Chesterfield School of Rock and Pop

Chesterfield School of Rock and Pop Qualified music teacher with over 20 years experience, teaching ages 5 to 70. Beginners, children, adults. GCSE/A level tuition.

Any style offered on Guitar, Ukulele, Drums, Bass, Recorder, Percussion & Theory, all exams offered or just learn for fun.

07/10/2026

The University of Nottingham's council has approved a business plan that will see five music degree programmes closed and music-related research absorbed into

05/10/2026

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Serj sang on "Like a Stone" with Tom Morello at this weekend's Power to the People festival "in loving memory of Chris Cornell," and not for the first time; he most recently collabed on the song back in 2019.

Do you like how his voice mixes in with the original track here?

05/10/2026

Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant ordered the batch to be recalled and destroyed

29/09/2026

For much of the advert, you could be forgiven for wondering what Cadbury was selling. A gorilla sits behind a drum kit, listening intently to Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”. The camera moves closer. The song builds. Then, at last, the famous drum break arrives and the gorilla throws himself into it.

Only at the end do you see a bar of Dairy Milk.

When the advert first aired in 2007, it was a strange choice for a chocolate company. There was no one taking a bite, no description of the taste and no attempt to explain why you should buy it. Cadbury trusted the music, the anticipation and the sheer surprise of seeing a gorilla play the drums.

It worked. People talked about it, shared it online and watched it again just to enjoy the slow build and the moment when the drums kicked in. The advert went on to win major industry awards, including the top prize in the film category at Cannes Lions.

It also had an effect beyond getting people’s attention. Cadbury reported stronger Dairy Milk sales after the campaign aired. Nearly twenty years later, mention a drumming gorilla to many British viewers and they’ll still know exactly which advert you mean.

29/09/2026

Eddie Vedder saved an Irish rock band over the weekend, offering up his own electric guitar for use after all their gear had been stolen.

Two days after playing at the iconic Troubadour in West Hollywood, Florence Road were scheduled to play Vedder’s Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California.

However, they were forced to pull out, announcing they’d had all their guitars and pedalboards stolen from their van. In a statement posted to Instagram, the band wrote, “We’ve tried absolutely everything to make it happen.”

Vedder heard of Florence Road’s troubles and came to their rescue. Not only did he help find them a new evening slot to play on Saturday night, he personally gave frontwoman Lily Aron his own guitar so the set could go ahead.

“What an insane 48 hours!!!” Aron wrote on Florence Road’s Instagram. “We couldn’t be more grateful to Eddie Vedder and the team at Ohana Festival. The second Eddie heard our guitars were stolen he insisted I play his. A true gentleman.”

📷: Florence Road

28/09/2026

Faces and Jeff Beck Group frontman turned mega-successful solo artist, Rod Stewart, has announced his retirement from touring.

The 81-year-old legend will hang up his mic following The Final Encore tour in 2027, which includes six UK & Ireland shows.

Sir Rod says: "My dear friends, the time has come to say farewell to life on the road. After more than six decades, The Final Encore will most definitely be my last.

"I've been singing the music I love since I was 19 years old, and I’ve had the privilege of taking it around the world to all of you. It has given me a life beyond anything I could ever have imagined, and I hope I’ve given you some fond memories in return.

"So, may I take this opportunity to thank you for making this extraordinary life possible. I hope you’ll join me so I can thank you the best way I know how… with the music and one hell of a show. See you there."

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28/09/2026

Mental Health for Metalheads: Rock Your Way to Wellbeing is available now in hardback, paperback and kindle format on Amazon.
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Also available in paperback now on Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Cult Never Dies, Booktopia, Yes24, Margers & Quinn and more.

Copies available in store at Raven Records in Camden () and Rotten Records in Cornwall! (.records.cornwall)

A self-help book by metalheads, for metalheads, full of metal references. Written by a registered nurse with lived experience of mental illness. Fact checked by a licenced Psychiatrist.

As seen on Blabbermouth, Kerrang!, Record Collector Magazine, Bangers & Mosh, Talking Bo****ks, Grab A Stack Of Rock, Trust In Rock, International Metalheads Club, Minds Aloud, Wyrd Ways Rock Show, Music Fishbowl, That's Not Metal & Joel Martin Mastery.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1919536200

Ebook ISBN: 978-1919536217

50% of the author's profits go to The Sophie Lancaster Foundation ().

Cover art hand painted by the legendary king of Thrash Metal art himself, Ed Repka (.repka.illustration).

Interior art by John Cowan (@10.24___).

Edited by Paul McNamee of The False Face ().

Foreword by psychologist and author Dr. Scott Eilers (.scott.eilers)

Afterword by Heavy Metal Therapy's founding psychologist Dr. Kate Quinn () and Metalheads Against Bullying's founder/CEO Leif Munkelien ().

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Sharing is caring, if you know someone who could benefit from this, share it with it with someone who'd find it helpful \m/

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27/09/2026

By now you’ll have seen endless clips of the Angine De Poitrine live set recorded by KEXP, which went viral.

However, microtonal music has been around a lot longer than most people think. Just like anything that becomes hugely popular in a matter of months – to the point where it feels like it’s inescapably everywhere – there can often be a handful of misconceptions.

“The most common one is that a microtonal guitar is an out-of-tune guitar,” says Dr. Tolgahan Çoğulu, a professor at Istanbul Technical University and Turkish Music State Conservatory.

“However, if people knew about the harmonic series and just intonation, they might instead see the standard guitar as an out-of-tune instrument.”

To some, microtonality might feel like a relatively new thing, but its roots stretch surprisingly far back into history.

Çoğulu points to the research of Harry Partch in his book Genesis Of A Music, which traced the lineage back to ancient China around 2600 BCE, when the musician Ling Lun cut a series of bamboo pipes of different lengths and generated a sequence of pitches through successive perfect fifths.

He also underlines how Pythagoras of Samos used a monochord to generate perfect fifths in ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE.

Experimentation with the music system stretched into the Middle Ages, with theorists such as Aristoxenus, Ptolemy, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, and Ibn Sina investigating different systems of tuning and intervals.

It was a phenomenon happening around the world, inspiring elements of Indian raga music, Persian dastgah, Arabic makam, Turkish makam, and Balinese Gamelan.

🖋️: Amit Sharma
📷: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images

26/09/2026

Not so with music.

26/09/2026

A lot of actors are also musicians. A lot of musicians are also actors. 🎥🎶

Very few straddle the line quite as well as Jack Black does, as despite being in hit movies such as School of Rock, Jumanji and Kung Fu Panda, he is also a renowned vocalist, fronting comedy duo Tenacious D also providing guest vocals for multiple rock bands as his talent is instantly recognisable. You have actors, you have musicians, and then you have Jack Black.

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