Developing new thinking and practice in the creative sector
As they warm up for Friday’s Pitch Party at the #OneDayer – Gigstarter’s Donal Scannell talks us through one issue he says prevents musicians from making a good living in independent live music. It’s worth remembering that artists and their fans are the ones ultimately paying for everything in the music industry including a lot of […]Read More
Alan Davey, CEO of Arts Council England is taking part in the One Dayer this Friday 12 September – joining a panel of experts looking at the future of income generation and helping us navigate the funding landscape. We asked him what he thinks the burning issues are for musicians, venues and others working in independent music. It’s important that […]Read More
We asked Kheron Kenardo (Live and Love Talent), Sybil Bell (Independent Venue Week), and Rich Myers (Transmit Start-Ups) what the One Dayer means to them. 1. Why are you excited to be part of The One Dayer? Kheron: I’m excited about speaking at the One Dayer because it addresses an isolated […]Read More
Cafe Oto has won Joining the Dots funding and support to help them achieve their ambition to make their progressive music programme more widely available. Last time around digital producer James Dunn explained how he and his colleagues figured out the technicals needed to store and release every note performed at the venue. This time they’ve […]Read More
In the Chair: Ruth Barnes (Amazing Radio) Saying what they think: Rob Challice (Coda); Cliff Fluet (Lewis Silkin) Nicholas Lovell (Games Brief); Gavin Sharp (Inner City Music); Laura Jurd (musician) The bottom line is that there is less money around – promoters have less money, and punters are spending less – everyone’s a bit more […]Read More
Chair: Monica Ferguson (The Stables) Saying what they think: Alan Davey (Arts Council England); Kevin Osborne (MeWe 360); Marcella Kelshaw (Esmee Fairbairn Foundation); Rhydian Lewis (RateSetter); Mary-Alice Stack (Creative United) The last 18 months has seen a massive diversification of the ways people working in independent music can raise money for their projects or businesses […]Read More
In the chair: Michael Hann (The Guardian) Joining the Dots game changers: Paul Archer (Daredevil Project); Joey Baxter (Eventbox); Hamish Dunbar (Cafe Oto); Jeff Thompson (Un-convention) At the end of 2013, we opened up our Joining the Dots call for potentially game changing ideas for independent music, ideas we thought could affect wholesale change for […]Read More
Chair: Jason Phipps (The Guardian) Kriss Baird (Music Ally/Technology Strategy Board); Joey Baxter, (Eventbox); Marie Horner (Roundhouse); Laura Kidd (She Makes War) Technology’s revolutionising how people consume, discover and share music. The Facebook “like” button is replacing the lapel badge. But if the majority of us can’t properly monetise content alone, we need to find […]Read More
In the Chair: Oli Kluczewski (independent producer and project manager) Saying what they think: Dom Hodge (Frukt); Lucy Wood (Eat Your Own Ears); Wired 4 Sound rep; Nwando Ebizie (Nonclassical) If artists and promoters are to have viable futures, it’s vital that they attract younger audiences, people in their late teens or early 20s. But […]Read More
Nicholas Lovell (The Curve) Free is here, and it looks like it’s here to stay. Some people think free music is killing the music industry. Nicholas Lovell disagrees. The author of the massively popular The Curve is all about harnessing the power of free – using tech to find audiences, build relationships with them and […]Read More