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Friday 3rd October |
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NDRC ANNEX |
POP UP HMV in NDRC |
Rainsford Room |
Sugar Room |
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| 10.30 – 12.30 | Speed Sessions | ||||||
| Book one of 25 places to have speed dates with all delegates attending HWCH 2014. This is your chance to meet the bookers, agents, managers, bloggers and industry professionals from at home and abroad. You get ten minutes to pitch your band /company, a whistle blows and you move on to the next delegate. Spaces are limited and awarded on a first come first serve basis email industry@hwch.net to book a space. | |||||||
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Panel: Jump Forward a decade the Music Industry in 2024 | 13.00 – 14.00 | MEET HMV Retail and Digital | ||||
| Speakers: Fred Bolza – Vice president of Strategy at Sonymusic UK, Darren Hemmings – Founder of Motive Unknown | Speakers: James Coughlan – Managing Director, HMV Digital, Malachi Simons – HMV Xtra Vision Head of Online, Chris Keena – Head of Music, HMV Xtravision, Larry Howard – CEO Hilco Capital Ireland | ||||||
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Panel: The Hitch-hikers Guide To Irish Festivals | 14.00 – 15.00 | Workshop: Touring at Home and Abroad | 14.00 – 15.00 | Workshop: Start your Own | ||
| Speakers: Jenny Wren – Music Booker, Body & Soul, Ray O’ Donoghue – Booker, Sea Sessions and more TBC | Speakers: Val Balance – Head of Touring, Arts Council, Madeline Boughton – Culture Ireland | Speakers – Home Beat // Happenings // Mountain Dew | |||||
| 15.00 – 16.00 | PANEL: 3 is The Magic Number | 15.00 – 16.00 | MEET HMV Retail and Digital | 15.00 – 16.00 | Workshop: Funding For Startups | 15.00 – 16.00 | Workshop: Make a great Video |
| Speakers: Josh Dalton – Crack in the Road, Adam Lewis – Planetary Group, Peter McGuire – The Huffington Post | Speakers: James Coughlan – Managing Director, HMV Digital, Malachi Simons – HMV Xtra Vision Head of Online, Chris Keena – Head of Music, HMV Xtravision, Larry Howard – CEO Hilco Capital Ireland | Speakers: Linda Coyle – Development Advisor, Enterprise Ireland Dublin, Reggie Murphy – Marketing Executive, Enterprise Ireland | Speakers: Brendan Canty of Feel Good Lost | ||||
| 16.00 – 17.00 | PANEL: The Artists Talk Back | 16.00 – 17.00 | Workshop: How to get Great Live Drum recordings without a Drummer | ||||
| Speakers: Liza Flume, Niamh Farrell, Leanne Harte ,Louise Mc Namara | Speakers: Binzer Brennan and Sean Hurley – www.binzerondrums.com | ||||||
Saturday 4th October |
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NDRC ANNEX |
POP UP HMV in NDRC |
Rainsford Room |
Sugar Room |
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| 10.30 – 12.30 | Speed Sessions | ||||||
| Book one of 25 places to have speed dates with all delegates attending HWCH 2014. This is your chance to meet the bookers, agents, managers, bloggers and industry professionals from at home and abroad. You get ten minutes to pitch your band /comapny, a whistle blows and you move on to the next delegate. Spaces are limited and awarded on a first come first serve basis email industry@hwch.net to book a space. | |||||||
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Panel: 10% for what now? Afternoon tea with the agents | 13.00 – 14.00 | MEET HMV Retail and Digital | ||||
| Speakers: Jason Edwards – Booking Agent at Coda, Eleanor McGuinness – Agent at Pitch and Smith, Ryan Farlow – The Windish Agency | Speakers: James Coughlan – Managing Director, HMV Digital, Malachi Simons – HMV Xtra Vision Head of Online, Chris Keena – Head of Music, HMV Xtravision, Larry Howard – CEO Hilco Capital Ireland | ||||||
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Panel: 10 commandments of Sync | 14.00 – 15.00 | Workshop: Accounting for Bands 101 | 14.00 – 15.00 | Workshop: Music PR | ||
| Speakers: Ben Perreau – CEO at Synkio, , Tom Cater – Domino | Barry Lennon – Tax and Accounting | Emma Harney – Orchestrate PR | |||||
| 15.00 – 16.00 | PANEL: Scouts Honour | 15.00 – 16.00 | MEET HMV Retail and Digital | 15.00 – 16.00 | Workshop: Meet the Start-Ups | 15.00 – 16.00 | Workshop: What can Rock and Pop learn from Classical and Jazz |
| Speakers: Markel Casey – A&R at Virgin, Eve Fairley – A&R Scout at Kobalt Music, Mark Crossingham – Universal Ireland, Willie Ryan – Solicitor | Speakers: James Coughlan –Managing Director, HMV Digital, Malachi Simons – HMV Xtra Vision Head of Online, Chris Keena – Head of Music, HMV Xtravision, Larry Howard – CEO Hilco Capital Ireland | Speakers: A selection of three of the most artist relevant pitches at HWCH14 are put through their paces by you | Speakers: Gerry Godley – Improvised Music Company, Sharon Ralston – Music Network | ||||
| 16.00 – 17.00 | PANEL: Meet The International Festival Bookers | 16.00 – 17.00 | Workshop: The Train is about to Depart | 16.00 – 17.00 | Workshop: How to write a Great Song | ||
| Speakers: SXSW, Canadian Music Week, The Great Escape, CMJ | Darren Hemmings – Founder of Motive Unknown | Speakers: Heathers | |||||
NDRC Launchpad, Saturday 4th October |
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| 16.00 – 18.00 | Music in Film presented by Screen Training Ireland |
| James Hickey from a legal ( and IFB) perspective, IMRO, MCPRS, and an experienced Music Supervisor for film. This session is geared towards producers and filmmakers, and offer perspectives on how they can access new Irish music (either via composers for film scores or bands for songs and music) and how exploring this through the relevant representative organisations can really prove to be a cost effective way to source original Irish music for your film. | |
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Adam Lewis | Planetary Group | Adam Lewis heads Planetary Group, an artist development and promotions firm based out of Boston and LA that focuses on helping new and upcoming artists be heard and discovered through radio and blog exposure in the US and Canada. Recently Adam has worked with such acts as The Decemberists, Bloc Party, Apples In Stereo, Kings Of Leon, and Portugal, The Man, Fitz & The Tantrums, Orwells, and Guided By Voices. In addition Adam also currently handles all publicity, promotion and media buying for Great Northeast Productions. Great Northeast is responsible for producing 50 shows a year throughout New England, including Phish’s millennium concert in Florida and the annual Snoe.down Festival at Lake Placid. Prior to Planetary, Adam was the Northeast Sales and Promotion Manager for TVT Records, working with Sevendust, The Black Crowes and Snoop Dogg. Adam’s latest projects are spearheading tours to China, India, and Singapore for Independent artists. |
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Alex Bruford | ATC | After 10 years touring internationally and recording as an artist, plus periods of tour management, Alex started work as an agent at Reprise Agency. Primarily a DJ agency, Alex successfully built a live division within the company before leaving to found ATC Live agency in partnership with ATC. ATC Live now represents over 60 artists including The Lumineers, Passenger, The Griswolds, Ethan Johns, John Wizards, PHOX, The Districts and Keaton Henson,and books tours worldwide. |
| Ben Perreau | Synkio | Ben is a music fan, a journalist and entrepreneur from London with a passion for technology. With an early career as a radio producer at Virgin Radio, Ben worked it out as Editor of NME.COM at the age of 24, where he re-architected the foundations of existing product and set up NME’s first foreign desks. Later Ben worked as consultant and advisor to numerous corporates and startups including NBC/Universal, BBC, Sky, J.K.Rowling and has most recently founded his second startup, Synkio – which helps ad agencies, film makers and games developers get music for their productions. | |
| Brendan Canty | Feel Good Lost | ||
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Darren Hemmings | Motive Unknown | Darren founded Motive Unknown in 2011 having spent 3 years as the Head of Digital Marketing for the PIAS Group. The company’s first client was Alt-J, with whom he has continued to work ever since. Over the years clients have included the likes of Moby, Local Natives, Villagers, Drenge, These New Puritans, dan le sac VS Scroobius Pip, Woman’s Hour, The AIM Independent Music Awards, the BBC and more. In addition to strategising online marketing campaigns for clients, Darren also runs The Daily Digest, a newsletter covering news in music, tech and apps, which now goes out to a broad cross-section of professionals in the UK, European and US music industries as well as tech companies and press. In addition, Darren also advises various start-ups working in the music business, including Belfast-based Inflyte. |
| Emma Harney | Orchestrate PR | ||
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Emma Milzani | The Great Escape | The Great Escape is firmly established as Europe’s leading showcase festival and music industry convention. A total of 18,000 delegates and festival goers invade the seaside town of Brighton each May to catch over 400 of the most exciting new artists from around the world with showcases taking place across 30 different venues over 3 days. In addition our leading new music business convention features inspiring seminars, workshops, parties and B2B networking. The 10th annual festival takes place on 14th – 16th May 2015. |
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Eve Fairley | Kobalt Music | Eve started as an A&R Scout for Kobalt during her final year at Uni. Kobalt’s roster and innovative business model made it an exciting company to be part of. Before graduating from The Academy Of Contemporary Music in July 2013, where she studied Music Production and Business, Eve got her introduction to the music industry by interning at Roughtrade Records and Full Time Hobby. |
| Fred Bolza | Sony Music | ||
| Gerry Godley | Improvised Music Company | ||
| Iain McNeill | Canadian Music Week | ||
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Jason Edwards | Coda | Jason Edwards is a booking agent at Coda (who represent the likes of Disclosure, Bastille, Ellie Goulding, the XX and The Vaccines) working with a diverse roster of younger acts including Grimes, Temples, SOHN and Blood Orange. He moved there from 13 Artists, Brighton, in October 2013 after a 3 year stint. He is also the music programmer for Festival Number 6 in Wales. He has been a booking agent since 2009 when he started an agency from his bedroom in Glasgow after a short stint experimenting with management, club promotion, DJing and press plugging after moving from Edinburgh shortly after his 18th birthday. Other stops along the way have included managing the PR for dodgy RnB club nights, co-ordinating the music and club programme for legendary venue The Arches and stage managing shows in a backpackers hostel in Edinburgh. |
| Jenny Wren | Body and Soul Festival | ||
| Joe Clarke | Manager | ||
| Josh Dalton | Crack in the Road | ||
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Karen Staughton | Cornerstone Agency UK | Karen Staughton is Digital Director at Cornerstone Agency UK where she is responsible for the digital strategy across activations in the UK, currently working across campaigns for clients including Converse, Coca-Cola and Bushmills. Karen is on the edge of innovation across digital with a strong focus on value added experience and meaningful marketing (both digital and traditional) with a sharp understanding of making connections between product and fan. Previously, Karen was Head of Digital Marketing at Columbia Records UK where she was responsible for every aspect of the digital marketing around a 90+ strong roster including Calvin Harris, The Vaccines and Daft Punk. Before joining Columbia Records in 2011, Karen ran Radar Maker Ltd, an award winning and highly respected independent digital marketing agency. For four years, Radar Maker delivered innovation across campaigns as varied as The Streets, Bloc Party and Lykke Li as well as marketing strategy for brands and events across all channels. In 2010 Karen was shortlisted for the UK Young Music Entrepreneur Award by the British Council and was sent to China as a UK music industry ambassador. In the same year she won the Artist of the Year Award for The Streets’ digital campaign at the Digital Music Awards. Over the four years running Radar Maker, Karen was nominated for 21 awards across categories as varied as Best Mobile Campaign (winner), Best Podcast / Video Series (winner), Best Community / Fan Site (winner), Best App (nominated), Best Breakthrough Artist campaign (nominated). |
| Ken Allen | Manager | ||
| Leanne Harte | Artist | ||
| Linda Coyle | Enterprise Ireland | ||
| Liza Flume | Artist | ||
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Lizzy Newton | SXSW | South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference, the world’s leading music industry event, offers attendees the opportunity to explore the future of the music industry during the day at panels, talks, the Trade Show, Music Gear Expo and other conference activities at the Austin Convention Center. At night, the absolute best mix of musical performances from over 2,200 regional, national and international acts take place at the SXSW Music Festival. Altogether, SXSW presents unmatched networking opportunities, career-building conference programming and over 100 stages of music for showcasing bands and conference attendees. SXSW Music is now in its 29th year. |
| Louise Mc Namara | Artist – Heathers | ||
| Madeline Boughton | Culture Ireland | ||
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Markell Casey | Virgin Music | I spent my teenage years working with artists and bands in West London. After a 3 year detour at university I returned to music full-time in 2010. I was fortunate to get an internship at Warner Music shortly after graduating. Virgin offered me a job in the summer of 2012 and I made the move down the road. I work with Chvrches, Circa Waves, Vaults and assist on various artist campaigns across the roster. |
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Matt McDonald | CMJ | Matt’s primary focus is on programming artist showcases at the CMJ Music Marathon. Now in its 34th year, the Marathon attracts more than 1300 artists and 100,000 music fans from around the world to NYC every fall and will take October 21-25. In addition, Matt oversees various events, tours, video content and music licensing initiatives at CMJ throughout the year, with a primary focus on up-and-coming acts. Prior to joining CMJ in 2005, he was a talent buyer at a handful of New York clubs. |
| Niamh Farrell | Artist – HamsandwicH | ||
| Nik Halroyd | Primary Talent International | ||
| Peter McGuire | The Huffington Post | ||
| Phil Taggart | BBC | ||
| Phil Udell | Whole World Band | ||
| Ray O’ Donoghue | Sea Sessions | ||
| Reggie Murphy | Enterprise Ireland | ||
| Sharon Ralston | Music Network | ||
| Tom Cater | Domino Publishing | My music career started in 2008 by running club nights in Brighton and booking bands that were local or passing through the city. In 2009 I moved to London to study and in my second year started my first internship at a label called Back Yard Recordings. Whilst at Back Yard, I was running a club night called Wasted Youth in Kilburn where I discovered a band called Films. I had a go at managing the band on the little experience I had but whilst momentum and interest built, we separated and the band went on to become Alt-J. In my final year of studying I met a manager called Mikey Stirton (whom I still work with today) and started assisting him on day-to-day management activities for his artists. This was ideal for me since I could be flexible with the hours as everything was done on email. After graduating I got my first paid job at R&S Records as a talent scout. Whilst there I began managing bands myself, one of which were a band called Vondelpark who ended up releasing their album on the label. In late 2012 I joined Perfect Songs Publishing as an A&R where I quickly learnt the role of a creative publisher; putting writers in session, finding tracks, pitching songs and more. Whilst here I started managing an artist called Only Real who I done my first major label deal with by signing him to Virgin EMI in 2013. In January 2014 I joined Domino Publishing where I’m still based and have been actively signing and developing talent since. Recent signings include, PlanningToRock, Peh Per Ghost, Seven Davis Jr and Archie Pelago. | |
| Val Balance | Arts Council |
