The Living Room Session about hippie music

The second living room session organized by the MRS South branch, was held on Monday, the 23d, at the Creative Corner, or as many of us know as 7 Arte.

It started around 9pm, and lasted for about an hour and a half. It may sound long, but every single minute was very interesting, and the main reason was without doubt, our great "teacher", Anisa, which by adding a lot of humor, spirit, and interaction with the audience, made that possible.
While Anisa was talking, we were enjoying the nice music on the background, and also getting a clue, of who she was talking about, from the big screen in front of us.

We didn't have that big of an audience but, there were just enough people to make a nice and very warm evening, full of atmosphere and interesting facts, that probably most of us didn't know.

Can't wait for the next session!!


Cheers B.

photos by: Kushtrim Hoti

Getting ready for a rockin' 2012!!

So, days, months, and even years passed (4 to be more particular) and the rock school has still managed to be on top of the coolest school list!

This year, we started with some small changes in the internal structure of the school. After a very productive meeting with the teachers, students and coordinators, we have created *drum roll*... the Student Council!

A brand new thing that we never did before! The title may sound boring, but actually it's really cool to be part of it, because we do the fun parts, like: giving ideas for concerts, events, helping the new bands with choosing songs, keeping our co-students posted with everything and working for the best of their interests. The student council currently has 6 members, me (Blerta), Visar, Vesa, Lenart, Hysen and also a relatively new student Urim.

The winter break is over, everyone is full of energy for a rockin' 2012, and you can tell from the rehearsals. All the bands have been choosing new songs to cover, and also working on some new original stuff. I also had the chance to stay during the rehearsals of one of the new bands (with complete new students), and I really have to say that they're doing pretty good! (I feel threatened... psst).

The upcoming events that the school's been planing to do the coming months are:
- A grand opening concert, for moving to the new building (awesome huh!);
- The next living room session in 7 Arte;
- The 80s concert;
- A concert without covers, all homemade brand new songs (double awesome!);

and a lot more... so stay tuned, because we're about to do some
HOT STUFF BABY THIS YEAR!!

Keep on rockin' in the free world!!
B.

By Blerta Kosova

The Jam session

Last night,the Rock School took care of all the musicians and music fans, by keeping them
warm on a cold Friday, with tunes starting from local to international all time hits.


The Jam session presented by Mitrovica Rock School


The jam session was held at Okarina Pub, where a lot of people came and played along with us.
It was a nice evening where nobody got stressed or held back,new musicians got their chance to show their abilities and everyone was simply enjoying the night by singing, playing or just listening and dancing, where random people just grabbed the mic and started singing like real pros.

Keep on jammin'folks.


Cheers B. :)

Young Drummers!

These days at the Rock School we have a lot of new young students who want to play drums and we were ready to welcome them and do everything so they can progress really fast and start playing in bends.



Our drum teachers started to use some new programs so kids can learn synchronise drumming and in that way feel the rhythm of their future band members.

Here is the great video where you can see a part of the young drummers training.



Keep on Rocking with Mitrovica Rock School !

The Friday Gig

Mitrovica Rock School students are preparing for anew gig. Every student has to be involved, so this is going to be the first gig for most of them.

Some of us has already had participate Skopje Summer School and for the first time experienced what it is like to be on stage and have your own gig.


But this will be different because we are going to play in front of friends and bunch of familiar people.


Bands keep practicing daily, preparing at least two songs each. My band named Cor (Latin word for heart) prepared two easy songs, easy because we are all beginners, and soon we are going to start working on the third. Not bad, right? :)

We are all nervously expecting that special day and we are very looking forward to it.I will convey you impressions after the gig, till then rock on!



By Milena Ilievska

Drazo's Rock School going-away

By Minja Velimirovic, singer

I know you all love parties… don’t you? The surprise parties with cake, everyone running around excited and organizing everything to be perfect. And the best part is the surprised look on the face of person who is honored at a celebration. As you all know, Milos, the CBM project manager and coordinator of Rock School's North branch, has moved to Netherlands so we gave him the good-bye surprise party that he deserves.

Everyone was at the Mitrovica Rock School at the specific time and prepared everything for big event.










There was a tasteful cake, guess which shape??? A bass guitar shaped cake, with little fireworks on it.



Milos was thrilled, and surprised also. The look on his face says it all. We are musicians without borders so there was live music, a jam session with students and professors together.









And after a while of partying we watched a video where everyone said a few words of goodbye to our dear Milos. But the party didn’t stop there, we just moved to Soho and continued.

Return of Shahbaz played their last gig louder than ever, it was beautiful to witness and more beautiful to listen, you could really feel the vibes. You can see, Tony is actually smiling on this photo.









Milos has moved and we hope he will visit us very soon but we know that he will always have a special place in our lives, he helped a lot of students and recognized their talent along with the other professors at the Mitrovica Rock School.

I guess all I want to say is:

THANK YOU MILOS!

The Studio

New thing about Mitrovica Rock School is our Studio. Now we have fully equipped studio for recording and sound engineering. You now don't have to search for faraway studios, you got everything here in Mitrovica. If you have a band and if you want to record one song or a whole album feel free to call and ask about details. Also for all of you who want to become a studio technician or engineer our door is open.

For now two bands have recorded at Mitrovica Rock School Studio:


OMNIBUSI

Band started to play at 2007 and their name "Soho" was later changed to "Omnibusi". All the band members were musicians long before band "Omnibusi" started to play together.
They have recorded two albums:
- Omnibusi - Soho in 2007
- Omnibusi - Proci ce 2011

Band members:
- Dejan Pavićević - Vocal/ Rhythm Guitar
- Danijel Spasojević - Guitar
- Vanja Kostić - Bass
- Zoran Savić - Drums



SHRAF


Members started playing together in 2008 in Mitrovica, with idea to play old school hard core with a touch of new age music.

Band members:
- Mihajlo Radovanovic - Vocal
- Predrag Markovic - Guitar/Vocal
- Vladimir Stevanovic - Guitar
- Nikola Popovic - Bass
- Vuk Jovic - Drums





"Coming soon" recordings from "Dark Sky" and the Rock School band "Revenge", stay tuned and follow our work.


Contacts for studio details:
Mladen Marinkovic /North branch manager/ 064-658 55 80
Emir Hasani /Trainee sound engineer/ 065- 531 07 71