WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
The Yardbird Creative are a collective of individuals with a commonality and passion for real music, community and the arts. An evolutionary coming together of like minds from the foundations and legacy of The Yardbird Jazz Club.
If you need your party starting and your people stuck to the dancefloor, TYC have all the right records and grooves, as solo dj's, combination or full collective. We also offer competitively priced event graphics and a consultancy service for individuals, co-ops and c.i.c.'s that need expertise bid writing to gain arts and charity funding for new or established projects.
We are also in the process of setting up a record label to release our own dynamite dancefloor productions on vinyl and digital formats.
Read on below to learn more about us and use the contact form to get in touch.
OLLIE LLOYD
Former owner/director of legendary Yardbird Jazz Club in Birmingham and now Arts Centre Manager of £2.8 million National Lottery Heritage Funded project 'Sound & Art St Swithun's' in Worcester, Ollie Lloyd's passion for creating and keeping a happy dancefloor stems from 28 years of DJ'ing, record collecting, radio presenting, event graphics creating and promoting at various venues in the UK and Europe, as well as his own institution in the Birmingham leftfield club scene for 9 years.
Ollie now curates events for arts and music venue, St Swithun's in Worcester, a grade I listed church and community project supporting emerging local artists and musicians, as well as running his own nights 'Braziliance', 'The Yardbird Sessions' and 'Home Cookin'' at various venues across the Midlands.
Ollie's sets dig deep into heavy-weight Latin and Brazilian nuggets as well as more contemporary dancefloor dynamite rhythms and beats, always on vinyl and mostly 45s.
HELEN SEPHTON
