Forget the film: a real-life school of rock is set to open in Dublin in September – but students needn’t worry about having a lecturer as annoying as Jack Black.
The Brighton Bristol Institute of Modern Music (Bimm) runs colleges in London, Bristol and Brighton, and is establishing Ireland's first public full-time vocational rock'n'roll degree. Five hundred places, available via the CAO system, are available on the four-year course, which is being run in partnership with DIT.
The curriculum will cover music business and management, as well as the opportunity to study a variety of instruments at its state-of-the-art campus.
Tutorials will be given by some well-known and experienced names in Irish music, such as Cathy Davey, Graham Hopkins, Ollie Cole and Steve Wall.
"I am genuinely excited," said Hopkins. "When I was leaving school there was nothing I would have loved more than having a contemporary modern music college in the style of Bimm available. Bimm Dublin will provide students with an education that offers the closest thing they can get to actually working in the music industry."
Graduates of Bimm's UK course include members of The Kooks and The Ordinary Boys and Beth Rowley.
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