Category: MusicUp
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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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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…
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The Japanese Music Market and Tokyo Dance Music Event
This month I’ve been exploring Tokyo. The neon city is more different from London, New York or LA than I ever could have imagined. The language, the customs, the music industry. Wandering the streets of Shibuya in the west of the city I came across a glowing monument to CDs. Long since the preserve of…