Unconvention Salford was a rip-roaring success: It's amazing what can happen when you get a lot of creative people in a room together. The artist panel kicked off precedings on Thursday afternoon with some wise words from Peter Hook, Pete Jobson, Aniff Akinola, Liam Frost & Lil Fee. One of the main messages coming out of this discussion was that signing a record deal is not the Holy Grail. Do you really want to hand over your work to an outdated business model?
Friday's first panel featured artists who operate on the fringes of the 'industry' and gave a great insight into how the modern musician earns his/her corn. The afternoon panel was a very lively affair focusing on the role of collection agencies (PRS/PPL/MCPS) & highlighted the inadequacies of the system for the grass roots musician.
Saturday kicked off with, for me, the most illuminating discussion of the week: Bands as Enterprise again focused on the roles modern musician, and how adaptable they have to be. The quote of the week came from Martin Atkins (Killing Joke, Public Image LTD, Ministry): 'At the moment it feels a bit like 1977 again'. A hugely liberalizing statement from someone with his industry experience.The weeks final panel focused on promoters and how grassroots musicians can get bookings for gigs & festivals.
All this was interspersed with some excellent performances both during the day & night. Artists included Kyte, Jamie Finlay, Magic Arm, Kasms, John Smith, Fangs, Sisters Of Transistors, I Am Kloot and many more. Here's a track from the hotly tipped Gallops, who I managed to miss, but blew the socks off many folk.
Gallops- Lasers (Download)
Withered Hand played a superb outdoor acoustic set: They've got a little Jeffrey Lewis/Daniel Johnston thing going on with some darkly comedic lyrics. Watch out for the debut album due September on SL Records.
Withered Hand- Cornflake (Download)
You can read much more Unconvention reflections over at Lee Jarvis's blog and New Music Strategies.
Massive Werd Up's to Ruth, Dan, Jeff and everyone at Fat Northerner Records. Watch this baby grow..
8 comments:
My sentiments exactly, and I blogged about this for a North American audience...here: http://www.gigintheuk.wordpress.com
It was an absolute blast, with one epiphany or reminder after another. Great to know you're never alone in this business. Fuel for another year.
LL.
Orderly Bazaar Records & Publishing
http://www.orderlybazaar.com
Great vid, seems like Unconvention was a lot of fun.
What was the quote? "London, New York, LA .. fuck that!"
Brilliant.
Nice round up JT. More video's on the way... Ruth
@Undeleted: Was a load of fun, get yourself down next year
@Ruth: Cool, mail me when there ready & i'll post them up x
Nice round up of a superb weekend! Thanks for the link to my blog, and keep in touch :)
Lee J.
@Lee: Cheers, enjoyed your write-ups too. I was doing the live twitter feed throughout, come & say hello next time.
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