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Eurosonic Noorderslag kicks off on Thursday

By | Published on Monday 11 January 2010

With Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show now done and dusted for another year, it’s time for the music business conventions to kick off for 2010, and the first one to come along is traditionally the CMU supported Eurosonic Noorderslag, which is really rather exciting.

With a skew towards the live sector, this offers an impressive array of industry talks, seminars and debates, not one but two award events, plus a mind-blowing array of band showcases where a disproportionately high number of agents, promoters and festival bookers will be in the crowd. And given how important all things live are these days, playing to this audience is more important than ever.

You can check out some of the bands playing this year via this week’s CMU-Tube selection at www.theCMUwebsite.com/tube, and we’ll have SSQ interviews with some of our favourites later in the week.

Meanwhile we spoke to the event’s Ruud Berends about what we could expect, and he told CMU: “It’s going to be an action packed event this year, with the addition of the European Festival Awards, the second European Border Breaker Awards show, which has an amazing line up and has been picked up by many TV stations in Europe already, as well as all the showcases presenting the best new acts Europe has to offer, and a strong conference programme focusing on digital, copyright and live issues with 100 panels and meetings. We’re almost sold out too, so it’s a nice start of the new year!”

More at www.eurosonic-noorderslag.nl/



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