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BUC Auditions

Acclaimed youth music project British Urban Collective launches nationwide for 2008/09

The acclaimed Urban Collective youth music project, that turns inner city kids into rising stars of the British music industry, has secured funding, through Execution Charitable Trust, to launch as British Urban Collective and hold auditions nationwide throughout the year in Hull, then Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow and London:

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Auditions: Working exclusively in some of the most deprived areas of Hull, Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow, and east London, the British Urban Collective project will hold open auditions for all musical genres and choose 20-30 aspiring artists and producers per city.

Training: Each Collective will complete an intensive week of training, in vocal, performance, audio production and campaign management, conducted by professionals in the music business Most recently, British singer songwriter Sam Brown has joined the project as vocal coach.

Recording: Training complete, the Collective are then empowered to write, record and promote their own British Urban Collective album for an independent release under the expert guidance of Freeport Records and guest producers and artists.

Release: The best three (3) tracks from each city, voted for by a panel of artists, producers and A&R executives, will be pressed on to a final CD release and showcased live in London to mark the album's launch, while all other tracks will be released as digital downloads by Freeport Records and Universal Music UK and supported by local city showcases.

Legacy: British Urban Collective will also build a start-up recording studio in each city and train up several local aspiring producers in Logic, providing ongoing opportunities for the creative community to develop and grow.

Harry Leckstein, founder of Urban Collective, said: 'In the past four years the Urban Collective project has helped more than two hundred young people across London. Now we have the chance to work across the UK and I'm very excited to work with all the young people out there who are determined to become the new pioneers of our industry'.

Previous London Urban Collective students who have broken into the industry include Johnny 'Itch' Fox whose band, The King Blues, recently signed their second album deal with Island Records imprint Field Recordings and have toured with Gogol Bordello and Hard-Fi; and Lady Lykez who traveled to Atlanta with London Urban Collective III, wrote and recorded with Malachi of The Dungeon Family, and will support Method Man in the UK this Spring.

British Urban Collective is a FREE nationwide youth music project that empowers Collectives of young people to write, record and promote their own albums for independent release under expert guidance.

For more info contact www.britishurbancollective.com