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Regional Radar: WMF turn 10, Wales aim for independence
The Welsh Music Foundation (WMF) is celebrating its 10th Birthday this weekend, following the news that the Welsh Music Industry could soon be forming an independent licensing and royalties collection agency.

Get Rough Trade in your town
High profile Independent Record Store Rough Trade is using Twitter to ask fans where they should open a new store in the UK.Rough Trade, founded by Geoff Travis alongside the record label of the same name currently has three successful outlets is London and is seemingly looking to expand despite the global downturn in the sale of recorded music.

Nadine goes for Tesco value
Hot on the heels of Faithless, Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle has revealed an exclusive distribution deal with retail giant Tesco for her debut solo album.

The xx take Mercury prize
The XX have won the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. The South London trio fended off last minute favourite Paul Weller and were awarded the prize for their debut album ‘xx’.Accepting the award at a televised ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London last night, singer Oliver Sim said: "We've had the most incredible year. Every day we've woken up to something incredible we weren't expecting."

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23
Sep

SPEAR:TALK - Getting Noticed
The SPEAR:TALK series invites music industry professionals to demystify the industry and offer practical advice on how you can get ahead.  6-8pm, FREE entry Getting Noticed It’s never been easier for artists to get their music out there, but with so many emerging artists vying for attention how do you get fans and the industry to notice you?  This seminar will look at the easy steps you can take to get noticed in a crowded market. Topics covered include:
11
Sep

Desert Island
Paul Smith (Maximo Park) and Richard Milward (author, ‘Apples’) in Conversation A kind of cultural job swap, this event will take Richard Milward and Maximo Park's frontman Paul Smith and explore their love of the other's art form. Richard Milward may be best known as the bard of the 'Borough but his other passion is music. Both a theme and an inspiration, his work teems with musical references and pulses with the druggy beats of teen-pop and club tunes.
9
Sep

MB2MB Sunderland
MB2MB is a programme of seminars to guide new music businesses through the music business supply chain. The emphasis will be on how to establish an enterprise and generate revenue for your own music business. It will be ideal for new music managers, DIY artists, emerging record labels and live promoters. MB2MB will be delivered one day a week and will require you to commit to this for the length of the programme. The first will be starting in Sunderland in September and will run on the following dates:
22
Sep

Digital Music and Retail - Leeds
Three music industry experts will be visiting Leeds in September to discuss digital distribution and its effect on the music industry. The panel event featuring representatives from We7, AWAL and Ditto Music has been organised by Plugged In Yorkshire and is free to members of the network. It's being held at The Carriageworks, 3 Millennium Square, on Wednesday 22 September from 6-8pm. 
10
Sep

Apples - The Play
Northern Stage and Generator have linked-up our UMT:BEATS DJ's for performances alongside the fantastic new play ‘Apples’.  WED 8 - FRI 24 SEP 6pm Written by Richard Milward, Apples is a dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence - shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, The play is Adapted & Directed by John Retallack and is a Northern Stage and Company of Angels co-production.