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Peter Jenner, former manager of Pink Floyd,
visiting this year’s SPOT Festival.
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Take a break from the live music and attend lectures, talks and panel debates, which this year deal with topics ranging from the manager’s role, through guides on how to break through in the US and the UK, to how Danish songwriters find their inspiration for their lyrics in everyday life. The speakers and debaters span from former Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner and Hendrix/Zeppelin/Stones sound engineer Eddie Kramer to Danish celebrities such as Remee, Troels Abrahamsen, Peter Sommer, Anne Dorte Michelsen, etc.
The panel and lecture programme of the SPOT Festival 2007 addresses interesting and topical issues and features a strong line-up of both Danish and international speakers.
Just take the former Pink Floyd manager, the man who staged Rolling Stones’ famous Hyde Park concert (etc.) Peter Jenner, who will be taking part in the panel debate “What Is a Manager And Why Do We Need One?” together with another two experienced British managers Jonathan Shalit, and John Glover, and chairman of Danish “Music Managers Forum” Jeasper Krøll. It is going to be a seminar with plenty of exciting anecdotes and cases selected from today’s music industry. British Christian Ulf Christen (Teitur’s manager, etc.) is going to be chairman of the debate.
Speaking of the international dimension of popular music, two panels will also offer their advice on what it takes to make the big breakthrough in the US and the UK respectively. Employed as A&R at big American companies like Dreamworks and Interscope Records, as well as having worked as a manager for Mötley Crue and Fleetwood Mac, Jade McQueen will present a guide on how to gain a thorough understanding of the American market and its specific challenges and obstacles. In the seminar “Breaking Great Britain” Joel De’ath head of the A&R division at Atlantic Records, Knut Eikrem of Xlantic Music Group, and others will discuss why the British music industry has now turned to Denmark to look for “the next big thing”.
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Jon Webster 32 years of experience in the
music world and founder of "Mercury Music
Prize".
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Other seminars turn to either the past or the future. Having worked in the music business for the past 32 years, the founder of the Mercury Music Prize Jon Webster will try to prophesy the future direction of the ever-changing music business in his talk “Looking Back – into the Future”. Talking about the future – former general manager of Motown/EMI Keith Harris and American Greg Holloway will present their new project eListeningPost and explain why it has the potential to revolutionize today’s music distribution. And – as previously announced – Eddie Kramer is going to give a talk revolving around the pictures he took during his many years working as a sound engineer for Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Santana, etc
Peter Sommer in the panel for “Everyday Lyrics – the Influence of Society on the Songwriter.”
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The Danish part of the seminar programme also has a lot to offer: the topic “Everyday Lyrics – the Influence of Society on the Songwriter” will be discussed by the rapper Niarn and the songwriter Peter Sommer – two representatives of the new Danish wave – and Anne Dorte Michelsen, Niels Skousen and the moderator of the panel Ivan Pedersen. Under the heading “The Fly-by-night phenomenon That Wouldn’t Die”, six influential persons from the Danish hip hop world will discuss Danish hip hop up till today as well as the road ahead for Danish hip hop Chief 1, Henning "Kong" Winther and
reporter Rune Skyum-Nielsen are among the participants.
Poul Martin Bonde prefers to call himself a music contractor. For more than 25 years he has been in touch with large parts of the Danish music business. At the SPOT Festival this year he will take on the role as interviewer at two seminars. At the first seminar “Do It Yourself – on a soaring level!”, he is going to talk to the super producer Remee and the record company boss Kjeld Wennick about how great ambition and the will and courage to go your own ways can take you from “talent” to “international success”.
Remee talking about the leap from talent to
international succes
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Bonde will also be calling the shots in a conversation with Nikolaj Nørlund and Troels Abrahamsen, both of whom continue to demonstrate how in the year of 2007musical multi-tasking as musician, producer, songwriter, etc. can pave the way for artistic recognition.
Morten Bay and Julie Ralund will take their book Generation Netværk (“Generation Networking”) as their point of departure addressing both traditional communication strategies, which will soon be a thing of the past, and new strategies for promoting a product and communicating to the media consumers of the future.
Last but not least, DJBFA – The Danish Society for Jazz, Rock and Folk Composers in collaboration with ROSA invites you to a debate that will address two questions: firstly how the Nordic countries can create collaborations across the borders in the music business and secondly whether songwriters, composers and musicians cannot make more of the relatively big music market that the Nordic countries make up together. Among the speakers are Norwegian Henning Kvitnes, Finnish Matti Heikkila and Swedish Elise Einarsdotter, while Poul Krebs serves as chairman. |
