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Five Day Forecast – w/c 07 Feb 2011
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 7 February 2011
Oh dear, look at that, we’ll be halfway through February by the end of this week. Sorry, didn’t mean to alarm you, but this year does seem to have got off to a flying start. So much has happened already and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Um, so, yeah. It’s nice to have these little chats, isn’t it? If you want more, well, you’re in luck, because next week I will be industry tip-sheet TheLiveList’s first ever guest editor. Find out more about that and sign up for their weekly update at www.thelivelist.co.uk. But first, let’s have a look at what’s going on this week…
01: Tinnitus Awareness Week. It’s Tinnitus Awareness Week, this week. Actually, it all kicked off on Friday, but there’s still plenty more to come in the next five days. You may already have seen that Eddy Temple-Morris wrote about it in his CMU column last week, and I chatted about my own experiences of the condition in the CMU Weekly and the CMU podcast on Friday. If you can get down to Soho today, click the links for details on how to get custom-made professional earplugs at a 25% discount.
02: Music Producers Guild Awards. The third annual Music Producers Guild Awards will take place at the Café de Paris in London this Wednesday, recognising some of the behind-the-scenes crew who make recorded music come into existence. Mute founder and boss man Daniel Miller will receive the Outstanding Contribution To UK Music Award, and the first BRIT of the year will be presented for that person deemed to be the Producer Of The Year. Nominated for that are Markus Dravs, Ethan Johns, John Leckie and Mike Pela.
03: Music Supported Here survey. Music community Music Supported Here will launch a poll this week that will be pose ten questions to industry professionals about the future of their sector, asking those who are polled to predict where the business might be in ten years time. Results of the poll will be announced at an event at The Roundhouse on 18 Mar, where a live panel will also discuss its findings. The poll goes live www.musicsupportedhere.com on Tuesday.
04: New releases. Oh my, there are a lot of new releases out this week and I want to tell you about all of them. Okay, there’s the final album from The Streets, ‘Computers And Blues’, Diplo‘s Greensleeves mix, and the first EP from Grouplove. Those are quite exciting. Also banging on the door with new albums are And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Cut Copy, Harrys Gym, The Memory Band, Alex Winston, and The Radio Dept have put together a compilation of all their singles. Speaking of singles, you should check out Visions Of Trees‘ debut.
05: Gigs. There are quite a few gigs, as well. I’m most excited about Demdike Stare‘s show in Brighton on Thursday. I’d be even more excited if I could actually go. Also definitely worth seeing are Frankie & The Heartstrings, who begin a UK tour on Friday. If you’re looking for something sooner, James Blake will be performing songs from his very disappointing debut album in-store at Rough Trade East at 7pm tonight, while later in the evening Fixers will start a UK tour in Sheffield. Also doing the tour thing this week are My Chemical Romance, Darkstar, and Anathema.
It’s also The Grammys on Sunday, but they’re fairly tedious, so I didn’t think you’d appreciate me mentioning them. Far more exciting, and entirely unrelated (except that it might mention the Grammys when it goes out on Friday) is the CMU podcast, which you can receive in a number of ways:
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Andy Malt
Editor, CMU
