a MUSIC NEWS Scotland special supplement
the highland's creative industries festival
panels - workshops - film screenings - training - Q&A - keynote interviews- music showcases
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goNORTH
music showcases
goNORTH has 70 acts set to perform across Inverness at the thirteenth edition of Scotland’s leading showcase festival for the creative industries “We are delighted with the quality and range of acts invited to showcase at this year’s goNORTH”, said Director for Music Shaun Arnold. “The A&R process to establish our 2013 list proved particularly challenging as we received a record number of high quality submissions. As goNORTH continues to develop, each year the music element becomes increasingly competitive. We would like to offer a huge thank you to all the acts that applied to play this year and look forward to delivering our most ambitious showcase programme to date”. Showcases are on Wednesday and Thursday evening at venues across Inverness, see this link for details - http://gonorthfestival.co.uk/documents/gonorth-at-a-glance-programme.pdf ALARM BELLS https://www.facebook.com/FakeMajor https://www.facebook.com/alarmbellsalarmbells FAT GOTH ALGERNON DOLL https://www.facebook.com/fatgoth1 www.facebook.com/pages/Algernon-Doll/70427898016
ARCHES https://www.facebook.com/ArchesUK ATLAS:EMPIRE https://www.facebook.com/atlasempire BE LIKE PABLO https://www.facebook.com/belikepablo BEAR ARMS https://www.facebook.com/beararmsuk BEHOLD THE OLD BEAR
www.facebook.com/pages/Behold-the-Old-Bear/144478815569930
BIRDHEAD https://www.facebook.com/birdheadmusic BLACK INTERNATIONAL https://www.facebook.com/blackinternational
https://www.facebook.com/prontomama RED RONSON https://www.facebook.com/redronsonmusic
FLUTES https://www.facebook.com/uptheflutes
ROMAN NOSE https://www.facebook.com/romannosemusic
FOREST FIRES https://www.facebook.com/ForestFiresBand
SAINT MAX AND THE FANATICS https://www.facebook.com/saintmaxmusic
FRIENDS IN AMERICA https://www.facebook.com/FriendsInAmerica
SHAMBLES MILLER https://www.facebook.com/iamshambles
GALOSHINS https://www.facebook.com/galoshins
SO MANY ANIMAL CALLS https://www.facebook.com/somanyanimalcalls
GARDEN OF ELKS https://www.facebook.com/gardenofelks
THE BOY WHO TRAPPED THE SUN www.facebook.com/theboywhotrappedthesun
HECTOR BIZERK https://www.facebook.com/hectorbizerk
THE BROKEN RAVENS https://www.facebook.com/thebrokenravens
HOMEWORK https://www.facebook.com/homeworkfans
THE DEADLINE SHAKES https://www.facebook.com/thedeadlineshakes
BOOK GROUP
www.facebook.com/pages/Book-Group/120667278025040
JEMMA TWEEDIE THE IMAGINEERS https://www.facebook.com/JemmaTweedieMusic https://www.facebook.com/TheImagineers
CALL TO MIND https://www.facebook.com/calltomind
JO MANGO https://www.facebook.com/JoMangoOfficial
THE LAFONTAINES https://www.facebook.com/thelafontainesmusic
CAMPFIRES IN WINTER https://www.facebook.com/CampfiresInWinter
KOBI https://www.facebook.com/KOBIMUSICUK
THE MOUSE THAT ATE THE CAT https://www.facebook.com/TMTATC
CARNIVORES https://www.facebook.com/carnivoresuk
LIDH https://www.facebook.com/lidhmusic
THE OK SOCIAL CLUB www.facebook.com/theoksocialclubofficial
CASUAL SEX https://www.facebook.com/casualsexmusic
LIONEL https://www.facebook.com/Lionelbandsco
THE OXIDES https://www.facebook.com/THEOXIDES
CLEAVERS https://www.facebook.com/Cleaverz
LITTLE FIRE https://www.facebook.com/littlefiremusic
THE RECOVERY https://www.facebook.com/therecoveryuk
DAVEY HORNE https://www.facebook.com/daveyhorne
MIKE NISBET https://www.facebook.com/nisbetmike
THE SEA ATLAS https://www.facebook.com/the.sea.atlas
DONALD MACDONALD & THE ISLANDS https://www.facebook.com/dmacandtheislands
MINIATURE DINOSAURS https://www.facebook.com/miniaturedinosaurs
THE VELVETEEN SAINTS https://www.facebook.com/TheVelveteenSaints
DUNCAN OVERMEER www.facebook.com/DuncanOvermeerMusic
PINACT https://www.facebook.com/Pinact
THE YAWNS https://www.facebook.com/itstheyawns
DYLAN TIERNEY https://www.facebook.com/tierney.dylan
PLASTIC ANIMALS https://www.facebook.com/plasticanimals
VASQUEZ https://www.facebook.com/wearevasquez
EUGENE TWIST https://www.facebook.com/eugenetwistmusic
POOR THINGS
www.facebook.com/pages/Poor-Things/154212944593014
WILLIE CAMPBELL https://www.facebook.com/willie.campbell.52
PRONTO MAMA
WOODENBOX
FAKE MAJOR
www.facebook.com/pages/Woodenbox-with-a-Fistful-of-Fivers/107567005997
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about
goNORTH
Scotland's leading creative industries festival now in its 13th year takes place in Inverness on the 5 and 6 June. goNORTH is an annual Creative Industries Festival taking place in Inverness featuring a broad range of Music, Screen, Publishing, Fashion and Interactive content. Each year the event brings a wide programme of panels, workshops, film screenings, training opportunities, Q&A sessions, keynote interviews and live music showcases to the north of Scotland. Last year we introduced the goNORTH Festival Tour, an exciting development which saw us take goNORTH back to its roots and support emerging talent at five of the finest independent festivals in the country. The tour also staged a short film screening tent for our Five Minute Wonders programme. We are delighted to confirm that our 2012 music schedule will include Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, The Wickerman Festival, Loopallu, Summer In The City 2012 and B-Fest. The Five Minute Wonder tent will appear at Tiree Music Festival, Belladrum and Loopallu.
In recent years goNORTH has featured an international array of talent spanning not only Scotland and the wider UK, but also the USA, Russia, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Australia and Japan.
We pride ourselves on generating a dynamic and vibrant A diverse selection of films made with our partners MG Alba, environment where organisations and individuals across all FilmG, The Scottish Documentary Institute, Digital Shorts and levels of experience can get together, make connections, share ideas and resources, and most importantly, have a a host of exciting independent filmmakers will also be really great time. screened across the Festival Tour. As always, all panels, workshops and live showcases are free and open to the public, with industry and media requested to register.
The goNORTH Festival Tour:
A significant volume of acts invited to showcase will also secure additional opportunities across the goNORTH Festival Tour schedule. Partners for 2013 are Wickerman Festival, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival and Loopallu. www.gonorthfestival.co.uk https://twitter.com/goNORTHFEST www.facebook.com/gonorthinverness
Duncan Overmeer who is based in the remote West Highlands plays a goNORTH showcase :photo by Mary Overmeer Photography www.musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com
goNORTH
- something for everyone!
goNORTH may have been originally just about music but it's gradually developed over the years to be a well-rounded creative industries event encompassing screen, fashion, crafts, publishing and digital media. If you want to get creative in any shape or form then goNORTH has something for you. For full details of the non-music events got to www.gonorthfestival.co.uk
goNORTH are delighted to have worked with The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) to introduce an Independent Music Fair to this year’s festival. Taking place at the Mercure Hotel on Thursday 6 June between 12pm and 4.30pm, the event features stalls from Scotland’s finest independent record labels and music retailers, who will all have locally produced records, CDs and other merchandise for sale. Participants will include Chemikal Underground, Song By Toad Records, Olive Grove, Middle of Nowhere Recordings, Comets & Cartwheels and others! There will also be short live performances from a selection of associated artists. SMIA are also hosting the 'Inside the Scottish Album of the Year Award' seminar on Wednesday 5 June at 11.30am in the Inverness Suite. For more information on The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA), visit www.smia.org.uk
Full goNORTH Film Screening Programme
goNORTH is more than just music and the organisers are delighted to announce the full list of films, which make up their Screening Programme at this year's goNORTH Festival. Some of the films have been selected from an open call for submissions to feature alongside a specially curated programme of feature length and short films. All in all they have a nice line up for you, go to the goNORTH website to start planning the films you want to see. Screenings will take place from 10.30am to 5pm over the 5-6 June in the Mercure Hotel, Inverness, FREE to all delegates.
Abagail Grey ‘Beauty’ directed by Tristan M Aitchison Arthur Cant directed by Fabio Dominguez BAFTA screenings including The Making of Longbird directed by Will Anderson BARE directed by Gordon Napier Busking in Australia directed by June Caravel Contra-Tempo directed by Luis Candeias Close Encounters directed by Douglas Caldow Dead dans directed by Keiko Yamazaki Deid directed by Bruce Taylor Food for the Mind directed by Manjeet S Gill GMAC compilation of shorts Hitching the A1 directed by Gary Mcquiggin BBC: The Victorians – Behind The Scenes directed by Tom Duncan BBC: The Victorians – Brodie Castle directed by Tom Duncan BBC: The Victorians – Harris Emigration directed by Roddy Maclean BBC: The Victorians – Living Conditions directed by Helen Graham BBC: The Victorians – Shetland Lace directed by Aidan Nicol BBC: The Victorians – Shetland Times directed by Aidan Nicol BBC: The Victorians – Shinty, The Wild Game directed by Helen Graham BBC: The Victorians – Up Helly Aa directed by Aidan Nicol Metro directed by Albinea Shakirova My Lives And Times directed by Gary Fraser My Name Was Jane directed by Karel Dolak Plagium directed by Brady Hood Small Gifts directed by Brady Hood Somebody's Daughter directed by Gareth Peevers Somewhere Near Tapachula directed by Stefan Hunt The Collection directed by Andrew Murchie The State of Greenock directed by David Newman and Gavin Grant Window Seats 'Juliette's Letter' directed by Window Seats An Drochaid/The Bridge Rising directed by Robbie Fraser Timelock directed by David Griffiths Tumult directed by Johnny Barrington You've been Trumped directed by Anthony Baxter
Gonorth Seedlings Stage @ Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival has announced the first wave of acts confirmed to perform on the goNORTH Seedlings Stage this year. "We are delighted to have programmed the majority of the goNORTH Seedlings Stage from our 2013 Showcase List", said goNORTH Director for Music, Shaun Arnold."Belladrum is a key festival on the wider Scottish calendar, and has developed a fantastic reputation for supporting new artists to develop their audience". "It's another fantastic year for unsigned and emerging talent at Bella", added Festival Director Joe Gibbs. "Most of these acts can be found at the goNORTH Seedlings Stage which has become a mecca for people seeking the next wave of new music coming from the Highlands and wider Scotland." goNorth Seedlings Stage 2013 Cleavers / Prides / Casual Sex / Roman Nose / Blood Relatives / Red Ronson / Ranald / Dylan Tierney / Crystal Seagulls / Three Blind Wolves / Garden of Elks / Fat Goth / St. Max and the Fanatics / Fake Major / State of Flux / Bear Arms / Little Fire / Lionel
More acts will be announced over the coming weeks. For full details visit: www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
Radio goNORTH will be broadcasting live across the festival - listen live @ www.radiogonorth.com - options for all platforms.
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goNORTH Wednesday 5 June SMIA: Inside The Scottish Album of the Year Award
music panels
Two of Scotland’s most respected songwriters come together for what’s sure to be an inspiring and entertaining close to day one of the conference.
11.30am – 12.15pm Inverness Suite
THURSDAY 6 JUNE
As part of this year’s goNORTH conference, the SMIA will be hosting a seminar discussing the challenges of developing The SAY Award. With 100 nominators, twenty albums, eight artists, four sponsorship partners, two media partners, two judging panels, filming of over a dozen live sessions, an art exhibition and an award ceremony to organise and oversee, The SAY Award has rapidly developed into a hugely complex initiative. We will be available to answer questions and discuss the challenges, pitfalls and highlights of The SAY Award’s story so far...
Born To Be Wide: A&R Development
Meet the Publishers 12.30pm – 1.30pm Inverness Suite
11.30am – 12.30pm Inverness Suite Speakers: Olaf Furniss / Brian Hetherman / Jane Third / Matthew Young / Pip Newby / Robert Hicks - For many years A&R managers were regarded as the gatekeepers to fame and fortune, attracting acts with huge advances and occasionally guiding them to success. But as many of the world’s biggest stars rely on hits written by songwriters/composers, and labels have fewer resources to nurture talent, how is the role changing? Are publishing A&Rs becoming more important, are artists expected to be more 'market ready' and who is taking the lead in developing acts?
Speakers: Allan McGowan / Blair McDonald / Si Paul - This panel will look at the multi-faceted landscape of music publishing. Bringing together What Do Producers a range of perspectives, the session will give Actually Do? attendees a broader understanding of the 12.45pm – 1.45pm current and future aspects of one of the Inverness Suite industry’s key revenue drivers. There will be a particular focus on how new artistes can better Speakers: Mick Glossop / Charlie Andrew / exploit business opportunities in this space. Bruno Ellingham / Ellie Giles / Giles Perring Many people, including industry professionals, Born To Be Wide: are surprisingly unaware of the role of the record producer. The general misunderstanding International Booking that it’s a technical operation concerned with audio quality accounts for around 10% of the Agents role. In reality, musical arrangement, inspiring 2.15pm – 3.15pm performances, editing, counselling, psychology, Inverness Suite mixing (an art in itself!)- and mentoring young Speakers: Olaf Furniss / Doug Johnson / Emma and in-experienced artists without the support of a record company all come under the producer's Hogan / Hilde Spille / Lisa Whytock - Getting a booking agent is the holy grail for emerging acts remit. This session aims to offer enlightenment eager to go on tour and play festivals. But what and inspiration to attendees with the hope that should artists be considering before signing with they will develop more meaningful and creative an agency and what can they reasonably expect relationships with record producers from their representative? This international panel brings together agents from both the UK Meet the Buyers and abroad to look at how they differ, and what 2.30pm – 3.30pm they have in common. Inverness Suite
The 10 Rules of Successful Music Placement in Television 3.30pm – 4.30pm Inverness Suite Speakers: Mark Gordon / Adrian Cooke / James Warbuton/ Simon Pursehouse
Rab Noakes in Conversation with Gary Clark 4.45pm - 5.30pm Inverness Suite
- see p6+7 for panellists
'Fake Major' showcase : photo by Euan Robertson
3.45pm – 4.45pm Inverness Suite Speakers: Ray Paul / Ammo Talwar / Terri Walker / KOF / Maxime - Former Mercury Prize winner/ Def Jam artiste Terri Walker joins Kof and Maxime to offer a heads-up on successful writing, performing, collaboration and promotion. Joining them are Punch Records CEO Ammo Talwar MBE and Moderator Ray Paul for what’s sure to be a lively debate on developing craft, building hype, and breaking through in the current climate.
Music Week Closing Keynote with Pledge Music Managing Director Malcolm Dunbar 5.00pm - 5.45pm Inverness Suite
After a long career in A&R, heading departments at labels including Island Records, Warner/East West Speakers: Sat Bisla / Mamie Colman / Ernesto and V2 , Malcolm Elias / Paul Sims / Keren Mckean - Music use is Dunbar can now evolving via various platforms: radio, film, TV, claim to be at the gaming, movie trailers, retail and brands, as well forefront of changing as an array of digital platforms. Our session will business models focus on the current and future landscape of within the music music licensing and use from buyers who industry. Managing constantly use music for their various projects. Director and co-founder of Pledge Music since We’ll discuss the creative and commercial 2009, Dunbar and partner Benji Rogers are aspects of music use from buyers looking to carving the way for a rapidly growing direct-todiscover new music for their plethora of visual fan market. Music Week’s Tom Pakinkis will talk media and brand integration projects locally, to Dunbar about his career, the evolution of the nationally and internationally. traditional music industry and its shape in 2013 in the face of new consumer habits and routes to The Song, The Voice, market.
The Graft and The Hype
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goNORTH
music panellists
panellists taking part in the goNORTH music events - see page 5 for event details Blair McDonald, Partner, Nettwerk Music
Allan McGowan, Editor, VIP News
Group. Blair is responsible for the overall management of Nettwerk’s publishing business from creative to administrative. He previously spent seven years at Virgin Music Publishing, seven years as Managing Director at Sony/ATV Music, three years as Managing Director of Columbia Records and two years running his own label and publishing company.
Allan has some thirty years of experience in the advertising, music and entertainment industries. He has worked in record retail, as a concert promoter, artist manager and booking agent for companies including Chrysalis and Virgin. At present he is News Editor for Vip News, an on-line data and news service for the live music industry.
Olaf Furniss is a music-business event
Si Paul, Writer/ Producer, Notting Hill Music Group. Si has over 20 years of music business experience, as a record producer/writer, DJ and remixer. At present Si holds the position of CEO at Hookline & Singer Music, an affiliate publishing division of Notting Hill Music Group as well as Marketing Director and booker for Miami Nightclub here in Inverness.
Emma Hogan, Booking Agent, works for ITB, one of the world’s largest booking agencies responsible for the live bookings of superstars like Neil Young and Bob Dylan to Mumford & Sons, Biffy Clyro and Rage Against The Machine. Emma has a growing roster of talent including Dry the River and Scotland’s My Latest Novel.
Adrian Cooke is founder and Director of Portmanteau – a music licensing agency representing various record labels, publishers and artists from the UK and mainland Europe and placing their music in audio-visual productions globally. Recent placements include the Star Wars Kinect game for Xbox, trailer for Fast & Furious 5 and HBO TV series True Blood.
organiser, journalist, lecturer and qualified tour guide, who sometimes manages to combine various roles in the same job. He is based in Edinburgh, but regularly works for international music business conferences outside Scotland.
Lisa Whytock, Director, Active Events, based in Scotland they represent artists internationally and have been working the UK, European and Australasian touring circuits for 23 years. Active produces Showcase Scotland at Celtic Connections and represents acts including Breabach, Luka Bloom, Capercaillie and Session A9, working in association with Playpen Agency.
Steve Farris, Managing Director, Polar Patrol Publishing. Steve is Managing Director of Polar Patrol Publishing, set up by members of Snow Patrol. From his teenage years doing lights for The Levellers to A&R assistant at EMI then A&R manager at Sony/ATV, Steve signed Snow Patrol and Belle & Sebastian to their first publishing deals.
Hilde Spille, Partner/ Booking Agent, Paperclip
Doug Johnson, Talent Buyer, Summerfest Doug's career spans 25 years, working as an artist manager, A&R to producing large-scale events and festivals. Today Doug is a music consultant / talent buyer for Summerfest – an 11 day music festival in Milwaukee, WI, with an attendance of over 900,000, the highest attended music festival in the USA. Mark Gordon founded Score Draw Music nearly 10 years ago, providing music and scores for a range of global clients from international brands to major television networks, covering everything from drama and sport to children’s television. Other services include music clearances / supervision, voice-over recording to ADR and sound design.
Agency. Hilde became a partner of the Paperclip Agency in 1995 alongside founder Rob Berends. Based in Netherlands, the core business is as a European booking agency and as Dutch promoters. In addition, the agency is the exclusive bookers for the Conincx Pop Festival and handles the administrative affairs for Network Europe.
James Warbuton is a music supervisor and composer at lime pictures, who work within three distinct genres: children’s, youth drama and reality drama. James has placed music on Geordie Shore, TOWIE and House of Anubis and currently works on Hollyoaks, subsequently placing over 40 minutes of music on UK TV each week and contributes to the BBC ‘Sound of’ Poll.
Simon Pursehouse is the Director of Music
Giles Perring, Producer, Sounds of Jura. Giles Perring has a studio on the Isle of Jura where he produces recordings. A musician [and music educator] for over 3 decades, with a successful production music catalogue to his name, he actively looks to work across a wide range of musical forms. After mainly producing the recordings of his own diverse musical projects he began to emerge as a producer of other artists in the early noughties. He has worked most recently with singer songwriters such as Karl Culley and Ginny Clee, as well as punk/folk band Brigada Mercy. He has been acclaimed for his work in the World Music arena with the Tuvan band Yat Kha.
services at independent music publisher Sentric Music where he drives the sync side of the business overseeing music being placed in TV, movies and adverts worldwide. Sentric’s catalogue is currently featured on a daily basis on shows such as Hollyoaks, Skins and Made In Chelsea.
Brian Hetherman, Director, Curve Music Brian became the youngest Director of A&R for MCA Records and head of MCA Music Publishing after a number of years at Canadian indie label Duke Street Records. Brian founded Cerberus Artist Management and Curve Music, is President of the Music Managers Forum in Canada and Vice Chair on the IMMF Board.
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goNORTH
music panellists
Matthew Young, Owner, Song, by Toad
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Records. An international mongrel who accidentally washed up in Edinburgh nearly seven years ago, Matthew recently abandoned a perfectly respectable career as a design engineer to run Song, by Toad Records full-time. The label is actually an off-shoot of Song, by Toad, a music blog he has been writing since 2004, which slowly expanded to include regular weekly podcasts, video sessions, a radio show, gig nights and, in 2008, the label.
Malcom Dunbar, MD, Pledge Music
Jane Third, VP Because UK, Because Music Jane’s career in the industry began at the age of 19 working in Artist Relations at Universal. She moved to Because Music in 2006, going on to sign Metronomy with label owner Emmanuel Deburetel. As their UK roster developed (Erol Alkan, Connan Mockasin, Django Django), she took over as Head of Marketing and A&R running marketing campaigns for international acts including Justice and Charlotte Gainsbourg. She became Vice President of Because UK in 2012.
Mick Glossop (Music Producers Guild) Mick Glossop has been producing, engineering and mixing for over 30 years. Initially known for recording and producing new wave and punk bands such as Magazine, Public Image Ltd, The Skids and Penetration, he had success collaborating with many other artists, including The Waterboys, Frank Zappa, Ian Gillan, John Lee Hooker and Lloyd Cole. He has a 25 year history with Van Morrison and spent most of 2004, 2005 & 2006 extensively mixing Van's archive material.
Robert Hicks, Director, Ironworks Group/ Middle of Nowhere Recordings. Instrumental in founding Rock Ness, Loopallu, and establishing Belladrum as a key fixture on the festival calendar, Robert Hicks has been at the vanguard of Scotland’s live sector for over 12 years- including being a partner in the Ironworks Venue in Inverness. Adding a management strand to his business in 2010 to represent acclaimed singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni, this development has naturally led to the launch of his own label with Rachel, Middle of Nowhere Recordings.
Ellie Giles, Ellie began working in venues as a student, then in A&R where she signed White Lies and The Music. After realising that the development of artists was moving more towards management, she joined forces with Carrie Ridley and founded Jigsaw Music Management, the company manages a roster of producers, mixers and writers.
Ray Paul, started at BBC local radio in London before progressing through the ranks to Head of Programming. In 2001 he joined the launch team for 1Xtra before becoming Executive Producer of weekend programming at BBC Radio 1. Leaving in 2010, he set up the Playmaker Group- a creative solutions company specialising in programme production, talent representation and media training and consultancy.
After a long career in A&R, heading departments at labels including Island Records, Warner/East West and V2 , Malcolm Dunbar can now claim to be at the forefront of changing business models within the music industry. Managing Director and co-founder of Pledge Music since 2009, Dunbar and partner Benji Rogers are carving the way for a rapidly growing direct-to-fan market. Music Week’s Tom Pakinkis will talk to Dunbar about his career, the evolution of the traditional music industry and its shape in 2013 in the face of new consumer habits and routes to market.
Pip Newby, Pip is A&R manager for [PIAS] Recordings, working out of the London office. Pip signs and develops acts for [PIAS]’s two in-house labels, Play It Again Sam and Different Recordings. Acts signed to [PIAS] include Editors, Young Guns, Ghostpoet, Lord Huron and Arcane Roots. Pip joined the company in 2011, having previously worked as A&R scout for Atlantic Records and run his own label and music consultancy Friends Vs Records.
Bruno Ellingham, Producer. Bruno began his career as the in-house engineer at Moles Studios, Bath, working with such internationally renowned artists as Massive Attack and New Order. After building long-standing collaborations with producers Steve Osbourne and Tim Goldsworthy, Bruno has recently produced the latest release from the Maccabees, ‘Given to the Wild.
Charlie Andrew, Producer. Charlie is a producer, festival director and musician. He produced the Mercury Award-winning Alt-J album 'An Awesome Wave', celebrated a top 10 hit with new Madness album 'Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da' and was awarded Breakthrough Producer of the Year at the MPG Awards 2013 (Music Producers Guild).
Keren McKean, Director, We Make Music Work Keren McKean has worked in the music industry her whole life, holding high level positions in Artist Management, A&R, Publishing, Festival Management and Marketing. In addition to creating a range of experiential music / marketing campaigns, Keren has been most successful in artist management, with her personal highlight managing and signing Snow Patrol.
Sat Bisla, Founder, A&R Worldwide/ MUSEXPO Sat is President and founder of leading business conference MUSEXPO and A&R Worldwide, an innovative artist discovery and development platform. His varied career has helped expose platinum-selling artists to American and Worldwide audiences, working as a DJ, radio programmer, club booker, artist manager, A&R scout and consultant.
Paul Sims, Head of Music, MOFILM Mamie Coleman, VP Music, FOX Mamie is Vice President of Music and Production at FOX, responsible for all of the networks primetime show marketing and promotions, including The X Factor, GLEE and American Idol. With over 19 years of experience it’s no surprise she was recognised as one of the most powerful women in the music industry by Billboard.
Paul has been licensing digital music since its inception. Introducing Universal and Warner Music to ringtones, he went on to take up Executive Director roles at Webtv and DX3 and also negotiated the first unlimited MP3 download service for DATZ. For the last six years Paul has headed up the music and licensing element of the world’s largest crowd sourced agency MOFILM whose clients include Coca Cola, Diageo, Chevrolet and Playstation.
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