Offer!!! Un-Convention Music Festival 30% off!

Music industry conference Un-Convention is delighted to offer a 30% discount for members of the Rochdale music community wishing to attend this year's event in Manchester on the 22nd and 23rd of October.

For the last 18 years, Un-Convention has been convening key voices and innovators from across the music sector to look at current challenges and opportunities, and to explore new ways of making a fairer, more accessible and equitable industry. This year's programme will cover current management and release strategies, developing regional scenes, live promotion and touring, the festival market, songwriting, and more.

Bella Union's co-founder and Managing Director Simon Raymonde will be joining this year's record label panel, along with Dirty Hit's Cherish Kaya; Rhian Emanuel, Managing Director of Because Music UK; and Ollie Hodge, ex-Columbia and Polydor A&R, who now runs independent label Some Action.

Sugababes' co-manager Matt Johnson joins our management panel led by the Music Managers Forum’s Annabella Coldrick, which also features Ali Raymond, who has overseen the career of Arlo Parks, as well as Getdown Services manager Alice Boeglin. 

Goc O'Callaghan, co-founder and director of ArcTanGent, alongside Kevin Moore, festival director of Y Not, and Dougie Brown, festival producer of Belladrum, will be joining the AIF's John Rostron to look at best practice in the UK festival sector, whilst Music Ally's Joe Sparrow and CMU's Chris Cooke will be leading us through the latest developments in AI.

We'll once again be looking at the development of regional music scenes, with insight from Leicester's Dr Yasin El Ashrafi BEM, founder of HQ Familia; Jamell Ackford, director of culture at Trinity Bristol; Rachael McEntee, who runs The Snug in Atherton, the first venue purchase by Music Venue Properties; and Jez Collins, founder and director of the Birmingham Music Archive.

Also featuring in this year’s programme are speakers including Blur’s Dave Rowntree, Tom Kiehl, CEO of UK Music, Bev Whitrick, COO of Music Venue Trust, Jon Collins, CEO of LIVE, David Martin, CEO of the Featured Artist Coalition, and many more. 

We already have hundreds of people who create and champion music in towns and cities across the UK coming together for this year's event. If you would like to find out more, details can be found at www.unconventionhub.org, and members of the Rochdale music community can use the discount code ROCH30 to receive a 30% discount on passes, reducing full two day passes from £50 to £35, via this link: https://www.skiddle.com/e/42289190