17th May 2013
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Just when you thought it safe to get back in the water, PRS for Music Foundation and Arts Council England announce the launch of Momentum Music fund – a £500,000 investment to develop the careers of talented artists and bands.
15th May 2013
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In response to Arts Council England’s (ACE) aim to support the development of artistic talent for the UK music industry, Generator launched Mapped Out at Liverpool Sound City- a national contemporary music touring network that will link high quality emerging talent to six independent promoters across the UK, focusing on towns that have been identified as having insubstantial provision for emerging music.
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The 25,000 capacity two-day Evolution Festival launched in 2002 in the North East of England and has featured the likes of Tinie Tempah, Iggy and the Stooges, Plan B, Dizzee Rascal and Deadmau5. The Gen’s Editor Paul Reed caught up with Festival Director (and Generator CEO) Jim Mawdsley in advance of this year’s event on 26th and 27th May. 1) Can you tell us a bit about the process of putting the festival together?
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Following one of the most ubiquitous Number One hits in recent memory with ‘Get lucky’, Daft Punk are streaming their new album on iTunes and it has already become the biggest dance album pre-order ever on Amazon.co.uk with 5 days of preorders stil to collate.
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The winners of the Sony Radio Academy Awards announced this week included Steve Lamacq, Danny Baker and Cerys Matthews. The Beeb dominated bash should have won an award itself for having the daftest award categories including ‘The Sony Golden Headphones award’, determined by public vote and going to Dan and Phil at Radio One.
13th May 2013
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After disappearing with a burst of birdsong a year ago, emerging music station Amazing Radioreturns to DAB today (Monday 13th May). As previously reported, the station stopped broadcasting on DAB in May 2012 following a contractual dispute with transmission network owner Digital One, becoming Internet and mobile-app only.
9th May 2013
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While you’re enjoying the unexpected sunshine, please spare a thought for Generator’s Artist Development Team who will spend the whole month traipsing from venue to venue and town to town in search of the finest emerging artists in the UK. Our month of #MAYhem will take in The Great Escape in Brighton next weekend and our own nine venue extravaganza, Evolution Emerging.
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Following Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted in April, Spotify has confirmed that it is also dipping its toes in the music discovery stream with Tunigo. The app has been snapped up to help users navigate Spotify’s catalogue of 20 million tracks.
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After a challenging year in 2012, Vince Power’s Hop Farm Festival has been cancelled this year due to poor ticket sales. The 10,000-capacity event was set to take place in Kent on July 5th and 6th, headlined by My Bloody Valentine and Rodriguez with The Horrors, The Cribs and Jimmy Cliff also on the bill.
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The winners of a Glastonbury Emerging talent competition have announced a new Arts Council England funded project called ‘Music in Museums’. North East act Bridie Jackson & The Arbour will curate a series of events across the region, including The Walled Garden Festival at Preston Park in Stockton on Monday 27th May.
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