Getting Ahead In The Music Industry
October 24, 2007 – 4:04 pm | by CarlowMusic.comYoung musicians and bands, bring your demo’s to a special event designed to cover all aspects of getting ahead in the music industry. This event will be held in two locations to enable as many musicians in the South East to attend.
A panel of local musicians, music promoters and people from the music industry will give informal presentations with loads of practical advice: local musicians/music stars of Kilkenny & Carlowmusic.com Ken McGuire, Ross Costigan, Alan Dawson, with Jimmy Trigger of Itchy Trigger Finger will discuss maximising the internet to build your audience, the best way to get your music produced in a studio, and effective ways of working with the media and getting noticed by record companies. Jimmy Trigger will give details on how he and his band worked with kkmusic.com to produce their first successful EP. Davy Holland (formerly Blue Ghost, now Good Tiger) will talk of the changing world of producing music today, along with special guests, Keith Johnson of IMRO (the Irish Music Rights Organisation) and Angela Dorgan (best known for her work with First Music Contact and the Working Class Heroes festival). Ken Allen, Faction Records, HotPress, will also be joining us. He formerly signed bands for Sony and Polydor, and at this event he will gladly take any music demos from the audience.
*ArtLinks Membership is Free, register now @ www.artlinks.ie! Then reserve a place on the Course Page of the ArtLinks website. Tell all your friends, and lunch is included!
The first event kicks off on Saturday, November 10th in the Parade Tower (Kilkenny Castle), registrations from 9:30am. The second event kicks off on Saturday November 24th in Wicklow, details available on Artlinks.ie. Non-members can attend the day for €20 (well worth the price of admission, including your lunch catered for!) and if you sign up on ArtLinks.ie for free in advance, you’ll get a five euro discount, bringing the cost of the day to €15.
