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- Global music producer thanks Pelsall for first gig
- Swim Deep, Peace
- <b>Birmingham</b> Writer and Poet Achieves Success on Amazon's Kindle Platform
- Let’s go round again: Red Shoes continue, Dangerous Girls re-unite.
- <b>Links for</b> 21 April 2012 - Created in Birmingham
- writingwestmids: Former Young storyteller of the year Polly Tisdall kicks off the second half talking about falling in love at sixth form. #tmoas
- writingwestmids: We've had lost friends, squirrels, mums and makeup so far. Third storyteller Cath Edwards is talking abut family holidays in Devon...
- Black Sabbath – The Innovative Power of <b>Music</b>
- writingwestmids: RT @katricehorsley: @BhamBookFest. Tell me on a Sunday today at 4pm @ikonartgallery.
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| Global music producer thanks Pelsall for first gig Posted: 22 Apr 2012 08:22 AM PDT If it wasn't for Pelsall Community Centre, Steve Jenkins might never have embarked on a career in the music industry, writes Jayne Howarth. For Jenkins, who went on to help discover such global superstars as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake and headed up Jive Records, took his first tentative steps towards becoming a global music mogul there.  Steve Jenkins with Britney Spears It was 1972 and he put advertisement in the Walsall Observer, which simply said: "Mobile DJ requires work." The paper came out on the Friday and the following Monday, a call came from Pelsall Community Centre, asking him to DJ that week. "I was 19 and I'd saved money for two or three years to buy a rig, two massive speakers, turntable microphone and headphones," he recalls. "They phoned me to see if I would do the Saturday disco. As I unloaded the equipment there, I don't think I was nervous about being on stage because I knew I'd feel comfortable being on the stage, but I was worried about what would happen if the rig went off as I had no idea how to fix it! "That was the scary part." The disco went well – so well that he was given an extra £2 on top of his £6 fee and was rebooked for the following Saturday. "Without doubt that was a big moment in my career," he says earnestly. Pelsall Community Centre didn't rebook him after his second gig ("They're tough down there!" he laughs), but instead he was hired to DJ at Pelsall Youth Club on Monday nights. The story is just one of the dozens that are in Jenkins' autobiography The Future is in the History, which he is launching in Walsall this Saturday (April 28) at the New Art Gallery.  Steve Jenkins The book charts his rise from mobile DJ to MD of Jive Records. His phenomenal trajectory in the record industry began in 1973 when he worked at Nems and Immediate Records as a regional promotion manager. He worked at Chrysalis Records, MCA Records, and Mountain Records before he started his own company, Impulse Promotions in 1983. In 1989, he became managing director of Jive Records, a label that by 1999 was the largest independent record label in the world with such artists Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, R,Kelly, Nsync, Steps and Justin Timberlake. The top music producer, who worked with Peter Waterman, has been responsible for more than 260 platinum, gold and silver discs. It was a life he never thought he'd achieve – and neither did his teachers at Joseph Leckie School, who didn't take his dreams of working as a radio broadcaster (something he still would like to attain) or within the music industry seriously.  Steve Jenkins with long-time collaborator Pete Waterman "They didn't think I'd do well," explains Jenkins, a dedicated Walsall FC fan – and the reason why Pete Waterman became a Saddlers supporter. "Joseph Leckie thought I was difficult and uncontrollable. There were a lot of reasons for that." He says the school dismissed his desired career, but he says music was "somewhere in my soul". Jenkins is proud of Walsall, visiting his family every few weeks, and it is why he has chosen his hometown to launch his book. "All things in my life have started in Walsall and I knew it was where I wanted to launch the book. It feels the right thing to do," he says. He said the book examines his life in Walsall, how he embarked on a career in the music industry and rose to head up a globally successful label, as well as how Jive Records discovered talent and nurtured them. "People have always asked me about how I helped sign Britney Spears and what it was like to work with Pete Waterman, for example. This book tells them and lots of other things," says Jenkins. "But I'd also like people to be inspired to follow their own dreams like I did."
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| Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:08 AM PDT Two of the NME's "tracks that define Birmingham in 2012″. The sound reminds me a lot of the recent New York sound, around bands like The Hairs, Beach Fossils, Minks, and Wild Nothing (that's a good thing, a very good thing, since I adore those bands)… * Swim Deep, King City. * Peace, BBlood. | ||
| <b>Birmingham</b> Writer and Poet Achieves Success on Amazon's Kindle Platform Posted: 22 Apr 2012 06:55 PM PDT
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| Let’s go round again: Red Shoes continue, Dangerous Girls re-unite. Posted: 22 Apr 2012 04:24 AM PDT  Sometimes people do it for fun and memories; sometimes, there's unfinished business. Sometimes it's just the right thing to do, at the right time. And sometimes the results are just not what you might expect. And it's never the same. This post covers two bands who have split and reformed. One's Punk, one's Folk. And, before you ask - yes, they do have a lot in common. Read more »  | ||
| <b>Links for</b> 21 April 2012 - Created in Birmingham Posted: 22 Apr 2012 06:28 PM PDT by Chris Unitt · Insight into Photography of the Staffordshire Hoard « Birmingham Conservation Trust BCT picks up on some behind-the-scenes info; 10 TODAY! www.createdinbirmingham.com/2012/.../links-for-21-april-20... | ||
| Posted: 22 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT writingwestmids: Former Young storyteller of the year Polly Tisdall kicks off the second half talking about falling in love at sixth form. #tmoas | ||
| Posted: 22 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT writingwestmids: We've had lost friends, squirrels, mums and makeup so far. Third storyteller Cath Edwards is talking abut family holidays in Devon... | ||
| Black Sabbath – The Innovative Power of <b>Music</b> Posted: 22 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT They crawled out from the gutters of the industrial heartland of Birmingham, with three degrees in classic rock. Their music reflected a much harsher upbringing. Pioneers of the music genre called heavy metal, their music conjured up images of grime, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Posted: 22 Apr 2012 07:59 AM PDT writingwestmids: RT @katricehorsley: @BhamBookFest. Tell me on a Sunday today at 4pm @ikonartgallery. | ||
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