LOCKED IN TRANSIT VIDEOS

One year of hard work and Locked In Transit Two is finally complete. We screened on Friday evening and a massive thanks to everyone that came down and made it such a special occasion. Special mentions to everyone who has purchased a State Of Music album, your support of Camden Calling made the screening event possible, prevented us going straight to DVD and kept us all nicely warm on wine. Thanks to the Horse Hospital for the discount on venue hire and of course to Budgens in Belsize Park for a super deal on the Vino.

Videos are below in the order in which they were made and we hope that you enjoy the journey we take you on. Locked In Transit is a project inspired by real life experiences of vulnerable, homeless and ex-homeless people, thanks to everyone that took part in the workshops, appeared as extras and inspired this creation. We hope that this project says something about life and our relationships with our environment as human beings; in a seemingly inescapable city. We hope you relate, and most of all we hope you are entertained.

Kilburn High Road - Charted at Number 4 in summer of 2011 in Tourdates Unsigned Chart can still be downloaded for FREE HERE

Violent Dreams can also be downloaded FREE below and is the single from the Darkness Visible Album due for release summer 2012

Stealth Tax Time - Charted at number 6 in 2011 in Tourdates Unsigned Chart can still be downloaded for FREE HERE. Interestingly this video was also responsible for us losing our FREE venue for screening, send your questions on  postcard I guess to Boris / Ken, although I am sure neither of them would actually think this video was particularly damaging to their campaigns. 

Not sure of the Dark Horse's plans for this track but we will keep you updated.

So that is Locked In Transit 2012 complete for another year. Our plans to develop this project are to find artists that would like to collaborate with members on new tracks and videos. So if you are a music maker and you like the look of anything here give us a shout!

If you are feeling all warm inside now, and have any cash to splash we are in desperate need of donations to keep Camden Calling alive. We have a button you can click here it is. Til 2013 Locked In Transit is going back to the garage! xx
   

LOCKED IN TRANSIT 2012 SCREENING

Event Details

Friday 20^th April

The Hosrse Hospital

Collonade

Bloomsbury

London

WC1 1JD

7pm – 9pm

alexis@camdencalling.org

07815 61 99 33

Camden Calling is a small arts collective of exceptional homeless & ex-homeless people; working together with support to host mainstream events for a mainstream audience.

For 12 months we have been working on our 2^nd Locked In Transit project; four original tracks by Camden Calling members, and four accompanying music videos.  In a project that explores the themes of modern life that impact on all of our lives.

In the last year we have involved people from outside of our project from the homeless community, as well as professionals working in the arts with this project. We have learnt tons had an amazing amount of fun and the result is four music videos in which our artistic integrity prevails over who you may think we are.

This screening event is to celebrate the end of the project is free to attend but we have a limited house capacity of 100 so please email alexis@camdencalling.org to reserve a place.

There will be live music, an opportunity to meet and talk with the Camden Calling members as well as a raffle, some non- aggressive tin rattling, and the usual screening event nibbles and drinkies.

Camden Calling is an organisation set up to celebrate and encourage the diverse and quite amazing talents of people on the fringes of our society; People who without this community would not have a voice.  All events are in part planned, promoted, produced and include performance from the members.

Two of the tracks featured in this project can be heard on our sound cloud player Stealth Tax Time by Richard Bastian and Kilburn High Road by Jonny Granville, both have achieved top 10 success in the UK unsigned charts

STATE OF MUSIC VOLUME 2 UPDATE

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The State Of Music Volume 2 launches today. Those of you following Camden Calling will know that this is a series of five albums that feature and unsigned US artist, with the profits from each album being donated to Camden Calling.

This is the brainchild of Dom Paczko at Choose My Music, to whom we are incredibly grateful to for really making quite a contribution to this projects ability to run this year.

“I’m addicted to this album…Why are all these plastic pop stars in the charts while these amazing musicians are not?” The Unsigned Side – SFR Radio

The album is available for digital download and we do believe there may be just one or two physical copies left from this volumes pre-order run.  On the 14th March the album and some of the artists featured showcased at the SXSW and we would like to thank once again everyone involved with the album. 

 

SOUND OF THE SUBURBS FEATURE

Open publication - Free publishing - More music

Empathy - Alabama 3 Visit Locked On

Here Camden Calling we are so excited that our Locked On radio show in partnership with Endell St Studios has a very special guest. The featured artist for this months music interview is Rob Spragg AKA Larry Love frontman of The Alabama 3. Larry came into the studio on Friday 20th January as part of visit to St Mungos Endell St Hostel where he was checking out the facilities and support offered to homeless people supported by this service. Larry also played a live track for us from the bands new album Shoplifting for Jesus.

During his visit he said "Having experienced homelessness myself, and the attendant problems associated with having no shelter, I was really looking forward to seeing how

St Mungo's is dealing with this situation and all I can say is Wicked! There was tremendous enthusiasm in the studio from all those involved and hopefully Alabama3 rose to the occasion. Brilliant. P.S Can I move in please?"

Locked On is a joint project between Endell St Studios & Camden Calling. A radio show created by a group of homeless & ex-homeless people for a mainstream audience; showcasing unsigned artists and opening discussion on issues that effect the lives of us all.

Locked On Music Interviewer Rob Pollack had this to say "I have been really looking forward to interviewing Larry Love. I am a pretty big fan of The Alabama 3. I feel being the music interviewer for Locked On Radio has been positive for me in lots of ways personally and, I am starting to feel, professionally. It is a project I can be really excited about and very different to the help I was offered when I lived in a hostel. It makes me sit up and take responsibility for helping myself."

The interview will be broadcast via our SoundCloud site on The 20th Feb as part of a special extended show this month themed around the subject of Empathy.

This is a rather special show as Peter Guinness the patron of Camden Calling also came in to give an interview for Cross Talk our serious discussion feature. Peter has some very interesting points to make about the erosion of arts funding and the impact the culture of celebrity on the creative industries.

Camden Calling is a very small community project working as an arts collective with exceptional homeless and vulnerable people to create opportunities for them to develop their creative skills; hosting main stream live music events & working on music video in addition to the Locked On project. The project is run as a partnership with members and has a unique ethic and way of working.

The recording studio at Endell St hostel helps support clients with opportunities to write, record and produce music, learning sound production skills or working towards recording an album.

Camden Calling & Endell St Studio's have been working together for over three years and the Locked On radio project is hoping to receive funding for a second year, as well as a scheduled move for the show to independent radio station Recharged Radio

Bordering On The Genius of Creation Records - State Of Music Update

The State Of Music Vol 1 went on sale on Saturday and all of the hard copies were sold in a matter of hours. Camden Calling would like to thank Dom Paczko at Choose My Music for this wonderful gift , and making us part of his project to find 50 exceptional and unknown artists from every state in the US and promote their music. Dom is a very special person to us.

I purchased my copy of the album by digital download on Sunday and have to say it is an exceptional and eclectic collection. We at Camden Calling are also quite overwhelmed with the level of support for our little collective from our U.S cousins and would like to thank all of the bands involved for caring about homelessness and related issues here in London.

Here is what people have been saying about this extraordinary project

"Bordering on the genius of Creation Records" Sally's Gig Reviews

"In a world crowded with media outlets, which all too often cover a worryingly narrow band of taste Dom Paczko is to be praised for his efforts and he has uncovered some real gems here" Cranking It In The UK

"The State Of Music ticks all my boxes for a good compilation; varied, accessible, tracks that draw you straight in, plenty there to warrant repeat listening.....If this album represents the state of music, music is going to be ok" Album Masterpieces

The album is available by digital download and all of the profits from the album will be donated to Camden Calling. Helping our members to pursue artistic work this year. Making a huge difference to our work and our ability to function as an arts collective. Our members desperately need support for their creative projects and the things they would like to learn in 2012.

Camden Calling is a DIY project in the fullest sense of the word but like all building projects sometime you just gotta get a man in. BUY YOUR COPY OF THE STATE OF MUSIC HERE

EDUCATION & WEAKNESS

Never was there a better time of year to have two such glorious subject matters to write about for my Camden Calling diary / journal /breakdown / whatever. Saying goodbye to 2011 and reflecting on lessons learned and starting 2012 ready to turn weaknesses into strengths.

This is what we do at Camden Calling last week we had a lovely article written about us in The Camden New Journal that you can read in full by clicking here

So what have I learned, well the first is do not be so eager to get on your Christmas break that you cannot be bothered to update the personal blog because the whole thing seems a bit tedious and daunting now. So while my cogs are turning perhaps you would like to check out Decembers radio show.

Education by lockedonradio

The lessons I think we all learned at Camden Calling in 2011 were to think more creatively, more flexibly and to give anything a go, there were a few dramas in 2011, much gnashing of teeth my end, some genuine and over dramatic frustrations and some unrealistic expectations of one another and what the project can achieve with limited resources. These things sound negative but my view is that they are 100% positive. They are our foundation for moving in to 2012 and the high drama and sometimes high emotion has led to us organising ourselves much better. Members are now working more effectively on lead areas, we are developing a mentor role within the project, and are now also unashamed to say that Camden Calling is an organisation for exceptional vulnerable people; that our recovery journeys however bumpy and painful they may be rely on being given the opportunity to be exceptional.

So what do I have to say about weakness? I think I have said it all, we are learning to turn our negatives into positives, which when you stop and think about that is not so easy as it sounds. We are complex as human beings and we can only strive to make better. The year has started very well for us in terms of opportunity, new members coming in, funding in the pipeline, meetings galore and lots of new friends being made.

The Choose My Music - State Of Music Album project is helping us not just to raise funds but to get the Camden Calling message out to a wider audience. I would like to say a massive thanks and congratulations to Dom on the release of the State of Music Vol 1, all proceeds are being donated to Camden Calling and the album is available on digital download here.

So rambling over, as usual nothing solved and I am still chasing my own tail. Our radio show on the subject is far more eloquent.