Make Your Mark teams up with top live music company to offer enterprising young promoters their first break
June 11th, 2008 by laurieMake Your Mark has teamed up with live music promoters Curious Generation to offer aspiring young music promoters across the UK the chance of a lifetime.
When Make Your Mark in the Music Business launched earlier this year we heard from young people who were passionate about boosting the live music scene in their local area but didn’t have the financial backing, contacts or support to go it alone.
Curious Generation is a live music promotions company that has worked with some of the best breaking artists in today’s music industry (including Scouting for Girls, Dirty Pretty Things and The Guillemots). They want to offer their experience and infrastructure to enterprising young people who love music, know their local music scene and want support to set up and run a regular, live music night in their home town or city.
Did you know..?
The live music sector is the fastest growing part of the music industry yet there isn’t a single training course in the UK that provides specialist skills in the promotion of live music. This means the live performance sector will face a shortage of up to 10,000 people by the year 2017 (Live Music Forum Findings & Recommendations 2007)
Paul Latham, President, UK Music and Venues at Live Nation, said: ”This is an exciting time to be involved in live music. With income streams dwindling from recording contracts there has never been more demand from artists to tour. Therein lies the conundrum for any aspiring, or indeed established, promoter; how to deliver the artists aspirations both technically and financially.
“Talent is not just what appears on the stage, there is also an art to understanding and developing the potential for those performers. I look forward to seeing the progress of those who take part in Make Your Mark in the Music Business.”
If you are aged 18-30 and think you have what it takes to be a live music promoter, visit www.makeyourmarkinmusic.org
June 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hi,
I hope you are well.
I’m from an Ad agency called DBM Pulse, and we are working in conjunction with San Miguel for a big music even that is going on over the next few months and would like to know if you would like to get involved.
If so give me an email back at hiddendepths@dbmblogs.co.uk and I will happily give you more information as to what is required and details of the events.
Many Thanks