South West Sound - Lighting the Touch Paper
South West Sound opens in 08 with a keynote debate on how people can be empowered through music and how music educators and industry can work together to ensure all music practitioners learn about the importance of rights and the processes towards successfully developing their own careers.
Presented in association with British Music Rights and the Music Managers Forum, this opening debate will feature Feargal Sharkey (BMR), Jon Webster (MMF), Jack Kingslake, and Tim Smith.
Once an Undertone, Feargal Sharkey is now an authority on how government and the music industry can work together. He previously chaired the Live Music Forum for the DCMS, is the music industry intermediary for the National Skills Academy, and recently became the CEO of British Music Rights. He is running the rehearsal spaces programme for hard to reach young people with the DCMS, and is establishing a pilot in Bristol with the BMF.
Jon Webster was previously MD of Virgin Records, Head of Independent Services at the BPI, and recently became, in response to power shifts within the music industry, the CEO of the UK Music Managers Forum. ‘Webbo’ will chair this discussion.
Tim Smith is a leading music educator in London working in particular with hard to reach young people. He taught music to the young Dizzee Rascal at a school in East London. Dizzee Rascal went on to have two gold albums and famously dedicated his Mercury Music Prize in 2003 to Tim.
Jack Kingslake runs Hello Interactive, a community music group that works with young people in St Werburghs, St Pauls and Easton in Bristol.
Don’t miss out and book your delegate pass today.