UK: Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced the first confirmed events for its 2016 festival, set to take place from June 10 – 15. Included in the first reveal is Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next, Joanna Lumley in conversation and the acclaimed innovative feature film and immersive experience Notes on Blindness. Moore’s entry is characterised as a provocative comedy in which Moore will stop at nothing to figure out how to actually make America great again, whereas the latter film centres on British academic John Hull, whose sight finally vanished completely after decades of deterioration and afterwards decided to document his…
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ITALY: The eighth International Radio Festival will take place in Milan for the first time on April 7, and has now unveiled its slate of speakers. The line-up of speakers includes Tony Prince, founder of Disco Mix Club and DJ magazine Mixmag, who is also a veteran of pirate radio in the 60s with Radio Caroline; Herbert Visser, founder and CEO of Radio 10NL in the Netherlands; Ed Hooper, co-founder of social media app Omny Studio; Dan Jones, founder of Hoxton FM Web-radio; and Rusty Hodge, founder of internet radio platform SomaFM. The IRF is a music radio content conference…
UK: Live in Barnsley, the titular town’s preeminent free metropolitan music festival, is now into its fourth year. This year’s event will take place on June 18 and the organisers have announced that there will be more venues and more bands involved than last year’s edition. One of LiB’s organisers, Dave Pearsall, said: “We are really pleased to announce that all 14 of the venues that took part in 2014 will take part again this year and that there will be two additional venues: The Old No.7 on Market Hill and The Blue Room on Wellington Street.” With the inclusion…
UK: On Tuesday March 22, Oran Burns of d&b Education and Application Support will present the renowned d&b electroacoustics seminar at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. The focus of the session is ‘achieving intelligibility’ and the day is pitched at anyone wishing to broaden their knowledge and understanding of the principles of electroacoustics for sound system design and engineering. “The seminar covers the basics in an accessible and fun way through practical demonstrations,” explained Burns. “It’s been evolved over the last fifteen years and has become something of an industry standard.” The electroacoustics seminar is…
UK: 51st State – the festival dedicated to soulful dance music – has revealed the line-up for its second edition at London’s Trent Park on August 6. Presented by Found Series, the line-up features tastemakers, trail-blazers and seminal figures from house, garage, soul, funk, dub, dancehall and disco with Kings Of House, Soul II Soul, Body & Soul, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roger Sanchez, Todd Terry, Dimitri From Paris, Crystal Waters, The Basement Boys, Barbara Tucker, Matt Jam Lemont, Mr Vegas, The Heatwave, Jazzy B, Joey Negro, Horse Meat Disco, Marshall Jefferson and many more set to perform at the leafy…
UK: Buckinghamshire New University and UK Music, through the Music Academic Partnership, have published new research that reveals the vast economic, cultural and social impact of live music to the city of Bristol in 2015. The Bristol Live Music Census found that last year live music generated £123m of revenue towards the local economy and helped support 927 FTE jobs in the city. Recent concerns about the future of live music venues in the UK prompted Bucks New University and UK Music to undertake this census of live music in Bristol, a city known for its vibrant and influential live…
UK: Restless Natives – a new multidisciplinary festival – is set to open its doors from May 9 – 15 in Glasgow. Taking place in seven venues and studios around Glasgow’s East End, the cross-platform metropolitan festival aims to shine a light on independent purveyors of music, film, and food & drink from Scotland and beyond. “Restless Natives is looking to unite many different groups, creative industries, ethnicities, ages and socio-political perspectives under one broadly inclusive and progressive umbrella,” said the festival’s organisers. “Proving to everyone who thinks otherwise that independent business and art can still thrive in an increasingly…
UK: NASS Festival and the International BMX Freestyle Federation (IBMXFF) have announced that they will co-host the 2016 BMX World Championships at the former event, which will be the first time the latter has occurred in the UK in 28 years. The world’s leading freestyle BMX athletes will descend on the West Country in time for NASS, the action sport and music festival, taking place from July 8 – 10 near Bristol. The event promises to be one of the largest global BMX freestyle events of the year, with more than 450 professional and amateur athletes from over 40 countries…
UK: Ahead of Afrikan Boy’s headline set on March 19, Roundhouse Rising will be hosting a free-to-attend industry day entitled ‘Getting Ahead In Music’. Highlights include DJ Drop-in Sessions offering the opportunity to learn DJ basics on both CDJs and vinyl using Serato software. A Band Jam Taster guided tutorial will help those wishing to learn guitar, bass or drums, and a Songwriters’ Clinic will be available for those seeking expert advice to hone their skills. There will also be a Demo Surgery to learn how to improve the quality of demo recordings as well as a Spinnup Music Demo…
USA: Presented by Goldenvoice – the promoter behind Coachella, FYF, Stagecoach, Hangout, and Firely – Panorama Festival will come to New York City’s Randall’s Island Park from July 22 – 24 and features headlining artists Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, and LCD Soundsystem. In addition to the aforementioned headliners, the diverse line-up includes acts such as Alabama Shakes, avant-garde R&B artist FKA twigs and inspirational phenomenon DJ Khaled. On Saturday, critically lauded producer Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) and indie darling Sufjan Stevens will lead in for hip-hop’s prodigal son Kendrick Lamar. On Sunday, pop innovator Sia, Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky,…