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The chairman and committee of
the
INTERNATIONAL LIVE MUSIC
CONFERENCE
call upon the elite of all nations to
assemble
in London on March 12-14,
2004 at
The Royal Garden Hotel
to celebrate the games
of the 16th ILMC-iad
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GET SET FOR THE
GAMES
As you can hardly have
failed to notice, there’s a big event heading our way next
year. In 2004 the eyes of the whole world
will be focussed on one place as the most gifted and brightest stars from
every country on the planet are called upon to assemble at the home of an
ancient civilisation to represent their nation, demonstrate their skills
and test their prowess in a spirit of harmony and friendly competition.
Records will be broken, awards bestowed, and copious amounts of prohibited
substances consumed by some of the least athletic men and women ever to
draw breath...
Yes, you guessed it, it’s
ILMC time again. The music industry’s own ‘Polemic Games’ (NB: polemic
[noun] - a controversial argument of opinions and ideas) are set to
run from the grand opening ceremony on March 12 until the flame of the
16th ‘ILMC-iad’ finally flickers out on Sunday, March 14. London’s
luxurious Royal Garden Hotel will once again serve as the grand arena and
delegates' village for hundreds of competitors from every track and field
of the live music industry who have qualified to take part in the three
days of mental gymnastics and marathon social agenda.
Your official competitor’s entry form will be mailed in
early January - with details of challenging main events like drinks
receptions, complimentary lunches, sports fixtures, dinners, free gigs
and, of course, our annual deluxe 'Feast of Champions’ gala dinner awards
ceremony. It will also guide you through the process of reserving one of
the strictly limited number of places available, and securing a room
within the Royal Garden’s "delegates' village". Meanwhile our conference
website at www.ilmc.com
will open in early December with initial conference details and a centre
for registration and payment via our new secure server. Information about
the final discussion agenda will follow a few weeks later as usual, but
this year will see a fairly major shake-up in the design of the conference
schedule - with a greater number of shorter, more focussed meetings to
choose from.
In the meantime the ILMC team will continue making truly
Olympian efforts to ensure that our 16th meeting achieves a new ‘personal
best’ and lives up to it’s own, newly acquired Polemic motto: ‘Sonorius,
sumptuosius, debilitius’ (roughly translated for those without the benefit
of a classical education: noisier, more extravagant, and more
knackering...). So forget what’s happening in Greece, Portugal, or
anywhere else - there’s only one global event next year worth remembering.
Make a note in your diary now and get into training for the big event of
2004 - ILMC XVI. It’s the only games in town...
FUELLING THE ILMC FLAME
Although the event itself is still some five months
away, our very own ‘Polemic Torch’ has already been ignited and
started out on it’s long journey to the Royal Garden Hotel in March - with
some of the concert industry’s finest having already picked up the idea of
supporting ILMC 16 through advertising and sponsorship, and decided to run
with it. (You’ve got to admit it - this is clever stuff...).
The companies who have so far signed up to be
champions of the ILMC cause are listed below. As far as we’re
concerned, they all deserve a medal...
Clear Channel
Entertainment
Bravado International Group
Showsec International
Ltd
National Exhibition Centre
CMP Entertainment
Robertson Taylor
Insurance Brokers
Wembley (London) Ltd
Ticketmaster
Europe
Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre
Frontier Touring
Company
Jacobsen Entertainment Group
Welldone Agency & Promotion
Oy
Gay & Co
Aiken Promotions
Britannia Row
DSB
Showtours
Creative Technology
Primary Talent International
The
Tour Company
Simkins Partnership
The Safety Officer
Crewe
Issue
Blackout
XL Video
EST Ltd
PSL
If this moves you to want to join our
growing list of torch-bearers, a few choice openings are still available
at this point - so check our website at www.ilmc.com and click on the 'Ads' button, or contact
Chris Prosser (tel: +44 (0)20- 7449 2980 / email:
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) and reserve
yourself a space in ILMC history.
THE NEW e.NEWS
As you may just have noticed by now, our trusty old
ILMC e.News has had something of a facelift. The clunky plain
text has been replaced by this new, hi-tech, all-singing-all-dancing
multimedia format - and we plan to keep it this way unless you tell us
otherwise. If you have any problems with the new format, just hit the
‘reply’ button now and let us know. Meanwhile we’ll be opening a new
centre on the ILMC web site (www.ilmc.com) where these priceless little epics can be
stored for posterity and browsed at your leisure.
We have also created a new grade of email message - the
‘e.NewsFLASH’ - which will be reserved for short conference news and
update messages to specific groups of members, so if one lands in your
Inbox, don’t hit the ‘delete’ key before you’ve read it - we’re probably
trying to tell you something you need to know...
RTC NEWS ROUND-UP
Thanks to the input of Ben, Roger and many other
conscientious members, the ‘Round-the-Clock News’ service at www.ilmc.com has continued
to develop and is perilously close to becoming the definitive source of
instant business information that we never dreamt it could be. A full list
would therefore be too long, but here is a selection of the major
headlines posted so far this month alone:
14/11/03 - UK COURT CASE
HAS LIVE EVENT INSURANCE RAMIFICATIONS
14/11/03 - LUMINAR TO SPEND
£100K ON CLUB REFITS
13/11/03 - RIAA LEGAL ACTIONS TAKE EFFECT
13/11/03 - US MUSIC PUBLISHERS INCREASE REVENUE
12/11/03 - PUB
LANDLORD 1 VAN MORRISON 0
12/11/03 - IFPI ANNOUNCE NEW ONLINE
LICENSING SCHEME
10/11/03 - AUSTRALIAN MUSIC WEEK 2004
10/11/03 -
SANCTUARY RAISE ADDITIONAL £20 MILLION
10/11/03 - SUEDE CALL IT A DAY
07/11/03 - MTV EUROPEAN MUSIC AWARDS
07/11/03 - TKA LAUNCH NEW
INTERACTIVE WEBSITE
07/11/03 - SONY AND BMG TO MERGE MUSIC DIVISIONS
05/11/03 - CLEAR CHANNEL REPORT FLAT RADIO MARKET IN USA
05/11/03
- BRITNEY PULLS OUT OF MTV AWARDS
04/11/03 - CLAPTON ANNOUNCES NEW
WORLD DATES
(For more details on these and other industry news
items as they
happen, click http://www.ilmc.com and hit the 'News' button).
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CONTACT
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