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NOVEMBER 2005 |
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Contents:
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH ‘ILMC=18’ 
To answer your first question - no, we haven’t completely taken leave of our senses (well, no more than usual, anyway) - it really is already time to roll out another year’s ILMC. To answer your next question - especially if you’re an old hand at attending our little annual gatherings - yes, incredibly enough, it is the 18th year. Funny how time flies whether you’re having fun or not, isn’t it..?
With the perverse logic that we’ve developed during the past two decades, this time the world’s favourite live music conference will be celebrating its ‘coming of age’ by realising one of your favourite nightmares and dragging you kicking and screaming ‘back to school '. The conference’s natural home, The Royal Garden Hotel, will be transformed for the weekend into ‘Professor Hardnock’s Academy for Misspent Youths’ - a venerable and somewhat elitist seat of learning which has the distinction of offering the shortest terms (and therefore the longest holidays..) in the academic world. So start swotting up on your homework, hide the cigarettes and get ready to find out whether ‘ILMC=18’ will turn out to be the winning formula that we think it will be.
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Professor Hardnock’s Academy
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The latest issue of IQ magazine comes with your ‘prospectus and enrolment forms’ enclosed - so be careful which bits you file in the waste bin. It also contains a special feature outlining most of the treats that we already have in store. Meanwhile the special ‘ILMC=18’ website is now open for business at www.ilmc.com and will continue to offer you updated information and on-line registration via our secure server all the way through to the conference weekend.
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Our last meeting took the precarious step of allowing an all-time record attendance - and we have no plans to push that capacity any higher next year - so you are strongly advised to confirm your place as soon as possible in order to avoid the very real possibility of being left outside the school gates... Super-keen members can again benefit from a discounted rate for registrations received before 6pm GMT on February 1st - and one particular swotty-type will be able to pocket the ILMC Mug Award given each year to the first ILMC mug to register and pay up...
SCHOOL FEES SHOCK
Of passing interest to the bulk of you who luxuriate in bottomless company expense accounts, but of some significance to those who inhabit the real world where a few hundred pounds is still a lot of money, will be the fact that registration fees have been held at the same amount as last year. This decision has not been made as some sort of cheesy gambit to
encourage registrations (we already have rather more of those to cope with than we probably should..), but because we simply feel that people are currently paying enough - especially bearing in mind the fantastic support that the conference gets nowadays from our advertisers and sponsors. The whole purpose of opening up the event as a commercial platform in the first place was always to enable a better level of service to be offered - and we reckon that saving people money has to rank fairly highly in the ‘service’ stakes...
HOMEWORK
Other than having to read, learn and inwardly digest all of the abovementioned texts for possible examination questions later, all applicants for The Academy for Misspent Youths will be required to prepare two pieces of homework and hand them in before the start of term.
Your first assignment will be an essay on the subject: ‘I think that the ILMC should discuss....’ In order to make sure that the meetings remain as relevant as possible, ILMC agendas are always made up of suggestions submitted by the delegates themselves. So use the registration forms or drop an email to
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with any hot topics that are burning in your bosom, and we’ll take it from there. As usual, the final meeting schedule will be announced a few weeks into the New Year.
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The second assignment will be a multiple-choice test paper to select the winners of our massively overblown awards scheme: The Arthurs 2006. A randomly selected panel of delegates will be asked to decide a list of nominations which will be made available to all registered delegates along with voting forms in early February. This will give a two to three week period during which you can make your vote count. Consider your choices wisely because an Arthur trophy nowadays carries around a million percent more kudos in the industry than it was ever intended to – and, as you’ll read in the pages of IQ, this year we have come up with a revised category list to make the awards even more relevant to our membership than they were before...
PATRONS OF THE SCHOOL
It would be hard to exaggerate the significance of the support that the ILMC now receives from its advertisers and sponsors. It’s really quite amazing. Perhaps even more astonishing, though, is that fact that exposure at the conference actually seems to work..! Whether you’d file them under the category of ‘generous philanthropists’, ‘shrewd businesspeople’ or both - the fact is that our growing list of ‘Patrons of the School’ for the next ILMC already reads like a Who’s Who of the international live music industry.
Heading the line-up as Platinum, Gold and Silver ‘title’ sponsors are Clear Channel Entertainment, Deutsche Entertainment AG and Ticketpro - underpinned by our special ‘Associate’ sponsors Showsec International, Bravado International Group, Millennium Stadium and The Australian Pink
Floyd Show. Lending their support to bring you a whole range of services, features and events throughout the weekend are: Nottingham Arena, Wembley Arena, Air Management, Mirage Promotions, Gearhouse, Rock It Cargo, American Talent Agency, Gay & Company, FELD Entertainment Inc., Jacobsen Venue Management, SECC, Aiken Promotions, PRG Europe and Welldone Agency & Promotion - with invaluable help from Berryhurst , Britannia Row Productions, Creative Technology, Entec Sound & Light, EST, Inner Sanctum, Michael Simkins Solicitors LLP, Music Bank (Hire), Primary Talent International, PSL, The Safety Officer, The Tour Co and XL Video.
If you want to join the illustrious ranks and earn yourself a marble bust in our hallowed Halls of Learning, write out 100 times: “I must find out what openings are still available by checking the ‘Ads’ section at www.ilmc.com or contacting Chris Prosser (+44 (0)20 7449 2980 /
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RTC NEWS ROUND UP
With a huge amount of industry news stories having been posted on our Web news service since the last issue of eNews alone (thanks Ben!), there's just not enough space to show our usual list of headlines here - so go to www.ilmc.com and hit the 'News' button to get the full story.
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