Celebrating Black History Month at Confetti

A brand new Nottingham course in Technical Events Production has received the endorsement of Mark Cann, Michael Eavis’ second in command at Glastonbury Festival. In recommending the new BTEC extended diploma, he described it as “a fantastic launch pad for a technical career in events production.” Confetti is a custom-designed facility which specialises in courses in Music Technology, TV & Film production and Games Technology. Its expansion into delivering two new BTEC courses starting this September – in Technical Events Production and Radio Production – was a natural progression following the skills and professional experience of its tutors, and the …

From Prince Harry to Big Daddy Kane! Confetti was delighted to welcome Big Daddy Kane when he dropped in during his UK tour to meet a few of our students. Influential rapper Big Daddy Kane spent an afternoon with Urban Electronic Pathway students while he was in town for a performance at Nottingham’s The Lace House. The GRAMMY award winning star spoke to the Level 3 students about his career in the music industry then watched the students perform their own material. Big Daddy Kane gave feedback which was embraced by Jolan Noble and Seren Baileyson who said it was “amazing …

My last session on Day 3 of Industry Week was delivered by XL Records’ very own Nick Halkes. Nick initially knew he wanted to be an entertainer, putting on ‘mobile discos” from the age of 12, using generic equipment to entertain his friends. It was from here that he managed to start to build up his equipment and in turn his fan-base. Nick was then opened up to the opportunity to travel, which he embraced with open arms, reaping him the joys of City Life, fulfilled with exciting resources and characters. This made me think about branching out to open …

Sef Naqui, RocNation LBE. “Team Work Makes the Dream Work” Sef is a multi-talented artist manager, A&R man, vocalist and producer, to name a few, and has gained immeasurable experience of the music industry both behind and front stage. Sef owns London Boy Records, which is his own music label, alongside his brother whose networking efforts eventually lead to the dealings with the big man himself – Jay Z, therefore getting them to where they are today . Sef presented hid discussion by giving us a brief encounter of his childhood and influences, dropping some well-known names from the delights …

It’s hard to believe at just nineteen years old, Sean Denny was just starting his career in the music industry and at such a young age, who knew what he could achieve. He started as a temp general assistant at Sony Music and his career continued from that point. Sean has now had 12 years in the music industry but with what can only be described as a Ulrika moment, he might not be where he is today. Sean started out with his love of music and wanted to be a DJ but one idea lead him to his career …

‘Refresh Yourself!’ Day 2 of Industry Week! This morning, I was introduced to three diverse and very knowledgeable characters from the Music Industry. As this was my first music event, I was really excited and anticipated for this session. The guys began the session with introductions, where we got to find out a bit of background info on them. The session was lead by all three, with Spyda, a drum and bass MC, introducing the other two guests first. DJ Phantasy has been in the industry for 23 years and has worked alongside a wide range of big industry names …

“P.S, This will not be a Wombles moment” Day 4 and the event that I have been waiting for with much anticipation finally arrived! It was time to talk to the man behind unquestionably popular music festival, Glastonbury, Mr Michael Eavis! The session started with a compendious clip of David Bowie at Glastonbury in the year 2000, before the main man himself braced the stage. He started off by giving us all his recital of how Glastonbury started and what it was that influenced him to start the venture that has made him the very successful man he is today. …

Students at Confetti welcomed a special visitor yesterday in the shape of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. He was in Nottingham looking at how Government City Deal money of £60m could benefit creative businesses and young people. He was taken on a tour of Confetti and the Antenna Creative Business Centre by Confetti Media Group boss Craig Chettle. The Deputy Prime Minister met students on the Games Technology, Music Technology and TV and Film courses and observed their lessons. Head of Further Education Phil Myers commented on the visit: “It’s not every day the Deputy Prime Minister gets to experience …