27th Jul 2010
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Industry trade organisation UK Music has announced the ten key players in their Leadership Development Network, including Generator CEO Jim Mawdsley.The umbrella trade body have put together the network with an aim to "provide strategy and support to the music community". The initiative is funded by the Arts and Skills Council and will aim to provide cross-sector support for music businesses throughout the UK.
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Retail giants HMV launched a new and improved digital storethis week, with a view to adding heavyweight digital services to its retail and live music empire.
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The organisers of Love Parade have announced that the event has no future following the tragic deaths of 21 audience members at the huge dance event held in Germany on 24th July.Overcrowding onsite at the festival in Duisberg, West Germany resulted in a stampede in which 21 people died and over 500 others were injured.Although an official criminal investigation as to the cause of the catastrophe is underway, it has been reported that there was only one entrance to the site and that it involved extremely large crowds passing through an enclosed tunnel.
23rd Jul 2010
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Gateshead Council are putting out an appeal to find members of the band Hurrah! who filmed one of their music video’s on the top of the Get Carter car park in Gateshead.Rare film of the band has been discovered on the video-sharing website YouTube, showing the Trinity Square car park and the rest of the town centre as it was in the early 80’s.
20th Jul 2010
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The nominations for the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize were announced this week, with Dizzee Rascal and The xx both taking an early lead as joint favourites to win. To find out which other albums were nominated and to have your say, read on.The complete list and current odds are as follows:
19th Jul 2010
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In what seems to be an attempt to compete with traditional radio, UK on-demand streaming service WE7 have added a news ‘track’ function to their site.
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BBC Tees are all set to host an exciting free event for new and emerging music acts in the region at the end of this month. Taking place between 6-7pm on Friday 30 July at The Georgian Theatre in Stockton, the ‘Introducing’ event will aim to provide up and coming artists with some insight into how they can interact with the wider industry.
16th Jul 2010
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Sunderland art punks The Futureheads are asking fans to use Twitter to nominate songs from their back catalogue for a forthcoming a cappella album.New versions of their existing songs will be re-recorded for the entirely vocal album later this year.Announcing the project through the band’s Twitter account, singer Barry Hyde said: “We are making an a cappella album and want you to help us decide which of our songs to do! Get your requests in now! o-oo o-oo o-a-o e etc..!”.
14th Jul 2010
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A recent survey of iTunes customers has revealed that a high percentage of music fans would be interested in paying for a music service based ‘in the cloud’.Of course, ‘In the cloud’ is the current buzzword for on-demand services based on the Internet which use shared resources and information to deliver content to a variety of devices.A ‘cloud’ system would enable fans to upload existing collections of albums to a server, from which it could accessed and streamed to other computers, mobile handsets, MP3 devices, games consoles etc..
13th Jul 2010
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At a Generator SPEAR:TALK event last week in Middlesbrough, Maximo Park dropped some hints about where the band are headed next. Read on to find out how their future direction may confound fans of the huge North East pop act.
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