About Michelle Dhillon

A few of us began knocking ideas about for Christmas specials and it was really nice to hear Sam and Mark suggesting ones they wanted to write. I’ve been wanting to write this exploratory piece for a while, ever since Nathan’s review of Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn actually. Initially I thought the subject of mental health wasn’t appropriate for Christmas but it’s probably far more apt to run a piece about this now rather than at any other time of the year.
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Following news of our Rockhaq Academy programme with Nottinghamshire Music Hub, here’s an update on how our workshops and events are going so far. We’ve been working with Year 10 music students from Tuxford Academy in Newark and on Friday (December 1), we all met for a special live music journalism workshop at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall.
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Never mind Black Friday – here’s the Sex Pistols Indecency Trial! When I did some investigative work earlier this year and discovered that 24 November 1977 was a very special date in Nottingham’s music history, I knew we had to celebrate it here on the Rockhaq Community. A special shout out to Nottingham Libraries for having this brilliant archive material to hand. And it’s all free, dammit.
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We’re pleased to launch Rockhaq Academy with Nottinghamshire Music Hub over this academic year (2017-2018).
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Yes, fire, flames, and erm…burning stuff has been an inspiration for quality songwriting for decades now. And not all of it in a scary or sadistic way, although, rather inevitably, some of it is. Why not take a gander at the tunes that made our Top 5 and let us know what you reckon?
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Ghosts, zombies, murder, blood, death and many other unpalatable things have inspired some killer (fnar!) tunes over the decades. Who are we to hide this weird stuff from you? We’ll be the first to acknowledge and celebrate it here in our very own Top 8 Halloween tracks. You will need a strong stomach for some of it. Don’t say we didn’t warn you….
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As we celebrate grime superstar Skepta headlining Wireless Festival 2017, and his much-deserved awesome year since winning the Mercury Prize in 2016, we’re running a special Skepta Live: Photo Gallery. These were taken when we caught him playing at Nottingham Rock City with Chipmunk way back in 2010.
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We’ve noticed that we don’t have many articles or reviews of The Prodigy on The Rockhaq Community, so we’re going to put that right! This week marks 20 years since the release of The Fat Of The Land – an album that changed the face of British music in the 1990’s. We’re going to mark this with a list of our Top 5 Prodigy tracks of all time.
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Welcome to our Top 7 Glastonbury Sets! Glastonbury Festival, arguably the UK’s biggest and most famous music festival, will be upon us in a matter of days. To mark this year’s Festival, we at Rockhaq HQ have compiled a list of our Top 7 Glastonbury Sets of all time. Check it out and see why Glastonbury Festival remains both legendary and legend-making.
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This week 20 years ago, Radiohead released their eagerly awaited third album, OK Computer. It was June 1997, the UK was still in the throes of Britpop with Oasis and Blur leading the charge. Yes, people were expecting a lot from Radiohead. Their second album, The Bends, was quietly released to an almost zero fan base in 1995. Yet with each single release, its impact slowly grew to show the world that they still deserved to be here.
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