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 Trying to Stop George From Having a Night Out – Martin Cloonan This post is part of an occasional series …
This post is part of an occasional series originating from ‘The Musicians’ Union: A Social History’ – an AHRC and ESRC funded research project based in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. Here, Martin Cloonan describes the Union’s dispute – up to and including appearances in court – with George Formby’s musical director Bill Main, and how they illustrate the legal and political climate around labour relations of the era.
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 How To Communicate With Your Monitor Engineer – Mark Hadman Sheffield based sound engineer Mark Hadman’s ‘brusque guide for …
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 The ecology of live music – Neil McSweeney Sheffield-based singer-songwriter Neil McSweeney explores the idea that, for a healthy live …
Sheffield-based singer-songwriter Neil McSweeney explores the idea that, for a healthy live music ecosystem within a locality, there might be an optimum number – or at the least, a minimum provision – of rehearsal spaces, recording facilities and performance spaces for a given population with a given demographic make-up. In doing do, he paves the way towards further research while highlighting its importance for policy makers and local governments.
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 Mapping the maps – Adam Behr Maps are increasingly integrated into our everyday media consumption and there’s a growth in …