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A Welsh Collection Society – the Cambrensis Report

Friday 8th October 2010

13:30 – 15:00

Studio 2, Galeri, Caernarfon

Presentation and discussion on the Cambrensis Report, the latest step towards setting up a Welsh collection society. A representative from PRS, the UK collection society will be providing quite possibly alternative viewpoints.

Free to attend.To request a space, please email hello@welshmusicfoundation.com with the subject ‘Cambrensis Report.’

Free to attend.

Several sessions are conducted in Welsh language with full translation provided for non-Welsh speakers.

15:00 – Break and tea

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Opportunities at home and abroad

Friday 8th October 2010

12:00 – 12:30

Galeri, Caernarfon

Interested in taking your music overseas? Want to find out more about music trade missions? Now’s your chance…

An information session where you can find out more about how WMF is working to promote Welsh music abroad and how you can benefit.
Free to attend.

Free to attend.

To request a space, please email hello@welshmusicfoundation.com with the subject ‘Home and Abroad.’

Free to attend.

Conducted in Welsh language. Translation equipment will be provided for non-Welsh speakers.

12.45 – Lunch

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WMF is 10…THIS WEEKEND at Wales Millennium Centre

As the buzz builds, we really can’t wait for ‘WMF is 10’ at Wales Millennium Centre this Friday and Saturday!

We’re looking forward to welcoming a whole host of experts from across Wales and the UK onto a number of panel sessions to share their expertise, followed by some live and loud music at the Centre each evening.

If you haven’t registered to be part of it, here’s your chance. If you’re a label, manager, venue, promoter, in a band, solo artist etc etc there’s something for you!

Take a look at the ‘Learn’ section for details of our FREE music sessions…and ‘Live’ for details of FREE live and loud music each evening – open to everyone.

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Saturday Live Music – TONIGHT!

Saturday 11th September 2010 – TONIGHT!

Doors – 7pm
Wales Millennium Centre
FREE entry
First come until capacity
No age limit

Event sponsored by PRS for Music and Wales Millennium Centre

Free concerts as Welsh Music Foundation takes over the foyer area of Wales Millennium Centre. It will be a fantastic way to spend a Saturday night, all free, all splendid.

Spencer McGarry Season

Spencer McGarry Season is a solo project with the aim to record six albums in sixdifferent styles. Following on from the 3 piece basic rock of last year’s Episode 1, Spencer returns with Episode 2, a baroque musical taking in Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim and Sparks along with SMiLE era Brian Wilson, the minimalism of Steve Reich and Sufjan Stevens. A 12 piece mini orchestra will attempt the cavalcade of increasingly intricate and wildly tangential song cycles and medleys.

“Awash with deft pocket-symphony touches, brassy asides and slivers of strings” Paul Lester, The Guardian

“Eccentric and flamboyant” — Bethan Elfyn Radio 1

”Inventive, delightful, very musical, maybe slightly off kilter and out of time, both of which are compliments, yes?” David Leaf (Director ‘Beautiful Dreamer- Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile’)

www.myspace.com/spencermcgarry

El Goodo

Hailing from inside the valleys surrounded by the majestic mountains of South Wales, five piece multi-instrumental group, consisting of the talents of Pixy, Jason, Lewie, Matty and Elliott, El goodo, combine the mellow and melodious psychedelic sounds of the Beach Boys,The Byrds and Love, with beautiful and lusharrangements that call upon the mystical countryside from whence they came. The result is the creation of a mysterious, sweepingly grand, and at times whimsical approach to their already eclectic soundscape.

In 2005 they released their first self-titled, self-produced album, on the Super Furry Animals label Placid Casual, where they also opened for the Welsh psychedels, on their UK tour.El Goodo are a band worthy of critical and mass appeal; they have received accolades from both their home isle and the United States, touted as Artist of the Month by Spin Magazine in 2005 – their intoxicating second album: Coyote, received both a US and a UK release.

Coyote is both sprawling and hauntingly deserted, evoking a sonic landscape both richly cultivated and desolate, with intensely poetic harmonies and darkly articulated instrumentation.Coyote was produced by the band in a deserted theater and has brought together Cian Ciaran of the Super Furry Animals’ fame, to mix the album, as well as renowned artist Pete Fowler to capture the eloquence of the music for the album’s artwork. Coyote is a beautiful piece of darkly rich psych-pop perfection, brought to you  by the new breed of Welsh pop wizards–El Goodo.

www.elgoodo.co.uk

Jonathan Powell

Jonathan has been in demand not only as a performer but also as a songwriter having recently co-written and recorded several tracks on Charlotte Church’s new album. His music has been described as ‘urban folk’ and whilst there are elements of country, punk, jazz and out-and-out pop, his music carries an immense emotional weight through lush melody and engaging story telling.

There is also a strong classical influence having studied the viola at the Royal Academy of Music, London from the early age of 16. For the past 6 months, Powell has been touring the UK and recently headlined at the ‘How The Light Gets In’ at Hay Festival followed by a performance at ‘The Marylebone Summer Fayre’, the ‘Beach Break Live’, ‘Hop Farm Festival’ and more recently the’Green Man Festival’.

www.myspace.com/jonathanpowellmusic

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Your Music. International Audience.

WMF’s next event takes place TODAY…

Chapter, Cardiff.

3 September 2010
11.30-14.30hrs

Interested in taking your music overseas? Want to find out more about music trade missions? Now’s you’re chance…

Ahead of international trade missions to Womex, Midem and SXSW 2011, UKTI will host a series of briefing meetings across the UK, including Cardiff in association with Welsh Music Foundation.
This meeting is designed for music industry professionals interested in taking their business/music to a broader international market. The meeting will outline what it is that these conferences have to offer, and how to apply and make the most of you international business trip.

The briefing session will consist of:
- 1 hour covering Midem including the showcase opportunities available and how to access them
- 2 hours covering SXSW and everything that the conference and festival offers, including a brief insight into the Film and Interactive elements.

The session will include presentations by Javier Lopez (Midem), Una Johnston (SXSW), Phil Patterson (UKTI) and Welsh Music Foundation staff with plenty of time for Q & As.

Email hello@welshmusicfoundation.com to reserve your place

FREE TO ATTEND

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Making Money From Music in 2010

Friday 10th September
11.00 – 17:45

DAY-LONG CMU SESSION. OTHER SHORTER SESSIONS RUN THROUGHOUT THE DAY TOO

Wales Millennium Centre

This day-long seminar is an in-depth exploration of the ways rights holders and music companies can raise investment and make money in 2010. It will provide a review of the revenue potential of intellectual property, performance and fan-relationships at different stages of an artist’s career, and evaluate new investment and revenue models, including fan funding and brand partnerships.

The seminar will be led by Chris Cooke, Publisher and Business Editor of the CMU Daily, and a leading expert on the music business, and current trends in the industry. Chris regularly speaks at conferences on traditional and new music-based business models, and frequently comments on industry developments for Sky News, CNN and especially the BBC. He is also an experienced trainer, specialising in media, music and business. Delegates will receive a free pack summarising the content covered on the day.

LIMITED SPACES for this event, with priority given to those WMF Stakeholders actively engaged in the music industry in Wales.

To request a space, please email hello@welshmusicfoundation.com with the subject ‘CMU : Making Money From Music in 2010’.

FREE to attend.

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WMF is 10!

We’re celebrating 10 years of WMF and are working with Wales Millennium Centre to hold a number of events at the iconic building over Friday 10th September and Saturday 11th September 2010 for a celebration which will incorporate industry seminars, live music, networking / exhibition space and reception.

The celebrations continue at Galeri, Caernarfon on 7th and 8th October 2010.Industry seminars are free to attend and open to all those involved in, or interested in working in the music industry in Wales. Priority is given to WMF Stakeholders (those who have registered with us as an operating music enterprise in the country).

Please see our website if you’d like more information on becoming a Stakeholder.

We hope you’ll join us for informative sessions and networking during the daytime event schedules.

Each evening, promoters from Wales bring an exciting line-up of live music to the venues and we look forward to seeing you there!

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Friday Live Music

Friday 10th September 2010

Doors – 7pm
Wales Millennium Centre
FREE entry
First come until capacity
No age limit

Event sponsored by PRS for Music and Wales Millennium Centre
Evening’s compere: Radio One Introducing in Wales’ Bethan Elfyn
Presented in association with SWN and GRAB productions

Future Of The Left

On one hand, Future Of The Left are a band much like many other bands are a band. Four men, wielding bits of wood and metal strung with strings and skin, often to be found playing to rooms of other men mildly intoxicated on watery dilutions of strong lager. On the other hand, however, you can take that most basic factual definition and dispose of it by any means deemed socially and legally acceptable by local fly-tipping laws.

Future of the Left is led by singer/guitarist Andy Falkous, formerly of Mclusky and joined by a new line-up. Their second studio album, Travels with Myself and Another (4AD), received 9/10 from Drowned In Sound and Clash and 8/10 from Pitchfork – not that any of that matters. They are based in Cardiff and this will be both loud and splendid.

www.futureoftheleft.com

We Are Animal

WE ARE ANIMAL hail from North Wales near Mount Snowdon where they trek off into the Welsh wilds to walk, contemplate and put together the music and melodies that make up the bands sound. Impressively accomplished song writing and a knack for a great hook do everything to convince you that there is no way this band can only be a few months old.
But that’s the long and the short of it, the band started in December 2009 and has been prolific both in their output and their live presence ever since. In keeping with this work ethic the band record all the songs the day they are written, bar one or two vocal parts, on a BOSS 8 track in various locations such as old quarries and abandoned buildings dotted around their native Welsh country side. This unpretentious approach towards DIY methods of making and producing recordings means that the sum total of their output is something exciting, entrancing and shot through with a melodic cool it’s hard to quantify.WE ARE ANIMAL are hoping to test their sound on the festival scene this summer as well as continuing their never ending scattered tour of the UK.
‘1268’ was released on June 7th through TOO PURE SINGLES CLUB
‘Idolise’ (the debut album) is available now through iTUNES and will be released in CD format by October
Here is the video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z70FbdPVN8
www.myspace.com/weareanimal

Exit International

Formed from the debris of Midasuno and The Martini Henry Rifles, The Cardiff based, duel-bass lead trio EXIT_INTERNATIONAL (E_I) drop their ‘Sex W/ Strangers E.P’ in July 2010 on Undergroove Records. Starting the band purely as an experiment to perform a support slot for The Melvins (From which the band – then under a different moniker – were removed from the bill on the day due tour support), The band now have taken a very limited musical palette and absolutely run screaming into a burning building with the idea. Less is definitely more in the case of E_I. Following a number of ‘Bands to watch in 2010′ style pieces, Eli Janney (of Girls Against Boys fame) having heard E_I online, personally arranged for Alternative Press to feature the band in their own forecast.

By making a load of noise – taking influence from a shared love of Girls Against Boys, Nirvana, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Pixies, and The Blood Brothers, E_I have become a devastating live prospect – capitalising on the lack of the good ol’ six-string guitar in the process, which has caused many a talking point in the rave reviews and press the band have received thus far. The band’s choice performances have included performances at SWN festival 2009, a Headline show for Rock Sound Magazine, an Artrocker Club night, as well as shows alongside The Bronx, Pulled Apart By Horses, The 80’s Matchbox B-line Disaster, The Computers, Cri me in Stereo, Baddies and The King Blues. The most recently were selcted to play the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading and Leeds Fesival

“….Two bass guitars which duel each other for supremacy using a deadly arsenal of fuzz boxes. I’d hazard a guess that the band’s hobbies include audio terrorism, and eh…well, that’s probably it – but they’re definatly worth seeing!” Artrocker Magazine Oct 2009

‘It’s plain to see by the hoard of snappers hovering around the tiny stage that there’s already a buzz surrounding them….The three piece smash out tunes into oblivion with rip-roaring ferocity’ (8/10) Rock Sound Oct 2009

www.myspace.com/exitinternationalmusic

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Survival of the Studio

Friday 10th September
12:00 – 14:00

Wales Millennium Centre
Sony Room

WMF are calling all those involved in the professional recording industry in Wales to attend a key panel session that will encourage discussion about the market conditions, prospects, successes and challenges facing studios across the country.

Studio owners, managers, engineers and producers from across Wales can hear practical hints and tips (including marketing), share experiences and concerns, debate the impact of ‘bedroom’ recording and explore the differentiation between facilities across Wales – and possible opportunities.

Networking drinks will follow the session with some exhibition space and mingling with band members, labels and managers who will be breaking from another scheduled session at the venue at the same time.

FREE to attend.

Open to those involved at all levels.

Panel members

Malcolm Atkin – Chairman, APRS (Chair)

The APRS promotes the highest standards of professionalism and quality within the audio industry. Its members are recording studios, post-production houses, mastering, replication, pressing and duplicating facilities, and providers of education and training, as well as audio engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, and consultants. Its primary aim is to develop and maintain excellence at all levels within the audio industry.

Ed Richmond – BBC Radio One Introducing in Wales
Producer

Romesh Dodangoda – Record Producer
(Motorhead, Lostprophets, Funeral For a Friend, Bullet for My Valentine, Kids In Glass Houses, The Blackout)

Charlie Francis – Producer/ Engineer/Mixer/Musician
(REM, Noisettes, Victorian English Gentleman’s Club, Robyn Hitchcock, High Llamas)

Trisha Wegg – RAK Studios
RAK Recording Studios were created in 1976 by legendary record producer Mickie Most who converted a Victorian schoolhouse and church hall into a state-of-the-art recording studio complex with full residential facilities. Over the years RAK have played host to both musical legends and newcomers alike.
Recent clients include KT.Tunstall, La Roux and Chromeo, Shakira, Cee-Lo, The Feeling, Mumford & Sons to name but a few.