About Michelle Dhillon

Joshua Tolley is a 20 year old Music Technology student at South Nottingham College who has a very mature taste in music for his age and a real enthusiasm for sharing his opinions. Josh began the college year with a major need to improve his writing and literacy skills, as identified by his learning co-ordinator. Josh joined the Rockhaq pilot with a number of his classmates to use it for a class assignment. The results have been eye-opening.
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What are the Creative Media students at South Nottingham College gaining from using Rockhaq blogs inside and outside of lessons? Find out and see how it has been embedded into Edexcel’s BTEC in Creative Media Production.
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This isn’t an article on an genre of dance music, this is a guide on some things to do when writing your reviews, such as use of capital letters, exclamation marks and so on. In journalism and writing terms, this is called adhering to a ‘house style’ and it’s something you will need to get used to when writing for any publication in future. Read More

[wpum_restrict_logged_in] After feedback from several Rockhaq students, we’ve decided to put together a list of Music Journalists we think you should read up on. None of us expect you to reach these gold standards of writing and journalism in your reviews, after all these are established industry professionals. Read More

We’re piloting the Rockhaq school music reviews blog with colleges in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Here’s how it’s been embedded into the Media curriculum for Sports Journalism students at South Nottingham College.
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And now for something completely different. Or is it? Some might say that Rye Rye’s cover of Boom Boom sounds a lot like Nicki Minaj’s trailblazing pop-meets-rap sound. What do

The Horrors are one of the most underrated British bands of recent times, in my opinion. Here’s their new single, showing typically warped, shredded guitars and haunting vocals from Faris

Tenacious D are back! And they’ve made a dumb video to ‘explain’ where they’ve been for the past six years. What do you think? Are you pleased? Excited? Want to

We’ve had some amazing comments and feedback from college students and teachers about the Rockhaq school music journalism community – and we’re sharing some of the feedback here with you now. Team Rockhaq is currently piloting our new music reviews social network and blog with a few colleges in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire and although we haven’t asked schools for specific feedback yet, we have still received it from enthusiastic students and teachers anyway! Read More

I know some of you won’t care about Engelbert Humperdinck – or ‘the ‘Dinck’ as I like to call him – but I’d like to see what you make of his song for Eurovision 2012. Read More