Spotlight on Hull: Best Newcomer at the 2025 Northern Music Awards, Chiedu Oraka on a scene that punches above its weight — and the industry access it needs to reach the top.
Why I started BLK SCL! — Black British music culture in the North and devolved nations doesn’t grow on moments. It grows on infrastructure.
On June 26th we release KOJ – “PUNK PANTHER”. An important voice from the gritty North — race, class and power said plain, with heart, honesty and purpose.
Today we officially launch BLK SCL! — a multi-strand intervention to scale Black music talent, infrastructure and ownership across the North and the UK's devolved nations, through SOUND, CONNEX and L'Atelier.
