Music Conference and Festival
Horizon Festival in association with Joe Raygun Music & The Hinoki Collective presents: Jam Baxter, DJ Sammy, B-Side, (High Focus) + Support from Obijuan Shinobi & Open Mic MC Cypher. The event is part of Southampton Solent University’s annual music festival and conference SMILEfest 2017.
The Hinoki Collective is run by our BA (Hons) Music Promotion students.
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Sofa Sessions Live Presents: Dave Giles, Lucy Bernardez & Katie-Louise Ball at Mettricks Tea and Coffee House, Wednesday 15th March. Tickets available at http://
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Brainwashed Music presents: South West pop-punk band THE SPLASH with support from: Kilkovec, REVENTURE, SpindleFish at The Talking Heads, 7th March.
Brainwashed Music is run by Southampton Solent University’s BA (Hons) Music Promotion students.
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Small Door Events present ‘London’s finest’ Sisteray on 8th March at The Joiners, Southampton in aid of our small venues. Support from Speaking of Witches and The Damsels.
The “butt-kickin’ new punk” band will be touring the country promoting their new recording project ’15 minutes’ released 7th April, Sisteray have played roof raising sets at Camden Rocks, Isle Of Wight festival and Leeds festival.
“Support your local venues and get yer teeth stuck into some gnarly punk.”
Small Door Events is a promotions company run by Southampton Solent University’s BA (Hons) Popular Music Journalism students.
CLICK HERE FOR EVENT // 3 MARCH 2017
Pura Vida Promotions in association with Artery Global presents: annisokay & Griever + Support TBA
Doors: 19:30 / Age: 14+ / Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/
Davyd Winter-Bates is the bassist of the British metalcore band Bury Tomorrow. The band was formed in 2006 in Southampton. The band is composed of five members; lead vocalist Daniel Winter-Bates, rhythm guitarist and singer Jason Cameron, bassist Davyd Winter-Bates, drummer Adam Jackson and lead guitarist Kristan Dawson. Bury Tomorrow have released four studio albums, their most recent being Earthbound, released on 29 January 2016.
Bury Tomorrow have supported Asking Alexandria, Of Mice and Men, Sleeping With Sirens, and Pierce the Veil. They were nominated for the ‘Best British Newcomer’ award at the 2014 Kerrang! Awards.
Nick Soulsby is the author of I Found My Friends: the Oral History of Nirvana among others. Three of his books are focused on the band Nirvana; the first, Dark Slivers, is a dissection of the 1992 Incesticide compilation, the second, I Found My Friends, (St Martin’s Press, 2015), is an oral history built entirely from the memories of 150+ of the bands who played alongside Nirvana 1987-1994, the third (and likely final), Cobain on Cobain (Omnibus Press, 2016) is a collection of interviews with Kurt Cobain and the band Nirvana across the years 1989-1994 following the band as they experience their wild ride and tell it in the moment, as it occurred.
His latest book, We Sing a New Language: the Oral Discography of Thurston Moore, (Omnibus Press, 2017) paints a picture of the lives, scenes and sounds that have risen and fallen away over the course of Moore’s 3 ½ decades in music through the memories of 160 musicians, producers and record label owners who played a part in the works he has created. In 2014 Nick collaborated with Soul Jazz Records to curate No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North West Grunge Era 1986-97, a release of little known and never before seen bands from the State of Washington’s heyday. He also wrote the liner notes to the reissue of The Fire Ants sole 1993 EP release Stripped.
Angie Somerside is the Marketing Director at Epic Records. Epic Records was originally launched in 1953 and has released music from ABBA, Ozzy Osbourne and Michael Jackson. Currently, Epic Records’ roster includes Izzy Bizu, Example and Netsky. Angie has over 13 years of experience, having previously worked at Sony Music and Red Bull.
As of 2017, Angie works as East West Records UK’s general manager where she is tasked with overseeing strategic campaigns for both new and established acts.
Pennie Smith is a legendary photographer, with credits including Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Iggy Pop, The Sweet, The Clash, The Jam, The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Harry, U2, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, David Smith and The Strokes.
Pennie took the legendary The Clash’ London Calling cover photo.
Neil Simpson is an experienced artist manager with 18 years of experience across live event production, festivals, promotion, venue, label and artist management and A&R. He has managed Catfish and the Bottlemen and now manages and owns Manchild Music, a management, event production, talent development and music consultancy firm. Neil is also a partner at ATC Management (Faithless, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave).
In 2010, Neil was one of the finalists nominated for the Artiste Manager of the Year at the Live Music Business Awards. Neil is a Visiting Fellow at Southampton Solent University as of 2017.