Tony Wilson & Yvette Livesey
In The City was founded in 1992 by Yvette Livesey and Factory maverick Anthony H. Wilson, and it has become “the date” in the UK music industry calendar.
By day, Manchester, UK, becomes home to the brightest and best in the business, as industry leaders debate the present and plot the future. And by night Manchester hosts the biggest city-based music festival in Europe, IN THE CITY LIVE, as 3,000 industry delegates and 100,000 music fans take to the streets.
Rightly regarded by the global music community as the premier new music event in the world, IN THE CITY has helped launch the careers of Oasis, Radiohead, Suede, Elastica, Coldplay, The Darkness, Doves, Foo Fighters, Elbow, the Stereophonics, Muse, the Raveonettes, Funeral For A Friend, Daft Punk, Kings Of Convenience, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, and many more. IN THE CITY UNSIGNED has the highest signing ratio of any new talent event in the world.
LET THE U.S. INVASION BEGIN
In The City of New York, June 13th/14th at The W Hotel off Union Square and the Nokia Theatre, New York City
A two-day event bringing high level music industry debate and the most exciting new bands in the modern world back to that narrow strip of land between the Hudson and the East River.
Curated by Manchester based In The City in conjunction with AEG Live – and with several nods to the great traditions of the New Music Seminar which ruled in the 80s and early 90s – In The City of New York is two days of talking about music, thinking about music and just enjoying music.
Music, music, music: as a certain UK politician may have once said…
By night at the Nokia Theatre ITCofNY will host six of the UK’s hottest new bands.
June 13 – Happy Mondays, The Rakes, The Pigeon Detectives
June 14 – Happy Mondays, Biffy Clyro, Enter Shikari, Blood Red Shoes
During the day industry leaders will gather in the W Hotel on Union Square for a series of panels, seminars and master classes on the current state of the music industry and, more importantly, where it’s heading next.
Like In The City, the daytime side of the event will center on major industry figures/legends in conversation with skilled interviewers – with Fred Davis, Marc Geiger, Tom Silverman, Ted Cohen, Ralph Simon, Paul Tollet of Goldenvoice/Coachella, Napster, Adam Shore of Vice, Matt Safer & Gabe Andruzzi of The Rapture, and the inimitable Bob Lefsetz already confirmed – and again, like In The City it will cover the most cutting-edge topics affecting the industry we call home.
PANELS
DRM: The end is nigh or is it?
Jobs and Niccoli say it’s over; it’s what Ged Doherty said at In The City in Manchester last October. Didn’t go down well. He got in trouble for his honesty and his pains; whose pain will DRM be if it continues?
Hey, man, New York Freeway’s blocked, man: Festivals in the 3rd Millennium
Glastonbury sold out in minutes, Coachella getting full of Brits, who says the music business is in trouble?
The Howl Seminar – “I have seen the best minds of my generation” – Debate the future of this wonderful business
It’s chaos out there for the record companies; they don’t know whether they’re coming or going. Most of them think they’re going. To offer some signposts to the future, ITCofNY invites some of its favourite clever people. Correction, very clever people. You don’t need a weatherman but you do need to listen to these folks.
Bring me your poor and huddled masses – and we’ll make stars of them and ship them back.
From Hendrix to the Killers: why/how do US bands get their first exposure in the UK? Is it that the UK is we’re more open? Is it because your radio is shit? Let’s all hear it for Chas Chandler; how come it took a Geordie bass player to launch the creator of the electric guitar?
The New Music Retailers Panel
Apple showed the way but there’s a bunch of other guys on their tail; when’s Amazon getting in, will anyone give us full on variable pricing, and who wants Paul McCartney with their latte or Malcolm McLaren with their new sofa? (Great album though, sir)
Formats are dead!
Or is that radio is dead? The Top Thirty programming was based around sociological research carried out in the 50s. Are we all still the same? Do we want more or do we just love more of the same thing?
A Brand New Approach to Music
A music industry in crisis still looks attractive to anyone trying to sell anything to young people…make that sell anything to anyone. Here in the UK they’re selling Marks and Spencer’s clothes with Itchycoo Park. “What did you do there? I got high.” Yeah. Maybe we don’t sell music anymore, we sell other people’s products.
The ITC Hypothetical
In The City’s most in-demand ticket as a group of industry insiders are taken through a hypothetical situation, which demands cunning, and in some cases even moral fiber.
AND OF COURSE, THERE IS ALWAYS AN AFTERPARTY
Several are taking place, this one is of particular interest to me, natch.
RSVP for free admission at GBH.TV
I will be attending, this exciting NYC debut of In The City, hoping to sponge as much as possible . . . full report to follow.
While spots are limited, I was told registration is still open, yay! Link up
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