Aylesbury Youth For Christ Blog

Southcourt Studios is the name of the music project from Aylesbury Vale Youth for Christ.  We’re based in Southcourt in the Church of the Guardian Angels parish hall and we’re often found here looking after rehearsals and recording sessions with various bands from around the town.

There’s a rehearsal taking place as I type – the guys are getting ready for a gig next week – and we have some other exciting recording sessions coming up too.  We have young rappers and bands coming down here to access high quality recording facilities at accessible prices, and along with that they’re gaining industry insight from some highly experienced and professional staff.

We have more recently started offering recording ‘experiences’ for budding singers to come and see what it’s like to work in a recording studio.

We have the luxury of a big hall with a stage that we use for our live gigs and concerts, the next of which is on June 24th.  That Friday evening will see students from Mandeville School organise the opportunity for 3 local bands to perform in front of their peers.  These are great nights as these opportunities are quite rare, especially for under-18′s.  It’s a privilege to be able to facilitate these events for them.

Later this year we’ll be working in conjunction with Aylesbury Music Centre to host a performance by our good friend Clive Carroll at the Music Centre.  Clive’s regarded as one of the UK’s finest guitar players, and he’s a thoroughly nice bloke too!  The date is October 15th, so get it in your diaries!  There’s also a chance he’ll be doing a workshop during the day, so stay tuned for more on that!

If you’d like to know more about the studio you can visit the website at http://www.southcourtstudios.com.  There you can sign up to our mailing list to be the first to know about upcoming events and opportunities.