Jim Dickinson

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

Senior Lecturer: Commercial Music. School of Music and Performing Arts.

Personal statement

My industry experience includes two major recording contracts (Polydor Records and V2 Records), and two major publishing contracts (Polygram Music Publishing and Sony Music Publishing). My musical projects have included the rock group Little Angels, the psychedelic blues band b.l.o.w and the electronic pop group The Younger Younger 28’s. I have also composed for television and computer games. Alongside my teaching I am currently dividing my time between my PhD research and commercial music projects.

Selected Performance Experience

Major international touring supporting artists including Bon Jovi, Faith no More, Guns and Roses, Van Halen, Aerosmith, ZZ top, Bryan Adams, Jonny Vegas, Ozzy Osborne, Atomic Kitten and The Corrs.

Stadium, arena and headline theatre shows including venues such as Wembley Stadium, Wembley Arena, The Royal Albert Hall, Beacon Theatre (New York), Paris Zenith, Theatre Saint-Denis (Montreal), Kan-I Hoken Hall (Tokyo).

Festival appearances include Glastonbury, T in the Park, Reading Festivals and V Festivals.

I will be performing with the reformed 'Little Angels' at 'Download' 2012.

Recorded Output

My recording, production and compositional output includes 12 album releases including a UK number 1 and 3 top 20 chart albums and 15 single releases, including 8 UK top 40 and 2 UK top 20 Hits.

Press

“What Younger, Younger 28’s have managed, with their groundbreaking debut album Soap is possibly the ultimate post-modern synthesis of several generations’ memories of chart pop.”

Andrew Mueller, The Independent (feature)

“Closed off in their own universe, trapped and on fire in the sheer insane possibility of performance. They leave and Dudley gets a little greyer before being blitzed by the biggest lightning storm you’ve ever seen. You look for swooping cameras because you’ve never had a night so brilliantly backlit, so charged with mad drama. YY28’s are absolutely godamn righteous."

Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker (live review)

“The bizarrely titled ‘Man and Goat Alike’ doesn’t mess about, it hits you with hurricane force; dirty and organic, this is like southern rock re-invented. ‘Who composed that song’ is more laid back, gloriously so, it soothes with pure soul, punctuated with bursts of colour from Jim’s Keyboards."

Dave Reynolds, Kerrang, (b.l.o.w ‘Album of the Week’ and review)

Educational Experience

Previous roles have included working as a Course Leader and Lecturer in music in both Further and Higher Education. I have also worked as an Advanced Practitioner training other teachers and promoting the use of web 2.0 and innovative technologies in education. I have led various community projects, bringing music making to disadvantaged youngsters for organisations such as The Princes’ Trust and the Lloyds TSB Note for Note Scheme. I gained my Certificate of Education from Huddersfield University in 2008 and am currently studying for my PhD at the University of Hull.