Steve Arnott AKA Redeye Feenix
Hull Beats Bus Founder, committed to building confidence and giving young people the space to be creative through music and art workshops. Star of Sean McAllister’s documentary film A Northern Soul.
Stephen Arnott, known as Redeyefeenix, is a hip-hop emcee from Hull and Founder of Beats Bus Records. In 2016, Steve’s Beats Bus journey began as he became the central figure in Sean McAllister’s documentary ‘A Northern Soul’ released in 2018 which went on to receive a Career Achievement Award from the BIFF Festival in Turin, Italy. Beats Bus Records is a multi-award winning social enterprise with a mobile recording studio for outreach work to discover young talent, and teach the history of hip-hop to communities in Yorkshire and the Humber, particularly those with limited access to the arts. It provides young people with hope and aspirations while imparting the values and elements of hip-hop alongside learning, development, and confidence-building classes. Beats Bus also creates educational music videos to campaign for youth safety.
Steve’s dedication to community work earned him an award from the official Zulu Nation. Steve also works with Sounddelivery Media, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and is a graduate of the SSE. www.beats-bus.co.uk.
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Getting to the Heart of A Northern Soul
All eyes were on Hull in 2017 as the city was celebrated as the City of Culture. But behind the scenes the documentary A Northern Soul paints a picture that is less glossy. In this talk Steve shares his experience of putting his life in the spotlight through the documentary and how he’s now trying to create new opportunities for the community he lives in.
In the Media
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Steve Arnott facilitated an event with the Beats Bus where Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey and mayoral hopeful Mike Ross “hit the decks” to spin up mayoral election support. Steve Arnott’s work was covered by the Hull Daily Mail.
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Steve Arnott was profiled in The Big Issue. He spoke about how the Beats Bus is using hip-hop to fight poverty and protect young people from gangs in Hull.
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Steve Arnott was on the Turnaround Project’s The Lived Experience Series podcast sharing his inspiration for creating the Beats Bus and using music to empower young people.
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Sabrina Jones, Rachael Mole, Sam Billingham and Steve Arnott joined NPC Open Philanthropy Panel made up of funders, research/policy makers, practitioners and people with lived experience.
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Steve Arnott wrote ‘I only found out that I share a name with DCI Steve Arnott when my bowel exploded’ for Metro UK.