Mapping the Maps – Adam Behr

Maps are increasingly integrated into our everyday media consumption and there’s a growth in mapping musical activity – by academics, communities and businesses. In today’s post, Adam Behr tries to unpick some of the different motivations, methods and implications of mapping the music.

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 25th February 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. Click to jump to:- This Week’s Blog Post One To Watch Live Music News Live Music Features Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post Planning and pulling off a DIY tour – Asher Baker Our latest guest post is by Asher Baker, an acoustic …

Planning and pulling off a DIY tour – Asher Baker

Today we present a guest post by Asher Baker, an acoustic punk singer songwriter from London who performs under the name Chapter Eleven. Here he draws upon his experience of many gigs across the country to offer guidelines on how to organise a small scale DIY tour.

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 18th February 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. Click to jump to:- This Week’s Blog Post One To Watch Live Music News Live Music Features Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post America’s Got Talent Invite, Must Be The Music, and my Rapid Rise to Superstardom – Thomas Truax Thomas Truax is …

America’s Got Talent Invite, Must Be The Music, and my Rapid Rise to Superstardom – Thomas Truax

Musician Thomas Truax writes about his experience with a TV talent show and his subsequent decision to decline an invitation to appear on America’s Got Talent.

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 11th February 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. Click to jump to:- This Week’s Blog Post One from the Archives Live Music News Live Music Features Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post From the Musicians’ Union Archive: Archer Street – John Williamson The the first in an occasional series of posts …

From the Musicians’ Union Archive: Archer Street – John Williamson

John Williamson looks back at how Archer Street in Soho became a hub for musicians during the days of mass unemployment during the 1930s.

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 4th February 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. Click to jump to:- This Week’s Blog Post One to Watch Live Music News Live Music Features Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post Live Music 101 # 5: Promoters and risk – Emma Webster In this addition to the ‘Live Music 101’ series …