Blastbeat (company)
| Type | Social Enterprise |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education, Music, Business, Internet, Social Networking, Events |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
| Key people | Robert Stephenson Founder / President |
| Products | Schools Programmes, DVDs, CDs, Concerts, Bands |
| Website | www.blastbeat.org |
Blastbeat is a multi-disciplinarian international social enterprise and music business programme and competition for second level or high school children.
Blastbeat.tv is an alternative youth community and event promoter. It is a subsidiary of Blastbeat.
Blastbeat owns Blastbeat.tv and runs the annual Blastbeat Music Business Game which has been running in Ireland since 2003. Coca-Cola are the sponsors of Blastbeat in Ireland. Mr. Price are the sponsors in South Africa.
It organises concerts all over Ireland and has also branched out to the United States, South Africa, the UK, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Belgium in recent years.
The Blastbeat programme is provided to schools, students, & bands free of charge and is financed through a combination of sponsorship income, foundation and government support & grant aid.
Blastbeat aims to run in over 30 countries by 2014.
Blastbeat.tv
Blastspace.tv is the creative and social network of the Global Blastbeat Brand.
Blastbeat Music
Blastbeat Music has been created to help promote bands that were discovered and developed through the Blastbeat schools competition and the Blastbeat Live gigs.
Blastbeat Music is part of the commercial arm of the Blastbeat network that creates, aggregates and commercializes the Intellectual Property Rights primarily in the forms of music, film and associated merchandise.
Typically Blastbeat will offer to sign an artist or band for a series of three or four EPs Before offering a deal to an artist, Blastbeat Music will generally use its proven filtration and teenage approval formula of the Blastbeat system of Blastbeat Battle of the Bands.
Blastbeat Live
Blastbeat Live is a national gigging tour organised by bands, fans and alumni of the Blastbeat Programme. Blastbeat Live allows young people the opportunity to organise gigs in their hometown - giving them direct input into their local [music] and social scene.
Blastbeat Live events run throughout the year. During the summer months various competitions and initiatives exist to cater for the ever growing new band population applying through Blastbeat.tv. Summer 2008 saw the Blastbeat / Sunday World 'LA or Busk' Competition. It involved 8 heats to take place all over Ireland, and one final where the winning act will win a trip to Los Angeles. The act that won was the Dublin based Shower Scene.
Previous Winners of Blastbeat
Ireland
Bands
2003 / 2004 - Silence Jakk!
2005 / 2006 - The Impressionists
2006 / 2007 - Nightbox (Formerly Hotstop)
2007 / 2008 - Silkeborg
Mini Companies
2003 / 2004 - Phonic TY, St. Columba's College, Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
2005 / 2006 - Pulse TY, St. Columba's College, Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
2006 / 2007 - Criminal Records, Ballincollig CS, Co. Cork (Caoimhe Horgan - National/International CEO)
2007 / 2008 - Audio Circus, Ballincollig CS, Co. Cork
2008/2009 - Pandora's Beatbox, Ballincollig CS, Co. Cork
Belgium
Bands
2003 / 2004 - Nestor
2004 / 2005 - In a Daze
2005 / 2006 - Revox
Mini Companies
2004 / 2005 - Ultrason
South Africa
Bands
2006 / 2007 - Hamza
Mini Companies
2006 / 2007 - Musikaap 2007 /2008 Young Soldiers and Sunrise Creek - TAP (Leap School) Hazardous Vibrations 2008 / 2009 The Leap School
USA
LA
Bands
2006 / 2007 - The Michael Craig Band
2007 / 2008 - Somewhere Else
Mini Companies
2006 / 2007 - High Voltage, Santa Monica High School
2007 / 2008 - Urban Revolt Records, Animo Film & Theater Arts School
New York
Bands
2006 / 2007 - Vertigo
Mini Companies
2006/2007 - Black Sheep Records, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, Times Square
2007/2008 - Carpe Muse, Curtis High School, Staten Island
Austin
Bands
2007 / 2008 - Blues Mafia
Mini Companies
2007 / 2008 - DarthBeta Records, Akins High School, Austin, Texas
Czech Republic
Bands
2007 / 2008 - nAked bridge
Slovakia
Bands
2007 / 2008 - The Paranoid
Mini Companies
2007 / 2008 - TBD -
United Kingdom
BAND: 2010 - Empty Headz
Mini Company 2011 - Rooks Beat - Rooks Heath College, Harrow, Middx