Live Music Exchange Weekly Digests

Live Music Exchange ran a weekly news digest service which has now moved to Twitter - follow us on @LMExchange to receive daily news, blogs, features, and events from expert sources in the academy, industry, practitioners, and the media.  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 29th April 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. Please not that in the future, the weekly email will contain our blog post for the week, and you can keep up to date on live music developments via our Twitter feed: @LMExchange Click to jump to:- This Week’s Blog Post One From the …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 22nd April 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 Exchange Events Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post Vuvuzelas: The new sound of protest? – Emma Webster Emma Webster looks at the growing …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 22nd April 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 Exchange Events Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post Vuvuzelas: The new sound of protest? – Emma Webster Emma Webster looks at the growing …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 15th April 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. We would welcome your feedback on our weekly digest and would be very grateful if you could take a moment to complete this very quick three question survey: Click here to take the survey. Click to jump to:- This Week’s Blog Post One From …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 8th April 2013

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. We would welcome your feedback on our weekly digest and would be very grateful if you could take a moment to complete this very quick survey: Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world’s leading questionnaire tool. Click to jump to:- This …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 1st April 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 Exchange Events Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume 1 – published! Published last Thursday 28th …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 25th March 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 Trying to Stop George From Having a Night Out – Martin Cloonan This post is part of an occasional series …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 18th March 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 How To Communicate With Your Monitor Engineer – Mark Hadman Sheffield based sound engineer Mark Hadman’s ‘brusque guide for …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 11th March 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 The ecology of live music – Neil McSweeney Sheffield-based singer-songwriter Neil McSweeney explores the idea that, for a healthy live …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 4th March 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 Mapping the maps – Adam Behr Maps are increasingly integrated into our everyday media consumption and there’s a growth in …  

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 …  

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 …  

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 …  

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 …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 28th January 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 Five ways to improve disabled access at festivals – Howard Thorpe, ABLE2UK Last summer Howard Thorpe of ABLE2UK staged his …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 21st January 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 Professor George McKay on ‘Festival, Industry, Place, Community’: Live Music Exchange Cardiff, November 10th 2012 This video is the keynote …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 14th January 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 Archive Live Music News Live Music Features Live Music-Related Events This Week’s Blog Post Un-Convention Off Axis Network – Jeff Thompson Jeff Thompson explains the concept behind the Off Axis Network, a proposed …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 7th January 2013

Happy New Year and 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 Musicians’ Union’s Live Music Kit: A guide to hosting and promoting live music in accordance …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 17th December 2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more.  This will be the final Live Music Exchange Digest of 2012 – we will be back with a new blog post on 3rd January and with the digest as usual from 7th January.  In the meantime, have a wonderful festive season and we will …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 10th December 2012

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 Big news for small venues in South Australia – John Wardle John Wardle is one of Australia’s foremost advocates for …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 3rd December 2012

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: Stoned Again? – Adam Behr As the Stones roll into town for their anniversary shindig, with accompanying media hullaballoo, …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 26th November 2012

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: Live Music 101 #4: Venue Typologies: An Overview – Emma Webster Our research into live music has thrown up …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 19th November 2012

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 Posts: Campaign Against Leafleting Bans – Lord Clement-Jones Lord Clement-Jones, one of the driving forces behind the Live Music Act …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 12th November 2012

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: Live music clubs in New York: An explorative study of cultural & organisational change – Fabian Holt Fabian Holt, …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 5th November 2012

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 Exchange Events Other Live Music-related Events This Week’s Blog Post: San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium: From ‘Dance-concerts’ to ‘Concerts’ – Steve Waksman Steve Waksman, Associate …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 29th October 2012

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 Exchange Events Other Live Music-related Events This Week’s Blog Post: A Tale of Two Festivals: What makes for a perfect festival? – Emma Webster …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 22nd October 2012

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 Exchange Events Other Live Music-related Events This Week’s Blog Post: Nathan Clark on the history of the Brudenell Social Club and live music promotion …  

Live Music Digest – w/c October 15th 2012

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 Exchange Events Other Live Music-related Events This week’s blog post: The UK live music industry conference – Live UK Summit 2012 – was held at the …  

Live Music Digest – w/c October 8th 2012

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 Exchange Events Other Live Music-related Events This week’s blog: Live Music 101 #3 – Why Concert Promoters Matter – Matt Brennan and Emma Webster …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 01/10/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. The Live Music Act: a blog post from the archives:- Today – Monday 1st October 2012 – the Live Music Act 2012 (LMA) comes into effect, which frees up smaller venues to provide live music. To mark this event, we delved into the archives …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 24/09/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s blog post: There’s a riot going on: Notes on Pussy Riot, music and politics Adam Behr looks at some of the coverage of the Pussy Riot trial in the wider context of the questions it raises about music, politics and censorship. What …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 17/09/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s Live Music Exchange blog post: Staying behind after the show… John Sloboda Today’s guest contribution is by renowned scholar Professor John Sloboda, a leading writer on the psychology of music, Emeritus Professor at Keele University and Research Professor at the Guildhall School …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 10/09/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s Live Music Exchange blog post: Jammin’, improvisin’, groovin’… Mark Doffman Our latest guest post features Dr. Mark Doffman, from the University of Oxford, introducing his research on improvised jazz performances – digging beneath the apparent mystery of spontaneous musical group creativity to …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 03/09/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s Live Music Exchange blog post: Simon Frith and Politics: An Interview In March 2012 Live Music Exchange supremos Martin Cloonan and Simon Frith got together to chat about music and politics in the context of Simon’s academic career and the development of …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 27/08/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s Live Music Exchange blog post: Wristband Revolution – Craig Franks Today’s guest post, by Craig Franks, looks at the ways in which wristbands are put to use beyond simply serving as a token of entry to a concert. The focus of nostalgia, …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 20/08/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of live music news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s Live Music Exchange blog post: The role of street music for the ‘creative city’  –  Karolina Doughty Dr. Karolina Doughty from the University of Brighton’s School of Applied Social Sciences introduces new research being undertaken alongside the University of Stockholm into busking …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 13/08/2012

Welcome to our weekly digest of news and events in industry, academia and more. This week’s Live Music Exchange blog post: Dr. Paul Carr on Higher Education and the Live Music Industry (video) – Live Music Exhchange Leeds, May 4th This video from the Live Music Exchange, Leeds event features Dr. Paul Carr, Head of the Music Academy at the …  

Live Music Exchange Digest – w/c 06/08/2012

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