Month - December, 2008

Home » Music Industry News & Updates from The Gen

Month - December, 2008

Displaying results 1 - 10 of 10
15th Dec 2008

  • UK Music Man takes on the Met
    Feargal Sharkey, the former Undertones singer who is the head of recently formed music campaign group UK Music, is challenging a new piece of police bureaucracy that requires some live music promoters to divulge details of the style of music played at their shows and the ethnicity of fans attending.

  • Best Bar None Generator Live Music Venue Awards
    Best Bar None has teamed up with Generator for two new awards as part of the 2009 scheme: • Best Live Music Venue Award • Best DJ Award

  • Maximo Park put Third album “In the can” and confirm festivals
    Newcastle based Gen favourites Maximo Park have reportedly completed work on their third studio album, following debut 'A Certain Trigger' (2005) and follow up 'Our Earthly Pleasures' (2007). The third, as yet untitled LP will be released on Warp, expected for the second quarter of 2009 though no firm release dates have been confirmed at time of going of going to press.

  • Cold Blend Course
    COLD BLEND continues to run to high demand, and the last course of 2008 is currently underway. The purpose of the Cold Blend programme is to work with local communities and WNF stakeholders to develop a project that looks closely at the personal development of participants using music as the method of expression.

  • Soundscope

    Soundscope has returned for the fourth year running to hook up aspiring songwriters, rappers, lyricists with first rate producers from the region for a mentoring scheme that seeks to explore, encourage and enable new creative talents within urban music.

  • Detroit Christmas Club!
    Tyneside’s Detroit Social Club are set to top off an incredible 2008 (you know, just the usual- form band, get Arctic Monkey’s manager onboard, support Primal Scream and Razorlight on national tours, we’ve all been there. Haven’t we?) with a coupe of celebratory hometown shows.

  • Music retail and distro hit hard this month as Woolies and Pinnacle collapse.

  • Are They Local?

  • Design Event - Call 09 - now open!

    Design Event, the North East’ s annual design festival is now open for submissions relating to its 2009 event. The organisers, who aim to celebrate and raise knowledge of design throughout the North East and create a sustainable community of designers are now inviting designers, collectives, curators and organisations to submit project proposals that relate to the theme of Politics and Play A little more information from their website:

  • Alternative festive Playlist - The Gen recommends!
    Fed up with Mistletoe and Wine and Mariah Carrey? You’re not the only one- try and get into the spirit with these less predictable Christmas listening treats.
Displaying results 1 - 10 of 10