Me for Queen aka Mary Erskine is inspired by people and their stories. Growing up feral in rural Fife/Scotland in a big old house near the sea, years of classical training together with a Blues guitarist for a father make for an interesting mix of Soul and Folk, drawing comparisons to a range of artists from Regina Spektor to Carole King, Kate Bush and This is the Kit.

Of her latest single, Jessica, released on Seahorse Music, Folk Radio UK wrote, “The combination of rich poetic lines and one of most beautiful, emotive voices I’ve heard in a long time make Me for Queen stand out in any crowd.”

She has enjoyed support from BBC 6 Music, BBC Scotland (single of the week on Janice Forsyth’s Culture show for Slow Train) and BBC Wales. Jessica was also included in one of Spotify UK’s most-listened to playlists, “The Most Beautiful Songs in the World”.

The last year has seen her play two headline UK tours, including sold-out shows at London’s Paper Dress Vintage and the Sound Lounge.

Her new full-length album Loose End was released in Summer 2018, which you can find here: https://meforqueen.bandcamp.com/ and listen to on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5HIBZdQxI2yK1xeIs069n7?si=dClFv3UXQF69vzkJ30XbaA

You can find more about Me for Queen here: http://www.meforqueen.com/

More info about musical: https://littleangeltheatre.com/whats-on/finding-santa/

Summertime means time for some fun summer challenges!

Challenge 1 : Delve into some new science or technology you are fascinated about!

Challenge 2 : Take on a new creative challenge, whether it is in music, dance, the arts, etc. Everything creative applies!

And then tell other people about your scientific discoveries or creative journey! Let's get that ripple effect started!

Hope you will join the challenges! Looking forward to reading all about them, just tag us in your tweets :)!

Happy summer!

Summertime means time for some fun summer challenges!

Challenge 1 : Delve into some new science or technology you are fascinated about!

Challenge 2 : Take on a new creative challenge, whether it is in music, dance, the arts, etc. Everything creative applies!

And then tell other people about your scientific discoveries or creative journey! Let's get that ripple effect started!

Hope you will join the challenges! Looking forward to reading all about them, just tag us in your tweets :)!

Happy summer!

Professor Carey Jewitt is the Director of UCL Knowledge Lab, a research centre based in the faculty UCL Institute of Education (IOE). The UCL Knowledge Lab team undertakes leading interdisciplinary digital research and design in education and beyond, including research on games and playful learning, smart technologies, creativity and coding, digital cultures and media literacy, multimodal interaction, and designing for diversity. 

Based on research evidence, the team devises new pedagogies, designs and implements innovative digital media and technologies for teaching and learning, and informs policymakers and educational stakeholders. Carey’s own research explores how technologies shape the ways that people interact and communicate, she looks beyond language alone to understand the multimodal character of interaction.

You can find out more about Carey’s research here:

https://in-touch-digital.com

https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=CJEWI83

You can reach out to Carey on twitter (at)IN_TOUCH_UCL

Some top tips from Carey:

Book: Vertigo by Joanna Walsh

Music: Suede

Amazing Scientist: Dr Constance Classen - Concordia University

Photo credit: UCL

Professor Carey Jewitt is the Director of UCL Knowledge Lab, a research centre based in the faculty UCL Institute of Education (IOE). The UCL Knowledge Lab team undertakes leading interdisciplinary digital research and design in education and beyond, including research on games and playful learning, smart technologies, creativity and coding, digital cultures and media literacy, multimodal interaction, and designing for diversity. 

Based on research evidence, the team devises new pedagogies, designs and implements innovative digital media and technologies for teaching and learning, and informs policymakers and educational stakeholders. Carey’s own research explores how technologies shape the ways that people interact and communicate, she looks beyond language alone to understand the multimodal character of interaction.

You can find out more about Carey’s research here:

https://in-touch-digital.com

https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=CJEWI83

You can reach out to Carey on twitter (at)IN_TOUCH_UCL

Some top tips from Carey:

Book: Vertigo by Joanna Walsh

Music: Suede

Amazing Scientist: Dr Constance Classen - Concordia University

Photo credit: UCL

Emma is a freelance electric bass player. She plays bass, guitar and sings backing vocals for Brit-award winning singer song writer Kate Nash. Since 2011 she has toured across North America, South America, Europe and Canada. She has also played many prestigious festivals such as Glastonbury, Coachella, Reading & Leeds, Bestival, Rock AM Ring and many more.

Recently Emma has been writing, recording and touring with Electric Pyramid. They supported Queen & Adam Lambert on their European tour in June 2016 and are currently working towards their debut album.

Previous artists worked with include: Charli XCX, Magalie, Emma Stevens, and she has performed TV shows such as The X-Factor for winner James Arthur and Alan Carr’s Chatty Man.

Emma is also the founder of Music Over Matter UK. Music Over Matter provides specialist music lessons for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Wiltshire UK.

You can get in touch with Emma on:

- her websites: https://musicovermatter.co.uk & https://elhbass.net

- twitter & instagram: (at)musicovermattuk

- instagram: (at)elhbass

Recommended Books by Emma:

- Sacred Powers - Davidji

- Women Who Run With The Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Photo Credit: Andy Wilsher

Emma is a freelance electric bass player. She plays bass, guitar and sings backing vocals for Brit-award winning singer song writer Kate Nash. Since 2011 she has toured across North America, South America, Europe and Canada. She has also played many prestigious festivals such as Glastonbury, Coachella, Reading & Leeds, Bestival, Rock AM Ring and many more.

Recently Emma has been writing, recording and touring with Electric Pyramid. They supported Queen & Adam Lambert on their European tour in June 2016 and are currently working towards their debut album.

Previous artists worked with include: Charli XCX, Magalie, Emma Stevens, and she has performed TV shows such as The X-Factor for winner James Arthur and Alan Carr’s Chatty Man.

Emma is also the founder of Music Over Matter UK. Music Over Matter provides specialist music lessons for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Wiltshire UK.

You can get in touch with Emma on:

- her websites: https://musicovermatter.co.uk & https://elhbass.net

- twitter & instagram: (at)musicovermattuk

- instagram: (at)elhbass

Recommended Books by Emma:

- Sacred Powers - Davidji

- Women Who Run With The Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Photo Credit: Andy Wilsher

Kat Five is the singer & guitarist at Feral Five, a band she fronts together with bassist, composer, and throat-grabbing beats creator Drew. They are from London and Kent, write, mix and produce at Feral HQ and their music features in acclaimed drag queens film Dressed As A Girl.

Feral Five make electro-punk dance music with bite, fusing snarling guitars, jittery synths, and ferocious beats.

Raised by wolves on a diet of punk rock, disco and roots, the duo have been championed by BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and Gideon Coe, and Eddy Temple-Morris on The Remix. They’ve been BBC 6 Recommends Track of the Week with ‘Kiss’ with the poet Equinox.

Electronic legend Martyn Ware (The Human League / Heaven 17 / B.E.F.) picked them for the National Portrait Gallery Picasso-inspired night he curated in January 2017, and they released a politically-charged EP Man Cat Doll Machine of songs they wrote for the event.

Obsessed with science, they create songs about the dark human side of tech, as well as love, lust and madness. They’ve collaborated with world leading 3D designer Francis Bitonti on ‘Rule 9’, sculpting synths, vocals and beats around his algorithms. They predicted #3dprintinghumans in their song ‘3D’, sampled 3D printers and created 3D printed artwork, also using a 3D printer as an instrument when they played Music Tech Fest in London.

The Ferals are in demand for their production skills and have remixed artists like Sisteray and Frank Turner favourites deux furieuses, and collaborated with poet Equinox to create sleaze disco track ‘Kiss’. Their song ‘Void’ is on the compilation album #MoreInCommon in aid of Hope Not Hate.

You can reach out to Kat Five on twitter (at)kat_five and learn more about Feral Five on http://feralfive.com and (at)feralfive on twitter and instagram.

Kat's female band recommendation: https://www.deuxfurieuses.com

More details on the ethical music streaming service Resonate: https://resonate.is

Kat Five is the singer & guitarist at Feral Five, a band she fronts together with bassist, composer, and throat-grabbing beats creator Drew. They are from London and Kent, write, mix and produce at Feral HQ and their music features in acclaimed drag queens film Dressed As A Girl.

Feral Five make electro-punk dance music with bite, fusing snarling guitars, jittery synths, and ferocious beats.

Raised by wolves on a diet of punk rock, disco and roots, the duo have been championed by BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and Gideon Coe, and Eddy Temple-Morris on The Remix. They’ve been BBC 6 Recommends Track of the Week with ‘Kiss’ with the poet Equinox.

Electronic legend Martyn Ware (The Human League / Heaven 17 / B.E.F.) picked them for the National Portrait Gallery Picasso-inspired night he curated in January 2017, and they released a politically-charged EP Man Cat Doll Machine of songs they wrote for the event.

Obsessed with science, they create songs about the dark human side of tech, as well as love, lust and madness. They’ve collaborated with world leading 3D designer Francis Bitonti on ‘Rule 9’, sculpting synths, vocals and beats around his algorithms. They predicted #3dprintinghumans in their song ‘3D’, sampled 3D printers and created 3D printed artwork, also using a 3D printer as an instrument when they played Music Tech Fest in London.

The Ferals are in demand for their production skills and have remixed artists like Sisteray and Frank Turner favourites deux furieuses, and collaborated with poet Equinox to create sleaze disco track ‘Kiss’. Their song ‘Void’ is on the compilation album #MoreInCommon in aid of Hope Not Hate.

You can reach out to Kat Five on twitter (at)kat_five and learn more about Feral Five on http://feralfive.com and (at)feralfive on twitter and instagram.

Kat's female band recommendation: https://www.deuxfurieuses.com

More details on the ethical music streaming service Resonate: https://resonate.is

Girls Rock London (GRL!) is a music project for girls and women in London. They are part of a movement of rock camps that take place all over the world, united by a desire to achieve gender equality in the music industry and to ensure that all girls and women get the chance to make music. The aims of the project are to empower girls and women – regardless of previous musical experience – to write and perform music, and to build self-confidence.

​The programme Girls Rock London runs is a mixture of musical/technical tuition and workshops, which together help to build participants’ self-esteem and confidence, and provide a platform for girls and women to find and develop their voices. Rock Camp is all about trying new things, working together and making lots of NOISE :).

GRL! welcomes applicants who self-identify as girls, women, trans* and/or gender non-conforming.

More info here: http://www.girlsrocklondon.com/

You can support the GRL! charity as well by donating here: https://donate.kindlink.com/girls-rock-london/764