White. their second single “Do It Like That”. The band, comprised of rapper and Founded in Brighton, singer Cody, producer and guitarist Spencer and fellow guitarist Connor, have England in the late 2000s, by 2010 created yet another high-energy, high octaine, drum & bass track, following T they had released their first singles on the success of their first outing: “So What” labels such as Formation Records and B“The song is about a generation of people Viper Recordings. DO IT LIKE THAT SHADOWS that wanna let loose and have a good time, NOISY - THE PROTOTYPES - like us. We’re just rounding them up for a The Prototypes’ new album: big party. You can be anyone you want to be ‘Ten Thousand Feet & Rising’ tonight... bring the pack down!” is set to release on May 22nd, and launches with ‘Shadows’, their raviest cut since their highly sought Prodigy remix dubplate. 12NOISY 13 Edition One Northbrook MET Get Social! APRIL 2020 SOUND Magazine @SOUNDMAG Terrance ADDITIONAL SHOUTOUTS /// CHECK EM’ OUT KIdeko righton, based DJ/producer Ryan Dunn Hurley (aka Kideko) sprang onto the U.K. house scene in 2015 errance Dunn is a score composer from Hull. with the release of his debut He moved to Brighton and studied for a single, “The Jam.” Originally, degree in composition for film and media from BHurley played in local bands as a drummer; it Northbrook College, before securing a place wasn’t until he went to Northbrook College, on the composing for film and television MA at where he studied music technology and Tthe National Film and Television School.