Music Conference and Festival
Glen Matlock is the original bassist and songwriter with Sex Pistols, Rich Kids, The Faces and Glen Matlock and the Philistines. He is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band by the time the record was released. After the Sex Pistols split in, Glen played with Sid Vicious and appeared with Iggy Pop among others.
Neil Kulkarni started writing professionally in 1993 after writing a letter to Melody Maker telling them they were crap and detailing the reasons why. Asked on the letters page ‘whether he could do any better?’ he responded by saying he could and has been writing about music, film and politics ever since.
After spending the nineties writing regularly for Melody Maker, Uncutand Vox & Loaded, and underground magazines Lime Lizard and Knowledge he went fully freelance in 2000, writing about all kinds of music for Spin, Metal Hammer, Plan B, The Source, The Guardian, Bizarre and DJ’ing in clubs and across broadcast media. He currently writes for The Quietusand creates the hip-hop section in DJ Magazine as well as maintaining his at-times contentious F.U.N.K blog and teaching media and music full-time in his hometown of Coventry. He is also the author of Hip Hop: Bring The Noise and Eastern Spring: A 2nd Gen Memoir. His kids are constantly telling him to turn his music down.
Sarah Howells is a Welsh singer-songwriter and trance vocalist. She is also one half of the Welsh folk/indie band Paper Aeroplanes and in 2015 began a solo project called Bryde.
Formed in 2008, Paper Aeroplanes have had national radio airplay on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music as well as touring Germany with Tina Dico and several releases since. They released their debut album The Day We Ran into the Sea in 2009 and were nominated for the Welsh Music Prize with 2015 album JOY. Bryde began in 2015 and has seen first single Wait being played on BBC Radio 1 by Huw Stephens and featured on BBC Introducing in London who made Bryde Artist of the week on 7th November 2015 .