Louis Barabbas Email & Phone Number

Highlands And Islands

Isle Of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom

Co-ordinated a community arts project collecting local stories and turning them into a music album with amateur musicians, choirs and bands. Worked alongside the Portree archive centre and village halls around the area. Part of a wider scheme funded by Creative Scotland that won the Stage Award for Best Community Project.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Debt is a company that never chases money over content: we trust that our signings know better than the marketplace about the secrets of musical alchemy – we merely do our best to provide the environment, resources and support necessary to make this happen. We firmly believe that live performance is the only truly lasting musical format, with memory being our sharpest stylus. That said, we are dedicated to releasing unique and spectacular records (in whatever presentation science recommends at the time).Debt Records was set up by a sound engineer, a session player and a songwriter with a shared enmity towards the legion of labels, promoters and managers that are draining the music world of its jouissance – cultural barbarians who exploit their contributors, underestimate their congregation and manipulate Music’s acolytes into deifying the sentimental slush of relentlessly reconstituted pop travesties.Everything in the label is produced in-house, the company has its own studio and session band, an army of film-makers, designers, artists, promoters and experienced writer-musicians that have been working the circuit long enough to know how to cut out the middle-men. We are a creative co-operative that swaps favours, trades skills and shares round the good fortune of our individual members.This isn't a political movement, it's just how all labels would be if they were run by artists instead of businessmen.

Salford

A series of music events aimed specifically at the grass roots of the industry, the goal of Un-Convention is to bring together like minded individuals to discuss the future of independent music.www.unconventionhub.org

Manchester, United Kingdom

Whilst relentlessly peddling their peculiar brand of Lyric-Driven Dirt-Swing (an incomparable rendering of jive-smitten cabaret blues) Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six have captured the imaginations of every species of listenership – both at home and overseas.Since forming in late 2006 their music has infiltrated almost every creative niche, being adapted into animated short films, burlesque routines, musical theatre, fringe festival revues, film soundtracks and even a TV commercial for blue cheese.Over the years they have won praise and support from the likes of Supergrass, The Mighty Boosh, Har Mar Superstar, UB40, Mark Steel, The Hell’s Angels, BBC Radio and even the Beat Poet biographer Barry Miles – both for their furious onstage energy and Louis’ manic lyrical gymnastics.Their infamous live shows – incorporating rock, jazz, folk and theatre influences – have proved time and time again that the group is at home on any line-up, even sharing the bill with such disparate acts as Motorhead, Sun Ra’s Arkestra, I Am Kloot, Eliza Carthy, The Blockheads, Emmanuel Jal and The Buzzcocks. Over the years they have toured Europe, the States and Mexico, inspiring stage invasions, dancing in the aisles and a confused mixture of exhaustion and bonhomie wherever they go.www.bedlamsix.com

Manchester, United Kingdom

Brighter Sound supports personal, creative, entrepreneurial and professional development for young people, music practitioners, emerging and mid-career musicians