TOM ROBINSON EVENT FOR LONDON SONGWRITERS WEEK
Date: Monday, 18th May 2009
Time: 1pm-4pm
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Nash Room, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
How to get there: www.ica.org.uk
Nearest Tube Stations: Charing Cross (Northern and Bakerloo lines) or Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines).
Maximum Number of attendees: 80
FRESH ON THE NET
Presented by Bascawww.basca.org.uk
Hosted by Tom Robinson from BBC 6 Music Introducing
How to survive and thrive in a digital future: an essential workshop for songwriters run by Tom with online music consultant Andrew Dubber from New Music Strategies. An intensive three-hour session to help writers and composers explore the new avenues and possibilities offered by the online music environment.
"During 35 years in the music industry, I've never known a more exciting time for new music than the present. Writers and musicians today have unparallelled opportunities for getting heard and building a global fanbase. It's no longer essential to be wealthy or well-connected: all you have to be is good."
Tom Robinson
See freshonthenet.co.uk for Tom Robinson's tips and resources for independent performers and recording artists, to accompany his BBC Introducing show on 6 Music. Also see Andrew Dubber's influential blog at http://newmusicstrategies.com which attempts to unpick whats going on in the online music environment - and develop strategies to help independent musicians in a changing media environment.
Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson presents BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net" on digital station 6 Music, showcasing 30-40 unknown artists a week sourced solely from the internet. His music career began in the early 70s as a member of acoustic trio Caf Society in London. Ray Davies of The Kinks produced their debut album, which sold only 600 copies. The more political Tom Robinson Band (TRB) had hits with "2-4-6-8 Motorway" and "Glad To Be Gay". His next band, Sector 27, made a critically acclaimed album with Steve Lillywhite and and played Madison Square Garden with The Police, before splitting in 1981. After a subsequent Top 10 hit with "War Baby" Tom was offered work in 1984 as a radio DJ - first on the BBC World Service and then standing for Janice Long on Radio One. Unusually, he's presented programmes on all the BBC main radio networks - Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Live, 6 Music, BBC 7, World Service and GLR - where his documentary "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" won a Sony Radio Award in 1997. Tom is a member of the Songwriters Executive of BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) and the Ivor Novello Awards committee.
tomrobinson.com
Andrew Dubber
Andrew is an online music consultant, a co-founder of Music Think Tank and the author of New Music Strategies. He is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Transfer Fellow in Music Industries Innovation, a founder member of the Interactive Cultures Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer in the Music Industries at the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University.
With a background in both the radio and the music industries and an academic record that includes numerous articles, book chapters, and conference presentations about digital media, the music business and media ecology, Dubber has quickly become one of the UKs leading experts in the field. He currently consults for over thirty music and radio businesses in the UK and Europe and is on the advisory boards of Bandcamp (US), Meetsound (France) and Un-Convention (UK). He has written articles for Computer Music Magazine and chapters on blogging and podcasting for the Alternative Media Handbook. He is currently co-authoring an undergraduate textbook on the Music Industries, and is the co-author of a book about new technologies for broadcasters in developing nations, commissioned by UNESCO. When hes not teaching and writing, most of his time is spent travelling, presenting seminars and workshops across the UK and around the world.
newmusicstrategies.com
Book your place now to avoid disappointment. Numbers are strictly limited!