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CMU Planner – w/c 3 Sep 2012
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 3 September 2012
A round up of music and music business events happening in the next seven days…
Classic BRITs nominations. It’s already been announced that film composer John Williams, responsible for theme music for ‘Star Wars’, ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘Jaws’, ‘ET’ and ‘Jurassic Park’, amongst many others, will be honoured at this year’s Classic BRITs in October. This Thursday we’ll find out the rest of the nominations when they’re announced at the Savoy Hotel in London.
LCD Soundsystem film in cinemas. ‘Shut Up And Play The Hits’, the documentary about LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Gardens last year, will premiere in cinemas around the UK on Tuesday night. A live Q&A with frontman James Murphy will also be beamed into most screens. If you can’t make it, the film will also be shown in selected cinemas throughout September and October, or you can head over to PledgeMusic, where pre-orders for the DVD and Blu-ray are currently being taken.
CMU Training. A brand new season of training courses from CMU Insights kicks off this Wednesday, with courses in the coming weeks on music rights, revenue and investment models, social media, and music promotions. These well-priced one-day courses for music business professionals are a great way to brush up on the basics, hear about the latest trends, and then learn best practice ways for managing, monetising and promoting music. Info at www.theCMUwebsite.com/training
iTunes Festival. This year’s iTunes Festival kicked off at the weekend, which means there are 28 more nights of free music at The Roundhouse in London to go. Artists playing this year include Muse, Usher, Jack White, Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding, Elbow, Labrinth, Ed Sheeran, Plan B, The Killers and Emeli Sande.
New releases. It’s September, which means the rush to get new albums out before the Christmas compilations season starts is on. Amongst this week’s album releases are new LPs from Cat Power, Animal Collective, The Vaccines, Jens Lekman, iamamiwhoami, Deerhoof, Mono, Minus The Bear, Delicate Steve, Philco Fiction, Maria Minerva, Mount Eerie and Sauna Youth. Metronomy also curate the new LateNightTales compilation, Clark has an EP out, and Wall officially becomes the first person to release as single on Black Cab Sessions’ new label.
Gigs and tours. The live music scene is also hotting up now that most of those pesky festivals are out of the way. Lady Gaga will be in the UK for two shows, as will Leonard Cohen. There are a few one-offs too, with Richard Hawley and the BBC Philharmonic performing in Sheffield, Pendulum DJing in London’s Koko, Rustie headlining up the road at Electrowerkz, and Peggy Sue playing a Pussy Riot benefit. Amongst those heading out on tour this week are Africa Express (with a long list of impressive guests), Dan Deacon, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Sleep Party People and Amanda Mair.
