Conferences
IN THE CITY
OCTOBER 2008 - MANCHESTER
Manchester hosts this perennial favourite with conference sessions in the day and live bands all night in venues all over the City of Manchester in the North of England which is over-run by record and publishing executives, A&R scouts, lawyers and accountants on an annual basis. Now sadly lacking a decent bar or focus for networking ITC seems to have faded a bit recently.
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LIVE UK: THE SUMMIT
OCTOBER 2008 - LONDON
If you work in live music, you will need to be there!
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POPKOMM
SEPTEMBER 2008 - BERLIN
Popkomm is held in Berlin and the worldwide music industry meets in Germany's capital. In workshops and panels topics like mobile music, live-business and digital music were discussed. International artists like René Baumann (DJ Bobo) held keynotes. More than 400 hours of music live were presented in more than 20 clubs wth 1200 artist from of 23. The Festival centre 'Kulturbrauerei' was the heart of the music programme.
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MUSIC MATTERS
3RD - 5TH JUNE 2008 - HONG KONG
Music Matters, The Asia Pacific Music Forum, held in Hong Kong in June 2008, has announced its preliminary programme examining and debating the key issues of Asia’s music and entertainment industry from a global perspective and looking at key markets such as China, Japan and Korea.
Enquiries to musicmatters@brandedasia.com
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BARFLY - THE GREAT ESCAPE
MAY 2008 - BRIGHTON
The Great Escape is an international live music event; by day, a series of insightful interviews with leading figures from the worldwide music industry; by night, a festival of export-ready artists from across the globe performing at 10 walk-able venues, all under pinned by a comprehensive digital strategy and widespread coverage from media partners. It will take place in the seaside city of Brighton, UK in May 2008, it will bring together all the key elements of the live and recorded music industries in a way that will entertain, educate and excite all comers - from experienced industry campaigners to those who just want to experience good music.
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SXSW
MARCH 2008 - AUSTIN, TEXAS
This is now the major global shopwcase event in a week long conference and gig frenzy.
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MIDEM
JANUARY 2008 - CANNES
The annual music industry get together in France held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Still THE big event for the music and publishing industries, MIDEM 2008 will happen in January 2008.
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NOORDERSLAG WEEKEND
JANUARY 2008 - GRONIGEN, HOLLAND
Along with the Eurosonics platform for emerging acts this conference provides a focus for the Dutch and Euopean music industry
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THE
EVENT SHOW
JANUARY 2008 - LONDON
This exhibition based show is growing in significance: Now held at Olympia, the extensive range of exhibitors is now accompanied by two days of panels and seminars relevant to the live event industry.
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HEALTH, SAFETY & SECURITY AT EVENTS
24TH - 25TH MAY 2007 - BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
The Centre for Crowd Management & Security Studies is continuing their European Seminar Series with this seminar and conference. To be held in Missenden Abbey in Buckinghamshire, England between the 24th & 25th May 2007. For further details contact: nick.eade@bcuc.ac.uk
Click Here for downloadable PDF information leaflet
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ILMC
19
MARCH 2008 - LONDON
The world’s best and most loved international live music conference returns for its nineteenth reincarnation in London. Held at the Kensington Garden’s Hotel with the best social events at any conference (including football, golf, go-carting and a blinding awards dinner) this is the event where players in the global live music talk, lets their hair down and sometimes get serious. Recent initiatives have included the ILMC’s Safety Focus Group and ILMC Tax Group dealing with these important issues in the live industry.
See www.ilmc.com
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AIM: MUSIC CONNECTED
17TH APRIL 2007
AIMs Music Connected 07 will take place at the Camden Centre on 17 April. The key note presentation will come from Charles Caldas from IMPALA's digital rights agency Merlin. Key digital music companies including eMusic, Vital:PIAS Digital, Kodime, Music Choice, 7 Digital, Zebralution and Beatport. Entry to the event is £20 for AIM members and friends, or £80 for others. See http://www.musicindie.com/242.asp?sub=Events
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