Fareeha Noorani

Warwick’s Very Own: Ellie Dixon 

Ellie Dixon came to university a keen mathematics student, from the city of Cambridge and with a hobby that she didn’t think would become anything bigger: music. The Warwick third-year began performing at the age of thirteen after undertaking GCSE Music lessons which brought together her piano-playing and newfound vocal...
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Posted Jan. 6, 2019

Coffee House Sessions: Cat Burns

Cat Burns is the next Coffee House Sessions act to come to Warwick. She’s from South-West London (specifically, SW16) and is a serial singer-songwriter of love songs. Finding out more about her after the set, I learn that while she says that her concepts see their beginnings in her friends’...
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Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Coffee House Sessions: Joel Rothwell

Joel Rothwell is a Mancunian singer-songwriter who grew up writing and playing music alongside his Rebecca and who together took influence from Eminem, Maroon 5 and P!nk. He may be tiptoeing around the music industry at moment, but for a 20-year-old, he can at least say he has performed alongside...
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Posted Nov. 20, 2018

Warwick’s music appreciation societies – part 4

Big Band Gabriel Musker, Social Secretary If you’re looking for a society with an active social calendar that’s full of fun people and quality musicians as much as it is steeped in tradition, then Big Band is what you’re looking for. We are united in a love of jazz, swing,...
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Posted Oct. 21, 2018

Warwick’s music appreciation societies – part 3

DrumSoc James Norris, Communications Officer DrumSoc is a society aimed at bringing people together to enjoy making music in its simplest form: through rhythm. There are three sections: Drum Kit, Steel Pans and the Percussion Ensemble; and whether you have any previous experience or you’re a beginner, we encourage you...
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Posted Oct. 15, 2018

Warwick’s music appreciation societies – part 2

RockSoc Bradley Warner, Social Secretary RockSoc is a society aimed at those with common interests in a wide range of rock and indie music, from punk pop to heavy metal. We’re a socially active society, with a bar social every Tuesday and a society event every Friday or Saturday. We’re...
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Posted Oct. 10, 2018

Pride Part 1: Past and Present

This time of year has come around far too quickly, but I’m not complaining. I’ve done first year, and having been at Warwick until a few weeks ago, I missed a lot of Pride-related events in my city. But while I was unable to attend the spectacle that is Birmingham...
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Posted Jul. 21, 2018

The Vaccines Part 1: album review

Potentially one of the most well-known – and well-loved – British indie rock bands to have emerged from the past ten years, The Vaccines have just released their fourth album. Combat Sports is a thirty-three-minute jaunt in a classic three-chord Vaccines way, at times vibrant and surprisingly heartfelt. As a...
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Posted Jun. 1, 2018

“Music is no longer a fringe movement” 

According to figures from UK Music, the music industry contributed over £4.4 billion pounds (GVA) to the British economy in 2017. That same report revealed that 30.9 million people attended a concert or a festival last year, and that almost 150,000 people in the UK are in employment sustained by music....
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Posted May. 22, 2018

Coffee House Sessions: Miles Goodall

It’s not every day you meet a fresh-faced lad who could be both your halls neighbour (not at Warwick, because they don’t teach music here) or your friend who’s semi-famous on social media. This is Miles Goodall, a 22-year-old part-time student and singer-songwriter originally from Liverpool (well, Southport actually, but...
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Posted Mar. 30, 2018

Georgia and the Vintage Youth take us down memory lane

Georgia Crandon is a 22-year-old musician from Loughton, in the heart of Essex. She doesn’t go by her name – “if you search ‘Georgia’ on the internet, the state comes up” – and having gigged as a solo singer-songwriter from the beginning of her career almost three years ago, she’s...
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Posted Mar. 17, 2018

Coffee House Sessions present Geejay

Gina Jane, 24 and Jacob Lobo, 25, are from the outset an unassuming pair of friends, and they happen to make good music. While Lobo was brought up in and attended an independent school in the UK’s capital – on scholarship – Jane is a country girl from the village...
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Posted Mar. 6, 2018