- CHANGING TIMES, PASSION, DESIRE AND AN OVERDOSE OF LUCK. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE ELEMENTS THAT HAVE TURNED ROCK WERCHTER INTO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND – ACCORDING TO ITS COLLEAGUES – BEST FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD. THE CONCISE HISTORY OF A FESTIVAL BETWEEN 1975 AND 2006.
in 1967, a so-called beat happening was organised. Long before Woodstock in the United States and Isle Of Wight in Great-Britain. At its height in 1978, Jazz Bilzen, back then a four-day festival, drew 15,000 festival-goers on its main day. Three years later, only 6,000 people showed up and the festival folded. In 1981 in Torhout and Werchter, about 20,000 and 27,000 spectators showed up. Things really ‘exploded’ in Werchter in 1982, when about 40,000 people were standing at the festival gates. What was a-happening?
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- born in Oakland, California. When he was four years old, his parents split up. His father played boogie-woogie piano and at five or six years old Wold tried to learn but could not. At age eight, he learned to play the guitar (he later found out that it was blues) from K. C. Douglas, who worked at his grandfather's garage. Douglas wrote the song "Mercury Blues" and used to play with Tommy Johnson,[citation needed]. Wold left home at 13 to avoid abuse at the hands of his stepfather, and lived rough and on the road in Tennessee, Mississippi and elsewhere, until 1973. He would travel long distances by hopping freight trains, looking for work as a farm labourer or in other seasonal jobs, often living as a hobo. At various times, Wold worked as a carnie, cowboy and a migrant worker.
Of his time he once said: Hobos are people who move around looking for work, tramps are people who move around but don't look for work, and bums are people who don't move and don't work. I've been all three. - Seasick Steve on Jools Hollands 2007 new year show with his fantastic 3 string guitar
- The Music Network is open to all on Thursday 25th June 2009 4pm til 6pm at Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG.
Creative content producers need to take project management seriously, according to one industry expert. Steve Stopps, from Leamington Spa-based Blitz Games Studios, says that many creative companies need to reassess how they run their operations.
Steve, who is the keynote speaker at ‘Creative Networks’ event on Thursday 25 June, believes that project management is increasingly important, given the growth of the creative industries sector. The creative industries are expected to employ 1.3 million people by 2013 – more than the financial sector – and will contribute £85 billion to the UK, up from £57 billion in 2009.
A quarter of those employed in the UK games industry are located in the West Midlands. Steve said: “This is a multi-billion dollar industry, which strongly performs even during the recession.
“The current generation of the highest quality AAA games are similar to Hollywood blockbusters. If a company is going to risk huge amounts of money on a product it needs to gets its project management right. A huge amount of skills and disciplines contribute towards the end product and it’s important that these are properly managed.
“With the possibilities offered by digital technologies there is a real opportunity for the screen and sound based sector to capitalise on the growth in demand for its products, but it has to get serious about managing content production
The Music Network meets at 4pm Thursday 25th June 2009, Birmingham TIC, Millennium Point. Steve will be speaking afterwards at 6pm.
Creative Networks and The Music Network meeting are both part of a FREE event.
Creative Networks was established in 2004 as a regular monthly hub of networking and expertise for those working or hoping to work in the creative industries. For more information call 0121 331 5400 or visit www.creativenetworksonline.com
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This months talk follows the visit earlier this month by Lord David Puttnam who addressed more than 200 guests at Birmingham Hippodrome as part of an event called Platform Alteration, hosted by Screen WM in association with 4iP and Creative Networks.