EVOLUTION 09
GENERATOR PARTICIPATORY PROGRAMME
THE KNOW HOW 2009
May 18th – 21st from 6.00 – 8.00pm
Events take place at Northern Stage 2 (Northern Stage),
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RH
0191 230 5151.
This programme has been created to offer support to musicians and music businesses by furthering their careers by means of advice-based seminars and events.
Utilise the experiences built up by established music professionals to clarify your career objectives or define direction.
Admission is free but places are limited and subject to advance booking
Dance and Electronic Music seminar
Monday 18th May : 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Stage 2: Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle
This panel will discuss the current state of the dance and electronic music market in 2009.
How can you DIY your own projects? Do you still need a record label? How can club promo get your project moving? Is dance radio as relevant as it was? How can you access the key players at national radio? Can you break a record being based in the North East? Has online marketing and digital distribution made the world a smaller place?
Ross Allen – A&R Domino Records, DJ & Broadcaster
Terry Marks – Managing Director of Power Group (UK’s No.1. club music promotions & marketing company)
Lord Fader – The Loose Cannons (Kiss FM / Island Records)
James Pitt – Your Army (promoter who has worked with The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, The Prodigy).
Digital Music and Retail in 2009
Tuesday 19th May : 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Stage 2: Northern Stage , Barras Bridge, Newcastle
This panel will look at new music marketing and distribution channels and consider the future for retail and physical product.
How can artists digitally distribute and market their own music? Is the mobile phone going to take over as the main sales channel for music in the future? How can artists and labels use new technology to their advantage? Is physical product important in 2009? Is there a future for record shops and music retail?
Seth Jackson – Indie Mobile
Stuart Stenhouse – Emu Bands
Simon Singleton – Pure Groove Records
Steve Mayall – Music Ally
Setting up large-scale live events and festivals
Wednesday 20th : 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Stage 2: Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle
Anyone who has ever promoted a live show, or wanted to, should be at this event. Our speakers have promoted live music at every level. From pub gigs to club nights, and from arenas to outdoor festivals, this panel has done it all. If you want to gain an insight into how the world of concert promoters and agents work, this is your chance.
Jim King - Director of Loud Sound, Promoter for Rockness & responsible for Bestival & Creamfields production
James Barton - Founder of club-night ‘Cream’ and Director of Creamfield brand
Jim Mawdsley – Director of Evolution, CEO of Generator
This event will be chaired by Dave Stone - Talent Booker & Marketing Director – Evolution Festival
The Rough Trade Story
Thursday 21st : 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Stage 2: Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle
An exclusive ‘In conversation with Geoff Travis’ - founder of Rough Trade
Tony Wadsworth, Chair of BPI, and former CEO at EMI will be asking the questions and offering his own views.
Over the last three decades Rough Trade Records has earned a reputation as one of the premier independent record labels in the UK, an artist-friendly company known for signing trailblazing acts such as Arcade Fire, Cornershop, the Fall, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, the Smiths, and Lucinda Williams.
Geoff Travis will discuss the current state of the music business from an artistic as well as a business perspective, and will explain why he decided to expand his company’s retail presence at a time when dozens of record stores across the country have been forced to close.
Tony Wadsworth spent 26 years at EMI overseeing the success of Blur, Radiohead, Coldplay and Kylie Minogue. Tony is among 20 names competing for the honour of the Music Week award to recognise the most influential UK-based industry executive of the past 5 decades.
If you care about the future of the music business in the UK, you won’t want to miss this exclusive conversation with two of the industry’s most important figures.
To book individual/group spaces or for further information on this programme email joe @ generator.org.uk including all your contact details.
Generator, 2nd Floor, Black Swan Court, 69 Westgate Road,
Newcastle, NE1 1SG
T. 0191 245 0099 ext.4
joe@generator.org.uk
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