Debs Wild, who does work for Coldplay, and punk band Rancid, will be speaking at the Carlisle seminar
A top lawyer and band manager is to speak at a two-day seminar in Carlisle offering advice on working in the music industry. Can You Manage? – Music Management, Records and Publishing covers management and record company deals, publishing, legal issues and A&R.
Speakers over the two days include Robert White, the first music business affairs lawyer in the UK, who worked for Island Records. White was responsible for working out deals to sign legendary musicians including Bob Marley. He left legal work behind in the 1980s and went on to manage internationally successful Scottish band Simple Minds. He handles the legal work for acts including The Futureheads and The Proclaimers.
Also speaking at the seminar is Debs Wild [pictured], who worked in A&R for Sony, Warner Brothers and Universal Records, but is currently the European A&R for Epitaph Records (home to million selling punk act Rancid) and Anti (home to Tom Waits, Michael Franti and Nick Cave among others). She also finds time to run the website of Coldplay.
The workshop has been organised by the FACE (Framework for Accelerating Creative Enterprise) programme and runs from 10am to 5pm on Wednesday and Thursday (Feb28/Mar1) at Cumbria Institute of the Arts.
Places are limited and anyone interested is urged to apply as soon as possible. Those completing the two-day course will be accredited with a Level 2 NVQ through the Open College Network once participants produce a small portfolio of work.
To sign up for the two-day workshop email Andy Mckay at [email protected] or call 01228 524125 or 07900 634 252.
Source: http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
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