At a recent hub away day the focus was on business growth. Not something that small enterprises necessarily think of when they’re very focused on getting their idea or business off the ground, but how a business develops once its launched will determine its success or failure. We’re currently supporting four new digital/music projects through […]Read More

Unconvention’s Jeff Thompson flags up the importance of good communication and how it can make all the difference to a musician or band’s career. Next week Off Axis heads to Hastings for our first show on the south coast, which we’re really excited about. Once again we have some fantastic artists working together to make opportunities for […]Read More

DJs Jason Phipps and Ruth Barnes have programmed a special set list of love and hate songs for Friday night’s Insulting Cabaret – check their blog http://insultingcabaretloveandhate.tumblr.com/ for more information. Warning – not for Phil Collins-lovers, the faint-hearted or easily offended!Read More

?In human contact, there is either love or its refusal? Hanif Kureishi What do you love to hate? Any secret loves to confess? Where do you draw the line when speaking your mind? After last year?s sell-out success, the irreverent and provocative Insulting Cabaret returns to Southwark Playhouse on 16th April, as part of International […]Read More

Send us your Mills & Boon! Do you have a guilty secret stashed on your bookshelf? Some Barbara Cartland bosom-heavers in the selection of stuff you picked up at the car boot sale? A dusty pile of Georgette Heyer in your attic that you claim came with the house? It?s time to come clean. We […]Read More

Over the past couple of days we’ve been in the effortlessly cool youth centre Tvibit here in Tromso, Northern Norway, running a webcasting workshop. And here are the results! In our webcast presenters Erica Restoften and Deirdre Melvin discuss the Tromso music and cultural scene and interview local music professional Aneta, who runs the Insomnia […]Read More

In Victorian times Tromsø earned the moniker ?Paris of the North? but not for obvious reason of architecture, oh no, it was so called because the ladies of this Arctic Circle outpost were wearing the latest fashions before the rest of Scandinavia. Today the adage still holds true and despite its diminutive size and remote […]Read More

Summer Sundae Weekender’s over for another year, but we?re still on a high.  What a fantastic weekend!  Not only did the weather do us proud, more importantly we had a really great programme of artists this year in the Phrased & Confused tent, and the overall quality was awesome.  A real highlight was the four […]Read More

We?re finally coming down from our Fertilizer festival buzz, but luckily we?ve had lots of love from audiences about this year?s good s**t from Poland to keep us pepped up: ?It was bloody brilliant!? ?Killer show!? ?I love Polish jazz?. Want to re-live the atmosphere? Check out our podcast with the touring trio of Sing […]Read More

After working through some 75 proposals from poets around the country, we?re really pleased to announce that we?ve commissioned Joshua Idehen, Sifundo & Jamal Msebele, Hannah Silva & Alexis Kirke and Sound of Rum to create new material for the Phrased & Confused stage at Summer Sundae Weekender (14-16 August 2009).   Find out more about […]Read More