#uncon12

Alison has been working in the creative industry for over 10 years, and is co founder of the Manchester District Music Archive and CRIS (Creative Industry In Salford) where she is also the CEO. The music archive is a labour of love that has turned into a bit of a cultural touchstone for many people. It started with the idea that she and co-founder Mat Norman would make a documentary about Manchester and it's rich musical heritage, based in large on the book by CP Lee 'Shake Rattle and Rain'. As we all know this could never be told in one film. The day job means that Alison works with many communities across Greater Manchester, and supports new entrants into the creative sector

Andrea Goetzke is programme curator and one of the initiators of the all2gethernow (a-2-n.com), a platform and conference in Berlin on new strategies in music and culture.

She is interested in new models and experiments for a culturally rich and diverse society, and e.g. hosts a free culture radio show on reboot.fm.

Over the past years, she has explored and advocated for open approaches to production and social organization, and worked on other topics of digital culture and activism; e.g. initiated and organized the openeverything events in Berlin (openeverything.mixxt.de/), curated workshops on topics like open design; or collaborated on a programme to promote open source software skills in African countries.

She enjoys creating inspiring and/or social environments, centered on
art and/or conversation.Andrea is one of the owners and project leads of the Berlin-based agency newthinking communications (newthinking-communications.de), which e.g. organizes the social media conference re:publica and has the public lead for Creative Commons in Germany.

New Music Strategies

Andrew Dubber is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Transfer Fellow in Music Industries Innovation, a founder member of the Interactive Cultures Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer in the Music Industries at the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University.

He’s an online music consultant, a co-founder of Music Think Tank and the author of New Music Strategies.

Originally from New Zealand, Dubber moved to the UK in 2004 to begin a research project in Online Music Enterprise. With a background in both the radio and the music industries and with an academic record that includes numerous articles, book chapters, and conference presentations about digital media, the music business and media ecology, Dubber has quickly become one of the UK’s leading experts in the field.

His research includes a project on online fandom within the BBC’s Audio and Music Interactive division; explorations into jazz and other specialist music consumption online; the social impact of iPods; and post-graduate work on digital radio and deregulation.
He currently consults for over thirty music and radio businesses in the UK and Europe – from established record labels and retailers to entrepreneurial online music start-ups – and is on the advisory boards of Bandcamp (US), Meetsound (France) and Un-Convention (UK).

He has written articles for Computer Music Magazine and chapters on blogging and podcasting for the Alternative Media Handbook (Routledge, 2008). He is currently co-authoring an undergraduate textbook on the Music Industries, and is the co-author of a book about new technologies for broadcasters in developing nations, commissioned by UNESCO.

When he’s not teaching and writing, most of his time is spent travelling, presenting seminars and workshops across the UK and around the world.

Andrew Dubber es profesor miembro de la junta directiva de la Universidad de la ciudad de Birmingham (Birmingham City University) en el área de Transferencia del Conocimiento del Consejo Investigación en Artes y Humanidades (Arts and Humanities Research Council). Es uno de los socios fundadores del Centro de Investigaciones de Culturas Interactivas (Interactive Cultures Research Centre) de la misma Universidad; también es profesor adjunto del curso Industrias musicales de la escuela de los Medios de Birmingham (Birmingham School of Media). Es consultor especializado en el nuevo mercado digital y fue uno de los fundadores del Music Think Tank, escribió el libro Nuevas estratégicas musicales (New Music Strategies).

Nativo de Nueva Zelanda, en 2004 se trasladó al Reino Unido para emprender la investigación sobre la industria musical en línea. Debido a su experiencia en radio e industria musical, junto con su carrera académica que incluye varios artículos, postulaciones y presentaciones magsitrales sobre temas como los medios digitales, el negocio de la música y la teoría de los medios, Dubber ha llegado a ser, en muy corto tiempo, uno de los principales expertos en este ámbito.

Sus investigaciones incluyen un proyecto sobre las subculturas de los fans en línea, realizado para el Departamento de Músicas Interactivas y audio de la BBC; un estudio sobre la consolidación de la distribución en línea del jazz y otros géneros musicales especializados; que incluía una mirada sobre el impacto social de los iPods y una inviestigación de postgrado enfocada en la radio digital y su desregulación.

En este momento es consultor de más de 30 proyectos de radio y música en el Reino Unido y Europa- dichos negocios incluyen sellos disqueros establecidos, comercializadores y empresarios de la música en línea que apenas comienzan. Así mismo, es miembro de la Junta Directiva de Bandcamp (EEUU), Meetsound (Francia) y Un-Convention (Reino Unido). Ha escrito artículos para la revista Música Ordenador y ha redactado capítulos sobre el blogging y el podcasting para el libro Alternative Media Handbook (Manual de los medios alternativos) (Routledge, 2008).

Actualmente escribe sobre las industrias musicales y realiza con colaboradores una obra encargada por la UNESCO sobre las nuevas tecnologías para las estaciones de radio y la televisión en los países subdesarrollados. Cuando no trabaja, en su tiempo libre le gusta viajar, dar conferencias y realizar talleres en el Reino Unido y el mundo.

With 10 years experience working for other music industry organisations observing how it should – and in some cases definitely should not- be done, in May 2010 Ben launched his own company, BAM! – a new kind of music marketing, PR and consultancy service.

Most recently, Ben spent three and a half years at a well-known music promotions agency – working his way up from Account Executive, to Head of Digital and eventually to Director. He established their online department which quickly grew in to a market leader.

As Head of Digital Ben devised and implemented successful marketing and PR campaigns for the likes of The Mighty Boosh Festival, Hop Farm Festival, Cornbury Festival, Benicassim Festival (Spain), Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg), and artists like Deadmau5, Unicorn Kid and Louie Vega. He also introduced the UK press to Imelda May, The Parlotones and Nell Bryden to name a few. He facilitated many innovative cross-promotions between artists and brands.

Other experience of music promotions, marketing , PR and artist management spans major organisations including online promotions for Virgin EMI Records, marketing with Universal Music Group and festival assistant with Mean Fiddler (now Festival Republic), through to project management, digital and marketing roles with smaller start-up initiatives.

Ben has been involved in planning and implementing successful campaigns for major and independent recording artists alike including; Keane, Gabby Young, Sugababes, Kelis, Air, Jamie T, Bryan Ferry, Willy Mason, The Spinto Band, The Bees, Rolan Bolan and one or two more.

Ben is particularly fascinated by the new opportunities that digital and mobile platforms offer artists.

Caroline Bottomley set up and looks after RadarMusicVideos. Radar has over 4,500 members. It's an online site which connects music video directors to artists and record labels. Radar also promotes trendsetting, non-mainstream music videos to the many of the world's most influential editors via their Editors Hotlist and low budget plugging services.

Chris Bye is the Music Relationship Manager for the Arts Council North West. He would have preferred the title 'Music Expert' or 'Music Person' but such is life. Amongst other things his role involves the development of music-related projects and partnerships. Chris is the main Arts Council contact for developing Folk, Jazz, World, Electronica and pretty anything not purely Classical or Opera in the NW. He also runs the folk / weird / glitch label 'The Yellow Sign' which houses the charity ‘Stranger Songs’ compilations. He wishes he still had time to put on gigs.

Cilla Baynes has worked for over 32 years in the arts, mainly in the Community/ Participatory arts sector, in the North West, London and other parts of the UK.

Cilla is known as a pioneer of arts production with diverse communities throughout Britain and has worked in various capacities as a producer, theatre workshop leader, theatre director, actor, recording artist, arts development worker, project management, trainer, mentor and arts manager/director.

Cilla has a long association with Community Arts North West (CAN) as co founder member in 1978, and where she is currently Creative Director. CAN has been instrumental in creating a wide range of performance based production, with creative communities throughout Greater Manchester and in the last 6 years its main focus has been the Nationally acclaimed Exodus Refugee Arts Programme.

Clare’s core work is as a freelance music consultant specialising in
running projects that foster new collaborations and partnerships. She
currently works for a number of clients from both the arts education
world and the music industry. This can include consultancy on
fundraising, business planning and strategy or more straight-forward
events management and project co-ordination. She is also reguarly
engaged as a choral coach, guest speaker and guest lecturer for
various organisations.

She is currently undertaking projects for Soweto Kinch Productions
(Strategic Manager), Birmingham City Council (Event Manager), Youth
Music (Grants Assessor), Women and Theatre (Music Director), The Drum
(Course Facilitator), Ex Cathedra (Education Programme Consultant) and
Sing Up (Event Manager).

She also sings with Birmingham’s premiere choir Ex Cathedra and
conducts her own alternative choir Notorious. Clare is the overall
winner of Birmingham Young Professional of the Year 2007, UK Young
Music Entrepreneur 2008.

Clutch Daisy is a composer, singer, guitarist, producer, remixer and occasional darling of the independent music press. His musical output ranges from alt-country, folk and classical to stadium rock, hip hop and extreme heavy metal improvisation.

His band (x) is greater than (y) was embraced by Kerrang, Radio 1 and XFM, and critically acclaimed in the NME, Rocksound Magazine, The Independent, and Drowned in Sound. His solo projects have included theatrical works for classical Greek productions and Shakespearean drama, soundtracks for film and television, collaborations with author Iain Banks, sample-based electronica and interpretations of traditional Scottish folk tales set to contemporary folk music.

He can also make things out of wood, and can tell good whisky from bad.

Daniel Cookney worked under a pseudonym for ten years as a writer for publications including The Guardian and i-D. More recently he's been found lecturing on popular culture, media and critical thinking whilst undertaking a PhD looking at the relationship between electronic music and graphic design. Working across a number of disciplines, his clients have included Virgin Records, Ministry of Sound and FutureEverything.

Dave Carter is a musician, technologist, researcher and teacher with close to a decade's experience working in the Australian and international music industries.

Along the way, Dave completed a PHD in experimental electronica; toured Australia as bassist in a funk and soul band; failed to run an independent label; and worked on recording projects ranging from hip-hop, rock, classical and jazz to Indonesian Gamelan and Senegalese Drumming.

From 2007-2008 Dave worked as an Australian Youth Ambassador with an independent record label in the Lao PDR to help expand their business and access the online marketplace. While in Lao Dave managed projects for clients including the UN, World Bank and Unilever including a memorable snow-party on the banks of the Mekong.

Upon returning to Australia Dave took up work as a lecturer in audio engineering and production at the Queensland Conservatorium, filling his spare time on projects ranging from a research consultancy into the impact of online promotion on record sales to working as a co-ordinator for Stylin' UP Regional, an Indigenous Hip Hop and Community Cultural Development project.

In 2010 Dave worked with a team of passionate and incredibly talented co-conspirators to bring UnConvention to Brisbane.

Debra King is an independent producer, programmer and project development director. She has an extensive knowledge of the arts sector locally, nationally and internationally and fifteen years experience of working in arts management at a senior level. She is currently the artist development manager for the Beating Wing Orchestra, the Director of a creative music education company GMMAZ, which specialises in offering accessible and innovative music making to children and young people from a diverse range of social, cultural and educational backgrounds and the co producer for the Nitin Sawhney project Aftershock and the co director of FKuk.

She has worked as the Director of Women in Music London; Music Officer at the Arts Council England, North West, Creative Producer for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme, the Programme Manager for Undergrowth, a two-year programme of Australian Contemporary Arts In the UK and as Creative Programmer for the West London Story a Cultural Olympiad programme.

Don Letts’ reputation has been firmly established in both the film and music world, by a substantial body of work, from the late 70's through the 80's, 90’s and well into the millennium. His work has been exhibited in The Kitchen N.Y.C, The Institute of Contemporary Art, The N.F.T in London and was honoured at Brooklyn’s BAM festival. In March 2003 he won a Grammy for his documentary ‘Westway To The World'.

He came to notoriety in the late 70's as the DJ that single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae. It was whilst DJing at the first punk club 'The Roxy' in 1977, that Don adopted the punk D.I.Y ethic and began to make his first film 'The Punk Rock Movie'. Shot on Super-8mm, it is the only documentary on the U.K punk scene featuring The Sex Pistols, The Clash and many others. This led to a period directing over 300 music videos for a diverse range of artists, including Bob Marley, Elvis Costello and Beenie Man.

From the days of Punk Rock to the present, he has always been drawn towards musical projects. He created the band Basement Five, released a single with members of John Lydon’s P.I.L, managed The Slits and collaborated with members of Trouble Funk.

In the mid 80's he formed the group 'Big Audio Dynamite' with Mick Jones (ex-Clash). He went on to perform and co-write four albums with B.A.D, achieving several hits on both sides of the Atlantic including the top ten hit E=Mc2.

In the early 90's Don left B.A.D to form ‘Screaming Target’, their debut performance at The Transmusical Festival in France received rave reviews. They released one critically acclaimed album ‘Hometown Hi-Fi’'.'

As the 'Dub Cartel Sound System' he has performed DJ sets for The Rough Trade 25th Anniversary, Jarvis Cocker’s Desperate Sound System, Trojan, Lee Perry’s Meltdown, Glastonbury 2003/4 and Stussy's 25th anniversary.

His credits as a director include a variety of films and documentaries, including 'Dancehall Queen', ’Westway To The World' and 'PUNK: Attitude'.

Don has also released several compilation albums: 1996's ‘Time Warp Dub Clash’ (Island Records), 2002's ‘Dread Meets The Punk Rockers Uptown’ (Heavenly Records), 2003's ‘Don Letts presents: The Mighty Trojan Sound' (Sanctuary Records) and in 2004 ‘Dread Meets B-Boy Downtown' (Heavenly Records).

In March 2007, he released his autobiography in hardback: ‘Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers’.

Eve Wood is a dutch independent producer, director and editor based in Sheffield. Her first critically acclaimed music film 'Made In Sheffield' (2001) documenting the rise in the late 70's of Sheffield's electronic pioneers including The Human League, has been voted amongst the 50 best music films in Time Out 2007. Her film has been seen across the globe in festivals, TV and DVD.
Since then she has been working as a camera woman, director and editor for TV and also runs an independent production company 'Sheffield Vision' with her husband, Richard.
They have now finished their second independent feature called 'The Beat Is The Law', a two part documentary following on from Made In Sheffield focusing on the next generation of post-punk musicians from Sheffield including Pulp, as they journey through the 80's and 90's to the centre of Britpop and Dance.

I started out doing work experience at Creation Management. Working
with artists such as The Libertines, Beta Band and The D4...i soon
became label manager of sister record label Poptones. After a couple
of years working with artists such as The Paddingtons, The Others and
Steve Mason i moved on to work with Big Life Management in 2007. I
currently co manage artist within Biglife, and consult on the
marketing of there Roster. Big Life Management is responsible for
managing artists such as Richard Ashcroft, Klaxons, La Roux,
Futureheads, Badly Drawn Boy and The Charlatans amongst others.

Howard runs Manchester indie label Humble Soul and manages Manchester-based artists Denis Jones and Liz Green, plus Brighton's genre-defining baroque indie outfit The Miserable Rich. In the true spirit of DIY, he gets involved in pretty much everything - recording, live engineering, booking, promoting, design - and loves the way Manchester has continued to prove itself to be a real hub of new ideas for grassroots and independent music. Since being involved in the very first Un-Convention, he has been mightily impressed with what Ruth, Jeff and the team have achieved and hopes that it will continue to inspire people to get out there and do stuff...

James Welch is a Sound Engineering student at Birmingham City University, who produces electronic music as Seams. He released his first album a year ago, and has since played a few shows around the UK and seen his first 12" pressed. He has also spent the last year interning at SoundCloud, Warp, and One Little Indian Records.

Jason is above all an impressive and inspiring performer. Whether in his role as Beatboxer, DJ, workshop facilitator, percussionist or sound artist, he has a charismatic presence and a sensitivity that engages audiences and fellow performers alike. As well as his creative interest in exploring and exploiting the possibilities of all art-forms, his work is always motivated by a desire to bring people together.

Performances and productions in the UK and abroad, workshops, inter-disciplinary collaborations, work with artists such as Nitin Sawhney, Jason’s projects always explore the potential of creativity to cross social, racial, linguistic and other boundaries and to develop connections between people.

Jayne Casey was a principal mover for Liverpool’s Capital of Culture bid and was one of the artistic directors for both of the spectacular opening events.

The former shaven-headed lead singer in 70s punk band Big in Japan along with Holly Johnson, Ian Broudie and Ian McCulloch – has also headed the PR for superclub Cream and been programme director for the Bluecoat arts centre.

Jez Collins is the originator of the Birmingham Popular Music Archive, an online repository that recognises and celebrates Birmingham's rich musical heritage.

Interested in how communities associate cultural memory and music, he believes it is in the unforgotten voices of music that the most interesting stories are heard - the long forgotten bands, venues and impresarios that give life to a cities music scenes.

He has just completed production of Made In Birmingham: Reggae Punk Bhangra a documentary film that looks at the cultural, political and social issues that give rise to some of the biggest, and not so big, bands of the genres. He works at the Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University and unsurprisingly has an interest in music and archives along with cultural policy and the creative industries.

Creador del archivo de música de Birmingham (Reino Unido) y uno de los organizadores del mes de música de Brum (apodo de la cuidad de Birmingham). Está interesado en los aspectos cultuales y sociales de la música popular. A pesar de entender y darse cuenta de la importancia y el significado de la industria musical, quiere investigar las nuevas formas de entender qué es la música y lo que significa en nuestra sociedad hoy en día. Cuenta con más de 20 años de trabajo en la industria musical y las industrias creativas y culturales.
Actualmente se dedica a la educación como investigador para el Departamento de Investigaciones sobre las Culturas Interactivas de la Universidad de la ciudad de Birmingham. Este equipo participa en la discusión e intercambio de conocimientos sobre cómo se pueden utilizar las nuevas tecnologías para fomentar y cambiar los negocios de la música así mismo sobre cómo se pueden promover nuevas tendencias, ideas y modelos de negocios para la industria musical. Además es docente universitario en el curso BA de industrias musicales.

Ha escrito una conferencia con Andrew Dubber titulada La música como la cultura, una respuesta a la industria y a las agencias gubernamentales, quienes suelen ignorar a los consumidores de la música en los debates sobre el futuro de la música en la era digital. Con el propósito de que la música, como la cultura, sea esta voz perdida.

John Bradburn is a film maker, lecturer and journalist based in the UK. His interests include film form, encouraging no budget film making and alternative voices within cinema. His first feature Kyle (2007) was shot for £1000 and was screened in festivals around the world including Seattle, West County Los Angeles and Flatpack UK. He has also worked as a cinematographer on a variety of films including the 72 Hour Feature Film - The Ballad of Des and Mo" for the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival.

There they came spunking out of the punk rock wars, eyes screwed up with righteousness over the barricades and tumbling into the mainstream- John Robb was just one of them- on a one man guerilla raid against boredom.

He was born in Blackpool, raised by punk and set free to roam the world with a high decibel hard-on for the freaky side of modern culture.

He spent the eighties turning it up to 11 out of 10 in the molten dayglo punk rock musical freak show of the Membranes who toured the world and released lots of noisy pissed off records that got lots of great press and started loads of mini riots at gigs which has all been documented in his recent ‘Death to Trad Rock’ book.

He became a music journalist with fierce, shrapnel prose and a keen eye for what was happening; he had already learned to move fast in the fanzine days with his 'zine Rox- part of the legendary 'clique versus the bleak' fanzine scene.

He wrote for Sounds being the first to discover Nirvana with their first ever interview, Madchester, chunks of acid house, grunge, noiseniks and American post hardcore noise whilst inventing words like 'B ritpop' on the way.

In the nineties he wrote more books- a best seller on the Stone Roses, 'the Stone Roses And the Resurrection Of British Pop' as well as one about the nineties, 'the Nineties, What the Fuck Was That All About' and became a TV pundit regular gobbing off about shit culture or providing musical insight into the holy stuff.

In the 21st century this has continued- presenting TV series-like a ten part history of punk, writing more books- one on punk rock, 'Punk Rock An oral History' becoming one of the definitive best selling statements on the form as well as fronting Goldblade and touring the world. He is currently a vegan, straight edge, punk rock soul power brother, a black belt in musical arts who is setting up a record label, internet radio and TV station and multi media website and writing thousands of words a day…

Jon Green is a graduate in Art in a Community Context from the University of Surrey at Roehampton, he is the founding director of Unity Radio 92.8fm Manchester. The last ten years he has spent building a radio station alongside talented young minds from a pirate at grass roots level, successfully managing it to receiving a fulltime FM licence. In his spare time he has also shared his skills and knowledge with Government initiatives to help improve positive activities for young people through delivering practitioner training for the Department of Children, Schools and Families, around the UK, with the Youth Task Force.

In his spare time Jon is a professional Graffiti and fine Artist and has completed commissioned Art pieces, for a range of exhibitions including Red Bull sponsorship work, a public installation at The Cornerhouse incorporating live broadcasting and specific pieces for the Duke of Westminster.

Jon grew up in South Manchester around a large number of gang members and generally, criminally active young men. By using street disciplines such as Graffiti Art, Rapping and DJ’ing, he accessibly connected and engaged with young minds from the inner city areas. From this basis he has created and delivered many programmes for Youth Offending Teams, Youth Support Teamsand Intensive Supervision Support Teams, which has led to working with a large number of talented youths across the North West, London, Birmingham and with FACT (Foundation for Art and creative technology ) as part of the Liverpool Biennial. This has lead to Jon, representing the Youth Charter, discussing European Youth Issues at the United Nations board.

Jonathan Hamilton is something out of the ordinary when it comes to his music. Known in the music world as Jun Tzu, the 22-year-old has already suffered some controversy for the unusually political slant on his lyrics.

Jun started writing poetry when he was just nine years old, he travelled around the world with his father, an ex- terrorist who is now a Christian preacher. Jun has since won numerous awards for his poetry and music. Inspired by his Irish heritage, his lyrics are both poetic and political, describing experiences of growing up in Northern Ireland, views on religion and his own take on the rising violence on the streets of Manchester.

Khalid has spent the last six years advising music companies and artists on a range of mainly commercial issues.
Until March 2010 he was European Managing Director for TAG Strategic, a leading Los Angeles based digital entertainment consulting agency, advising brands, artists and labels in Europe and the US including Moodagent, UKTI, the Isle of Man Government, Coca Cola and others on commercial, digital and mobile strategies.
He was chosen as one of the Midem+ experts at Midem 2010 and is a regular attendee at events such as Midem, SXSW, Canadian Music Week, Popkomm and others, building a strong network of industry contacts at all levels.
Prior to that, he was one of the senior management team at London Calling, one of the biggest music industry trade events to take place in the UK.
Khalid is currently advising a number of artists/artist managers on marketing, distribution and promotion and is developing two major projects for announcement later this year.

Kirsty Almeida, award-winning singer , self-managed songwriter and composer signed to Decca, Universal is a member of Manchester's odbod Collective and is signed to her own publishing company. Kirsty's album, Pure Blue Green was released the first week of September and produced by the legendary, Youth (Primal Scream, The Verve, McCartney). Having played many of the festivals this summer Kirsty is about to go on tour with her band The Toubadours, this time touring in a seven foot tall birdcage. Kirsty has written for other artists and has experience in film composing and songwriting - credits include Pategonia and film to be released in January, Albatros. Also a visual artist and designer, Kirsty is currently exhibiting the artwork for her album Pure Blue Green and also makes her own costumes and stage props. Collaborating with a guitar maker Kirsty has designed a skirt which is also a harp with a bustle made out of tuned spoons. In her element when being creative, Kirsty has ten years experience bringing the creative mind to business.

PRS for Music Foundation

Con solo 26 años es baterista y dj contemporánea. Con otros cinco músicos hizo una gira mundial, ha grabado siete discos y toques en vivo en los famosos estudios de grabación de Maida Vale, Londres (Reino Unido). Ha tocado con: The Whip, Filthy Dukes, Performance, Dead Disco (ya conocido como Little Boots), The Noisettes y con la artista internacional Robyn. Su trabajo usualmente es en solitario, pero también ha trabajado con el grupo The Whip en sesiones en el Reino Unido, Los Estados Unidos, Alemania, España, Austria y Japón.

En 2008 y 2009 tuvo actuaciones destacadas en el Glastonbury Festival, Manchester Pride Festival, Dubai Sound City, V-festival, Underage festival, Global Gathering entre otros. Hizo un gira completa en los Estados Unidos, Europa y una presentación en un almacén de Japon, participó en The Warehouse Project en Manchester, un concierto de noche vieja en la discoteca Matter de la arena de O2 en Londres, tocando con Soulwax entre otros. Además, se presentó en vivo en los programas de televisión de GMTV (ITV, Reino Unido) y Sound (BBC, Reino Unido) con la artista Robyn y con The Whip. Durante la gira en Estados Unidos actuó en el programa de televisión The Jimmy Kimmel Show con el grupo The Whip. El momento más destacado de 2009 fue su presentación en el festival de Glastonbury en el que tocó para una multitud de 10,000 personas.

Este año sigue su contrato con The Whip que lanzará su segundo disco y estará de gira en el Reino Unido, Australia y Los EEUU y también en festivales alrededor del mundo incluyendo SXSW (Texas), Snowbombing (Austria) y Glastonbury (Reino Unido).

En el último año artículos y entrevistas con The Whip han sido publicados por varios periódicos, revistas y sitios web internacionales incluyendo la portada de Sandman Magazine, The Sun, Heat magazine y London Lite. Aparte de sus giras y conciertos, Lil Fee ha sido panelista de Un-Convention Salford, BBC y Women in Music.

I am an experienced contemporary drummer, who at the age of 24, has played with 5 signed acts, toured the world, recorded on several albums and played live sessions at legendary studios like Maida Vale. I have played with UK acts, The Whip, Performance, Dead Disco, Filthy Dukes and The Noisettes along with number one selling international act Robyn. I also DJ independently and with the band and have played DJ sets in UK, Japan and USA.

The 2007 and 2008 gig highlights – Manchester’s D Percussion festival, a headline tour culminating at hometown Manchester Academy 2, Glastonbury, Creamfields, Latitude, Amsterdam at Paradiso with Justice, STRP Festival in Amsterdam with Soulwax, Fuji Rock Festival, a London all-nighter with Digitalism, playing Fabric for Adventures In The Beetroot Field, manic glowstick-wielding crowds in tiny Midlands clubs – have been many and varied. I have also played TV gigs, such as GMTV (ITV) and Sound (BBC 2) with Robyn.

Currently signed with The Whip (with worldwide record deals), 2009 will see tours of UK, Australia and USA plus festival highlights around the globe including Fuji Rock, SXSW, Snowbombing (Austria) and We Love Sounds Festival (Australia). Plus – I will play any UK shows and TV appearances with Robyn in the UK where possible. The highlight of 2008 will be the NYE gig where I play with both The Whip and Filthy Dukes at Matter in London.

John Louis (AKA Louis Barabbas) started out in the music business as a harmonica player performing with a number of bands from all across the genre spectrum (including members of Freddy & The Dreamers, The Holmes Brothers, The King Blues and The Dole Queue). For two years he was a fifth of rock outfit The Derelicts and earned the moniker "the hairy Bez of blue harp" for his unpredictable onstage antics. After the band split he moved to Philadelphia and recorded with the band Dr. Dog (recently signed to ANTI-Records) and subsequently returned to the UK with a head full of ideas drawn from the East Coast underground live scene.

In 2006 he turned front-man and formed Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six (originally called The Black Velvet Band). To this day the group has played all over the world, sharing the stage with such disparate acts as Motorhead, Supergrass and Sun Ra's Arkestra.

Realizing that unmarketable, genre-hopping bands such as his own could achieve success through sheer stubbornness he formed the label Debt Records with bandmate Biff Roxby, producer Dan Watkins and PR-man Chris Mitchell, an enterprise devoted to supporting exceptional touring artists that didn't suit a traditional marketing approach (or indeed a comfortable lifestyle).

I arrived in Manchester in 1986 to attend Manchester Poly where I met Justin who had arrived the year before. We both loved music. Justin started a band The New Fast Automatic Daffodils, and I started DJing. We decided to start Electric Chair as an antidote to Manchester’s descent into violence and commercialism. It began in June 1995 and wanted to fill it with good positive people who loved music. Electric Chair received international status with accolades from the likes of Laurent Garnier, calling it one of the top 5 club experiences he’d ever had. The club was voted best UK club from Radio 1 by Giles Peterson, name checking its legendary status atmosphere and the list of international talent that graced the decks.

The Electric Chair logo is now featured in the permanent art display in Manchester Art Gallery as one of Manchester’s unique institutions and as pavement installation on Oldham St. I DJed as one half of The Unabombers who went on to DJ across the world touring America, Japan, Australia, Europe, Russia, as well as the major UK festivals from Glastonbury to The Big Chill. We are producers and make our own music as The Unabombers and Elektrons, whose track ‘Dirty Basement’ went to number 1 in South Africa and toured the UK as a live act. In addition, we started an international festival in 2008 in Croatia, which has been running for three years called Electric Elephant. We also started a club called Homoelectric, which is still running to this day as an alternative to the mainstream village club experience. Last year one of our oldest dreams became a reality with opening of Electrik bar in Chorlton.

LUPA ,MC and Producer, Sociedad FB7 and LASO
Ruben Dario Giraldo Restrepo, known as LUPA has been involving in the Medellin hip hop scene for over 15 years as a producer, an MC and as a community worker. He has organised numerous gigs and been involved in music projects aimed at bringing about social change and empowering individuals to improve their community. Along with other musicians and he has set up a studio in his home which is a drop in recording studio for artists in his neighbourhood who can come record their music for free. He is currently a music producer, specialising in urban music and works with the record label La Republica UND.
He started his Hip Hop group, Sociedad FB7 in 1993 as and MC and producer. He has worked to create spaces in the city for musicians to perform and to this end has been involved in organising festivals and concerts in Medellin. He is also involved in the Colombia Government’s cultural entrepreneur programme, LASO working with other artists across Medellin. Lupa strongly believes in the power of music and culture to drive social change.
http://www.myspace.com/sociedadfb7
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sociedad-Fbsiete/100000796302894
http://www.mincultura.gov.co/laso/

Rubén Darío Giraldo Restrepo, conocido como LUPA, lleva más de 15 años trabajando con el Hip Hop de Medellín, desde la tarea de producir y cantar hasta la labor social de transformación propia de éste genero en la ciudad.

Trabajando también como gestor cultural ha facilitado procesos organizativos juveniles en campos deportivos, recreativos y culturales. Ha participado en este tipo procesos desde 1997 acompañando iniciativas de empoderamiento juvenil a través de la formación sociopolítica, ciudadana y artística.
Empezó su grupo de Hip Hop, Sociedad FB7, en 1993 produciendo y cantando. Para poder presentar su música al público se dedico a generar espacios de expresión y a fomentar los procesos de formación artística para grupos juveniles de Medellín.
Actualmente es productor musical, especializado en géneros urbanos, en FB7 Studio y para el sello La República Und. Trabaja con grupos de la ciudad y el país, organiza festivales y coordina procesos organizativos en algunas comunas de Medellín con el proyecto LASO del Ministerio de Cultura. Y todo por su convicción en el poder de la música y la cultura como factor de cambio social.

Lykle de Vries is co-founder of Lopend Vuur and New Music Labs and Member of the International Board of Un-convention. Way back when, he did actually play guitar in a band, but he has since moved to developing concepts for iPhone Apps, websites and other means that help bands engage with their audience. Tribe Monitor is New Music Labs latest tool; a Social Statistics Aggregator that helps you keep an eye on your overall Social Media performance. By the way, Lykle also invented Twitterfountain.

Get in touch with Lykle right now! Follow Lykle on Twitter: @lykle

Photo by Judith van der Meulen

Marion Leonard is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Popular Music which is part of the School of Music at the University of Liverpool. Her first book Gender in the Music Industry was published in 2007 by Ashgate and she is a contributor to and co-editor of the new book The Beat Goes On: Liverpool, Popular Music and the Changing City published by Liverpool University Press. From 2006-2008, Marion was seconded to National Museums Liverpool as lead curator for The Beat Goes On, a popular music exhibition which was shown at World Museum Liverpool (July 2008 - November 2009). She is currently working on a research project examining the collection and display of popular music related material by museums. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of their Beyond Text programme and involves partnerships with National Museums Liverpool and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

After working in various Manchester design companies for the best part of eight years Mark set up his own design studio in January 2008, with the specific aim of working with companies from the creative industries. Clients include Band on the Wall, Contact Theatre, Fat Northerner Records, Un-Convention and The Lowry Theatre. He is also an avid record collector, a
DJ, a real ale enthusiast and probably the worlds leading expert on long-forgotten 80¹s footballers.

Martin Atkins is the definition of entrepreneurial activity in cultural arts endeavors, his 30+ years in the music business spans across genres and borders and industries. He was a member of Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke. He founded industrial supergroup Pigface, The Damage Manual, and Murder Inc., and has contributed to Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. He is the owner of Invisible Records and Mattress Factory Recording Studios (est. 1988). He is the author of Tour:Smart, a syndicated blogger, and teaches at Madison Media Institute. Martin is a producer, drummer, documentary film maker, DJ, and father of four. Whatever the future of music is, you can pretty much bet that he’ll be in the middle of it.

As UK editor at leading technology blog The Next Web, Martin watches the bleeding edge of the Internet and social media while covering the latest news from companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook. As Digital Content Editor at Marketing Manchester he puts his observations into practice, helping to promote Manchester as a tourism and business destination via social media and the city region's official destination website, VisitManchester.com. Martin is also a musician who has first-hand experience of the painful slog that is promoting a band online.

Sound engineer and multimedia developer, graduate from Full Sail. Independent entrepreneur since 1997, worked for StarMedia Networks in NYC after his company Crearium Web/Paisas.com was acquired in 1999. He is currently Digital Creative Director at Sancho BBDO and previously he was directing La Cápsula, a digital studio that develops web strategies and investigates the impacts of free culture in the creative industries. He has more than 10 years of experience in managing projects related to independent urban music scene.

In 2004, he participated in the creation of one of the first net radio projects in Colombia called Radio Capsula, evolving into a Lab that investigates and socialize strategies for the circulation, promotion, marketing and management of music using the precepts of free culture and a intensive use of new technologies. The first project was a NetRadio that today broadcasts 24 hours a day Latin American urban sounds, with emphasis on electronic music, hip-hop and new cumbia that are mostly published under a Creative Commons licenses.

Mike first became interested in music in 1977. In 1979 he formed his own Mod/Power Pop band ‘The Rimshots’, who released two singles. When he realised that fame and stardom were not going to materialise he moved into artist management and set up his own Bristol record label in 1985 - Sugar Shack Records. Sugar Shack as a UK Rock imprint is still active in 2010. By day Mike is an independent financial advisor, and in recent years Mike has thrown his attention and enthusiasm towards his subsidiary label Bristol Archive Records. The label has a simple objective:
“We aim to showcase music from the diverse Bristol Music scene and provide a historical account / document of all things Bristol that should never be forgotten. Many of the artists and releases are rare, unknown or never before released. The material has been lovingly digitally remastered from vinyl, ¼ inch tape, dat or cassette. The original vinyl releases would generally have been limited to runs of 1000 copies or less.
We would like to thank the original label owners and/or the artists for allowing us to share with you their forgotten works and provide a statement of how brilliant bands have always been from the city of Bristol and the surrounding areas.
Enjoy and never forget the talented ones from the past, they deserve to be recognised & remembered”.
Most of the labels releases are in the digital format with 185 releases to date. However they have now moved into releasing Bristol compilation albums on cd and limited edition vinyl albums for collectors.

www.bristolarchiverecords.com
www.sugarshackrecords.com
www.twitter.com/BristolArchive

Growing up in Canada, and living in NYC since '97, Gelineau has an extensive career in various aspects of the music industry. An executive with over 25 years of Domestic and International marketing experience in the music industry, her involvement ranged from radio (CKCU, CKUT, CBC Brave New Waves) to club dj, retail buyer, concert promoter and finally executive marketing roles at BMG Music Canada, Palm Pictures, Volcano and TVT Records. Her reputation as an innovative, results-driven, life-long music fan led to the birth of a partnership culture agency with Vice, called addVice, and eventually her own agency, The MuseBox. Recently ace NYC-based PR agency Magnum PR merged with The MuseBox to form a dynamic alliance, both operating together under the name The MuseBox.

Nadine also loves traveling towards the sun, her cat LeTigre, and spas. Within the field of Artist Management, Gelineau worked with The Dears during the "No Cities Left" album cycle; her current clients include Uncut, Wolf & Cub, Green Go, Ruby Coast and Twin Tigers.

Nick Moreton has been an independent musician for nigh on 15 years, writing, recording and promoting music since he was 11 years old. He has released records himself as well as having records released by other labels, played hundreds of gigs and has been involved in every part of a record release, from recording to production to distribution.

Combining his love of music with a growing passion for online design and services, Nick is now heavily involved in online music, running a record label, and discussing music cultures. Nick has recently returned to education and will be soon studying towards a PHD.

Passionately DIY, Nick is currently fronting UK melodic-punk-rock band Pick Your Weapon (website for this is http://pickyourweapon.co.uk) as well as running Brave or Invincible Records ( boirecords.co.uk)

I am a 45 years old Spaniard. Even though I have lived in Manchester since 1997, I first time came to Manchester in 1990 to experience the last vestiges of the Madchester music scene. Definitely music was the wheels and the engine that took me to cross the Channel.

Since I was teenager in Madrid in the late seventies I became fascinated by the rock music scene, which started to be developed in the difficult times of the Spanish transition to democracy. That scene is know in Spain as La Movida. Paradoxically, it was a very apolitical youth scene in contrast witht the political charged social atmosphere of the times. It is interesting to notice that many intellectuals and journalists of Spain who criticised that scene at the time, they now recognize that this was probably the most solid manifestation of a change of spirit from Franco's Spain and the seeds for modern Spain. 
 
I have a big interest in the connection of music and the social sciences, sociology, politics. I think the world of arts is a manifestation of the times (as the hippies would say the zeitgeist) and that involved many aspects which, even unconscious to the artist/s, form an art scene or a movement. The creation of music scenes is one of my particular interests.
 
I have recently finished a MA in International Politics at the Manchester Metropolitan University. My final dissertation was about Music and Political activism focused on a transnational music scene called Mestizo, which arose in France in the late eighties but these days the epicentre moved to Barcelona with the arrival of musicians such as Manu Chao. For my dissertation I look into the works, among others of Barbara Lebrum (Protest Music in France), Ron Eyerman and Jamison Andrew (authors of Music and Social Movements), Sarah Cohen ( Popular Music and the music industries of Merseyside) or TV Reed (The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism, from the Civil Rights Movement to the streets of Seattle).

Djing is another tool I use to feed my music passion. I am the house-dj on Sundays at Big Hands.. Mestizo Sounds is the theme of this regular night of mixed sounds for open minds -ears.

James Thompson is Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the
Centre for Applied Theatre Research, University of Manchester. He is
currently the director of In Place of War - a research and practice
based project exploring performance and theatre in war zones. He is
author of a number of books including most recently 'Performance
Affects' (Palgrave, 2009) and with colleagues 'Performance in Place of
War' (Seagull, 2009). James set up the Theatre in Prisons and
Probation Centre (TiPP) in 1992 and worked as its director until 1999
when he started working in theatre projects in war and conflict zones.
He has run projects with refugee communities in the UK as well as
working on projects in DR Congo, Indonesia, Rwanda and Sri Lanka. He
is also currently Director of Research in the School of Arts Histories
and Cultures at the University of Manchester and Director of Research
at the new Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute.

Rich Huxley is a musician, producer and young people's music mentor. He's a member of the band Hope and Social, and author of pieces such as Music Is Not Our Currency and Worrying About Monetizing Your Music is Holding You Back on creativedeconstruction.com.

His band embrace both tribe culture and the internet, and with particular skills in organising successful, special events and making art with the tribe, Hope and Social are a case study in point.

Fat Northerner Records / Un-convention

Ruth Daniel co-founded Manchester indie label, Fat Northerner Records in 2003. In the proud tradition of great British indies such as 4AD, Warp, Creation and of course Factory, Fat Northerner only release music by artists they believe in.

Fat Northerner has worked with over 60 bands and was one of the first labels to fully embrace the digital revolution. Their recent project involves current bands reworking Salford punk-poet John Cooper Clarke’s material and has attracted interest from many top artists, bands and spoken word artists.

Ruth is co-founder and chair of Un-Convention, a music conference aimed specifically at the grass roots of the industry, the goal is to bring together like minded individuals to discuss the future of Independent music. Ruth is also Director of a new online live music industry project with fellow UKYME nominee Ian Chamings. Ruth was shortlisted for UK Young Music Entrepreneur 2008. Ruth believes in making music as culture, rather than music as commerce.

Ruth’s commitment for music in the NW is very strong, as cited in a statement from the jury on the UK Young Entrepreneur panel, for the award that she was short listed for this year (supported by NESTA and The British Council):

‘With passion and enthusiasm for both music and her region, Ruth has in a short time built an independent record label representing talent from the North-West. She is a genuine and very hardworking young music entrepreneur representing quality acts, and the judges applaud her obvious commitment’ (Jury included Alison Wenham, Chief Exec. AIM; Paul Williams, Editor Music Week; and Phil Patterson, International Business Specialist for Music, UK Trade and Investment)

Fundadora de Un-Conventión y el sello indie Fat Northerner Records en Salford (Gran Manchester, UK) durante el 2003 siguiendo la tradición de 4AD, Warp, Creation y Factory que creen en el valor de la música al creer en los artistas y la pasión por hacerla. Finalista del premio Joven Emprendedora Britanica del British Council en 2008 y fue incluida en la lista de Women 2 Watch por su trabajo con Un-Convention.

Hasta la fecha Fat Northerner ha trabajado con alrededor de 60 artistas y fue uno de los primeros sellos que abrazó la revolución digital. Sus proyectos recientes incluyen la modificación de las obras del poeta de punk de Salford John Cooper Clarke, que ha capturado la atención de los grandes grupos y artistas de la palabra hablada. Además Ruth es una de las fundadoras de Un-Convention, esta conferencia dirigida a los artistas de las bases de la música, que busca reunir a personas que piensan parecido para discutir sobre el futuro de la música independiente. Ruth cree en la música como una representación cultural en lugar de pensar en ella solo para fines comerciales.

En 2008, se hizo ganadora del premio Joven Emprendedor Británico del British Council. Además es la directora de un nuevo proyecto en línea sobre la música en vivo, la herramienta TourCore fue lanzada por Ruth y su socio Ian Chamings que también fue nominado al mismo premio y cuenta con el respaldo financiero de los empresarios Deborah Meaden y Theo Paphitis del programa del BBC Dragon’s Den.

La declaración de los jueces del premio Joven Emprendedor Británico del British Council resalta la gran dedicación de Ruth al desarrollo de la escena musical del noreste de Inglaterra.

“Por el entusiasmo y pasión por la música y su región, en muy poco tiempo Ruth ha lanzado un sello disquero independiente que colabora con artistas de gran talento del noreste del país. Es una empresaria joven trabajadora y genuina que representa los grupos musicales y celebramos su evidente dedicación”. — Jueces del premio incluidos Alison Wenham, Chief Exec. AIM; Paul Williams, Editor Music Weeky Phil Patterson, International Business Specialist for Music, UK Trade and Investment.

Scott Cohen is the co-founder of digital distribution pioneer The Orchard. As a well-recognized public speaker and lecturer, Scott travels the world evangelizing new business models for the digital age. He is a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University and sits on the BPI Council.
Scott’s music career started in the late 80’s in independent and major label artist management. In addition to his responsibilities at The Orchard, he manages Danish indie rock sensation, The Raveonettes and American all girl band The Dum Dum Girls.

Scott is a minimalist and strict vegan. No meat, fish, cheese, milk, honey, leather, wool or anything else derived from an animal.

http://www.manox.net/musik/

Born and raised in Cameroon, Serge has worked with musicians from many different cultures and musical backgrounds: his music blends African melodies and grooves with jazz and Western harmony and is based on African storytelling on the themes of love, war and peace, conveying a bitter-sweet sense of melancholy balanced by irrepressible optimism. He studied jazz harmony, improvisation and composition, and is a skilled pianist and bass guitarist,composer/arranger/producer and jazz educator.

Serge arrived in Oldham, near Manchester, at the end of 2006, armed with an old guitar - a gift from friend. As a bass player Serge removed the two upper strings, but despite this, he made his UK debut at a concert for at Oldham Library and found out about Community Arts North West.

He worked on the city’s Urban Music Theatre Project for young people. Since then, Serge Tebu has been fully involved in the Manchester music scene, participating in events such as Manchester Jazz Festival with Mike Wilson, Not Part Of festival, Exodus Live and Exodus Festival and becoming an integral part of the Beating Wing Orchestra, a unique band created for the inaugural and highly successful Manchester International Festival, under the direction of the renowned Palestinian singer Reem Kelani, then Amadou & Mariam. Serge runs his own band which combines African melodies and rhythms with jazz harmonies. Serge is currently working on an autobiographical multi-media theatre project and a project called Broken Barriers which combines different musical genres.

Shirlaine is a Manchester based freelance photographer specialising in music, fashion and portrait photography.

Shooting film and photography for fifteen years, Shirlaine began her career as a film maker, freelancing on features and shorts before working as a staff camera operator and DOP in television for nine years. Shooting photography alongside film throughout her career, she became a full time freelance photographer three years ago.

As well as working for a number of magazines and labels, with photographs published in The Guardian ,The New York Times, NME , Rolling Stone, The Telegraph and Vogue, and posters in Kerrang! and Total Guitar, her fashion and music clients include Adidas , BBC, Gola , HMV, Hugo , Jack Daniels, Living TV and XFM. Shirlaine is the chief photographer for Manchester magazine Chimp and is also assigned through agencies Getty Images and Wire Image.

Shirlaine has photographed promotional images and is featured on the official websites of several bands including Kasabian, Paul Heaton, Paul Weller, Stereophonics, The Subways and Unkle, and CD covers include Aim, Jesca Hoop and The Longcut. She has photographed Morrissey for his own personal collection and works as Enter Shikari and The Courteeners official photographer.

After gaining a degree in graphic design at Buckinghamshire University College, Si Scott used his skills to develop a characteristic style which combines hand-inked and penned artwork with modern typography.
That style has won him a prestigious and ever-expanding client list, including Vogue, Nike, Polydor, Guinness, MTV, Absolut, Tiffany & Co, Miller and American Express.

Simon started out as a DJ and club promoter in the 80¹s, becoming a music journalist for Echoes, Blues & Soul, i-D and the NME. He set up his own promotion and marketing company, Secret Promotions, before becoming Label Manager at Fiction/Desire Records. He then set up his own Heavyweight Management company in 1990, initially to represent Double Trouble and Rebel MC and subsequently acts including US3, Shut Up & Dance, The Freestylers and Sway. He also managed Roni Size for 10 years in which period Roni won the Mercury Music Prize. Simon then became Senior A&R manager at Universal Music publishing and now runs Brownswood Music with partner Gilles Peterson ­ a record label, publishing company, events and digital business. He also teaches one day a week at University of Westminster on the BA Commercial Music course and is module leader on Music Publishing, Music Marketing, Anatomy of the Music Industry and Negotiations modules.

Musician, teacher, social technology thinker/practitioner: Steve Lawson is a solo bassist who has managed to make a sustainable career out of a musical path that sounds more like a dare than a job. However, Steve’s “ongoing experiment at making the music that means something to him, and then using the internet to make that available to like-minded listeners” has kept him busy for the last 10 years, following on from another 10 years of professional music making in the ‘old’ industry. In recent times, he h as been called on to talk about, think about and be clever about the ways that musicians can take advantage of the awesomeness of the internetz to make music that matters and bypass an industry that never worked for musicians anyway. His music, writing and a free PDF of an awesome novel about being in a band can be had from stevelawson.net

Steve Lowes has a wealth of music industry experience, stretching over 20 years. As a marketing manager with BMG Records, working with artists including Tool, Spiritualized, Sleeper and The Wannadies, as well as co-running indie label Indolent. And then at Polydor Records, working with the likes of Ian Brown, The Cardigans, and Portishead.



Lowes then ran his own Artist Management Company, successfully guiding the careers of the likes of Just Jack and Ian Brown, as well as running his own indie record label and publishing company.
Lowes is now responsible for E Commerce solutions at Backstreet International Merchandise, including marketing, webstore development and their successful Retail Partner programme, running online stores for the likes of NME, Sonisphere Festivals, The Clash & Metallica to name but a few. As he puts it, “You can’t download a T shirt…yet”



He also manages the goth/steampunk/metaller upstarts the Fearless Vampire Killers, who in true future of music fashion, have written a novella as their first release…

Tony Morley has run The Leaf Label since 1995, making 2010 the company’s 15th anniversary.

The label sprang from Morley’s activities as DJ, writer, club promoter and press officer (for 4AD) in the early 90s, and initially began as a hobby, moving to a full time job - alongside his own No9 press agency - in 1997. The label has always operated completely independently, with an efficient DIY attitude and a strong visual aesthetic. In 1999 he established the ahead-of-its-time PostEverything mail order community of labels with Wire’s Colin Newman.

The label’s first release was by Boymerang, and significant discoveries have included Faultline, Susumu Yokota, Caribou, Asa-Chang & Junray, Murcof, Colleen, Psapp, A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Efterklang. More recent successes have included Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Polar Bear.

Based since its inception in South London, the label moved to Yorkshire in 2006, and hasn’t looked back. With the breakdown of the traditional record company model, Tony is making a logical progression into artist management, with the company set to expand further in 2011.

Vijay founded Only Much Louder (OML), the first artist management company for indie bands in India in 2002. Through its Syndicate brand, OML manages and books India’s leading artists. In 2010, OML launched Motherswear Entertainment, a company currently developing some of India's most exciting music festival properties. OML Digital, OML's technology business, builds applications for entertainers across a variety of platforms and is developing an internet-based direct-to-fan platform covering diverse genres of music callednh7.in.

Vijay won the prestigious British Council International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2009 making him the first Indian to achieve this feat.

Empresario y ganador del premio Joven Emprendedor Internacional del British Council 2009. Vijay inició su carrera musical cuando empezó a escribir por gigpad.com y como le gustaba tanto decidió dirigir un grupo, Acquired Funk Syndrome. Después de dirigir unos tantos grupos como Zero, Pentagram, Pin remove Violence, con solo 17 años y sin un plan concreto buscando un buen motivo para dejar los estudios fundó su compañía: Only Much Louder en 2002. El éxito de la compañía crecía y en 2003 OML llego a ser la primera compañía musical dedicada exclusivamente a la administración de los artistas indie en India. Igualmente, en 2005 contrató más de cien eventos musicales por todo el país y a nivel internacional. De hecho, el grupo indio Pentagram hizo una gira por Estonia y actuó en Glastonbury así fue uno de los primeros grupos de este país que consiguió éxito en Europa. Seguido a estos éxitos, la compañía lanza la división especializada en el contenido visual, Babblefish Production y al mismo tiempo en 2007 Vijay fundió el sello disquero Counter Culture Records.

OML ha establecido oficinas en Delhi y Bangalore con el motivo de dominar el mercado musical indio y sigue disfrutando el éxito a nivel nacional e internacional. Es este éxito y el gran talento emprendor de Vijay lo que lo ha hecho ser reconocido por el British Council otorgándole el prestigioso premio internacional al músico emprendedor de British Council de 2009. Asimismo sus habilidades y visión empresariales han sido reconocidas por la organización TED y llegó a ser un socio de dicha organización.

En noviembre de 2009 realizó el evento Un-Convention India en varias ciudades incluídas Mumbai y Bangalore y estuvo traducido a más de diez idiomas donde se reunieron entre otros, destacables expertos internacionales, nacionales, sellos independientes y artistas pertenecientes a las bases de la industria musical india. Además Vijay consiguió becas para que los artistas indios pudieran asistir a la conferencia, resaltando el espíritu de Un-Convention que se trata de dar oportunidades a todos y desarrollar una comunidad inclusiva. Además, los proyectos de Vijay tal como Un-Convention India muestran el papel importante que desempeña la gente creativa e innovadora en el desarrollo de la infraestructura y la economía en un país emergente como India.

www.babblefish.in www.thesyndicate.in

Viv Albertine. Born Sydney, Australia. French/Corsican father, Swiss mother. Brought up in North London (Muswell Hill). Quite poor. Comprehensive school. Favourite subjects, buying records; clothes, boys, art, English. Age17 went to art school. Dropped out and worked at Dingwalls, music venue Camden Town. Went to another art school met Mick Jones, saw The Sex Pistols first show. Bought Horses, Patti Smith. Dropped out. Bought Les Paul Junior with £200 my grandmother left me. Formed a band with Sid Vicious, Sarah and Palmolive called The Flowers of Romance (named by John Lydon). Started to learn to play guitar. Taught by Keith Levene who I have known since we were kids. He taught me that any sounds can go together, he really developed my ear and loads of other stuff. Johnny Thunders taught me how to do screamers (his name) and Joe Strummer, to tap my foot and play at the same time. I didn't have sex with any of them. Saw The Slits play their first show, called them the next day. We got together I back-combed their hair like The New York Dolls. We looked like a band. After The Slits I went to film school. Didn't drop out. Directed stuff for about ten years. Made some money not art. Now making sculpture and writing / recording / performing my own songs.

Colin Consterdine has worked in broadcast TV, print media and at Independent Record Labels. He has enjoyed a successful 18 year career as an artist, in Zion Train, and is now putting into effect the lessons of a creative lifetime, as Label Manager at Sound of Monkey Records in Swansea. He created his first artist website (wobblyweb.com) in 1995 and has worked as a web developer and beta-tester for music hardware & software.

He ran Wibbly Wobbly World of Music Studios for 15 years. With Zion Train, he played 500+ gigs over 14 years and, alongside running the band’s label, Universal Egg, was signed as an artist to China in the UK and Warners worldwide. This experience of Indie and Major labels, and a 15 year involvement in music on the Web, feed into his current development of a web-based centre of activity for artists in control of their own works.

Unity Radio 92.8fm is more than just a radio station...

With a primary audience of 15-25 year olds Unity Radio champions the tastes and interests of their target audience by reflecting popular trends and embracing musical cultures not currently served by radio in Greater Manchester.

Their music selection represents the energy and diverse nature of the young people of Manchester and celebrates the musical heritage that has influence youth culture across the UK. The foundation of the Unity sound is Big Beats and even Bigger Basslines- ranging from 70’s Reggae to Dubstep and all points in-between, with their identity firmly rooted within hip-hop culture.

Unity Radio have a continued commitment to producing and delivering outreach work by engaging with young people in their own communities, led by DJ’s, MC’s and street artists, focussing on participants’ skills, aspiration, building confidence and positive personal development.

Unity Radio will invite, include and inspire its audiences with confident positive content on local, national and international platforms, and use these as a base for continuing and building their progressive creative output.

Bill Drummond was born in 1953. Since leaving Liverpool School of Art in 1973 he has used various ways to investigate and converse with the world. These investigations and conversations have found expression via the written word, pop music, actions and The17.

His written words include the following books: The Manual (1989), Bad Wisdom (1996), 45 (2000), and How To Be An Artist (2002), The Wild Highway (2005), 17 (2008), $20,000 (2010).

The pop music (1977 - 1992) comprised of various projects, from Big In Japan to The KLF, the details of which have now faded into the twilight world of pub pop quiz questions and car boot sale bargain box oddities.

The actions have been the one constant in his practice. There have been hundreds over the years, nearly all carried out anonymously and left unrecorded. Over the past decade Drummond’s activities have included the production of a pack of cards titled Silent Protest, the foundation of The Intercontinental Twinning Association, the making of The Soupline, the construction of the London Cake Circle and setting up the websites:
www.mydeath.net
www.openmanifesto.com
www.nomusicday.com

The17 is a choir. Since 2006 Drummond has focused his energies on The17. He is currently in the middle of an extended but sporadic world tour with The17. To know more about The17 and the music they make visit www.the17.org

He has had numerous one-man exhibitions in major UK regional galleries and across Europe.

From 1998 all Drummond’s work has been framed within the context of The Penkiln Burn. To have a better understanding of what this is please visit www.penkilnburn.com

Nick Fitzsimons founded Penny Distribution in 2007 and launched sister company Penny Black in 2010. Originally a physical and digital distributor, Penny Distribution and marketing services for its artists and labels. Penny Black is a boutique music licensing and consultancy service representing independent Irish & UK labels catalogue to the media industries for sync and brand partnerships. Nick also helped organize UnConvention Belfast and the NI Music Industry Meetup series, as well as the informal Open Music Media Belfast meetups.