Welcome to our student section!

We hope that you'll find this section invaluable throughout your three years (or more) at University.

We'll be running regular competitions, offering you ways in which you can make your meagre Student Loan last longer, give you tips on how to survive being a student and much much more.
For those new to the north west, we've compiled small but perfectly formed guides to LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for this section or the site in general (keep it clean, if you please!) then we'll be pleased to hear from you.

Don't feel that this is the only part of the site that is of use to you.

We hope you'll enjoy the music that our bands make (you can hear streams in the Music section - here) there's also our Music Industry News section (here) which has all the latest about what's going on in the music industry - impress/stun/gobsmack your friends by casually dropping in the conversation the latest info about, say, MVC going bust, The Beatles suing EMI and much much more.

Don't forget to check out our MySpace site: www.myspace.com/candyproductions



MUSIC INDUSTRY & ENTERTAINMENT JOBS/ WORK EXPERIENCE/COURSES:

WANTED: Street Teamers for Candy Productions

WHAT IS A STREET TEAM?
Simple.
It’s people – hopefully like you – who are really into music!
And those who want to let everyone know about the great music we produce – and get a great reference and bulk up your CV in the process!

WHAT WILL WE ASK YOU TO DO AS A MEMBER OF OUR STREET TEAM?

We're looking for people who love spending time online or out and about at gigs, or both.
The main areas of promotion will be involve:

1. Simply adding our acts logos, and weblinks to your signature on the message boards you currently post on.

2. Spend 30 minutes to an hour each week promoting our bands, their releases and their gigs.

3. Spend as little or a much time as you like at our bands gigs, collecting email addresses for the band’s mailing list and/or handing out flyers.

You can do as little or as much of the above as you like; if you don’t fancy collecting email addresses for example then you don’t have to – just give out flyers instead.

WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF IT?
1. Free gig entry for you plus one into our acts gigs.
2. If you require a reference for a job we’ll be more than happy to provide a glowing one!
3. Make new friends, meet other people who love music as much as you do!

INTERESTED? Then email me cath@candyproductions.co.uk and tell me a little bit about yourself – are you at school/college/uni, where you live, what music you like etc etc.

Hope to hear from you soon

FREE STUFF!

Funky and freestudentstuff.com have teamed up to offer prizes like "free rent for a year" in their competitions, definitely worth checking out.

SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH have lots of info about funding including bursaries and grants. It may take a while to trawl through everything that’s on there, but it may save you having to get a job whilst you study so it’s worth it.

Skill contains advice on where to apply for additional support if you're a disabled student. The Government gives Universities and colleges money to take on disabled students. Take advantage; it's intended for you, so claim it.

You can get your daily newspapers as cheap as chips if you're student. You can pick them up at a cut price rate from shops on your uni campus, but if you want a read while you're in your out-of-town digs then it's back to full price again.
But fear not!

You can send off for cool vouchers which are accepted at all newsagents; just click on the links for The Guardian and The Times below to order them.