A CHEMISTRY graduate and DJ turned music promoter is developing a website to bring the industry's bright, young talent together and direct it on the path to pop stardom.

Graham Jordan, 23, from Kendal, is setting up the music website to help musicians in the North West get in touch.

Graham won the Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC) and Department of Computation IST Enterprise Centre's first ever Ideas Competition.

The ideas competition, in which would-be entrepreneurs submit their business ideas to a panel of academic and industry judges, has landed him a Master of Enterprise scholarship.

Eventually Graham will use his site to organise showcases for the talent he has assembled and attract the attentions of the record industry.

The former Queen Katherine School student got the idea through his involvement with the music industry.

He had been promoting and DJ'ing and had been involved with the Indie society at The University of Manchester, where he graduated this summer with a 2:1 Masters in Chemistry with Honours.

"When I was promoting nights, I would go to places like Affleck's Palace and there would be scrappy bits of paper stuck on the walls, with bits torn off by people who wanted to note down the details," he explained.

"It wasn't an ideal situation.

This is more efficient.

You could spend endless Saturdays walking round all the music shops but this way you could find out what you need to know without leaving the house.

It's much easier to sit at a PC and maintain a great website that people will want to visit."

Graham said the changeover from chemistry to music was no surprise to him: "I have always been interested in music, but had not known what role was for me.

Manchester exposed me to all sorts of possibilities..."