Birmingham Music Network Meeting – September 2013
Present: Robin Valk Radio To Go, Sue Nichols performer, merch seller, Gary Skull Fox, Jeremy Skull fox, Chris BCU Student, Sandra BCU student, Ryan BCU Lecturer, Matthew Sound engineering student, Jim Simpson Big Bear Music Group, Rebecca Edwards student studying media, Meg student, Thomas Glass Bullet, Ryan second year student, Tony works in music projects and youth centers,
New Points:
Mark Iron Man Records: Talked about Police Bastard releasing a new CD album called “Confined” on Iron Man Records.
Robin Valk: Campaign for regional Broadcasting in the region. Janice Long supports local talent but bands in this region lose out.
BBC spending in the region has much declined.
Culture Shock moseley: an interesting show taking place
on saturday at St Marys Church, Moseley
free food too
Interesting point made that BCU is leasing buildings and facilities to the BBC so some funding and support is going back into the region but perhaps not enough.
Janice Long supports new music
Tom Robinson on 6 music supports new music.
Who are the supporters of new music on radio? if you are a new band in birmingham who can you turn to?
Chris:
3rd year student. talking about what he is going to do for his final year project on and what are the growth areas of
Ryan: lecturer and BCU researcher. Working on new
Jim Simpson:
Talked about lack of cohesion in the region.
what are we going to do?
Jim would like to take a team to Midem. He is looking at 2015
Any interested parties get in touch.
Jim Simpson Big Bear admin@bigbearmusic.com