Rachel Nelken, chief executive of Brixton based Raw Material Music and Media Education, last night (2 March) won £10,000 to advance its work. Based in Robsart Street off Brixton Road, Raw Material is a community arts and creative enterprise. Since its foundation in 1991, it has supported thousands of young people...

Raw Material Presents: Breaking Bread

Raw Material have had an impressive year as one the many key components to Brixton's thriving music scene. 2014 has seen with the local music and media studio platforming a wide variety of activities, events and courses. Celebrating the conclusion of another successful year they plan to party with their...

Raw Material Presents: ‘ndstnct

Brixton based music and media production house Raw Material online pharmacy buy stendra online no prescription pharmacy presents ‘NDSTNCT, A night showcasing a creative photography exhibition exploring the theme of IDENTITY with work from new young talents CK, Riley, R. Walker & Jess Naulls, alongside an eclectic mix...

Brixton charity Raw Material offers free music production course for young people

Brixton-based charity Raw Material are currently recruiting for a brand new short course. The scheme, called 'Raw Production House' will provide participants with the opportunity to both learn new skills and actively put them into practice alongside industry professionals. Anyone over 16 and unemployed or not in full time training is...

Raw Material & Monsters Playground Present: SAMPLED

Plenty of Brixton's musical talent will be gathering at Brixton East next Wednesday 3rd september for "one night only" for an audio visual installation paying a tribute to the art of sampling, an element of modern music that cuts across genres, time periods and cultures. Among the many artists offering...

Sacre bleu! Brixton acts from Raw Material perform at food festival in rural France

Musicians and performers from Brixton took to the stage in rural France last night, bringing a taste of urban Lambeth to the Languedoc, reports Tim Brown. The Raw Material crew, from Brixton, and local guitarist Bernard Margarit performed a three hour set at the Sieur d'Arques stage at the 'Toques...

Feature: Raw Material – youth charity in Brixton

Tim Brown, founder of Raw Material, talks to Katrin Magnussen about the joys and frustrations of running a youth charity in Brixton. The young performers that frequent Raw’s impressive studios, rehearsal spaces and editing suites are what it is all about. And Tim, CEO and Co-founder of the charity, is clearly proud...

Raw Material preview

Raw Material, an organisation that helps train young people in music and the media, is to hold an evening of live music at Brixton Jamm. The event takes place at the Brixton Road venue on December 5. Raw Material provides youngsters with professional equipment for recording studios, rehearsals, workshops and aims...

Brixton Life Drawing launch ‘enormous’ new project

Brixton Life Drawing, started by local textile designers Anya and Bex in 2019, has launched a new "Draw & Tour" project. Regular classes have entertained participants from all over the world via Zoom in the past year. “The reaction has been mind-blowing, honestly,” they say. “At our first online class back in...

Whitney: Plenty of material, but it doesn’t grip you

Nicola Jones reviews Whitney: Can I Be Me Music documentaries may seem like they are a momentary trend, but they have always been developing. Lurking backstage like a veteran stage mother, they pounce on our urge to peek behind the curtain and into the darkness. Mountains of archival footage and access to...

Raw Roads: raw talent on the road to success

Raw Roads is a touring programme run by Brixton-based music charity Raw Material, working with young people to develop creative talent around the country. Barney Evison was at their 2015 showcase, the culmination of a year’s workshops and coaching to inspire budding musicians, actors, writers and filmmakers. Ranging from a rap...

Upcoming London rapper records at Raw

The Brixton Blog caught up with upcoming young London rapper Tega Akpod, who has recorded at Brixton’s Raw Material studio, to find out what she’s up to and what we can expect from her in future. When and why did you start rapping? Two and half years ago, I started to take...

Tiny Brixton back in business

Tiny Brixton, the small in-house venue showcasing big talents at Brixton’s Raw Material music charity, is reopening after a million-pound-plus refit. A sold-out launch event at the Robsart Street HQ of Raw Material off Brixton Road on 1 February will be hosted by comedian Ali Woods. After its £1.2m renovation Tiny...

Lambeth and slavery

Thanks to a grant from the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Chrissie Okorie has been working with Brixton Media, publisher of the Brixton Bugle and Brixton Blog, to research the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on Lambeth. This is her initial report Memorial to enslaved Africans at the old slave...

Join the next generation of musicians with Grit School in Brixton

How do you get from a cell in Brixton police station to backstage at the Royal Albert Hall? Answer: the Grit School. Now in its sixth year, and with 90 young musicians proud to have completed its free seven-week introduction to the industry, the Grit School is looking for its next...

MUSIC HIGH FIVE: Meet Soothsayers co-founder Robin Hopcraft

…where we hi-five local musical movers and shakers. We ask five questions to get to know the people who play regularly or contribute in other ways to Brixton’s live music scene. This month its the turn of Robin Hopcraft What do you do and where do you do it? I am...

A community must have music

With carnival now behind us and holidays coming to an end, students, parents and teachers will be gearing up to go back to school. So too will some of the same local musicians who have graced the stages of summer festivals around the country. They bring their expertise into schools via...

SGS x Brixton Wings – Exploring Windrush Summer Camp

Exploring Windrush was a 3-week summer camp for young people run in collaboration by SGS and Brixton Wings. Young people aged 6 - 15 years old researched Empire Windrush, from the physical journey by boat, to the search for jobs once they arrived, to the tales that the streets of...

Young Brixton musicians join Outernational Orchestra

Members of the Brixton-based Youthsayers band are to join with fellow young musicians from the Königin-Luise-Schule in Cologne, Germany, to create an Outernational Orchestra event. It’s on Friday 30 August at the Portico Gallery in West Norwood. Also appearing from 7pm will be Akin Soul and the Soul Tribe, It’s...

Miguel’s Gym – I walked through these doors a different person to who I am today

Alan Slingsby meets England amateur boxing champion Kheron Gilpin Kheron Gilpin, who trains at Miguel’s Gym in Brixton, became the English amateur cruiserweight (86 kilos) champion earlier this year. He joins a long list of winners trained by a gym that is rooted on local culture – and that includes “white collar boxing”. “What...

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