MusicTank

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BUZZ BUILDING FOR THE DIGITAL TEENAGE GENERATION

Youth Music, in collaboration with Rough Trade, has created a unique opportunity for young musicians aged 14-18 to form a brand new band to play at Glastonbury 2008 in a primetime Sunday slot on it’s biggest undercover stage, The Left Field. The competition, Build A Band, is for individual musicians in any genre who have trouble, due to geographic or sociological reasons, meeting other musicians and forming a band. The band will also get to record a CD which will be on sale at Rough Trade. 

On invitation from Youth Music, MusicTank is producing four free seminars on artist-DiY culture to complement this campaign, which also has the backing of BBC Blast! From development and design through to online marketing and distribution, Buzz Building & The Digital Teenage Generation is an opportunity to learn from digital gurus how to squeeze the most from the web.

24th April - BRISTOL: WATERSHED MEDIA CENTRE

SPEAKERS:  Alfie Dennen (MoBlog); Gareth Dobson (Drowned In Sound); David Harrison (musictowers.com); Ronnie Traynor (Tune Tribe), Curtis Lynch (Necessary Mayhem); others tbc.

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http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/copy_of_buzz-building-for-the-digital-teenage-generation

12th May - LONDON: ROUGH TRADE EAST

SPEAKERS:  Rob & Chris (Enter Shikari), Simon Burke-Kennedy (Tune Tribe); Alfie Dennen (MoBlog) ; Gareth Dobson (Drowned In Sound); David Harrison (musictowers.com); Laura Seach (Ninja Tune);

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http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/copy2_of_buzz-building-for-the-digital-teenage-generation

19th May - MANCHESTER: URBIS

10TH June - LIVERPOOL: FACT

London, Manchester and Liverpool panels will be hosted by Harry Leckstein (Freeport Records).

ALL of these events are FREE...but you MUST book in advance and space is limited - no walk-up on the day!

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http://www.buildaband.org/seminars/

6th May - CELESTIAL JUKEBOX: FREE STREAMS OR PIPE DREAMS?

It may be one of the buzzwords we love to hate, but the celestial jukebox has always represented the natural conclusion of the music industry’s blue sky thinking; a WiFi-liberated paradise where music lovers enjoy what they want, where they want, safe in the knowledge that creators and rights-holders are being compensated.  Well, the end of the rainbow might be closer than you think. Last.fm’s recently announced on-demand streaming service promises full-track unlimited streams, while American social network imeem has quietly broken new ground by striking ad-funded on-demand streaming deals with all four majors and a handful of indies.

Many start-ups are advocating a radical reduction in licence fees in order to facilitate growth in ad-funded, on-demand streaming. Should the music industry offer these businesses discounted licences in the knowledge they may one day overtake all other forms of music consumption?  Or should the start-ups accept they either need to stump up, in cash or kind, or mature their revenue streams before using music to drive their traffic and valuations?

The technology is already upon us, WiMax is becoming a reality and players already exist which stream bespoke stations via WiFi. Will on-demand streaming ever fulfill the celestial jukebox dream of becoming the predominant means of music consumption?

SPEAKERS - Keynote: Ryan Regan (Last.fm); Panel incl: Creative Labs; Charles Caldas (Merlin) and Owen Geddes (The Cloud), others tbc.

DIARY - Date: Tue 06 May '08; Venue: MCPS-PRS Alliance, Berners Street, London; Time: 18.30 - 21.00hrs.

Price: £20 MusicTank Members | £25 Trade Body Discount | £30 Full Price.  Tickets include drinks.

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http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/celestial-jukebox-free-streams-or-pipe-dreams