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Wisdom Wednesdays - Edition #4

Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 8DA, UK

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BPI Ltd

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS FOR BPI MEMBERS ONLY. Wisdom Wednesday returns for our first event of 2019! This session will focus on entrepreneurship in the music industry. Our panel come from a variety of backgrounds – label, management, marketing, TV, radio and promotions but all have set up their own successful music companies and have a wide area of expertise. They bring varying perspectives from different sectors over the industry and have been instrumental in the careers of artists such as the 1975, Wolf Alice, the Japanese House, alt-J, Blondie, Janet Jackson, Elbow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Primal Scream and Stormzy. Our fantastic line-up (whose bios you can read below) is: Jamie Oborne – Founder & Owner, All On Red & Dirty Hit Pat Carr – Owner & Founder, Remote Control Agency Ruth Emery – Founder & Director, Yes Please Tobe Onwuka – Manager, Stormzy & Founder, #Merky Moderated by David Speed, host of iTunes Business #1 podcast, Creative Rebels. Afterwards, stick around as there will be more free drinks and pizza and a chance for you to catch up with your industry colleagues. *** Schedule: 18.15 – 19.00 – Welcome Drinks 19.00 – 20.15 – Industry Panel and Q&A 20.15 – 21.30 – Free Pizza & Drinks Location: Gibson Brands, 61-62 Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 3QT Speaker bios: Jamie Oborne – Founder & Owner, All On Red & Dirty Hit Jamie Oborne is the sole founder and owner of both All on Red and Dirty Hit. All on Red is a management company which, over the past 12 years, has built up an impressive and varied artist roster including The1975, Pale Waves, The Japanese House, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, No Rome and lighting designer Tobias Rylander.Jamie founded Dirty Hit in 2010 with The 1975 amongst the first signing to the label. The key objective has always been to create an exciting and forward-thinking label with a distinctive identity, across both the label and the artists on the roster which, in addition to the above, now includes Wolf Alice, Caleb Steph, Beabadoobee and AMA. Pat Carr – Owner & Founder, Remote Control Agency Pat has worked in the highly competitive Music industry for over 30 years, while award-winning as a marketing specialist, she has also run 3 successful independent companies, including the much-loved Infectious Music (twice!). She has worked on artists as diverse as the Mercury Prize winning alt-J, Blondie, Janet Jackson,Ry X,Ash, Blink 182, Rick Astley and both Perfecto and Ram Records and in her last role built the successful marketing and digital team at BMG UK.In 2001 she set up the first ever UK label management and artist services consultancy and, after a 8-year hiatus at Infectious and BMG, set up Remote Control 2.0 which she runs today. With an inevitably varied and lively roster she still loves the industry today. Ruth Emery – Founder & Director, Yes Please With over 15 years experience in the music industry, Ruth started her career in the TV and Radio Promo Department at V2 records. There she worked across radio and TV on projects such as Paul Weller, elbow, Ray Davies and Liberty X! From V2 she went on to spend 6 successful years at Polydor Records working in the TV Department, which included a stint as their Head of TV. Highlights at Polydor included working on some amazing high profile campaigns including Madonna, Take That, Lady Gaga, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Saturdays, elbow, P Diddy and many more. Ruth set up Music PR agency Yes Please in 2012. They're a team of four who work across TV, Radio, Print Press and Online PR. The company prides itself on having a very personal boutique approach to all projects they work on. Current campaigns include Will Young, Primal Scream, Rosie Lowe, Wilderness Festival, RY X, Greenpeace at Glastonbury, Lauv amongst others. Tobe Onwuka – Manager, Stormzy & Founder, #Merky Tobe Onwuka is the 27-year-old manager of the multi-award winning musician Stormzy and co- founder of #Merky, the brand behind the Stormzy movement. Quitting his job at Land Rover four years ago to manage his childhood friend Stormzy, Tobe has expertly navigated his way through the British music industry without decades of experience and large resource. From striking a management and record label deal between #Merky and Atlantic Records to curating a festival in Ibiza, launching a book imprint in collaboration with Penguin Random House, and launching ‘The Stormzy Scholarship’ programme with Cambridge University – the duo simply see no limit on how far #Merky can go.

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Start: 2019-05-01T18:15:00+01:00

End: 2019-05-01T21:30:00+01:00

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