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Five Day Forecast – w/c 18 Apr 2011
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 18 April 2011
Hello, did you all enjoy Record Store Day? Did the record store tortoise bring you nice gifts? I bought some nice pieces of plastic to put in my house, and saw some great in-store performances by Chilly Gonzales and Gaggle at Rough Trade East. Now I’m a bit skint, so I’m quite thankful that the first event in my Five Day Forecast this week is free to get into. Others cost money, though. Honestly, it’s like the internet never happened.
01: Ignite Music. Tomorrow night sees the first Ignite Music event in London. The night follows the rules of all Ignite events, which, if you’re not familiar, is that a series of speakers each give five minute talks with 20 slides that automatically change every fifteen seconds. Among the speakers are Matt Sheret of Last.fm, Making Music’s Sarah Rogers, Sean Adams from Drowned In Sound, and Duncan Geere from Wired, whose topic comes under the title ‘The end of the album: apps as art?’ Duncan will also be speaking about digital music services at The Great Escape this year, and this talk should give you a brief insight into what he’ll discuss in Brighton in May. The event is free (though you must pre-register) and takes place at Concrete in Shoreditch.
02: MusicConnex. It’s year number one of this rather smart London-based music business conference which focuses on DIY and new media, and takes place at Kings Place near Kings Cross this week from 19-21 Apr. Among those music business types set to speak at the event are Spotify’s Jonathan Forster, YouTube’s Jamie Dolling, Beatport’s Matthew Adell, Robbie Williams manager Tim Clark and MusicTank chair, PPL Director of Performer Affairs and Stevie Wonder rep Keith Harris.
03: CMU’s music PR and promotion training. Hey, you. Do you need some training in how to promote music? Or do you just fancy a little refreshment to your already excellent skills? Or do you just fancy a day out of the office? Well, why not come to our training event this Wednesday? You’ll learn about how to build a profile for your artists, the state of the music media, traditional and new publicity techniques, social media and the future of music PR.
04: New releases. If you’ve just spent all your spare cash on Record Store Day, I have bad news for you; this is a very good week for new releases. Of course, you may already have picked up Rolo Tomassi‘s rarities compilation ‘Eternal Youth’ and ‘The Fall’ by Gorillaz on Saturday. But you’re also going to have to shell out for new albums from The Raveonettes, tUnE-yArDs, Kid Carpet, Norwegian folkster Moddi, London- and Kenya-based collaborators Owiny Sigoma Band, plus the new Pantha Du Prince remix album, ‘XI Versions Of Black Noise’.
05: Gigs. This Thursday, ATP are putting on a fundraising gig for Japan; and being ATP, they’ve put together an amazing line-up. Squarepusher will headline, following performances from Fuck Buttons and LFO. Also this week, London’s CAMP venue will celebrate its first birthday, Frank Turner will play his 1000th show at Hearn Street Carpark in Shoreditch, Carl Cox will be DJing at Pulse, and Lovebox will kick off a series of Easter weekend events at Village Underground the same night. Playing gigs around the country this week (touring, if you like) will be R Kelly, Armin van Buuren, The Dears, and Asobi Seksu.
It’s Good Friday this, erm, Friday, so Chris won’t be here with his usual round-up of the week’s music business news. Nor will he be here the following Friday, as some people are getting married. Even worse, you won’t get the CMU Weekly for the next two Fridays, nor will you get a Five Day Forecast on a Monday for two weeks, because of all this insane bank holiday nonsense. It’s OK for you to cry about this, you don’t need to be strong for my sake. Though on the plus side, Chris and I will both be rounding up all the top news from the music world in the CMU podcast both Fridays, because we’re good like that. See you then.
Andy Malt
Editor, CMU
