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Family Matters
As Jane’s (Brooke Elliott) lawsuit on behalf of a teenager who collapsed at a rave prompts a death threat against Owen (Lex Medlin), Kim (Kate Levering) and Grayson (Jackson Hurst) represent a sperm donor seeking to retain his parental rights.
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Investor Updates, Hyperpersonal Communication and Telegraphy
TL;DR Vote up my latest project on Betalist, ta! Technology today is isolating right? Everyone is sitting on their phones swiping and scrolling. Headphones on. Avoiding eye contact. Wrong. Technology gives us more ways to communicate, more people to speak with, from more cities, cultures and countries than has ever been possible in history. Not personal.…
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DIGITAL GENERATION: GETTING YOUR FIRST JOB IN MUSIC – ESTABLISHED OR INDIE?
Get an internship or start out on my own? That’s the key question for young music industry wannabes who are starting out today. It’s an important question. Working your way up in an establish music company is competitive and rewarding. At the same time the availability of technology and tools to create communities online has made the building…
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Podcast Pick: The Pessimists Archive
Read any headlines recently about how technology is ruining our lives or perhaps the lives of our children? That’s nothing new! The Pessimists archive Twitter has been a source of historic quotes on technical armageddon. Recently they launched a podcast and one of their early episodes is on Recorded Music. Worth a listen for some context…
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Podcast Pick: Such Great Heights – A New Music Industry Podcast
Last week I finally managed to meet Sunny, a music industry blogger wrioting on his self titled website. Whilst chatting he mentioned his new podcast Such Great Heights. The first episode features the personal story of Matt Hanner from Coda. This week I’m picking Such Great Heights as my podcast pick. Listen below or follow the…
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NY:LON Connect Review
Last month I reprented MusicUp at the MusicAlly NY:LON Connect event along with Sachin Premnath, partner, global entertainment and industry group at Reed Smith; Graham Davies, director of strategy and digital at PRS for Music; and Benji Rogers, founder of Dot Blockchain Music. The moderator was Jeremy Silver, CEO of Digital Catapult. Read Stuarts great overview of the…
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Podcast Pick: Motive Unknown
I’m a keen podcast consumer. Scrolling through my subscriptions for music industry inspiration I want to feature some of my favourite shows over the coming weeks. At the top of the list is the Motive Unknown podcast. Featuring a range of gin talk and industry banter in a flowing, unedited format driven by Darren Hemmings…
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NY:LON Connect and Music Startup Positivity. – The New Wave of Inventive Music Startups
A couple of weeks ago I was on a panel discussing investment in music startups as part of MusicAlly’s NY:LON Connect event as Reed Smith in London. A few months before at the BBC Future of Music conference Rorri Keflan-Jones painted a picture of a startups disappearing left right and venture. This panel took a…
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Speaking at NY:LON Thanks to MusicAlly and the Music Business Association
Early next week I’ve been invited to speak at NY:LON. An event connection the US and UK music industry. My panel is around investment and digital innovation in music. My outlook on the UK early stage startup scene has been a little pessimistic of late. But with the upcoming announcement of Techstars Music in the…
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BBC Future Music Conference 2016 – The End of Innovation in Digital Music
Is digital innovation dead? The question posed to myself, Sammy Andrews and Gregor Pryor last month at the BBC Future of Music Conference (previously BBC on the Beat). With Rorri Keflan-Jones hosting it was clear we were all supportive of supporting the digital music startup ecosystem. Offering up ideas that perhaps a variation in business…