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Want to record your own music?

The MOBO’s are coming to Liverpool – but what do you know about the history of music, and Music Of Black Origin in Liverpool? This is your chance to find out more and your chance to produce your own music. You will choose a song as part of the project where you will research its history and how it’s influenced today’s music, and then write, produce and record your own work which will sample your chosen track.

Best thing is you don’t have to be a musician or performer.  There are many ways you can get involved in the project which will include creative writing and producing.

Liverpool Young Writers meet at the Black-e, Great Georges Street (next to the Chinese Arch) on Mondays between 6.30pm-8.30pm. For more info email info@writingonthewall.org.uk or ring 0151 703 0020.

WoW’s Young Writers host Akala event at Toxteth Library

More than 120 young people from Toxteth-based music and writing groups were invited to attend the 108-year-old library. His performance was part of a tour of libraries across the country this summer. The tour is in partnership with the national charity The Reading Agency and Akala's Hip-hop Shakespeare Company: it is part of a major drive to fire up young people about reading and transform the way they think about libraries.

Events will take place in libraries across the UK, with the final show taking place at the British Library in London in November.

Robert ‘Chalkiee’ Thomas and Levi ‘DiGinius’ Fearon introduced Akala, who delivered an amazing half hour set, accompanied by the renowned drummer Cassell 'The Beatmaker.' In the Q&A session with  Akala talked about how his love for reading has influenced his new album DoubleThink - inspired by three works of dystopian fiction: George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

Akala, winner of the 2006 Best Hip-Hop Artist MOBO Award, said: ''I'm really excited about this library tour and hope that it will open young people's eyes and help them to see libraries as thriving hubs of creativity, rather than stuffy, solitary places. My passion for reading pervades my own creative work and new album, so I also hope that these performances will challenge preconceptions and encourage young people to develop a passion for reading and words.''

This page was modified on August 13, 2010