Hi Everyone,

We are delighted to announce that RocksCool will be hosting some very special RocksCool courses from our training centre in Blyth.

As well as the normal RocksCool Academy sessions ,our Summer Holiday programme will be a themed week,every week over the holidays including:

RocksCool Metallica
RocksCool Iron Maiden
RocksCool AC/DC
RocksCool Indie
Thats a whole week of your favourite band,which will then be recorded live on CD!

The courses will run Monday - Thursday 10.30am until 3.00pm and places will be strictly limited.The cost of this course is £55.00 per week or if you currently attend RocksCool Academy this is discounted to £45.00.

The sessions will be held at: RocksCool Academy,Tower Buidings,Regent St,Blyth,NE24 1LL.

A big thank you to David Wynter from our West Denton RocksCool for his report for the BBC on RocksCool Academy.

If you would like to view the report please go to :
http://filmsforlearning.org/View.aspx?video=1152&viewType=Tag&filterValue=

RocksCool Academy are now recruiting for our next term starting in May. If you are interested please register online at www.rockscoolacademy.com

Thanks

Team RocksCool

RocksCool Academy are delighted to announce they will be opening a number of new centres throughout the North East in the coming months including:

Newcastle City Centre,Gosforth,Heaton,North Shields,Gateshead,Whickham,Prudhoe & Hexham

If you are interested in registering for RocksCool please use the registration form on the next page.Please have a look at our Promotional footage below.

Jeff Mantas - Guitar

Mantas, the founder of Black Metal legends Venom and the man responsible for much of the bands classic early material has a new band which sees him taking his own brand of Heavy Metal to new levels. Mantas has built up a five piece powerhouse which honours his Metal roots whilst embracing the modern edged aggression of today’s scene.Check out DRYLL at www.myspace.com/metaldryll Born and raised in Newcastle in the North East of England, music was to play a big part in his life from a very early age. “There was always music in the house, my father was a drummer and he and my mother financed my first guitar and amp, little did they know what they had started!” His first encounter with another musician was at a Taekwondo club (at which Mantas holds 1st Degree Black Belt and also 1st Degree Black Belt Aikido and 3rd Degree Black Belt Freestyle Karate) in 1977 and this was to be the beginnings of a band which would eventually see him as founder member of Venom. Best known for his guitar work with Venom, arguably one of the most influential metal bands of all time, the early part of his career saw him touring world wide with acts supporting such as Metallica and Slayer. Quiet and unassuming off stage there is definitely another side to Mantas as is proven by his on stage persona. Even though he has now moved on from Venom he is still the first to say that he is justifiably proud of what he created and the success it enjoyed and the impact that it had on the world of Heavy Metal and indeed music in general. His place in musical history is secure, as is evident by any Rock or Metal encyclopaedia so much so that he was asked to write the preface for the first edition of the Extreme Metal Handbook and was also interviewed for contribution to the Metallica biography “Justice for All”. The March 2004 edition of Guitar World placed Mantas at number 39 in the list of the 100 greatest metal guitarists of all time. Mantas is never one to rest on past glories and as such is continually looking at new projects and opportunities, because as he so rightly states “without evolution comes extinction”. Mantas has a firm philosophy on life and that is “you only get one shot on this planet so live life to the full because at the end of it will you be saying “what if”, “I could have”, “I should have” , or will you say “I did my absolute best and took every opportunity given to me”. Don’t let it pass you by! IF YOU ARE NOT IN IT, YOU CANT WIN IT !