UK Music Leaders Upskill Local Talent

The New Zealand music industry will have the opportunity to learn from
some of the United Kingdom's most influential music professionals at a
free seminar being held in Auckland and Wellington next month (March).

Resonate 05 – presented by the British Council New Zealand, Auckland
youth music station Mai FM 88.6 and the New Zealand Music Industry
Commission – will be held at the Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tamaki
Auditorium from March 3 to 5.

A plenary session ('The Great Music Media Scrum') will be held at the
NZ Film Archive Mediaplex in Wellington on March 2 between 12 noon and
4pm.

UK guests include the editor of leading music magazine NME, Conor
McNicholas; Darling Department publicist Rachel Hendry; V2 Records'
Polly Birkbeck; and James Roberts – the A & R editor from Music Week.

Topics over the four days include the rise of the independent label; how to get your band noticed in the UK; what you have to do as an international artist to make the pages of NME; current trends in the UK market; the future of music press; what effect digital will really have on the physical side of the business; and whether there is a need for bands to have their own publicists.

British Council New Zealand arts manager Jodie Molloy says the forum is a unique opportunity for anyone involved in the business of music to learn from some of the UK's best creative talent. Sessions are no-cost events that are free to the public.

More information about Resonate 05 is available on the website – http://www.resonate.org.nz/ – or by e-mailing resonate05@ihug.co.nz.