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Exclusive: we:LIVE to curate day three of The Great Escape 2010
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 5 March 2010
CMU can exclusively reveal that day three of this year’s Great Escape festival and convention on 15 May will be curated by we:LIVE, the previously reported association for independent venue owners and promoters, which was launched last year.
Aiming to bring together indie venue owners and gig promoters we:LIVE aims to “promote and facilitate the sharing of knowledge and expertise through direct resources as well as implementing best business practices and promoting the standing and interests of [indie players] in the music industry at large”. we:LIVE’s day at The Great Escape will provide resources and information for those operating in the grass roots live sector, as well as opportunities for promoters, bookers and agents to network.
we:LIVE’s chair and founder Dominique Czopor told CMU: “we:LIVE is excited to be curating the Live day at TGE this year. As well as the benefits of sharing knowledge and expertise, working with TGE offers independent promoters and venue owners the opportunity to put names to faces, and to also discuss new business opportunities with colleagues. As well as being a social event, we:LIVE recognises the need for discussion and debate on the current issues facing our industry today”.
She continued: “We are very excited to be able to offer training modules from the new qualification we have been helping the BIIAB to develop, the Award for Music Promoters (Level 2) and hope that as many promoters and venue owners will take up this opportunity to test their knowledge, and hopefully learn something new about their industry. We will also be having a formal launch of the qualification at Cargo, on the 27 Apr between 5-8pm with guest speakers from candidates who sat the pilot course last year including people from Radio 1, Global and Inc Group”.
Elsewhere in The Great Escape’s conference programme, once again the music business fest will be teaming up with the Brighton Festival – the programmed arts festival that takes place in the seaside city throughout May. Those joint events will include some chatter with and from music writers Nick Kent, John Niven and John Harris, led by The Observer’s Garry Mulholland.
Earlybird delegate tickets are now on sale for £150 and there are also discounted three-day hotel and ticket packages available at www.escapegreat.com. But if you want to stay in the festival’s main hotel Queens Hotel – where much of the convention takes place – you’ll have to be quick as rooms are almost all sold out.
The Great Escape will also be issuing a discounted Saturday-only pass for independent promoters, for more info on that, check the we:LIVE website at: www.we-live.co.uk
