JK Music Club – Music Acdemy
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JK Music Club – Music Academy, perched on the second floor of a converted 1930s textile warehouse in downtown Newcastle, is equal parts conservatory, listening room, and creative playground. Original brick walls, recently washed but still scarred with the building’s industrial past, form the backdrop for a carefully tuned acoustic shell that descends from the ceiling at the flick of a switch—one of only three such deployable systems in northern England. Nine lesson studios radiate around the perimeter; each is wired into a central Pro Tools server so instructors can cue backing tracks, record student takes to the cloud, and invite parents or collaborators to listen live through the Club’s custom app.
Performance is woven into the curriculum from day one. Every Thursday at 7 p.m. the movable wall between Studios 2 and 3 glides aside to reveal “The Vault,” a 120-capacity black-box stage equipped with a d&b audiotechnik PA, intelligent lighting grid, and 360-degree livestreaming cameras. Students run the console, not staff; the academy’s Level-3 Live-Sound elective delivers official qualifications while powering real gigs that range from underground grime to baroque quartets. An open-mic sign-up launches at 5:30 sharp, and the queue—spiked with local professionals polishing new material—often snakes down the stairwell and onto the pavement.
The ground, however, is jazz. Co-founder and artistic director Jane Kwan, former BBC New Generation Artist and Professor at the Royal Academy, insists every student regardless of instrument masters basic jazz voicings, walking bass lines, and the art of comping. Mondays are “Standards Labs”: rhythm sections in Studio 1 trade choruses with horn players piped in from Toronto via low-latency audio-over-IP. Tuesdays belong to electronic production; Studio 5 houses a wall of Eurorack cases loaned by resident artists such as Bicep and KÁRYYN. Courses culminate in “Remix the Standard,” where horn-led takes from Monday are sampled, sliced, and reborn into future-beat tracks ahead of Thursday’s show.
Community outreach defines the weekend. Saturday mornings, the upstairs lounge converts into a free crèche while parents attend improv choir or ukulele for absolute beginners. Sunday afternoons the Club partners with local homelessness charities: former street musicians use donated Fenders to busk under the Tyne Bridge, keep all tips, and rotate back into mentorship roles within the Club’s Emerging Artist Scheme. Graduates receive a guaranteed slot on the venue’s autumn festival lineup and one week of fully funded studio time—courtesy of the membership model that underwrites the entire enterprise.
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- Published: July 28, 2025
