Steve, Amran, Abi, Stef & Caro in a church hall in Salford
This is the audio recording of the panel session I chaired at Un-Convention in Manchester last month. It was about music that falls outside the indie rock band tradition you’d normally expect represented at these sorts of events. I wanted to know if there were any lessons that could be drawn from outside the margins.
Some really amazing and insightful stuff from Stef Lewandowski, Steve Lawson, Amran Ellahi, Abigail Seabrook, and Caroline Churchill.
I actually posted this on my personal blog first, which is kind of telling. I think of these people as my friends, so that’s where it seemed to make sense. But then, of course, I realised (duh…) that it might be of interest to the sort of people who read New Music Strategies.
Hope you find it helpful and interesting.
You can listen to all of the panel sessions at the Un-Convention Soundcloud page… and you can follow the panellists (other than Abi, who I can’t find) on Twitter:
Stef Lewandowski: @stef
Steve Lawson: @solobasssteve
Amran Ellahi: @aashiqalrasul
Caroline Churchill:@carosnatchand of course, I’m @dubber.
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3 Comments
Hi Andrew
Thanks for sharing this audio file.
When I was listening to this conversation my brain started to work out. Within these 90 minutes I’ve written down a bunch of new ideas.
This was a truly compelling, witty and beautifully inspiring conversation from a great bunch of outliers. Merci.
Mehdi
it’d be nice if this was downloadable to an mp3 player
Andrew this audio is an amazing discussion. Just in the process of launching a label and my music career, i can’t tell you how much it has made me think about my philosophy as an artist in relation to things such as marketing, promotion etc. Absolutely fantastic..I need to listen to it again and continue to ask myself some hard questions. It has been very liberating to hear some very wise words from individuals who are doing something different from the mainstream activity that we always hear about. Thankyou so much for posting this.
Would love an mp3 too!