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
I've been told I'm hard to buy for. I suppose that's because I don't really need much of anything. I'm not that big into owning stuff. Except records. Records make me happy. If you want to make me happy, buy me a record.
With that in mind, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist
