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A Successful Result For Electric Honey

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Electric Honey, the HND Music Business Management student run record label at GKC, are pleased to announce that last years  signed artists, Nicol and Elliott, have been snapped up by the award winning and highly prestigious record label Last Night From Glasgow.

As Electric Honey is a development label we take this as a job well done by the students at Electric Honey Records  and we wish Nicol and Elliott all the best for the future. Electric Honey has been  Instrumental in gaining radio exposure across the airwaves and raising the live profile of the act over the last eighteen months .

The students and musicians also enjoyed a collaborative launch at The Hug and Pint and Oran Mor  by working closely with the Screen Printing students from  elysee St Geraud of Aurillac, France on their recent Erasmus exchange programme.

Andrew from the band writes

"This opportunity is in no small part due to the hard work EH has put into our 2 singles to date and we can't say how grateful we are for the opportunity to work with you at the label. It's been a great experience and we wanted to pass on our thanks to you and the students for all you've done for us."

Releasing with LNFG has been agreed this morning so neither they nor we have announced it yet. There's still some planning to work out.

Thanks again, Ken and all at GKC. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to support the label down the line. We will be only too happy to help.

Cheers,

Andrew & Rachel"

Congratulations To Former GKC Student Charlotte Brimner

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Congratulations go to former GKC Music Business Management student, and Electric Honey artist, Charlotte Brimner AKA  Be Charlotte on winning the Evolution Award at Saturday nights (31st November)  Nordoff Robbins Scottish Music Awards #scottishmusicaward held at the Fruit Market.

Charlotte released her debut single as Be Charlotte  on the GKC student run record label Electric Honey label in April 2016 while studying HND Music Business Management at GKC. Shortly afterwards she signed a major record contract with Sony records Germany and is currently managed by another ex Glasgow Kelvin College student Louis John Lowis.

Charlotte has just completed a European tour as support act to the Proclaimers.

More info on Nordoff Scottish Music Awards can be found here - lovemusiclovelife.com/

Interesting Networking Opportunities At Resonate

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GKC Music Business Management students had lots of very interesting networking opportunities at this years Resonate Conference, on Friday the 15th, at Barras Art and Design (BaAD) and on the day we had 20 student volunteers.

The event now in its third year is organised by ex GKC student Susan Montgomery from 23rd Precinct Music Publishing Glasgow.

Resonate is a music industry conference focusing on industry training, business development, inclusion and collaboration. Headed up by the team at 23rd Precinct Music, Resonate ran for it’s inaugural year in 2017 and has recent success in it’s third year in November 2019. It saw over 150 music industry professionals travel in from all over the UK to participate in a variety of panels, workshops, discussions and masterclasses. We are committed to creating new and exciting ways to learn about the ever changing world of music and providing skills to not only artists but those whom artists need around them to be successful - https://www.resonatescot.co.uk/

Panelists included Resonate panellists and the keynote speaker was Simon Napier Bell, ex manager of Wham, T REX, Sinead O'Conner and The Yardbirds.

Congratulation to ...

GKC Music Business student, Alex Peatrson, whose group, Vlure,  had a full page feature in Tuesday's (19th November) Evening Times.

You can read the Full Feature Here  - Alex has pointed out to us that the drummers name is Carlo not as printed in article "Carol"

Music Business Showcase Gig

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Music Business students propose bands each year to work with Electric Honey, The College Record Label.

On 19th November, students from both Music Business and Sound Production organised and set up a gig at West Campus to showcase the Lo Rays, who are amongst 30 bands who are keen to work with the College Label this year.  The students will make the tough decision on which bands will record with the label in December.

We will keep you updated on the bands releases and gigs as we progress through the academic year.

Music Business News

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Congratulations to ...

Charlotte Brimner, otherwise known as the artist Be Charlotte, was a GKC student on the Music Business course two years ago and we released her debut single on the Electric Honey label - the Music Business students record label.

Congratulations go to her after being tipped as going to be as successful as Lewis Capaldi.  Charlotte has had a great year and has signed with a German record label, we wish her all the best in her future.

You can read the full story in The Sun newspaper

Scottish Alternative Music Awards

GKC Music Industry Management students had a great time attending the venue at St Lukes, for the 10th annual  Scottish Alternative Music Awards, last Friday the 25th of November..

The Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMAs) are an independently ran music award, which runs in association with key partners Rebel Rebel Barbers, and Creative Scotland.

Throughout the year the SAMA’s host a range of events in the Highlands, Paisley, Perth and Glasgow showcasing some of Scotland's most exciting emerging artists. The 7 SAMA’s are:

  • BEST ROCK/ALTERNATIVE
  • BEST NEWCOMER
  • BEST HIP HOP
  • BEST ELECTRONIC
  • BEST ACOUSTIC
  • BEST LIVE ACT
  • BEST METAL

New Release

Electric Honey label signings, Nicol and Elliott, have released a new single, Sweet Downfall.

You can listen to this through Spotify by visiting our Electric Honey page.

Or alternatively through Apple Music

Electric Honey - Nicol and Elliott poster