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Full Great Escape Convention schedule now live
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 2 May 2012
The Brian Molko In Conversation session is amongst the final additions to the line-up for this year’s CMU-programmed Great Escape convention, the full programme for which is now live here.
While CMU oversees the convention side of The Great Escape, a plethora of other great content partners will also host sessions. As well as PRS For Music’s full day of events, there will be panels this year from ACUMEN, PPL, the Music Publishers Association, MusicTank, Record Of The Day, Generator, Teenage Rampage, IC Music, Made In Brighton and Institut Ramon Llull, the latter being this year’s lead international partner for the whole Great Escape festival and convention.
Also just added to the In Conversation strand are legendary producers and musicians Lol Creme, Trevor Horn and Ash Soan, who will appear together in conversation as they prepare to release a new album from their collaborative group Producers. Between them, the members of this exciting collective have, over the past 40 years, scored over 200 hit singles and albums, which, we reckon, puts them in a very fine position to share some thoughts, advice and stories.
As previously reported, already announced for this year’s In Conversation programme were Xfm’s new music champion John Kennedy, who will be chatting to Jon Hillcock as the alternative station celebrates 20 years on air in London, and Domino Records’ Richard King, who will talk to The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis about his book exploring the history of British indie labels, ‘How Soon Is Now’.
Meanwhile Michael Eavis and Rob da Bank will be reunited on the TGE stage for the first time in six years to lead The Great Festival Conversation. Da Bank will then continue the festivals debate with three of the UK festival community’s most inspirational new promoters: Jo Vidler from the Wilderness and Secret Garden Party festivals, Simon Taffe from End Of The Road and Tom Baker from Field Day.
The In Conversation strand is, of course, just one component of The Great Escape Convention, which offers a packed programme of panels, debates, networking sessions and parties over three days in Brighton next week. As also previously reported, this year’s programme will feature a series of sessions on the whole DIY thing, and another on the state of the music media in 2012.
Offering practical advice to any artists considering going it alone to keep more control over their artistic and commercial affairs will be ACUMEN Business Law’s Josh Little, Republic Of Music’s Mark McQuillan, Sentric Music’s Simon Pursehouse, Create Spark’s Debbie Ball, Good Lizard’s David Riley, Music Glue’s Joe Porn, Brownswood Music’s Simon Goffe, Hi Road Studios’ Jack Kingslake, 13 Artists’ Angus Baskerville, Anorak London’s Sinead Mills, The Weird And Wonderful’s Steven Braines and DIY artists Adam Ficek and Chris T-T.
Meanwhile, considering the challenges and opportunities faced by the music press and radio industry in the digital age will be likes of Drowned In Sound’s Sean Adams, This Is Fake DIY’s Stephen Ackroyd, Vice’s Dan Miller, The Line Of Best Fit’s Josh Hall, The Times’ Will Hodgkinson, Q’s Paul Stokes, The Sun’s Jacqui Swift, Daily Mirror’s Gavin Martin, The Guardian’s Chris Lawson and Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Juice 107.2’s Daniel Nathan, Folder Media’s Matt Deegan, Amazing Radio’s Matt Jamison, podcasters Darren Hemmings and Matthew Young, and Xfm founder Sammy Jacob.
So, as you can see, rather a lot to be getting on with. Full details about the whole convention schedule for 2012 is now online here, while the full Great Escape festival line-up is available via this link. You will also find an overview of the convention programme from CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke here. And delegate passes, if you haven’t already got one, are a bargain at £150 and available right here.
See you in Brighton next week!
