Fancy a Red Bull?
If you happened to be walking down Tooley Street recently you will have seen a new resident in the ever expanding development that is More London: Red Bull. Having taken over one of the newly modernised buildings on the ‘road side’ of More London, Tooley Street Terrace, Red Bull has made an immediate impact on the area with a glass shop front displaying beautiful wooden floors, a flat screen tv or two and a fridge full of… yup. Red Bull. And why not?
Next door to this rather lovely office space the hoardings say ‘Red Bull Music Academy 2010’. How very exciting. This means, presumably, that the international Red Bull Music Academy will be very near the Arts & Business offices for its 2010 workshop terms (term one: 7th – 19th Feb; term two: 28th Feb – 12th March). Since 1998 the Red Bull Music Academy has been touring the world with workshops for aspiring musicians, and now they’re setting up home in London.
Running alongside the two terms of workshops from the likes of synth guru Bob Moog and Joy Division’s Peter Hook are three weeks of gigs in venues around the Capital – take your pick from The Sound of Lucrecia at the Old Blue Last (9th Feb), Goldie and Roots Manuva at The Roundhouse (17th Feb), and the brilliantly bonkers Animal Collective who are rumoured to be playing, to name just a couple of the nights on offer.
While they’re not workshopping with the UK’s bright young things, the Red Bull Academicians will be featured on Red Bull Academy Radio – and, of course, there’s a Red Bull Music Academy app coming to an iphone near you soon… is there anything they can’t do?
