SLAP Mag Editorial May 2020

Editorial – May 2020

Hello everyone, thank you for visiting the SLAP Online Magazine May 2020 ‘Virtual Issue’. Everyone here at SLAP hopes you and yours […]

SLAP Mag News Roundup May 2020

SLAP Mag News Roundup May 2020

Bye George  Many warm tributes have been paid locally to prolific letter-writer George Cowley who’s passed away from natural causes aged 83. […]

#saveourvenues- Music Venue Trust

Music Venue Trust announcement

Today (Monday 27th April 2020) is the date on which all the announced UK government support, the grants, the rate relief, the […]

Funding information

COVID-19 Funding

Here are a range of useful resources for the creative industries from Arts Connect via Severn Arts to help with the current […]

Severn Arts

Music Education Hub Grant

Severn Arts and the Worcestershire Music Education Hub recognise that this is a particularly difficult time for Worcestershire’s freelance musicians and small […]

The Samples

SLAP Mag meets The Samples

Worcester Punk band The Samples played their last show in May ’86 at, of all places, Perdiswell Leisure Centre. Some half decent […]

To Have and to Hold Records

To Have and to Hold Records

The funny bespectacled kid down our road knew his own mind when we were growing-up: football and music. Melvin Hardy our amiable […]

Broodmother

Broodmother interview

Formed in 2016, Kidderminster’s stonerific 5-piece Broodmother have been quick to make their mark on the local metal scene. With the release […]