International Live Music Conference - March 9 to 11, 2001

Access All Areas line-up announced.

Jazz photo exhibition for Carl's Crypt.

Rogues Gallery gets a facelift.

Ticket Master "back up" Cyber Cafe.

Showsec Shows

ShowTours to coach the ILMC

 

The Street Poster Exhibition gives you the opportunity to see your company's best gig posters of 2000 mounted and displayed on the wall of the main conference room. It also gives everyone the chance to show the world in general that the industry's artistic talents don't begin and end with 'creative accounting'...

The poster judged to be of the highest merit by our celebrity adjudicator will be treated to an Arthur Award at the Gala Dinner, and granted digital immortality on The Axis.

Just check the space on the registration form (there's a token charge of £30.00 per poster to cover costs) and mail the one or two posters that you're most proud of (with the name of the event, the artist and the designer) to:

International Live Music Conference
2 - 12, Pentonville Rd.
Islington
London
N1 9PL
United Kingdom

Sunday 11 March / 14:30 - 15:00

The Park Terrace, Ground Floor
Royal Garden Hotel

Each year "The Nikos Fund" (which was established in memory of our old friend Nikos Sachpasidis) raises money at the ILMC to distribute to a range of worthy charities.

One of the devious means we've employed to accomplish this in the past has been to send women and small children into your midst throughout the weekend bearing raffle tickets - in a vain attempt to coax money out of your pockets for the "Grand Charity Raffle Draw" on Sunday.

This year, however, as our contribution to the reduction of de-forestation (and because we think the fund will actually benefit more) we have decided to dispense with the sale of raffle tickets altogether (and all the unseemly haggling that goes with it) and donate a portion of the final proceeds of 'ILMC the 13th' to The Nikos Fund instead.

Before perennial winners of the raffle (ie: Frank Van Hoorn..) throw up their hands in despair, this doesn't mean that your chance of winning any one of a glittering array of prizes is in any way reduced because - in recognition of the fact that everyone will have contributed to the fund in some way - each delegate pass will have a number on the back which will be used for 'The Nikos Fund Grand Prize Draw' in the traditional slot during the Sunday lunch break.

For those with golden hearts and deep pockets, we would like to direct you toward the goodies at The Charity Swag Stall whose profits also go to The Nikos Fund - you can win the hearts of your near and dear at home AND a place in your respective heavens.

The overwhelming popularity of the leaflet table in previous years, not to mention the state of it, has given us ideas. This year things are going to be different round here. We are increasing your value per dollar (what dollar you ask ... we're coming to that) by having not one but TWO leaflet tables. These will be located at both entrances to the lower ground floor level where all the serious conference activities are located (thus ensuring a high brow audience).

A nominal £ 40.00 fee will be charged this year and proceeds will go to boosting the coffers of The Nikos Fund (giving you a warm glow inside), and enabling us to employ a full time staff member to oversee and administer the tables. You can either pre-pay with your registration form, or pay on your arrival. You then hand over your leaflets / publications (a maximum of 3 types of items) to our Publication Police (who the nice people at the Meet & Greet Desk will guide you to) and they will ensure that both tables are continually stocked with your marketing material. You can then get on with enjoying the rest of the weekend knowing someone ELSE is worrying about large bundles of bumf and stock levels. Easy isn't it?

To avoid mutual embarrassment, we would like to respectfully bring to your attention now that any material left strategically lying round other areas of the hotel, or accidentally left on the leaflet table to rest, will be removed, rolled into a tight cylinder, and inserted into a convenient orifice of the delegate responsible...

Either we've been more industrious, or the business is taking an up-turn, because for some reason this year there seem to be a hell of a lot of shows that you can get into during the ILMC weekend just by waving your conference laminate at the doorman.

Sounds too good to be true - and it probably is - so you'd best check at the Help Desk if you're one of the three delegates who will actually venture out of the air-conditioned luxury of the hotel to sample the delights of London's concert circuit. This particularly applies to anything marked with a '*', for which no guarantees are offered. Our thanks to everyone who has contributed, and to the Primary team who put it together.

• Dr. Feelgood / Emilu Druce Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, W1
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore The Garage, 20/22 Highbury Corner, N5
• Club Rective with Muffpunch Upstairs @ The Garage, 20/22 Highbury Corner, N5
• Willy Garnet's Big Swing Band 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1
• YumyYumy / My Son Rye / The Moore Brothers Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1
• Turin Breaks* Dingwalls, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1
• Neurotica / Ardelis / The High Kings (ex Glitterbug) Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, WC1
• Truck Records Night Bull & Gate, 389 Kentish Town Road, NW5

• Lowgold / Ed Harcourt* ULU, Mallet Street, WC1
• JNR Loaded / Redhead Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, W1
• Llama Farmers / Biffy Clyro The Garage, 20/22 Highbury Corner, N5
• Vincent Van Go Go Club Upstairs @ The Garage, 20/22 Highbury Corner, N5
• The Selecter Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1
• Canteen / Portobello Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, WC1
• Ciconne/One Finger Ninja/Stunter/Sleep Machine Bull & Gate, 389 Kentish Town Road, NW5

• Ocean Colour Scene* Brixton Academy, 211 Stockwell Road, SW9
• Eric Heatherly Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, W1
• Regular Fries The Garage, 20/22 Highbury Corner, N5
• Camera Obscura / The Lollies Upstairs @ The Garage, 20/22 Highbury Corner, N5
• T.J.Johnson 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1
• Imperial Leisure / Bell Rock / Apes Bull & Gate, 389 Kentish Town Road, NW5
• Eat Static Brixton Mass, Massive Church, SW2
• Napalm Death Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, WC2
• Westlife* Wembley Arena, Empire Way, HA9

• Big Boy Bloater 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1
• The Disministration Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1
• Westlife* Wembley Arena, Empire Way, HA9

The Registration Desk will be open from midday Thursday in the main hotel lobby for the benefit of the super-enthusiastic 'early birds' in our midst.

All conference info will be ready and waiting for you in a smart pack when you arrive.

 

The ILMC's official travel agent - The Tour Company - will be on hand to answer all your accommodation and travel questions.
They will be open:

• Friday 10.00 - 15.00, 17.00 - 18.00
• Saturday 09.30 - 10.30, 12.30 - 15.00, 17.00 - 18.00
• Sunday 09.30 - 10.30, 12.30 - 15.00, 17.00 - 18.00

If you have an "out of hours" emergency, go to the ILMC help desk and they will locate a Tour Company Rep for you.

They've also been known to solve a whole range of other problems, so stop by join the queue, and tell Tina and Lesley all about it.

 

We know that everyone comes to the ILMC to improve their mind and the state of the world in general, but we feel that it's our duty to provide you with as many opportunities as possible to tip free stuff down your throats anyway. The list of freebies currently on offer - with more to come - includes mouth- watering complimentary buffet lunches, coffee breaks on Saturday and Sunday mornings, Gay's Champagne Reception ('What's your poison?'), and free drinks whenever someone else can be found to foot the bill..!

This year we'll be solving the congestion problems caused by the feeding frenzy of Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes by extending the Saturday break, and providing extra areas where you can sit down and eat in relative peace and quiet.