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On Saturday, Generator served up a musical feast from dub-soul beats to Hyde & Beast at The Great Escape, bringingthe sound of the North East to Brighton Beach.The Genwas on hand to report onGeordies on someone else's Shore, a South Shields songstress on the South Coast, and musical Mackems at Hipster-by-the-Sea.
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The Great Escape has revealed full details of its convention programme in advance of the three-day series of live shows, conferences and workshops in Brighton next week (10-12 May).Placebo’s Brian Molko will feature on an ‘In Conversation’ panel presented by PRS for Music on 10 May, with 6Music’s Matt Everitt.
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The organisers of Liverpool Sound City have announced more panel events and a cleverly titled ‘kicking and screening’ film schedule for their event over the weekend 17th-19th May.A sync panel in association with UK Trade and Investment will focus on an ongoing hot topic within the industry, discussing the relationship of music to brands, film, TV and games.
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Bad news for those trying to ignore the boastful ramblings of the lucky Brits in attendance at SXSW this year - The Gen’s little brother The Tipping Point was on hand to report from Austin, TX:
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The Association of Independent Music (AIM), is staging its digital conference ‘Music Connected’ for a tenth year in London this May.Taking place on Wednesday 9 May at Glaziers Hall, AIM has confirmed that the conference will feature speakers from eMusic, Youtube, Noikia and The Orchard.
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From Angry Birds to boo-hoo U2- read our handy summary of what has been discussed and announced at Midem in Cannes this week.
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The Great Escape has confirmed its first acts for 2012 including Dry the River, Perfume Genius, Eagulls, Howler and a show at the Dome featuring Africa Express Soundsystem.
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Sound City, the hugely respected 3-day international music, media and technology conference spreads its wings this March for New York Sound City.
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Independent Music Companies Association Impala and the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) have joined forces to host a discussion at Midem next week that will aim to carve out a shared manifesto for independent music organisations and entrepreneurs.
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The 2012 BRIT awards nominations have been announced, with Jessie J, Ed Sheeran and Adele unsurprisingly leading the pack alongside nominations for PJ Harvey, Coldplay and Kate Bush.Sheeran is nominated in four categories including British male solo artist, whilst Jessie J and Adele have three nominations each, going head to head for best single and British female solo artist.
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