Thanks to everyone who came down to our OpenMusicMedia meet last night. Anyone who missed it can check out this short interview with Songkick‘s Ian Hogarth which nicely sums up what we talked about.
Big thanks to Andrew Dubber for recording this, I think there might be some more footage coming. Thanks also to David Emery who took some great pictures and added them to our flickr group.
Ian Hogarth – Songkick from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.
Join us for our OpenMusicMedia Meet in London next Wednesday (4th Feb 09). This time Songkick’s Ian Hogarth will be leading the conversation as always at the William IV near Old Street Station.
The theme set by Ian is ‘Live & Kicking’ and he’ll be talking about how the industry has boomed over past 9 years and where the concert industry is going to be in 5 years time. How start-ups and technology are going to accelerate that, and what you need to do to get on the train. With traditional recorded music sales in decline is the future of the music industry live? What can artists and bands do to monetize their live performances? Is it sustainable? What changes are we seeing in the live music sector? And what happens if the music doesn’t lend itself to the live arena?
Find more details on the OpenMusicMedia blog and hope to see you next week!
A lot of people have asked us if we will organize another OpenMusicMedia Meet this year and Dave and I felt that we can’t let 2008 end without without getting together one more time. Join us next Tuesday (2nd December) in London at the Williams IV – we won’t be having a guest speaker this time so we’ll be sticking to good conversation in addition to food and drinks.
We’ll be meeting at the usual place, usual time, which means upstairs at the William IV pub after work from 6pm till kicking out time. For those who haven’t been already the William IV is just round the corner from Old St. Hope to see you all down there!
More info on times, venues, etc here and please RSVP if you can.
This time with slightly short notice: If you are in London next Wednesday (10th September) come down to our OpenMusicMedia Meet at the William IV in East London. This time Eric Wahlforss from SoundCloud will join us for what will certainly be a lively debate.
This is a quote from his recent blog post and will explain what we will be talking about:
“The Web is a giant copying machine. And yet, if people can avoid having to copy something, they will. The problem is that today, the music industry suffers quite a bit from illegal file sharing–a giant copy party. What is going to happen over the coming years is that this copy fest will wind down.
(…) The key, being a music service or a label or an artist in this world of link-passing, is to own the most relevant copy. With most relevant I mean the most happening copy, the most accessible copy, the most usable copy, the coolest copy, the earliest copy, the most exclusive copy, the copy with the best sound quality, the most permanent copy, the most social copy, the most remixed copy, the most authentic copy, the most interoperable copy, etc.”
Please find all details here and looking forward to seeing you next week!
Back from Newcastle now, I was on a panel with Thomas Dolby, Scott Cohen (The Orchard) and John Webster (MMF) discussing “digital music” last night. The topic was broad and so was the 2 hour discussion. I prefer doing it in an hour and then having conversation afterwards with people individually but this worked pretty well as Russ was doing a good job guiding the conversation. I mostly enjoyed some insight from Thomas as he could talk about the changing landscape of the music industry over the last 30ish years from an artist point of view.
It’s nice to have people on a panel that are ‘doing things’ as oppose to ‘talk about them’. We were discussing this when we talked about who we should invite for our new OpenMusicMedia meet. I felt it worked really well to have Anthony there as he could talk about his product as well as music blogs in general. It’s good to talk about ideas but even better to see them in a practical context. We are now thinking about the next topic, two things we are interested in is the ‘music feels like free’ discussion as well as data portability. More on that soon on the OpenMusicMedia blog. We’re also putting together an old school style mailing list, not everyone is good with rss and twitter it seems…
Oh and by the way thanks to everyone who made is down last week and contributed to a great night!
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