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HWCH Industry Conference 2010 will challenge & engage anyone with a stake in the future of music, Jim Carroll (OTR / The Irish Times) has summed it up below.
Speed sessions & opportunites to meet the industry will take place Friday 8th & Saturday 9th in the Button Factory from 10.30AM to 1PM. Information on the panels are outlined below. More information on all panelists & other industry to follow.
HARD WORKING CLASS HEROES INDUSTRY PANELS / 2010
Welcome to the future...
Folks, it’s time to forget the past. Forget those old battles, those ancient debates, those hoary arguments which go round and round and round like the wheels on the 15A bus and, unlike that particular Dublin Bus route, don’t
really get you anywhere.That was then, this is now and, at HWCH ‘10, it’s about what comes next.We know record labels are in a shocking state. We know that the live music sector is not all it’s cracked up to be for new acts. We know that everything is not in its right place and that everything you know is wrong.But no-one has taken the ball off the pitch and gone home with it. We’re still here. You’re still here. People are still having the crack making music. People are still clamouring to hear music. People are still seeking out new music, new bands, new names, new sounds. All involved are still excited, engaged, curious, determined, ambitious, enthusiastic.Yes, the future is unplanned and kind of scary and a bit of a blur, but we’re all adults, right? We can do this. At HWCH’10, a number of panels will provide some rough sketches as to how it might all pan out. They might be right, they might be wrong, but they will be looking forward.Like we said, welcome to the future. Jetpacks welcome. Jim Carroll / On The Record
FUNDING Friday 8th October / Button Factory / 2pm
The pitch: Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a band would sign a colossal major label record deal, release five records, marry supermodels, sell out Croke Park, fight a cocaine addition, divorce the supermodels, sue their
accountant and live happily ever after.In 2010, though, any new band dreaming that dream needs a bit of a reality check. While most of the above may still apply, it sure doesn’t always begin with a major record deal.
Instead of relying on label deals, canny acts and music-makers have to look elsewhere for the cash it takes to keep the show on the road. Our funding panel dig deep to see where the cash for tomorrow’s acts is going to come from and how you can get a slice of the action.
Speakers:
Toby L (Transgressive Records)
Paul Barton (Pledge)
Safta Jeffery (Taste Music)
Kat Morris (The Great Escape)
FANS, Friday 8th October / Button Factory / 3.30pm
The pitch: Meet your new best pals. No, they are not the bane of your life. No, they are not stalkers. No, they are not fickle fair-weather friends (that would be the bloggers who think they’re writing for the NME).In Music Industry 6.0, adding fans to your cause is the second most important marketing activity of all. The most important activity? That’s keeping them on side. And yes, this involves Twitter, Facebook, Breaking Tunes, MySpace and whatever other social media networking site is currently on-trend.
Our panel look at the who, why, how, where and when of making fans and influencing people.
Speakers:
Laura Seach (Tedra)
Pat Riley (Domino Records, US)
Gill Mills (MySpace Radio)
Jim Lawless (The Coronas)
FAME Saturday 9th October / The Button Factory / 2pm
The pitch: Playing the fame game in 2010 provokes a lot of questions. Is word of mouth better than getting your tune played on the radio? Where do those music blogs firing out MP3s actually rate on people’s radars? Where do live music
promoters go to filter new acts? Does anyone read album reviews any more? Scratch that, does anyone buy records based on reviews? Is becoming famous really this difficult? Is becoming famous even worth it? Hell, am I more likely to become famous for a smart-ass tweet involving a cat, a hamburger and Justin Bieber?Our panelists may provide some of the answers as they chew the cud about how a band can go from zeros to heroes using old media, new media and assorted forms of media which have yet to be invented.
Speakers:
Marigny Lee (Summerstage, New York)
Sophie Gorman (Irish Independent – Day & Night editor)
Dylan Haskins (The Exchange)
Michael Roe (Richter Collective)
FUTUREGAZING Saturday 9th October / Button Factory / 3.30pm
The pitch:
In conjunction with the On The Record blog in The Irish Times, we’ve invited a number of interested parties to come along and talk about what they think the music business will look like in 2020. As simple and straightforward as that. Futuregazing on a Saturday afternoon. Bring your own crystal ball.
Speakers:
Mumblin' Deaf Ro (Artist)
Trevor O’ Shea (Bodytonic)
Ian Wilson (2fm)
Xavier Guasch (Primavera Sound)
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Alexis Vokos / Delphi Label / MMF
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Alexis runs The Delphi Label in Dublin - part management, part label, part anything else that makes an even better home for artists. The two acts currently on the roster are Deaf Joe and Sacred Animals.
Over the years, Alexis has been involved in the management of artists in the UK including Tunde (Lighthouse Family), Catherine Feeny and HAL, working on both Major and Indie album releases. In 2006, Alexis was closely involved in establishing Tallgrass Records in London, securing Catherine Feeny's publishing deal with Warner Chappell and releasing Catherine's album 'Hurricane Glass' independently before the album was licensed on to EMI. It was a great introduction to what it means to be Indie in the 21st Century!
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Alison Curtis / Today FM
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Alison curtis is today fm's resident canadian. She moved to dublin from toronto in 1999 a month after she graduated from university. She landed a job right away working as a senior researcher on the ian dempsey breakfast show and at the same time she started presenting a drivetime show for the then pirate station phantom fm. Within three years alison was producing ian's show and stayed there until 2008 when after seven years of presenting the hugely succesful last splash on sunday nights alison went on to presenting full time. The alison curtis show airs weeknights between 10pm - midnight. she has been nominated as best national dj in the annual meteor music awards four times but keeps losing out to men named ray. |
Barry O' Donoghue / Sony BMG
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Barry O’ Donoghue currently shares his work / play schedule between his role as A&R scout with Sony BMG Ireland, a post he has held since the beginning of 2003, and his activities as a club and radio DJ. O’ Donoghue has been writing on Dance music for hotpresss for a number of years , sub-edits for the Irish Star and hosts a Spin 103.8 radio show.
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Ben Leahy / Playrite Music
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Having come to Ireland to study for an Arts Degree, Ben found himself side-tracked by the Irish music industry. He tour managed Irish acts to the US and then moved in to Publishing, where he enjoyed a number of successes under the Daylight Robbery moniker. Together with his sister Tinca, Leahy now runs the London-based Red Flag Records and is developing their publishing company Playwrite Music, whose current roster includes the Ting Tings
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Cameron Wright / Canadian Music Week
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Cameron Wright has been involved in the Canadian music industry for the last 10 years in many different aspects. At 16 he started organizing a youth festival that showcased 30 bands in one day with established Canadian headliners. 10 years later, he is now the festival director for Canadian Music Fest (festival portion of Canadian Music Week) which showcases 800 bands in 55 clubs over 5 nights downtown Toronto. Cameron can often be found backstage at most shows in Toronto acting as a Production Manager/Promoter Rep for various promoters: Union Events, Embrace Presents, and AEG Live Canada producing shows for such acts as Primus, Broken Bells, Girl Talk, Sleigh Bells, Die Antwoord, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Tool, Them Crooked Vultures and many many more. He also has been part of the organizing team for Virgin Festivals, Edgefest (AEG), Wakestock and various other festivals.
Only fact you really need to take away from all of this: He doesn't sleep and loves wearing toques! |
Cathal Funge / Phantom 105.2
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Cathal Funge is the presenter and producer of I-CON, Phantom105.2’s flagship new Irish music show. The show prides itself at being at the cutting edge of promoting new Irish music and continually strives to support the local independent music scene. Cathal has also worked as a club DJ and gig promoter.
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Cillian Stewart / Castlepalooza
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Cillian stewart, managing director of Cherrycool promotions, leapt from his successful post in sales at Newstalk radio station after seeing a gap in the irish music market.
He created the Castle Palooza music & arts festival in august 2006 as an alternative choice for music fans - the beginning of three popular years of entertainment at the enchanting charleville castle, tullamore.
As Castle Palooza festival director, cillian has staged bands from the legendary sister sledge to the more home grown fight like apes, the blizzards and david kitt. He has championed new innovations in the irish festival scene & continues his ambition to create 'the perfect festival'.
In 2007, cillian created the Irish Festival Awards for Irish fans to cast their vote every year on events spanning the irish music calendar. Castle Palooza is always excluded but has already being nominated twice in the UK festival awards for 'best european festival'. Cillian also runs the elite glimmerball new year's eve event at Charleville Castle, the home of many hauntings. Instead of relaxing in his spare time, he enjoys running - but no, not the flat kind. He likes mountain running and has competed in more than 60 races over the past few years. |
David Summers / BSM
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Big Scary Monster Recording Company (often known simply as Big Scary Monsters and as BSM Records) is a British based independent record label. Probably the most well-known acts associated with the label are This Town Needs Guns, Kevin Devine, Pulled Apart By Horses, Walter Schreifels, Andrew WK and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, whose self-titled debut EP was one of BSM Records' earliest releases. |
Dylan Haskins / Exchange Dublin
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Between 2006 – 2010 Dylan ran gigs for all ages from his Dublin home - The Hideaway House while his associated record label Hide Away Records brought Irish act Heathers to prominence with their debut album ‘Here, Not There’. He established Exchange Dublin, a collectively run all ages venue in Temple Bar in 2009 and sits on the Board of Directors of Project Arts Centre, Ireland’s leading contemporary arts centre. Having presented the first series of RTE Two’s Two Tube, he is currently reporting for the arts and culture show Arena on RTE Radio One.
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Feidhlim Byrne / Nielsen Music
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Feidhlim has been working for Nielsen Music for 15 years and manages the
Ireland, Finland, Romania and Bulgaria business tracking radio airplay
across all markets, reporting it back to artists, bands, companies and
labels.
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Gill Mills / Myspace Radio
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Gill is the director of icast, a new media production company. icast makes video & audio for bands, labels, films, TV programmes and events as well as acting as a new media production house on hand to film and high end record your gigs, events and artists. Icast also produces the hugely popular best of myspace podcast, a nominations driven new music podcast that sits happily in the itunes top 100.
Gill also fronts shows on NME radio and the Mevio network's new music show, Flyposter.
Prior to forming icast gill was a BBC Radio 1 DJ, television presenter, club night promoter, film soundtrack co-ordinator and columnist
Prior to that she was in TV production and before that she was a journalist. |
Harry Martin / Domino Records
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Domino records is one of the world's most revered and successful independent labels. the illustrious label is owned and directed by founder Laurence Bell, armagh man Harry Martin and an undisclosed third party.
Formed in 1993, it initially provided a vital outlet for cult us acts such as Pavement, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Sebadoh. in recent years, the label has launched the trailblazing careers of Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys. Martin divides his time between dublin & london.
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Ian Wilson / 2FM
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Ian Wilson was one of the founding producers of RTÉ 2FM. He produced Dave Fanning’s rock show for 11 years; began the Fanning Sessions in 1980; organised the ‘Lark in the Park’ outdoor concerts all over Ireland and also kicked off the country’s first free outdoor dance shows, ‘The Beat on the Street’.
In the meantime he launched 2FM live, for 16 years now the main live broadcast and recording operation on the island, with over 1,000 acts recorded and broadcast at every major festival and live event.
He founded and was chair for six years of the EBU’s Eurosonic group, co-ordinating the activities of Europe’s main 67 music/rock/ young radio stations, and started the Eurodance cross Europe live dance shows. He also brought the 2FM Dance sessions live from clubs all over Ireland with a full video stream on the Internet.
At the moment Ian is in charge of alternative music and music production on RTÉ 2FM. In past lives he worked on pirate radio, for In Dublin magazine, was president and vice-president of the student bodies in TCD, following on from being Ents officer for two years. He is married to ‘Morning Ireland’ presenter, Aine Lawlor. |
Jack Pop / Alcopop
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Full of the dreams of a million selling records and untold riches, Jack PoP co-set up Alcopop Records in the late Autumn of 2006. By early 2007, he was resigned to hard work, DIY ethics, boundary-worrying creativity, the social media and the art of heavy drinking with everyone who offers, to keep the label afloat. 3 and a half years, over 30 releases later and it’s still going strong.
Having worked with the likes of Johnny Foreigner, This City, The Candle Thieves, Stagecoach, 4 or 5 Magicians and many more – Alcopop and friends have achieved full page Kerrang/ NME features, daytime Radio 1 play, big festival slots and major label representation for many of their artists – usually on a razor-thin budget, all the while remaining fiercely independent. |
Javier Lopez / MIDEM
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Javier Lopez is the Director UK & Ireland Sales – Music Division - for Midem, the original and most important global music trade show and conference, which has been taking place in Cannes for the last 45 years. In 2010, over 7000 participants from 78 countries and representing 3200 companies attended the event.
Javier came to the UK 17 years ago and never returned to his native Madrid, except for some summer sun! After working several years as a freelance music journalist in London for Spanish magazines such as Rolling Stone, Vogue Spain, Top Music and Rockdelux, he joined a music exporter in London where he started his career in sales and business development. 6 years ago he joined Reed Midem and he is responsible for exhibition, advertising and sponsorship sales as well as being the main point of contact for any British and Irish company, or artist, that wants to go to Midem and expand their international business opportunities. |
Jenny Huston / Today FM
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Radio presenter and writer jenny huston has developed a reputation as the leading lady of irish rock. Best known as the presenter of rte 2fm's flagship alternative rock shows, friday 9:30–midnight, a mixture of cutting edge and classic indie rock and pop and the annex, the sunday night anthems anthology, the canadian-born huston has a weekly slot on the gerry ryan show, (one of ireland's longest-running and most enduringly popular radio shows) where she investigates topics as diverse as how to break out of relationship purgatory to toxic friendships. She has been a fill-in presenter for the gerry ryan show, the tubridy show and liveline and has contributed to numerous prime-time programmes. jenny has extensive television experience. She co-presented the festival of world cultures tv, presented the 'other room' and interviewed artists on other voices, season 6 and helmed the RTE coverage of live earth, as well as co-presenting nine hours of live coverage from electric picnic in 2006. She is author of the book 'in bloom, Irish bands now', a snapshot of ireland's new headline artists. |
Jim Lawless
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Jim is manager of The Coronas. Having never thought of music management as a career Jim fell in to his position more than chose it. He grew up with three of the band members in school and when they left school was asked to manage the band, then called Corona. Jim worked with the band all through college part-time, more of a hobby than anything else. It wasn't until the band got signed to 3ú Records in their final year of college that Jim started to think of artist management as a career. Jim studied Business Management with Economics and Finance in Dublin's Institute of Technology and worked in the manufacturing and construction sector before going to into artist management full-time. |
Jon Mcildowie / MAMA / The Great Escape
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Jon has been promoting gigs and clubs since the age of 16, first in his home town of Birmingham and then as a student in Liverpool before moving to London. In 1999 Jon joined the Barfly Club as assistant and then Head Promoter for the London venue. During this time he booked acts such as The Cure, Razorlight, The Libertines and Franz Ferdinand. Jon has now moved into the position of Promotions Director as part of MAMA Group. His job now encompasses tour and festival bookings for the whole group as well as developing initiatives with media partners such as MTV and NME and commercial sponsors such as Levis and Red Stripe. In 2006 Jon jointly founded The Great Escape Festival and Convention and oversees the event in addition to tour and festival booking including Lovebox. |
Kat Morris / The Great Escape
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Kat has been working within the music & entertainment industry for over 10 years. She started out as a Label Assistant for Fingerlickin’ Records and was then recruited to work for MTV in their European Events Team where she co-ordinated many events, ranging from small intimate VIP parties up to large scale Award Ceremony post show events. She then moved on to work for and assist in the launch of MTV Base Africa where she co-ordinated events in over 8 major African cities. Kat started work for The Great Escape in 2007 as Event Co-ordinator, she was promoted to Operations Manager in 2008 and is now seen as a key decision maker and driving force within the organisation. The Great Escape is Europe’s leading festival for new music, which takes place in Brighton every May. Over 350 artists from all over the world are showcased in 34 music venues over 3 days. The Great Escape is attended by over 15,000 music industry professionals and new music fans annualy. |
Keith Johnson / IMRO
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As marketing and membership director at imro keith overseas all membership, advertising, promotional, sponsorship and online activities at the organisation. He also handles IMRO ’s regular series of songwriting workshops, seminars and music education projects. in the spring of 2005 he was centrally involved in getting the music from ireland initiative – designed to support irish artists travelling to international music events such as south by southwest, popkomm and cmj – off the ground. He is an honours business graduate of trinity college, dit and the marketing institute of ireland.
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Kevin Douch / BSM
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Big Scary Monster Recording Company (often known simply as Big Scary Monsters and as BSM Records) is a British based independent record label. Probably the most well-known acts associated with the label are This Town Needs Guns, Kevin Devine, Pulled Apart By Horses, Walter Schreifels, Andrew WK and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, whose self-titled debut EP was one of BSM Records' earliest releases.
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Larry Mills / Pump Audio
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At 22 years old – Larry Mills started an independent record company called Steam Records. It was there that he signed the artist that started Pump Audio. 15 years later Larry Mills is now the Director of Music Products for Getty Images. He focuses on the music business at Getty Images which includes Pump Audio, royaltyfreemusic.com and the Premium Playlist collection.
After a brief run with Roadrunner Records, they bought Larry’s Autonomous Records, Larry started a few entertainment companies including an artist management company, a television production company and The Cover 2 Sports Group. Cover 2 is a marketing company that worked with record labels and film companies in creating marketing opportunities through sports radio, sports television and live sporting events. C2 worked on many records including Bon Jovi, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen and Kid Rock |
Laura London / Tedra
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Laura began her career in 2002 working in online pr for the independent music industry. A year later she moved to Ninja Tune, one of the UK's longest established independent record labels, comprising of several labels including Big Dada, Counter Records and Ntone, with artists including Coldcut, Roots Manuva, Mr Scruff, Cinematic Orchestra and Amon Tobin.
As Head of Digital Laura ran all aspects of Ninja's digital presence and developed the companies long-term digital strategies. DMA nominated in 2005 for Best Online Promotion for the Roots Manuva viral campaign and again in 2006 for Best Community for the Ninja Tune forum and Best Electronic Artist/DJ for Coldcut.
Laura then founded Tedra in 2010 with her partner, a web development and consultancy business for the creative industries. Laura has also sat on the AIM New Media commitee for a good number of years. |
Marigny Lee / Summerstage NYC
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Marigny has worked for City Parks Foundation (CPF), a nonprofit organization which is the largest presenter of free performing arts in New York City for 8 years (currently the Artist Relations Manager in the programming department) responsible for marketing, production and programming, specifically with Central Park SummerStage, CityParks Concerts, and Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Marigny has also worked in artist management with the likes of the Gypsy Kings, Hugh Masekela, Dr. John, Gogol Bordello, Olu Dara, Cassandra Wilson, etc. with Impact Artist Management.
In 2010, SummerStage celebrated 25 years of presenting free performances in Central Park. In honor of this anniversary, City Parks Foundation brought all our free, citywide dance, concerts and theater performances under the SummerStage banner. Now the largest festival of its kind, SummerStage presented free performances in Central Park and 16 neighborhood parks throughout all five boroughs to a total audience of more than 265,000 New Yorkers. |
Michael Roe / The Richter Collective
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The Richter Collective is the result of two independent labels (Armed Ambitions & Popular Records) coming together after a series of split label releases in 2007. The label is owned and operated by michael roe and barry lennon. Richter Collective has it roots steeped in the irish DIY scene and have built up a strong name for itself and its artists in Ireland, Europe and Japan through a co-operative approach and innovative means. signings to the label include Adebisi Shank, Bats, Marvins Revolt, Worrier & many more.
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Mumblin Deaf Ro / Artist
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In February 2003 I released my debut album 'Senor, My Friend . . .'on fledgling Dublin indie label Villain Records. Following rigorous scientific testing the irish Times declared it to be 'a rare thing: a genuine cult classic' and Mongrel called it 'one of the lost classics of irish indie pop'. The album includes fingerpicking acoustic songs about lovelorn mental patients, failed boxers, and frustrated authors.
The Herring and the Brine was written over a three-and-a-half-year period. The album is a subtle and tender portrayal of various characters’ lives through the themes of self-doubt, failure, resilience and the search for meaning. The album’s narratives deal with the exhaustion of a novice priest; the regret of a failed Latin American President; the slow drift to despair of a drowning man; and the reflected shock on an isolated rural community following a brutal murder by two sisters. Other than that, it’s fairly cheerful.
The title comes from the album’s penultimate song (‘Restring the bow’) in which a dissolute young rake escapes a personal crisis by fleeing to work and to come to terms with his conscience in a canning factory in Northern Germany (“And so I spend my time/Among the herring and the brine”). |
Niall Byrne / Nialler9
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Niall Byrne is a music blogger and freelance music journalist. Under the nickname Nialler9 he has been running ireland's most visible music blog for nearly five years. He is web editor for State.ie and a weekly contributor to Irish Independent's day and night magazine. He also works as a freelance web designer/consultant. He likes caramelised onion hummus. a lot.
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Nick Robinson / Kobalt
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Nick Robinson is senior vp business development at Kobalt music group, based in London. His role at Kobalt is sourcing and affiliating new writers, artists and music publishers along with artist/writer relations and creative support. Two of his most recent signings are Maximo Park and Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian Mcculloch.
Robinson has more than 15 years experience in the industry, previously as senior executive writer/publisher relations europe at us performing right organisation BMI.
Prior to joining BMI, Robinson worked at EMI in a&r for five years, three of which as head of the a&r department. Before that he spent six years as an editor at music week magazine and also worked at Island records uk as head of press. |
Pat Riley / Domino US
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Pat Riley is the North American Sales Director at Domino Records. In the previous two decades, Pat has been involved in sales and marketing for a variety of indie labels and distributors including Frontier Records, Sub Pop Records, VICE Records, Caroline Distribution and the Alternative Distribution Alliance. Pat has also been involved in the re-emergence of independent labels and the digital evolution of the music business and looks forward to a future of working with artists in the changing music marketplace.
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Paul Barton / Pledge Music
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Paul has had 10 years experience within the music industry, holding the position as A&R Manager at both major and independent record labels and publishers. Paul has had the pleasure of working with such acts as Gallows, The Subways, The Enemy, Animal Kingdom, Ghosts and through his own company In One Ear Industries continues to develop artists and songwriters and consult for independent music companies.
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Phil Udell / State.ie
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Phil Udell is the editor of both the award winning website State.ie and Heineken Music.ie. He presents a weekly show State Of Play on Phantom 105.2 and is a regular contributer to the Dave Fanning Show on RTE. In a past life he has been a tour manager, production manager and has run several festivals across Ireland.
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Safta Jaffery / Taste Music
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Safta Jaffery has over 30 years of experience in the worldwide music business, having previously worked in A&R for a string of UK record labels including; DJM, Decca, MAM & Magnet before setting up the producer management company SJP which continues to represent some of the world’s quality record producers including John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead) Ron Saint Germain (311. Creed, Bad Brains), Laurie Latham (Stereophonics, Rik Wright), John Cornfield (Razorlight, Supergrass), Michael Brauer (Coldplay, KT Tunstall), Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones, INXS), David M. Allen (The Cure, Charlatons) amongst others. Safta has attained over 150 Platinum/Gold/Silver award discs from almost every territory in the world through his affiliation with the producers represented by him.
Safta also co-founded ‘Taste Media Limited’ & ‘Taste Music Ltd’ and remained the owner/Managing Director of both companies until ‘Taste Media Limited’s sale to Warner Music in 2005 and ‘Taste Music Ltd’s’ sale to Warner Chappell Music in 2010. During this time he signed, discovered, produced and then sub licensed record and publishing deals with various major and independent companies with a portfolio of artists including: Muse, Shed Seven, One Minute Silence and Serafin. Safta was also voted on to the board of AIM in 2007 (Association of Independent Music). |
Sophie Gorman
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Editor of Day & Night magazine / The Irish Independent
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Toby L / Transgressive Records
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Toby was putting on a Bloc Party gig at the Buffalo Bar (Regina Spektor was headlining) for his www.rockfeedback.com Basement club. Tim had recently released the first Bloc Party single (She’s Hearing Voices) on his first label that he ran with his band mate and was selling said 7” at the gig. Tim was impressed that a 20 year old was putting on such a great gig. Toby was impressed that a 20 year old was putting out such a great record! So they decided that they should become best friends and form a label that was ethically sound and would release the best records in the world. It would be a label not linked to a style or genre, but one which would be represented by a logo that would be simply a stamp of quality on each perfect disk. |
Trevor O' Shea / Bodytonic
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The Boss and Tea Maker
What he does: Makes the decisions and the tea, booker, planner...
...zero attention.
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Una Johnston / SXSW
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Una Johnston is SXSW’s UK & Ireland representative and Environmental Consultant and is based in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. She is responsible for advertising and exhibition sales, and also provides useful information and practical advice to SXSW delegates and showcase artists on how best to navigate SXSW.
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Una Mullally / The Sunday Tribune
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Una Mullally has been writing about music for over a decade, first in zines,
then online, then with the event guide and currently with the sunday tribune
where she has been a staff writer for over four years.
Her blog unarocks which she quit earlier this year to concentrate on 'the
book' ran to 4,000 posts and was a popular source for music news, gossip and
general rants the morning after the gig the night before.
Una djs under the moniker unarocks and has played everywhere from Oxegen to
the set of Fair City.
She likes monkeys and talking about herself in the third person. |
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Booker Primavera Sound |
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