Fertilizer Festival 2009 is nearly upon us!

Fertilizer 2009? Good S**t From Poland is nearly upon us!! And here at the Fertilizer HQ we?re busy putting together the final touches, ready to hit you with a plethora of underground sounds and leftfield new music. The venues are booked, the artists have their flight tickets and we?re ready to go with this year?s […]Read More

Phrased and Confused Tour 2009

Phrased and Confused heads off on tour this May, taking an irresistible mix of song-writing genius and spoken word to venues in Bracknell, London, Norwich, Derby, Stockton and Exeter. We?ve invited some of our favourite songwriters and poets to climb aboard the tour bus, get lyrical and explore the spaces between poetry and music. Expect […]Read More

Insulting Cabaret

After its sell out success last year the hub are once again working with our friends at International Pen to produce The Insulting Cabaret. The event is a key part of Pen’s fantastic free the word festival. This year the Insulting Cabaret takes place at Southwark Playhouse on Friday 17th April starting at 10pm. Once […]Read More

Life as the hub Intern…

Life as the hub’s Fertilizer Festival Intern has been fantastic so far, nearly 3 weeks in and I feel like I’ve been here 3 months! That is due to not only to being made to feel very welcome and at home by the lovely directors and hub ‘family’ but also from the fact that there’s […]Read More

Podcast Connections Session Three

This Saturday saw the podcast group get to grips with creating an original story and learning how to jazz it up and flesh it out with sound effects sourced from the collective hard drives of Stuart and Tom. Hosting more participants than ever, we worked in separate groups to create two very different pieces of […]Read More

Help Improve the Provisions for Youth Music in London AND Win

The organisation Sound Connections have launched an online survey that looks at the way young people ?do music? in London. The survey is live online until the morning of Monday, March 17th. If you are a young person or work with young people, you could help out. You can access the survey by clicking here […]Read More

Introducing Podcast Connections – Free Training for Young People

Do you have an interest in music or radio and are looking to develop your digital expertise in this field? If so, you may be interested in what we have on offer? Funded by Sound Connections and supported by Attitude Is Everything, the hub will be producing and delivering another inspirational training programme centred around […]Read More

Yorkshire Music Report Now Out

Earlier this year, the Arts Council England, Yorkshire and Yorkshire Forward commissioned the hub to produce a scoping study to determine the need for business support within the regional music industry, and how best this could be delivered. As part of this project we invited music entrepreneurs to take part in a region-wide survey and […]Read More

Festivals Box Office Internship

the hub is leading a programme of consultation and research, funded by Arts Council England, into developing an online box office service and marketing training programme especially for voluntary sector festivals, to be launched in 2008. To do this we are working in partnership with the Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) and the British Arts […]Read More

Help us to grow festival audiences?

the hub is leading a programme of consultation and research, funded by Arts Council England, into developing an online box office service and marketing training programme especially for voluntary sector festivals, to be launched in 2008. To do this we are working in partnership with the Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) and the British Arts […]Read More