Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

He has written several important scholarly works that are frequently cited in the world of academia.

I learned about him in my music context lectures at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Anyway, I managed to get in touch with Simon as well.

He vaguely recalled taking the quote from London's daily newspaper, The Times, although he was not sure whether it was written by Tynan or someone else quoting Tynan.

I want a bit of that I want to do that yeah um and because I like I play very basic piano like really basic I don't like produce or I can vocal produce now but like just like musically I don't really do any of that side of things so doing the top lining um side of things really worked for me to have a producer, have a beat, make a beat, and then me feel something from that and write something over it just kind of worked perfectly.

And then I went from Leeds College of Music doing my BTEC to LIPA in Liverpool, which is the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where I did a music degree.

And there was more producers there.

And there was like, there was a whole music production course there.

And I definitely want to dig into some of kind of the big band and arranging stuff you do as a real kind of specialist area of yours.

Yeah, so I went to Lipper in Liverpool and I was there as a trumpet player.

Well, I didn't know that.

Yeah, so I was a brass player for a long time.

It's the same as it was before, Danny, just so you know.

How did you get involved? I mean, now that the trumpet player thing, that kind of makes sense a little bit more.

But how did you get involved with kind of arranging, besides just kind of playing charts and stuff? How did you start out on that? Was that part of your course at Lipper?

No, not at all.

And it would be with a Christian music producer, that whole kind of thing.

And so I went and got a place in Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, had that settled and secured.

And then all of a sudden, kind of in this wee parallel track with God, he just stopped me from going there.

And how he stopped me going there was I just had this overwhelming thought coming out of Upper 6th where I was just like, I think I need to take a year and just not rush straight into the next thing.

This is Sandy Tom with What If I'm Right.

At the age of 17, she was the youngest student ever to get a place at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, the school set up by Paul McCartney, signed to a major record label after live streaming gigs from her London basement.

And this isn't a case of, oh, it's entered 22 downloads alone.

It actually entered the chart last week at number 73.