Want to get involved in running some of the best events staged in York? Breakz is run by a small team of people with little in the way of hierarchy, so you really can get stuck in, take decisions and make a difference from the start.

We need:

• DJs – the core of everything we do, really
• MCs – if you can spit out some tight lyrics over dnb, hip-hop or anything else, we want to hear from you
• Organisers – booking acts, running events on the night, scouting for venues and opportunities
• Promoters – designing posters and flyers, working with printers, contacting media and other ents organisers, website, email campaigns, distribution

If this sounds like your kinda thing and you’d like to be part of the team for the next year then now is the time to get involved! Come along to the Breakz AGM THIS Wednesday (13 June) at 1515 in Derwent bar.
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The US government, through the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), recently announced new royalty rates to be paid by internet radio webcasters for the years 2006-2010. The news is not good. From the DI blog: “the new rates completely ignore the business and market realities of Internet Radio.”
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As you’re reading this, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve updated the Breakz site. Through other projects, I’ve been playing around with WordPress quite a lot recently, and I’ve wanted to move the Breakz site over to it for a while. WordPress is a great tool for managing the type and level of content Breakz has, running within a modern, (largely) standards-compliant framework.

So why should you care?

WordPress makes it a lot easier to update and manage content on the site, so we should be doing that more often to keep things nice and relevant. The new look hopefully makes finding your way around and reading things a bit easier too.

Events are automatically pulled from the forum and displayed in the main site.* Summaries of the latest gigs are shown on the home page, with full text on the events page. This gives your events a lot more exposure on the site than they may have had before.
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Hey Boy, Hey Girl… Want to be a superstar DJ?

We’ve had a great term for DJing lessons, but alas this term’s teachings have come to an end….

We will however be back next term, hopefully with ReCreation as we did in the autumn term, to educate the masses!
Exact dates to follow when we return after Easter…