- Music Is Ours offers advice on all aspects of the music business.
- Music Is Ours offers advice on all aspects of the music business.
Since singing in a band, running house music clubs and establishing a number of record labels, I have always wanted to help others make their own way in the music industry and try and shed some light on its darker corners, as let’s face it there are quite a few of them. Yes, It is hard to get into and passion and belief are key elements, but it can lead to a very rewarding career.
There are lots of support agencies and other ways to get advice, but what I am offering is first hand practical experience to those, either just looking to establish themselves or to established operators who just need a new pair of eyes to look at their business.
- The Voice of Brum beat. Blog
- News and resources for unsigned musicians
- Dufus will be hitting the road once again in support of the US release of “IN MONSTROUS ATTITUDE,” on ROIR. Here’s what it looks like so far…..
WEST COAST TOUR
Sept. 11 Seattle, WA
Sept. 12 Vancouver, Canada – BLIM
Sept. 13 Vancouver, Canada – The Railway Club
Sept. 14 Olympia, WA
Sept. 15 Portland, OR
Sept. 16 Eugene, OR
Sept. 17 Arcata, CA
Sept. 18 Chico / Sacramento, CA
Sept. 19 Sacramento / Davis
Sept. 20 San Fran / Oakland / Berkeley
Sept. 21 San Fran / Oakland / Berkeley
Sept. 22 Santa Cruz, CA
Sept. 23 Los Angeles, CA
Sept. 24 12 South – Flagstaff, AZ
Sept. 25 Colorado
Sept. 26 Denver, COSept. 27 Dufus 12 Year Anniversary Show – LOCATION TBA
EAST COAST TOUR
October 15 – 31, 2009EUROPEAN TOUR
November / December 2009If you would like to book a show for any of these tours, get in touch with Seth Faergolzia
Quankmeyer [at] hotmail.com - Web Music Solutions is a small company providing an affordable and accessbile web presence for musicians, bands and other music businesses.
Run by professional musicians with a track record in designing and maintaining web sites since 2000, Web Music Solutions aim to provide a quick, efficient service that is represents good value and high quality.
Web Music Solutions uses the WordPress system for design and management providing an affordable and classy solution for musicians allowing them ease of access, intuitive systems and a responsive interface with their public.
Contact us today to discuss how you would like Web Music Solutions to assist you in developing and extending your web presence.
- Comprehensive listings for exhibitions in the city of Birmingham, UK
- A blog for North Birmingham. Contact us.
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- A blog for King's Heath in Birmingham.
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- entils, Nima's, humous, "Groovin'", Mungbean, overanalysed, leafy, muesli, hubristic, fauxhemian… Moseley
"A bucket for restless souls ([which] can probably apply to Birmingham as a whole)."
"Dexys put Moseley in it's place on "Don't Stand Me Down", dontcha? He was right then, he's still right."
This'd be a blog for Moseley, Birmingham, UK, then. Contact us.
News or new contributors welcome.
- We’re looking to map anything; bands, singers, musicians, promoters, managers, venues, record shops, music shops, hangouts, anything that has a “place” and that place in in Brum (or nearby).
There are lots of reasons for doing it, mainly that it’s great to have a record of such stuff — we could use it as the basis of research, art, or displays or, well tons of stuff.
But there’s something special I want to do with it (’tis a secret) , and I want to be able to do it before the end of the month. June is, as we’ve been going on about, Birmingham Music Month — and it would be great to have a load of this done come July.
So, we’ve created a Google map, and started to add stuff to it — and we’d like you to help as much as you can.
- We're primarily a punk zine based outta Newbury in the UK. Bands, we wanna review your stuff, so do send it in! Contact us now to get a copy or get involved!
UK it's £1.50 post paid or £1 at gigs. Europe and USA drop us a line and we'll discuss and stuff.
To order in Europe – please send £3.00 per issue via Paypal.
To order in Australia/USA – please send £4.00 per issue via PaypalBands who wanna get reviewed drop us a line and send us a CD, we don't do MP3's though.
- We are a group of old music heads banding together in Manchester to form the company BandsOnTour www.bandsontour.me.uk.
We rent out studios, hire Splitter buses and have session artists, electricians, lighting and sound guys on staff. We aim to be a holistic service to the heart of the Northern music movements
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I'm Mark, I run an independent record label called Iron Man Records, which is based in Birmingham England. I set up the Birmingham Music Network, and I organised gigs in Birmingham for over ten years as Badger Promotions. I play in a band called Last Under The Sun, Cain and Freestone and another called Police Bastard, I offer tour management and driving to help bands out on tour, and I have done some lecturing at Birmingham City University as part of their Music Industry degree course.
Web Music Solutions is a small company providing an affordable and accessbile web presence for musicians, bands and other music businesses.
Run by professional musicians with a track record in designing and maintaining web sites since 2000, Web Music Solutions aim to provide a quick, efficient service that is represents good value and high quality.
Web Music Solutions uses the WordPress system for design and management providing an affordable and classy solution for musicians allowing them ease of access, intuitive systems and a responsive interface with their public.
Contact us today to discuss how you would like Web Music Solutions to assist you in developing and extending your web presence.
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I am writing to you on behalf of Berklee College of Music who have just launched their Berkleemusic distance learning program officially in the UK. One of the things that this entails is that £45,000 have been pledged to be given out to UK students over the upcoming five years to study online with Berklee. Patrons of these scholarships include Sir George Martin and Jeff Beck alongside three other big music names.
The scholarships are open to everyone in the UK and we are trying to boost awareness about them to the British musician community. information provided within the press release below,
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To keep you up to date on developments in Scotland, Dave Cross sent us this message after Go North:
“The Scottish Music Industry Association(SMIA) was launched at the Go North conference in Inverness. The SMIA has been many years in the making and has been developed by a team comprising many established leaders in the Music Industry – they will now form its initial Board. The outline objectives, structure and role of the Association was the subject of a feasibility study undertaken by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) and published in 2005. The formation of the Association then received support of the Scottish Executive and in particular the MSP who Chaired the Cross Party Parliamentary Group on Contemporary Scottish Popular Music. The remit, and integration with local, national and international players was carefully planned and it had been hoped to begin recruitment in 05. The SMIA has this week been able to appoint an administrator, who will be based in the offices of the Scottish Music Centre (next to the City Halls) in Candleriggs, Glasgow.
They have also commissioned Ronnie Gurr, seasoned promoter of networking and coordination of music activity across Scotland, to embarking on a more thorough analysis of the needs and opportunities facing music across all its facets, both in terms of genres and business activity. The Association’s published remit is to act as a representative body promoting the growth of the Scottish music industry with a single, clear voice, supporting the full diversity of Scottish music enterprise in a fair and committed way.
Generator has been closely following and contributing to the processes leading to the SAC feasibility study and the commitment to create the inclusive representative body that was launched today.
Contact them @ The Scottish Music Centre – Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ Tel 0141 552 5222
info at scottishmusiccentre.com
Download the PDF here: The Scottish Music Industry Association: Feasibility Study pdf
It’s been a whirlwind year for 51 Breaks. The band from Birmingham have gone from self releasing an a download single with only 100 limited pressed copies to standing on the edge of opening this years V Festival, whilst supporting The Spinto band, The Maccabees, The Infadels and even Tinchy Stryder along the way!
They find themselves as part of the final 6 acts now facing a public vote to see who will open this years V festival. It all came as quite a surprise to the band and their singer Michael Turner, who by his own admission never saw all this coming. ‘’We released 3 tracks, and carried on gigging and soon we were getting asked to play alongside some of our favourite bands, and then from up loading a track onto the V site we get a call saying were into the last 10’’
This saw 51 Breaks play the Great Escape festival in Brighton last month mollinebonus.net where they supported competition mentor Just Jack. ‘’It was an amazing feeling, to look back at a year ago, wed just finished recording and had a whole load of dates stretched out in front of us, the single did better than we ever thought it could and we just seemed to be on a roll, gigs kept coming and we we’ve now ended up here! Hopefully people will be voting for us and well get to go even further’’
Their mixture of orchestral arrangements, catchy hooks and electro beats has earned them rave reviews and with fans including the NME & Tom Robinson you get the feeling this is far from the end of the ride.
Music can be found for reviews @ http://roadtov.com/artists/51-breaks/
info at 51breaks.com