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North East?s Leading Music Industry Conference Returns

Venue: Live Theatre, Newcastle

Date: Thursday 22 November, 2012

Time: 10.00am - 6.00pm

Music Futures, the North East music industry conference that brings together the most innovative minds in the music industry, is returning to Newcastle’s Live Theatre on Thursday 22nd November 2012 for another day of trailblazing industry insight and expertise.

Key themes for the day will focus on exploiting your music across all the latest platforms, covering Future Revenue Streams, Future Artist Label Relations/Fan Funding, The Increasing Influence of Music Producers, and Crowd Sourcing and Fan Engagement.

Alongside a full day of panel events, a Keynote speech by CEO of AIM, Alison Wenham, a special ‘In Conversation’ with BPI Chairman, Tony Wadsworth and co-owner of Rough Trade, Jeannette Lee, Music Futures offers the perfect opportunity to network to meet like-minded businesses and individuals.

Guest Speakers include:

• Jeannette Lee – Rough Trade (The Smiths / Arcade Fire)
• Tony Wadsworth – BPI Chairman and former Chairman of EMI Music UK
• Martin Goldschmidt – Cooking Vinyl (Prodigy / Marilyn Manson)
• Nick Detnon – Manager, Dizzee Rascal
• Alison Wenham – AIM Chairman and CEO
• Mike Smith – Mercury Records (Chase and Status / Jake Bugg)
• Mark Wood – Manager, Imogen Heap
• Steve Levine – Producer (Beach Boys / Culture Club) / PPL
• Alex Bean – 679 Recordings & Artists (Plan B / Little Boots / The Streets)
• Tom Campion – Universal Music
• Debs Wild – Coldplay.com
• Karim Fanous – Music Ally
• Alex Branson – InGrooves Fontana
• Paul Barton – Pledge Music
• Simon Pursehouse – Sentric Music
• Ian Rendall – Fairbanks Endorsements / Trashed Management
• Stuart Fleming – PRS for Music
• Stephen O’Reilly – Mobile Roadie
• John Beck – Songwriter (Tasmin Archer/Joe Goddard) / BASCA

To download the Music Conference PDF brochure for the event go here or to see the full line-up and book your place at this event go to www.musicfutures.info.

For any enquiries please contact jonny@generator.org.uk.

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