YOUTH workers in Rose Hill are looking for a part-time teacher to help music fans living on the estate.

More than 50 members of Rose Hill Youth Club are missing out on thrice-weekly recording sessions because of they have no one to show them how to use the equipment.

Thousands of pounds of studio technology in the youth club - including a microphone, a soundproof booth and mixing equipment - has sat idle since September due to a lack of qualified staff.

The studio provides everything teenagers could need to write, record and make CDs of their music.

Now youth workers at the club are looking for a self-employed music specialist proficient in Q-Base and Reason software to get the studio open again.

The successful applicant would need to work for up to 12 hours a week.

Adam French, a sports development worker, said: "We have definitely had more than 100 different young people coming to use the studio. It has been badly missed.

"The club members do a range of music types, like grime and hip-hop, but they can do anything - if they want to come up with a boy band and do a Take That tribute, they can.

"The studio is a very good complement to our sports programme. It's a different form of self-expression and it's a confidence boost for people that may not be interested in sport."

Dan Johnson, 14, of Radford Close, said: "It's much more boring without the studio - there's nothing to do. I want to bang out my tunes.

"It's quality, because when we start rapping, everyone comes in and has a great laugh and we get an adrenaline rush off of it."

Rap singer Terry Massingham, 18, of Spencer Crescent, said: "Music is the only reason I come up to the youth club.

"I normally go about two or three times a week. It not being open is doing my head in.

"A lot of people benefit from it and people do actually learn from it.

"They learn how to make music and how to use the computers. It's not just chatting down the microphone."