YOUR MUSIC CAREER STARTS HERE LONDON THE UK & EUROPE’S PROSPECTUS BERLIN MOST CONNECTED 2015/16 DUBLIN MUSIC COLLEGE MANCHESTER BRISTOL BRIGHTON BIMM.CO.UK DEAR STUDENT, At BIMM we understand that choosing the than any other music college. Perhaps our right place to study and nurture your talent greatest strength is that BIMM students is one of the most important decisions you’ll benefit from being connected to the largest ever make. alumni network in the industry with over 1,500 members who provide inspiration, mentorship Since BIMM was established 14 years ago and connectivity to the industry for our with our first institute in Brighton, our aim students. BIMM alumni hold BRIT, Ivor Novello has been to help every aspiring musician and and MOBO awards, have scored countless UK music industry professional to achieve their Top 10 albums and more than 30 UK Top 40 personal goals and be able to embark on a singles, and include The Kooks, Tom Odell, sustainable career in the music industry. We George Ezra and James Bay. now have Colleges in six cities where music matters most – Manchester, London, Berlin, We celebrate the fact that our approach Brighton, Bristol and Dublin – and are proud is working because the facts speak for YOUR MUSIC CAREER to be the largest and leading provider of themselves – nearly 80% of our graduates contemporary music education in the UK, make a living solely from the music industry. STARTS HERE. Ireland and Europe. If you’d like a taste of what life at BIMM is BIMM Manchester Higher Education courses really like, why not attend one of the many are validated by the University of Sussex Open Days we run throughout the year. For – ranked as one of the top universities in more information, please see page 58 of this the world. BIMM provides state-of-the-art Prospectus, call 0844 264 6666 or visit professional facilities, with equipment and www.bimm.co.uk/manchester – you can book software provided by the world’s leading your place online. musical instrument manufacturers who actively support and endorse us. So choose to connect with us – and we’ll connect you to a life in music. We look BIMM is proud to be the best connected. forward to welcoming you in the 2015/16 We now have over 4,500 students, all of academic year. whom have access to a range of amazing opportunities as part of our aligned network Yours sincerely, of campuses. We offer unrivalled access to the $50bn global music industry via DARA KILKENNY regular collaborative experiences, including PRINCIPAL weekly Masterclasses with internationally – BIMM MANCHESTER / renowned guest artists, gigs at small and BIMM DUBLIN large scale venues, access to industry A&R panels, connectivity with the thriving festival STEVE COBAIN circuit, and the production of the annual COLLEGE MANAGER BIMM albums. BIMM also offers more work – BIMM MANCHESTER placement opportunities and internships WELCOME 03 CONTENTS 05 ABOUT BIMM ABOUT 06 MANCHESTER - THE PLACE TO STUDY 10 08 LIFE AT BIMM AT BIMM YOU’LL BE PART OF A CREATIVE COMMUNITY THAT GIVES YOU THE BEST 10 MASTERCLASSES OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TALENT AND WORK IN ONE OF 12 CAREERS THE WORLD’S BIGGEST AND MOST CELEBRATED INDUSTRIES. 14 STUDENT SUCCESS 18 TUTORS 23 COURSES 46 SUMMER SCHOOLS The global music industry is worth around All of our colleges offer fully accredited 47 STUDENT SERVICES $50bn annually and this figure continues courses and are QAA-assured. Our tutors 48 HOW TO APPLY to grow each year, providing a multitude of are experts in their field and still tour, 14 50 INTERNATIONAL employment opportunities in the UK, Ireland play and produce music with some of the 52 FEES AND FINANCE and abroad. For over ten years, BIMM has been world’s biggest recording artists, such as producing some of the industry’s brightest Radiohead, Paul Weller, Beyoncé, Madonna 54 STUDENT LOANS talents, from best-selling artists such as The and Sir Paul McCartney. 55 SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES Kooks, Tom Odell, Radiohead and George 56 EDUCATION PARTNERS Ezra to leading songwriters, musicians, agents, 57 ACCOMMODATION producers, journalists, business professionals and major-label managers. 58 OPEN DAYS & COLLEGE TOURS 60 CONTACT INFORMATION Location is vital to breaking into the music 58 industry, so we’ve based our colleges in WHY Manchester, Brighton, Bristol, London, Berlin and Dublin – the six European cities where MANCHESTER? music matters most. These locations have thriving music scenes that allow you to Attitude and ambition are synonymous take advantage of our unrivalled industry with the Manchester music scene, connections and the many collaborative qualities that have seen the city spawn “REALLY IMPRESSED WITH opportunities that arise. In this creative some of the UK’s biggest bands and WHAT YOU HAVE HERE, environment you can network and develop artists. Despite the international success YOU’RE VERY LUCKY.” lifelong contacts while performing and staging of many Manchester acts, the city gigs at local venues and festivals, as well as retains a tight-knit music community working with record labels, music producers comprising bands, promoters, ROGER DALTREY CBE and rehearsal studios to get an authentic taste managers and live venues all working BIMM PATRON of what life in the music industry is really like. together towards achieving success. 04 CONTENTS ABOUT BIMM 05 MANY PROUD MANCUNIANS CLAIM THAT THEIR CITY IS THE UK’S PRIME MUSIC HOTSPOT – AND THEY MAY MANCHESTER HAVE A POINT. WITH MORE VENUES AND BANDS THAN EVER BEFORE, THE PLACE IS SKYROCKETING AND BIMM MANCHESTER IS ALREADY A THE PART OF THIS TRAJECTORY! The modern Manchester is a rapidly PLACE evolving city crammed with vibrant nightlife. With around 40 sites showcasing live music, it offers an endless whirl of overlapping sounds – from electronic TO STUDY and avante indie to rock, folk and much more. This non-stop music mélange makes Manchester a perfect learning base for young musicians, and being a friendly and energetic city it offers them lots of like- minded people to hang out with! WWll, it can also boast of creating some of Everyone plays Manchester. The Arena the UK’s favourite TV programmes, such as boasts world-famous bands while the Coronation Street and Cold Feet. It’s from neighbouring northern quarter’s hipster bars this tradition of innovation that new music and clubs offer a range of upcoming talent. resulted – such as the lyrical smarts of The Smiths, New Order inventing the wheel by The famous 1976 Sex Pistols gigs put on crossing electro music with post punk, and by the Buzzcocks in Manchester sparked the Fall’s idiosyncratic releases. an intense local scene at a time when the crucial DIY culture of punk began. These By the end of the 1980s it all exploded as concerts made Manchester the first city Madchester with The Stone Roses and the outside of London to have its own genuine Happy Mondays leading the way. A working punk scene with the Buzzcocks becoming class San Francisco, Manchester became the a key part of the movement. This inspired coolest place in the world, and it just keeps a massive local boost, making Manchester on coming, from Oasis outselling the Beatles the key city for post-punk thanks to Joy to award-winning bands like Elbow and the Division and news reporter Tony Wilson’s complex, highly evolved local scene that Factory Records, which completely exists today. reinvented music for a new generation. Vibrant, thrilling, multicultural Manchester has By 1980 Manchester was the hippest music again reinvented itself and it still has the best city in the UK. The world’s home of the soundtrack. With Manchester Nights now a industrial revolution continued to innovate club standard, what other city in the world can and still does to this day. Home to the boast events named after itself? Come and be computer, invented in Manchester just after a part of it at BIMM Manchester! 06 MANCHESTER MANCHESTER 07 “PROVIDING YOU WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS.” WHETHER IT’S LEARNING INSIDE THE GIGS CLASSROOM, IN A STUDIO, ON STAGE Life at BIMM is not all about coursework, OR AT A FESTIVAL, WE’LL PROVIDE revision and exams – live music is a huge part YOU WITH ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES of what we’re all about. Throughout your YOU NEED TO ACHIEVE YOUR time at BIMM, you’ll be heavily involved in LIFE GOALS THROUGH CONNECTING AND Manchester’s live scene, whether it’s gigging, INTERACTING WITH THE INDUSTRY IN rehearsing or promoting. We also run and put REAL-WORLD SCENARIOS. on our own end-of-term gigs, showcasing our musicians, bands and songwriters at a series GUESTS AND MASTERCLASSES of events across the city. We believe that to be the best it helps to connect with the best, so we encourage you to meet and network with leading AT music industry professionals. We use our connections to attract A-list musicians, songwriters, label executives, A&R reps and booking agents to share their knowledge with you in regular Masterclasses. Previous guests have included: Danny O’Donoghue (The Script), BIMM KT Tunstall, Chuck D (Public Enemy), AT BIMM WE WANT TO HELP YOU BROADEN Imelda May, Graham Coxon (Blur), Keane, AND DEVELOP YOUR SKILLS AS A MUSICIAN Stephen Street (Producer: Blur, The OR MUSIC INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL. Smiths), Michael Eavis (Glastonbury), Lawson, Ben Thompson (Two Door Cinema Club) and BIMM patron Roger Daltrey CBE (The Who). BIMM ALBUM “I FELT I FINALLY FITTED Every year we release an album featuring IN THERE. YOU COULD DO a host of BIMM musicians. BIMM bands and YOUR OWN THING AND artists submit demos for consideration, THAT’S WHAT WE DID.” and the chosen acts get to record at a professional studio with engineers and LUKE PRITCHARD, THE KOOKS producers.