As the runner-up winner of the BTEC Learner of the Year Award 2008, I was invited by Edexcel to attend the launch of VQ Day at the House of Commons on the 23rd April 2008 and the actual celebration of the VQ Day during a cocktail party at the Royal Opera House on 23rd July 2008 which was hosted by Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon.

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Me and another Student invited to this special event	Alesha Dixson and I at the VQ Day Celebration event at the Royal Opera House
Me in Convent Garden	Ed from Edexcel and me at the VQ Day Party at the Royal Opera House London
Can you spot my name on the big board of successful students?	Me at the VQ Day - Can you spot my name?

This is me with some celebrities at the movie premiere Flashbacks of a Fool (Click on the picture to see the full size and complete album)
Me with Lily Allen	Me with Daniel Craig

                 

  

 

I have just completed my last year studying for a National Diploma in Media Production and am proud to say that I was hand-selected by Edexcel to the launch of VQ Day at the House of Commons on the 23rd April 2008 together with three more successful students from across the Country.  I was also invited to the actual celebration of the VQ Day during  a cocktail party at the Royal Opera House on the 23rd July 2008 which was hosted by Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon.

 

I am a very ambitious person and at only 18 years old, I already completed a period of work experience at Bliss Magazine, written for several publications, have won the Runner-up Learner of the Year Award 2008 as part of the FE Sussex Spring Awards, have won the 2008 Scamp Award for The Most Promising Journalist Award which was sponsored by the Central Sussex College and been offered a place at University  where I will be studying  BA Hons in Media and Communications starting September 2008. 

 

Through my BTEC course, I was able to apply for a NUJ (National Union of Journalist) membership.  It has allowed me attend and report on various events including the Chelsea Player of the Year Awards, the Indy Music Awards, The Travel Destination Show, a press pass and backstage access to the entire duration  of the Glastonbury Festival 2007 and 2008 also The Great Escape Festival 2008 in Brighton.   

 

I enjoy photographing everything but mainly bands playing live and to enhance my career as a young Music Journalist I try to get involved as much as can with the media so I arrange my own interviews with bands and write articles on Record Labels as well as Reviews on Albums, Bands, Venues, Mainstream Music, Gigs, books and Movies and I do all this work on a voluntary basis free of charge.  

 

At the moment I write and do interviews for my own website and also various websites that I contribute to, including Europunk, Creature Mag, my college magazine “Scoop”, The Telegraph and MTV Blogs, and am part of the editorial team for the Sussex Student Network website.  I am also scheduled to start work experience for NME Magazine in August 2008 and Kerrang Magazine later on in October 2008.   

 

I have also created another website with more work that I have been doing, please check out: 

http://www.alexandramcloughlin.wordpress.com

 

Here are some links to sites that I contribuite to:

 

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=AidenQueen&p=r

 

http://www.europunk.net/members.php?id=3106

 

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/alexandra_mcloughlin

 

http://www.mtv.co.uk/user/alexmcloughlin

 

http://www.creaturemag.com/blog/p?=27

 

http://www.studentnetworksussex.org.uk/members/alex.html

 

 

 

 

Me with Dave Grohl from The Foofighters

 

 

 

Me with Chris Daughtry from the band Daughtry

and the American TV show American Idol

 

 

Me with Stone Gods (Former band The Darkness)

 

 

Apart from contributing to online magazines I also broadcast all my audio interviews on youtube by creating video clips and adding the photos that I take of the bands from live shows, so whilst listening to interview you can also watch a slideshow of photos taken by me. Please check out my yourtube page on http://uk.youtube.com/user/AidenQueen or just click on the INTERVIEWS on the side of this page.

 

I enjoy travelling and learning about other people’s culture. I can speak some Spanish and hope to translate all my interviews into Spanish and create another website in Spanish so I can broadcast myself and get understood by people from other countries.

 

I am proud to say that I am very familiar with many venues where I have been given backstage and press access. Some of these venues are the Carlling Brixton Accademy, London Barfly, London Astoria, Earls Court, Leeds Harewood House, Brighton Concorde, Brighton Dome, Brighton Centre, London Bull and Gate Pub, London Meanfidller, the 02, Harlequin Theatre in Redhill and many more.

 

Now that you learnt so much about me, please browse through my website and leave a comment on the guest book.

 

FOR MANY VIDEO CLIPS THAT I HAVE CREATED WITH PICTURES THAT I HAVE TAKEN AT THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2007 and 2008 PLEASE SEE MY GLASTONBURY PAGE ON THE SIDE 

 

 

 

Me proudly holding my Runner-up Learner of the Year Award Certificate

 

 

 

Alexandra McLoughlin and Alesha Dixson at the VQ Day Celebration event at the Royal Opera House

 

 

 

Me with Hatcham Social DJing at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton

 

 

 

This website was created by me, Alexandra McLoughlin (Sorry if it doesn't look too professional)