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Born To Be Wide - Leading Music Scene Night Launches Wide Days
- Scottish Music Centre
- 18 Mar 2010
Scotland’s leading music business night, Born To Be Wide, is to host a series of seminars and showcases, to take place in Edinburgh on Thursday 8 April. The Wide Days event will see key music industry figures participate in a series of daytime panels at the Voodoo Rooms, as well
as being treated to some of the hottest local talent in the evening.
Veteran music managers Keith Harris [Stevie Wonder], Rab Andrew [Texas, Primal Scream] and Bruce Findlay [Abefeldy, Simple Minds] are confirmed for a seminar about music management. And organisers of Scotland’s largest music events T In The Park, Rockness, Wickerman and The Edge, will explain how to get on to a festival bill in a discussion chaired by the BBC’s Vic Galloway.
A seminar titled What Next? includes the founder of the world’s largest independent digital music company, The Orchard, and an expert in online promotion. It will provide suggestions for how musicians, managers and labels can best use technology and highlight how they
should respond to existing trends.
“To get to see such an amazing line up of speakers would normally involve paying hundreds of pounds to attend a conference, or at the very least taking a three hour train journey to Inverness for Go North,” says Wide Days
co-organiser Olaf Furniss. “Our aim is to make this accessible to people by keeping the price low and hosting it on their doorstep.”
Tickets are £30, but for members of the Musicians’ Union or anybody ordering before March 21, they will be available for £20.
Furniss adds that the advice given out on the legal panel, which includes former Sex Pistols and Bryan Ferry lawyer Steven Fisher, is likely to be worth several hundred pounds alone. The panel is supported by the Musicians’ Union and Fisher will also host a presentation about
partnership law, a legal area which bands ignore at their peril.
In the evening the seminar guests will be taken on a tour of Edinburgh and its venues, where they will be treated to a selection of emerging Scottish acts, before being invited to play their favourite records at the closing party. Free tickets will be made available for the gigs
and closing party from Friday 19 March.
Seminars:
- How to get on a festival bill:
Helen Chalmers [Wickerman], Dave Corbett [T In The Park, The Edge], Rob Hicks [Rockness, Belladrum], Stuart Nisbet [Hogmanay Edinburgh], P.C .Rae [Slottsfjell, Norway], Moderator, Vic Galloway [BBC]
- I am the law - Essential legal advice:
Dawn Barraclough, Steven Fisher, Murray Buchanan
- What next? Preparing for the future:
Scott Cohen [The Orchard], Ruth Daniel [Un-Convention], Andrew Dubber [Birmingham University], Will Page [Chief Economist, PRS]
- Speak to the management:
Rab Andrew [Texas, Primal Scream], Mark Bailey [Woodenbox], Keith Harris [Stevie Wonder], Bruce Findlay [Aberfeldy, The Silencers, Simple Minds].
Moderator, Vic Galloway [BBC Scotland]
- Keynote Q&A to be announced
Seminar Venue:
THE VOODOO ROOMS,
19a West Register Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2AA
0131 556 7060
Tickets: www.eventzi.com/borntobewide
