Nick Hornby is up to something I'd describe as a school of rock.
Hornby is best known as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy. Last year he realized a unique project. He held workshops for school children and had them write song lyrics. He then got professional musicians to write and record songs using those lyrics. The collaboration was called Share More Air and the results are engaging.
Hornby is a founder of the Ministry of Stories, a non-profit organization. Big names such as Zadie Smith, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson have been part of the ministry's activities. In 2012, Hornby organized an endeavor similar to Share More Air. He taught kids about script writing and had them write their own soap series. The students were mentored by an EastEnders screenwriter and their series was fully produced.
Last fall Hornby was interviewed on Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service. Cocker rose to fame in the '90s as frontman of the Britpop group Pulp. They were my favourite band in high school, so I was thrilled to see Jarvis has recently been hosting a radio show. This year is a "fallow" year for the show, as Cocker describes it, however the BBC has posted plenty of clips.
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