To everyone who joined us at the exhibition: thank you for the overwhelming feedback. As we mentioned on-site, our production team is currently in the studio mastering the immersive audio storylines for digital release. We want to make sure that the sound you heard in the "Bedroom Set" translates perfectly to your headphones at home. In the meantime, we are releasing our Newsletter  as a free digital download for our community Inside, you’ll find: Thoughts and reflections: Me

When working with the team in initially putting together this exhibition, one of the key things we wanted to do was really highlight unheard voices. Music and podcasts in recent times have given insight into life behind bars for the imprisoned, though we wondered what were the things that led up to this — life choices, systemic policies, or a bit of both? But within even these stories there were further unheard stories, as we wondered: what were the effects of imprisonment o

In this latest session of our Chorus Challenge series, we stumble across more phenomenal talent. Just like before, musicians have just 10 minutes to create a 4 or 8-bar chorus that gets the crowd singing.

Didn’t Cha Know is a Neo soul classic, without a doubt the ladies for this one put together a performance that not only played homage to the original, but added their own sound and signature to it that made it something fun, soulful and up to the current times. Any lover of music will love this one.

This time, Zamar & Lizmnk took on “Afro Blue” giving a new flavour to this jazz standard. Zamar’s upright bass lays the perfect foundation for Lizmnk’s velvet-smooth vocals

A clip from an oral history we recorded with my friend DJ B3 as part of our Bedroom Shut Music Up exhibition. He paints a vivid picture of the pirate radio frontlines—where love for the music was so strong, people climbed rooftops in the middle of the night to keep the signal alive...

Resistance music —music that’s from a place of saying ‘I’m not having it no more’—brings people with shared ideals and experiences...

I looked natty dreads deep in the eyes when his hands were drumming, I can tell you he wasn't there, his mind travelled, taken over by the drums, probably ancestors using his body as a vehicle to tell their tales of old. I have no idea what he was saying, but the words spoke deep to the soul.  

Rage told me though he was involved in various serious street activities during the early 2000’s he had also been introduced to books on people like Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and real knowledge of self type books. He said he felt conflicted. His consciousness was growing, and he wanted to tell his friends to aim higher, to live better.

some have been behind bars for so long they now call prison a “second home.” Some might call that foolish. I think it’s more complicated. Many are highly intelligent — articulate enough to talk you out of your lunch money and your five-summer savings. Yet still, they spend more summers behind bars than bartenders slinging two-for-one Pimm’s and lemonade in pub gardens.

Rappers laughed out of parks...

I paused the words of good morning heartache and reflected. Because nearly a century later, the script hasn’t changed just different actors

Zamar, an East African upright bass player and producer, and Lizmnk, a jazz vocalist with timeless depth. Their rendition of Belle Baker’s classic “Good Morning Heartache” is pure jazz magic

Are lyrics from a cell now lyrics of the world? The tales and slang from behind bars, played through the speakers of London driven cars and beyond, though to what effect… 

In this stripped-back version of “I Was”, Rage reflects on his experiences growing up in Waltham Forest — memories shaped by the sounds, struggles, and spirit of the early 2000s. It’s raw, reflective, and rooted in lived truth.

I’ve been having some deep conversations with people from all walks of life while piecing together the story of Waltham Forest in the...

Introduction To Red Light Busking presents Kanda Vol.1 Bedroom Shut Music Up

For our final performance in this acoustic grime series, Rage delivers his most powerful and reflective track yet — Political Music. In this stripped-back performance, he questions the entire political system — from false promises by MPs, to the back-and-forth of Labour vs. Conservative — and asks the hard question: what’s really changing for communities like his? With Ivanmore on guitar and vocals, the song takes on another level of soul — turning political frustration into

Lesson Plan: Exploring Culture and Identity Through Carnival Lesson Title: The Significance of Jouvert and Notting Hill Carnival

I was feeling lonely Marg was an alcoholic so it drove me To Foster care so now I act unholy… So as I write this, it's the AM of New...