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The following version of the ILMC 17 meeting
agenda is provisional, and may be subject to slight changes,
as we attempt to keep the subjects as vital and current as possible
- remaining flexible until the last possible moment! It has been
arrived at after several months of consultation with various of
our members, and for their help we are sincerely grateful.
PLEASE NOTE: since going to press with the issue
of IQ magazine that will arrive on your desk in a few days, two
sessions have been switched. ‘The Tax Office’
and ‘Music Tank’ will now take place at the
times shown below.
For full details of the final agenda schedule, check later at www.ilmc.com
- or wait to read all about it in your conference handbook, the
Globetrotters Guide.
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10:00 onwards
Industry association meetings
Once again, the ILMC is happy to host the invitation-only meetings
of major industry organisations, the CPA, Yourope and the IFJO.
12:30 - 13:00
ILMC Newbies Initiation
Alia Dann and Allan McGowan will extend a warm welcome to ILMC newcomers,
explain how they can add their valuable input to the meetings, and prepare
them for the arcane mysteries that make up the ILMC weekend.
15:00 - 15:15
The Flight Attendant’s Briefing
ILMC founder, Martin Hopewell will attempt to raise a smile and welcome
the assembled heads of the world’s music industry to his favourite
nightmare…
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Always
our ‘numero uno’,
Carl Leighton-Pope |
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15:15 - 17:00
The Talking Shop
The irreplaceable Carl Leighton-Pope (LPO, UK) presents his traditional
overview of the year’s events and the weekend’s discussion
topics – with the usual entertaining departures and diversions ranged
alongside points of more gravity. Is it really true that the business
has lost its way and that things were so much better in the ‘good
old days’ – and if we find members of the public to provide
an honest opinion of the job we’re doing, would it make this session
‘An Audience with Pope’? There’s only one way to find
out….
15.30 – 17.00
The Dance Club
Back in its Friday afternoon slot, but under new management, as Jim King
(Cream, UK) chairs this session devoted entirely to the ‘parallel
dimension’ of dance music – reports of whose demise, as they
say, seem to have been greatly exaggerated…
10.15 – 11.45
The Emerging Markets Place
Now that some of the markets previously considered in this increasingly
vital meeting can claim to have ‘emerged’, it’s time
to examine their progress and to look at what’s happening even
further afield. Serge Grimaux (Interkoncerts/Clear Channel, Czech Republic)
and Colleen Ironside (Live Limited, Hong Kong) will share the chairman’s
duties.
Safety in Numbers
Chrissy Uerlings and other members of the Safety Focus Group bring the
conference up to speed on the vital work and progress of this ILMC working
party, and lay out their plans for the future. High on the agenda will
be a presentation of the SFG’s new Web-based resource for health
and safety at work (www.safety-rocks.org).
The Manager’s Office
Hosted by the artist managers of the MMF and the ever-expanding IMMF,
this meeting will welcome input from members of all areas of the concert
industry as they lay out current issues which impact upon those most
essential of people: their clients - the artists. Stuart Worthington
(MMF, UK) will be adult-in-charge.
12.00 – 13.30
New Technology – Just the ticket?
In the light of recent events surrounding the re-sale, touting and scalping
of tickets on the Web, Peter Tudor (Wembley Arena) chairs a timely examination
of our major product – the admission ticket - considering both
the positive and negative effects that new technologies have brought
about. The plethora of new distribution and marketing methods - print
at home, mobile phones, fan club, discounted and 'early-bird' sales
etc. - will all be reviewed with the help of expert representatives
concerned with every stage of the ticketing process from promoter to
'punter'.
The Engine Room: End of Tour Accounts
Dougie Souness (No Half Measures, Scotland) will invite top tour coordinators
and representatives from all of the areas involved in the pay outs at
the end of the show, to examine what makes up ‘the cake’ and
exactly how it is divided. Is the rest of the industry providing the tour
party with the service it requires?
Music Tank: All tomorrow’s
college circuits
For the first time we invite business
network MusicTank to construct and present one of our sessions. A non-profit,
commercially neutral body set up to encourage increased innovation across
the music industry, its ‘think tanks’ tackle some of the business’s
hottest topics. Under the stewardship of MusicTank chair, Keith Harris,
the current investigation will be the future of the college circuits.
In the UK, this was once a burgeoning scene that provided not only audiences,
talent and the foundations of the entire UK agency business, but also
headline acts around the world. How relevant is it now, and what can be
done to strengthen it? Can a European student circuit be built which is
capable of sustaining bands in the same way as in the USA?
14.30 – 16.00
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Consolidation
– Wayne’s forte
back at ILMC 12 |
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Corporatisation: Five years down the company line
Exactly five years on from his first epic session on this subject, Wayne
Forte (Entourage Talent Associates, USA) will be back in the chair to
take a considered look at the effects that corporatisation has actually
had on our business. As far back as 1999, in fact, we began to discuss
what were then the first signs of ‘consolidation’ within the
live industry. Now seems like a good time to consider what changes the
‘Five Year Plan for the Industry’ has really brought about.
On The Record (or is it..?)
Ajax Scott and Martin Talbot (Music Week, UK) focus on live recording
technologies and their impact on the concert business - as well as the
relationships between promoters/agents and the rights owners, which might
be labels, artists or publishers.
The Venues Venue
Linda Bull (NEC, UK) presents this annual NAA round up of key statistics
for the arena touring year - from ticket prices to top selling artists.
Dexter King will also announce the opening of the new European District
of the International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM).
16.15 – 17.45
Festival Forum: A cure for the summertime blues (and greens…)
The annual gathering of the major outdoor event organizers will exchange
experiences after another year of high profile activity in the ever-growing
and volatile international festival market. This year the impact of
festivals on the environment will be one of the key issues, with representatives
of ECOS on hand to spell out the benefits of being more ‘green’
aware. JP Bordahl (Rock Party / Hultsfred, Sweden) will be in the chair.
‘Meet the New Boss’
Heather Madel (19 Management, UK) and Jacob Smid (Emerge, Canada) take
up the challenge of representing the younger spectrum of the business
this year and, as future holders of the keys, will look at whether the
old ways of doing business need to be de-constructed. Education and
new technologies will be on the agenda.
The Open Forum: Make yourself at home
with the LMF
This is one that nobody involved in the British music scene should miss:
your chance to meet with Feargal Sharkey and a panel of other key representatives
of the UK's Live Music Forum, be brought up to date on all the latest
developments, and provide essential input on what this valuable link
to the Government should be planning to further the cause of live music.
Especially welcome will be the advice of non-UK delegates on how major
issues have been tackled in their countries.
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On
the breakfast menu,
Messrs. Enthoven & Clark |
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10.45 – 12.00
The Breakfast Meeting: Tim Clark & David Enthoven
Tempted back from his paradise island retreat by the prospect of finally
getting to grips with two of the industry’s most colourful characters,
Ed Bicknell returns to the interviewer’s chair to exchange comment,
comedy and croissants with Tim Clark and David Enthoven – joint
heads of ie: music ltd. Though most recently known as the management team
who conceived and negotiated Robbie Williams' groundbreaking £80
million deal with EMI, the stories of both men stretch all the way back.
Tim Clark is a former Managing Director of Island Records, working with
the legendary Chris Blackwell on a stellar roster that included Bob Marley,
Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, and Steve Winwood. David Enthoven spent the late
sixties and seventies managing T Rex. and King Crimson before becoming
the 'E' in EG Records and guiding the careers of Brian Eno, ELP, Roxy
Music and latterly Bryan Ferry.
As you’ve probably guessed already, there’ll be a fair amount
to talk about..!
Special Interest Meetings
Three meeting rooms will be kept free for meetings of your choice on a
first-come-first-served basis. Just send us an email, or check at the
Help Desk during the weekend.
12:15 - 13:45
The Booking Ring: The Featherweights
In the reliable hands of Nick Hobbs (Charmenko, Turkey) and Andrew Leighton-Pope
(LPO, UK), this regular ILMC highlight gets down once again to the nitty-gritty
of our business and invites participation and confrontation from all involved
in the daily grind of booking shows. This year there’s a twist,
though, as the focus of attention will be perhaps the most important acts
of all – the next generation of stadium-fillers currently branded
as ‘the baby bands’.
The Tax Office
Dick Molenaar (All Arts, Netherlands) and others involved on a daily basis
in the struggle to establish fairness and parity in the confusing world
of international taxation, will explain the progress in recent cases and
decisions which have a direct bearing on the effects of withholding tax
in the EU.
Disabled Access: The Advice
Surgery
Suzanne Bull (Attitude is Everything, UK), our ‘resident expert’
on the problems of assisting and improving access to live music and entertainment
for disabled people, will host a surgery to provide answers to all your
questions about this very serious subject.
15.30 - 17.00
Legislation: Playing by the Rules
The illustrious pairing of Leon Ramakers (Mojo Concerts, Netherlands)
and Sarah Waddington (Simkins Partnership, UK) will front the final ‘summary
session’ of the weekend. As our industry has grown – in the
size of shows, the huge amounts of money involved and the importance to
culture and trade - the more we come into contact with the Authorities.
In essential areas like crowd safety, sanitation, noise levels, employment
regulations, licensing, taxation, work permits, travel restrictions, etc,
etc, we are confronted with well-intentioned legislation which often aimed
at businesses that operate in completely different ways to ours. The result
is serious restriction. This panel will investigate how we cope with this,
and whether we can construct a representative voice to put our case that
will be heard when these rulings are first put forward.
17:00 on (and on…)
ILMC 17 Autopsy
A chance to speak up for those who didn’t get around to making their
point earlier in the weekend, or to give the ILMC team some valuable input
for the future. A whey-faced Martin Hopewell again takes the stand to
work his way through 20 Silk Cut and find some words to bring The Fellowship
of the ILMC to a suitable close.
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