Alumni

Took a year out from his studies to tour as guitarist/keyboardist for Rams’ Pocket Radio

The 4-piece Deaf Club, featuring Popular Music 2nd Year student Jac Roberts, was selected by The PRS Foundation to go to SXSW festival/conference in Austin, Texas

For making an outstanding contribution to the life of the University and to the local community

Metropolis have recently released their debut EP "Where People Have Been"

Jim Lockey, Chris Capewell & Simon Cripps have just returned from the United States following a successful stint supporting the Dropkick Murphys on tour of the East coast

The band consists of lead singer and guitarist Joseph Prendergast, backing vocalist and drummer David Catmur, bassist Tom Coulson-Smith and keyboardist and sampler James Elliot Field.

Plymouth quartet, Crazy Arm, is the versatile, roots-punk lovechild that arose from two popular UK bands, NoComply and The Once Over Twice.

Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun are a country folk punk band from Cheltenham town made up for four lost souls with a passion for politically poetic storytelling.

Twenty-eight year old Joe Summers is a true folk troubadour, devoid of any pretence, a diamond in the rough of today’s saturated music scenes

A four-piece band made up from former students, In Gratitude have been playing to packed out venues right across the UK.

After attracting music icon Steve Winwood to their first ever gig, the Tom Hollister Trio have gone on to be managed by Alan and Heather Niven (ex Guns 'n' Roses) and play at Knebworth rock festival, or Sonisphere as its now known…all in 8 months.

Live Sound Engineer & Event Promoter I began live sound engineering at the age of 16 when I started my BTEC National Diploma in Technical Theatre.

With their self aware humour based songs and colourful stage presence, involving the crowd as much as possible

Promoter & Independent Label MD Pittville always felt like more of a creative community than a University campus. Quite literally full of people who get excited about the arts!

A Cheltenham based one-man electro-hippity-hoppity-popitty-rock band... or something like that!

Composer & Performer My three years studying Popular Music at the UoG have been absolutely brilliant. In terms of the course, I have learnt a huge amount, from music production to the business jargon through to sociological and cultural aspects to music.

Local indie band that burst into our sights with a badly worded e-mail that also lacked any punctuation. No MySpace page or demos to speak of at the time, basically just their word they were good.

Musician & Independent Label MD I was fortunate enough to enroll on the popular music course a few weeks before it started following the breaking up of my previous band.

The Echoes are a Cheltenham based pop punk band. Their catchy rifts and memorable lyrics have secured their place as a local favourite

Heretics & Lovers are a Gloucestershire-based outfit fusing melodic Post-Rock with Experimental Hardcore.

The course really appealed to me as it was one of the more thorough contemporary music degrees I looked at

Rookie/Error hail from the Forest of Dean’s surprisingly strong music scene

I entered the Popular Music course not knowing what I wanted to do, but knew that I wanted music to be my priority in my life.