Business Gateway
1-1 Business Advisory Sessions
Thursday 10th and Friday 11th June 2010
Business Gateway staff will be available throughout goNORTH to meet anyone with questions about their business or how to go about setting one up. The Business Gateway service offers free and confidential advice and assistance to anyone either currently running a business or thinking about going self employed. Anyone wishing to book a session with one of our staff should contact Donald Mackenzie on 01463 713889 or email donald.mackenzie@highland-opportunity.com
Thursday 10th and Friday 11th June
Hearing Tests
10am – 4pm, Ramada Jarvis
The Musicians Union working in partnership with the Musicians Hearing Services has developed a hearing health surveillance scheme. The Musicians Hearing Passport is the freelance musician's key to ensuring that your hearing is protected and that you are in compliance with the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 (CNAR). To arrange a hearing test and to find out more about the Hearing Passport Scheme email gdaly@mhs1.wanadoo.co.uk or phone: 020 7323 2076.
Hearing Tests are £20 to MU members and £50 to non members.
Creative Scotland Reference Group Meeting (closed session)
12.00 – 2pm, Ramada Jarvis
Do It Yourself
12.30pm-1.30pm, Ramada Jarvis
Michael Lambert [The Debuts]
Carrie Mac
Steven Milne [Little Kicks]
Neil Pennycook [Meursault]
John Robb [Gold Blade]
Some acts book their own tours, organise their own festivals and release their own records and often manage to make money. How do they do it?
Showcasing Internationally: South By South West
1.45pm-2.45pm, Ramada Jarvis
Jamie Gilmour (Manager)
Stuart Thomas (SAC)
Una Johnstone (SXSW)
Vic Galloway (BBC Scotland - Radio 1)
Adam Lewis (Planetary Group)
SXSW is one of the leading international music showcasing events. Come and hear about why you might want to showcase there, the benefits and what you need to do to organise and promote a successful SXSW or other showcasing event.
Brave New World – adventures in the virtual world
1.45 – 2.45pm, Ramada Jarvis
Shaun Allan (Vector76)
Josh McLeod (Myspace Music)
Phil Ellis (Moderator)
Mark Grindle (Univercity or Abertay)
Lee Parsons (Ditto Music)
From Second Life to digital downloads, how do we get the most from the digital world, today and tomorrow.
Management
3pm-4pm, Ramada Jarvis
Rab Andrew [Texas/Primal Scream]
Grant Dickson [The View/Broken Records]
Phil Ellis [Jodie Aysha]
Keith Harris [Stevie Wonder]
Dougie Souness [No Half Measures]
When does a musician need a manager, what should they expect and what are the pros and cons of artists managing themselves.
Flash Forward
4.15 – 5.15pm, Ramada Jarvis
Helen Searle (Searlelaw)
Christian Ulf-Hansen (Moderator)
Tony Platt (Producter)
Monte Malone (A&R Worldwide)
Safta Jaffery (Taste Media ltd)
What’s next for the music industry? The last decade has seen a huge change in the industry, but what comes next?
Reception
5.15 – 6.15pm, Ramada Jarvis
Friday 11th June 2010
SMIA panel (Members only event) To join please visit www.smia.org.uk
11.30 - 12.30
The Scottish Music Industry Association has been established as the representative body for the music industry in Scotland. The SMIA seeks to work in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Enterprise to achieve sustainable growth in this industry section which comprises an essential, vibrant and vital component of Scotland’s creative industries.
This panel will give SMIA members an update on the organisation’s activities and planned events for 2010/11. Members will also be able to meet new directors and pose questions to the panel.
Members only event. To join please visit www.smia.org.uk
Music Making Money
12.30pm-1.30pm, Ramada Jarvis
Jamie Gilmour [BACSA]
Keith Harris [PPL]
Will Page [PRS]
Ron Spalding [Fontana]
Stuart Thomas [Scottish Arts Council]
Most artists think of gigs and selling their music as the main source of income, but there are other ways of making money which involve relatively little effort.
Working with Agents
1pm–2pm, Ramada Jarvis
Free to MU Members
The Musicians’ Union will be holding a meeting to discuss working with agents and the use of contracts in the Scotland region. All are welcome to attend this meeting to learn more about how to deal with agents and how and when to use the MU standard contracts. We will also cover international touring and when and when not to use an agent. To reserve a place at the meeting please email glasgow@theMU.org or phone 0141 341 2960.
Sync Panel
1.45pm-2.45pm
Mark Davies [Leith Agency]
Kyle Hopkins [Microsoft Media]
David McGinnis [Mute Song]
Lee Parson [Sentric/Ditto]
Craig Pickles [TV Producer]
Ever wondered how to get a piece of music featured in an ad, a film or a TV programme, and how much it pays? This panel explains what is involved.
Keynote
3pm – 4pm
Steve Knill – (President The Radiate Group)
The Radiate group is a global network comprised of 28 independently branded, best-in-class marketing services agencies. Radiate is part of Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC), the world’s largest marketing services organizations. Knill develops new projects for existing entertainment focused agencies and their brand clients. He joined Radiate Group agency, GMR, in 1989 to develop “Marketing with Music programming. He has negotiated and managed numerous music alliances for clients such as Miller Brewing, Kraft Foods, and DaimlerChrysler, among others. Before joining GMR, Knill held various marketing and promotion positions at music labels and artist management firms. His career started as a recording and touring musician.
Mystery Tour
16.30 – 18.30, Invite required
Panelist Biographies
Steve Knill - President, Entertainment for The Radiate Group
The Radiate group is a global network comprised of 28 independently branded, best-in-class marketing services agencies. Radiate is part of Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC), the world’s largest marketing services organizations. Knill develops new projects for existing entertainment focused agencies and their brand clients. He joined Radiate Group agency, GMR, in 1989 to develop “Marketing with Music programming. He has negotiated and managed numerous music alliances for clients such as Miller Brewing, Kraft Foods, and DaimlerChrysler, among others. Before joining GMR, Knill held various marketing and promotion positions at music labels and artist management firms. His career started as a recording and touring musician.
Ron Spaulding - President, Fontana
Ron is president of Fontana, Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD)’s independent distribution arm with responsibility for the sales, marketing and distribution subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Prior to joining Fontana, Mr. Spaulding served as Executive Vice President/General Manager of Asylum and EastWest Records, overseeing the day-to-day operations of both labels. He also served as the Senior Vice President of Sales at WEA, Warner Music Group's distribution arm. His background also includes serving as Senior Vice President of Sales at Elektra Entertainment Group and in a number of senior positions at Priority Records.
Safta Jaffery
Safta Jaffery has over 30 years of experience in the worldwide music business, having previously worked in A&R for a string of UK record labels including; DJM, Decca, MAM & Magnet before setting up the producer management company SJP which continues to represent some of the world’s quality record producers including John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead) Ron Saint Germain (311. Creed, Bad Brains), Laurie Latham (Stereophonics, Rik Wright), John Cornfield (Razorlight, Supergrass), Michael Brauer (Coldplay, KT Tunstall), Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones, INXS), David M. Allen (The Cure, Charlatons) amongst others. Safta has attained over 150 Platinum/Gold/Silver award discs from almost every territory in the world through his affiliation with the producers represented by him.
Safta also co-founded ‘Taste Media Limited’ and remained the co-owner/Managing Director until it’s sale to Warner Music in 2005. During this time he signed, discovered, produced and then sub licensed on a territory by territory record deals with various major and independent labels with a portfolio of artists including: Muse (3 studio albums all platinum with 5 million worldwide sales), Vega 4, One Minute Silence, Shed Seven and Serafin winning awards including Brit Awards, MTV Awards, Music Week Awards, Q award, NME and Kerrang Awards.
Safta is presently owner/MD of ‘Taste Music Ltd’ which handles the publishing catalogues for Muse and Shed Seven, in addition to being voted on to the board of AIM in 2007 (Association of Independent Music). He also retained the brand name of Taste Media which he plans to re-launch under its new business model of artist discovery development and management looking to sign artists who create music with soul, heart and purity. For more information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safta_Jaffery
Kyle Hopkins – Head Music Supervisor, Microsoft Media Acquisitions.
He curates soundtracks for first party X Box games, as well as media preloads for Microsoft products such as windows, surface and Zune, and the corresponding advertising campaigns. Kyle also hosts two, weekly radio programmes on KEXP in Seattle. Kyle has deejayed alongside Damian Marley, Massive Attack and Toots and the Maytals amongst others.
Adam Lewis – The Planetary Group
One of Planetary's founding members, Adam Lewis has demonstrated commitment to music promotion from the get-go. While at college, Adam acted as the Chairman of the Activities Board, as well as the Music Director & Arts Editor of the radio station and newspaper. Adam also produced and promoted an independent EP, which charted on CMJ for 9 weeks.
The Summer of 1990 found Adam with yet another task -- tour managing the Aquanettas (IRS) on their North American tour opening for Nine Inch Nails and Meat Beat Manifesto. Upon graduating he worked for Harris Goldberg at Concert Ideas in Woodstock, NY, and opened a satellite office of Concert Ideas in Boston. In between the move from Woodstock to Boston, Adam hit the road again -- this time as Tour Manager for Alien Sex Fiend (Mechanic).
So, what's Adam been up to these days? Besides leading Planetary into the new millennium, he spent five years as the New England Sales Manager for TVT Records, where he played an integral part in the promotion of such acts as Sevendust, Guided By Voices, and Snoop Doggy Dogg. Adam also does all of the publicity, promotion, and media buying for Great Northeast Productions. Great Northeast produces over 50 (club level to stadium-sized) shows a year throughout New England. They have also been responsible for all of the large-scale Phish shows for the last few years, including The Clifford Ball, The Great Went, Lemonwheel, Oswego, It, Coventry, and the 2000 New Year's Eve show in Florida, which was the largest millennium rock show in the world. For several years, Adam also managed Blackbird/Atlantic recording artists, Angry Salad.
David McGinnis, - Mute Song
David runs the Synchronisation Department at Mute Song, an independent publishing company that represents a wealth of writing talent, including artists such as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Paul Okenfold and Asian Dub Foundation.
Helen Searle – Searle Law
Helen is a founding partner of Searle Law, a practice specialising in intellectual property with a particular emphasis on the music industry. During her career she has represented such diverse clients as The Prodigy, Seal, Nigel Kennedy, Sonique, Moby, Big Brovaz and Jamiroquai but most records in the popular music charts involve either an artist, manager, producer or publisher for whom Helen acts.
Helen has considerable experience in the field of agreements relating to the music business and regularly lectures on the subject both to industry and university audiences. She contributes articles currently commissioned to write books on the recording and publishing industries.
Keith Harris
Keith Harris began work in the record industry in 1974. The first record company for which he worked was a small independent UK label called Transatlantic records. The label represented mainly British folk musicians but also distributed the Blue Note and Milestone Jazz labels. In 1976 he joined EMI Records where he initially worked for several in-house EMI labels in the promotions department. These labels included Rocket where he worked on the Elton John album 'Blue Moves', Fantasy, Ariola and EMI International. He then joined Motown which was an EMI licensed label.
He worked for Motown for two years ending up as General Manager for the label. During this period at the label he worked with artists such as Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, The Commodores, Rick James, The Supremes, Thelma Houston and Stevie Wonder. He left Motown in 1978 and moved to Los Angeles to work with Stevie Wonder and became operations manager for Stevie's companies. On his return to the UK in 1982 he formed his own management company and has been involved in the management of various UK based artists since. He has managed Junior Giscombe, Junior Tucker, Paul Johnson, & Omar.
Keith managed Lynden David Hall until his recent death, and still represents Stevie Wonder. He is a Senior Fellow of the University of Westminster school of music film and fashion. He is a former Chairman of the MMF, the Chairman of Musictank and he is also the chairman of the African and Caribbean Music Circuit, a music touring organisation funded by the Arts Council of England. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts (FRSA). Keith is now Director of Performer Affairs at PPL.
Dougie Souness, No Half Measures
Dougie Souness
Born in Glasgow “sometime during the latter half of the sixties”, Dougie’s first job was within the city’s traditional shipbuilding industry, completing his apprenticeship there by day whilst playing drums in bands by night Dougie’s (very) short career as a professional musician came to an end in 1987 when he entered the music business as tour manager with local band ’Wet Wet Wet’. He quickly established himself as a full time member of their management team, a role he continues to fulfil over twenty years later. The management company, ’No Half Measures’, was established in 1999 with the firm intention of working with and developing Scottish artists. A concept that would also prevail with the formation on the record company, ’Measured Records’, in 2002 and publishing company, ’Measured Music’, in 2003. The companies have proven to be extremely successful on an international platform, with every artist and writer involved enjoying considerable success in their fields. Dougie Souness is a board member of the UK MMF (Music Manager’s Forum) and is on the fund raising committee of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity in Scotland. Dougie, who has been known to jet off to some far flung corner of the globe in pursuit of scuba diving nirvana, “worships” The Who, still plays the drums & still thinks he can play football – or maybe that should be the other way about!
Jamie Gilmour
HEM (Artist Manager), BAC&S (Scottish Coordinator), SMC (Membership Admin) at Hail Eris Management, British Acadmey of Composers & Songwriters, Scottish Music Centre
Christian Ulf- Hansen
Current: Owner at Plan C Management, Co-Owner at Big Feat Films Ltd, Co-Owner at Arlo and Betty Recordings Ltd, Co-Owner at Fire Egg Recordings Ltd
Past: Director at BMI, Membership Representative at PRS (Performing Right Society)
Una Johnston, SxSW
Una Johnston is SXSW's UK & Ireland Manager and Environmental Consultant and is based in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. She is responsible for advertising and exhibition sales, as well as providing information and support to UK and Irish delegates and showcase artists. Una was awarded an Honours Degree in Sustainable Rural Development by the Tipperary Institute in 2006. As Environmental Consultant she worked with SXSW to become a Carbon Neutral company in January 2007. She plans to continue working with SXSW on an emissions reduction programme as part of a future SXSW environmental policy.From 1997 to 2006 Una Johnston was SXSW's European Manager. Her background is in event management and she has over 20 years experience in conferences, festivals and events programming & production. She was based in New York from 1977 to 1989 where she was General Manager and then International Director for New Music Seminar.
Anne Ritchie
Anne Ritchie has a wealth of experience in the textile and design industries, having previously worked for Wedgwood, Johnstons of Elgin, and others in design and product development roles. As a consultant she has advised a variety of organisations and companies on design, products and trends and delivers trend presentations to the UK and Scottish industries.
Mark Grindle
Mark has been script writing mentor for the prestigious Dare to be Digital prototype development scheme since 2003 (now supported by Channel 4 and Winner of Develop Magaizine's Best New Talent Award). He trained at University of California Los Angeles' Graduate Screenwriting Programme and has enjoyed considerable success as Screenwriter, Script Editor and Producer on both sides of the Atlantic since 1980 with over 200 hours of credits to his name.
Mark developed two games prototypes in 1997 with the support of BBC and European Media Programme. He has since written for Visual Science and just completed a ten part episodic adventure game for 7-12 year olds for Software Company Crocodile Clips. His company Mark Grindle Associates Ltd specialises in interactive downloadable episodic adventure series. Mark devised and teaches Masters' Level courses in Writing and Producing Interactive Entertainment at School of Creative Industries in Edinburgh and is visiting lecturer in writing and concept development at University of Abertay, Dundee.
Morag Bain, Producer, BBC
Work includes:
Producer – River City, Byker Grove, Family Affairs, Emmerdale Farm
Script Editor – EastEnders
Assistant Floor Manager – Juliet Bravo
Beverley Cook
Beverley Cook is a documentary producer who makes films for both television and the cinema. Films include 'Desperately Seeking Shiny' about the Magnum photographer Martin Parr and the award winning feature documentary 'Stone Pastures'.
Craig Pickles – Producer/Director
Work includes:
Suicide Man
Take me to the Edge
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese
Jack Osbourne Adrenalin Junkie
The Salon
Ads – Berghaus and Capital radio
About to start work as director of Hollyoaks.
Marc Isaacs
Renowned and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker, films inlcude All White in Barking; Calais: The Last Border and Travellers.
