NUSIC.ORG.UK is a community project dedicated to all things Notts, Musical and New. Focused mainly (but not exclusively) on Nottinghamshire’s younger musicians everything we do, create and support is in tune with these Four Commandments:
1) Thou Shalt Only Play New Music
2) Thou Shalt Only Play New Music Born in the Great County of Nottinghamshire
3) Thou Shalt Honour and Play All Forms and Genres of New Music
4) Thou Shalt Always Spread The Love (Check our Spread The Love Editorial HERE)
We also offer life changing work experience opportunities for those dreaming of working in media and/ or music. We realise that sounds a bit big headed but if you check out the testimonials from previous interns HERE you’ll see it’s true.
OUR DREAM
In October 2012 we realised our dream of seeing a Nottingham artists get to Number One, you can hear Billy Bragg acknowledge our role in helping Jake Bugg HERE. Which left us needing a new dream…
Our dream for 2013 is for Nottingham to truly become the best place in the UK to pursue a musical career, like we imagine Manchester was in the late 80s/ early 90s. A place where local musicians feel supported, a place respected by the national media and indeed a place that musicians from elsewhere move to so highly regarded is the scene. By constantly showcasing the very best from the Nottinghamshire Music Scene, by continuing to ‘Lobby, Evangelise, Broadcast and Support’ (see below), we hope to aid that dream becoming a reality, we’ve already seen our initial dream of a Notts artist getting to Number One realised. Thank you to LeftLion and DHP for their help in making this happen!
OUR HISTORY
We evolved out of Notts Unsigned when it passed on with the death of Trent FM. Notts Unsigned itself evolved out of the Trent Fm New Music Podcast which itself evolved out the ‘We Want To See A Nottingham Artist At Number One’ campaign and ‘Nusic’ student radio show on URN1350, so things have kinda come full circle!
OUR FOCUS
Our primary focus is young, up and coming musicians from Notts who have had no or very little previous media exposure. We also try and help where possible musicians who have been doing it a while but haven’t necessarily yet got the support they deserve. A key question for us is always, ‘can we make a difference?’.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO (do help make that dream happen):
LOBBY - organisations across Notts to be more supportive of the local music scene e.g. we got Trent FM to support local music (before it died!). On tangible fronts such as artists put forward for Introducing stages and plays on daytime the support of BBC Radio Nottingham has increased dramatically. Splendour now every year have a quota of Nottingham musicians who have never played before, every year we suggest a list of ‘Splendour Virgins’ to the organisers and lobby to secure a main stage slot for a local artist.
EVANGELISE - we shout loudly, proudly and positively from the rooftops to anyone that will listen about the Nottingham music scene, this ranges from going into schools to evangelising/ lobbying local, regional and now national media to cover our scene.
BROADCAST - we broadcast New Music programming of our very own, in alignment with the Four Commandments. We receive over 2000 listens an episode to our podcast including a signficiant industry listenership.
SUPPORT - we take direct action to support local musicians. This ranges from our workshop events offering advice on specific musical issues, to creating awareness of significant opportunities, to lobbying to create such opportunities. Giving local musicians the chance to play Rock City main stage AND Splendour’s main stage in this year’s Future Sound of Nottingham comp is a great example of the later. We lobbied Splendour hard to give that main stage slot to a local artist.
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LEGAL STATUS
We have no official legal status, in spirit we’re a charity but we don’t have the five grand you have to have to become an official charity. Some academicy types call us a ‘social enterprise’.
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