I’m in Madrid today at a conference about the independent music industry in the digital age. I’m doing the keynote speech tomorrow, and I’m here with my colleague Jez Collins (left, above) who’s going to be talking about music, identity and cities. The first thing we’ve noticed is the heat. It’s around 40 degrees here. [...]
Categories: Travel,University
Tagged: Conference, Madrid, Seminar
From Brass Bands to Colombian Hip Hop. This year’s national Un-Convention event promises to be the biggest and best yet. Taking influence from Un-Convention events around the world and inviting some of the most inspirational and influential figures from the global grassroots music scene – this year will use Un-Conventional spaces – including a barge, [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Technology
Tagged: Music, Seminar, unconvention
I’m in Macclesfield for the next couple of days attending Un-Convention Factory. It’s the 30th anniversary of (Joy Division lead singer) Ian Curtis’s death, and we’re marking that with a special event unlike any other we’ve ever done. There’ll be 8 bands, 100 invited delegates from across the creative industries and 300 attendees who have [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Conference, Seminar, unconvention
Before we start, could you please clap, so I can take a photo for my blog? A bit of a rushed presentation this morning at XMediaLab’s Sounds Digital – with almost no voice left at all – but I think I managed to make the main point I was trying to make: that music in [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Technology
Tagged: Seminar, Sounds Digital, xmedialab
I’m speaking at this event in Dublin in June, and really looking forward to it. I think this will be the first time I’m sharing a stage with Gerd Leonhard. Gerd’s keynote talk is called: ‘The Future of Music: Mobile, Video, Social… and Paid?’ Mine is called: ‘The Future of the Music Business and other [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: Seminar
Born to be Wide seminar in Edinburgh, as seen from the panel [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is a recording I made of the panel I was on with Steve from Music Ally, Ruth from Fat Northerner and Un-Convention, Scott from The Orchard and the BPI, and Will from PRS (who was [...]
Categories: Music,Musician,New Music Strategies
Discussing digital promotion at Symphony Hall On a day when my laptop’s hard drive died, I’m delighted not to choose the photo of my broken computer for my picture of the day – and even more delighted to be able to post this blog from my MacBook with a fresh new hard drive installed (everything [...]
Categories: 365,Birmingham
One New Zealand Music Video a day for NZ Music Month.
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Video
Tagged: Music, New Zealand, Seminar, University, Video
One New Zealand Music Video a day for NZ Music Month.
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Video
Tagged: Music, New Zealand, Seminar, University, Video
River of ice outside the hotel I’ve spent the last few days in Helsinki at a music industry conference called Is This It. Since I’m not that great at mingling (or at least, slow to start), I brought my laptop down to the first networking breakfast session on Friday. Coffee and email, while people settled [...]
