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Jagz Kooner (Producer / Remixer / DJ/ Song Writer)

Jagz Kooner is a Record Producer / Remixer / DJ/ Song Writer who has been credited with creating some of the most genre-defining songs of the last 20 Years. He began his career working with Andrew Weatherall remixing and producing for the likes of Future Sound Of London, Bjork, New Order & The Chemical Brothers before forming the seminal band Sabres Of Paradise. He was also a founder member of The Aloof and was responsible for Co-writing,
producing & mixing the early albums.

After the band’s demise Jagz has gone on to produce and remix some of the biggest names in modern music including Primal Scream, Kasabian, Oasis, Killing Joke, Garbage, Massive Attack as well as a host of leftfield artists such as Royal
Trux, Ladytron, Deus, The Kills & Soulwax. As well as being a studio boffin, Jagz has also DJ’d extensively around the world including a residency at the legendary club Manumission in Ibiza as well as being one of the founders of the rawkus club night “Kill All Hippies” in London & regular slots at Fabric in the past. More recently he has been in the studio writing / producing with Iraina Mancini and new mixes for the hotly tipped Shimmer Band as well as producing new songs for the Southampton based band The Dead Freights.

As well as that, Jagz has also been involved in developing software for Music apps & Plugins, as an original beta tester for Emagic Logic Audio (prior to its acquisition by Apple) & the highly regarded Drum manipulation software Addictive Drums by XLN Audio.

Jagz is also the curator, host & music programmer of Jagz’s Acid Lounge at Glastonbury Festival ( and will also be debuting The Acid Lounge at Fuji Rock festival this year), it’s a late night party area where he brings an eclectic range of djs & friends ranging from Primal Scream & Eddy Temple Morris to Stanton Warriors & Plump DJs to keep festival-goers entertained after the main stages shut down till the not so small hours of the morning!

Selected Jagz Kooner Productions.

Primal Scream “Swastika Eyes”

Massive Attack “Butterfly Caught” Jagz Kooner Remix

Oasis “The Shock Of The Lightning” (Jagz Kooner Mix)

Primal Scream Featuring Kate Moss “Some Velvet Morning”

Kasabian “ Club Foot” Jagz Kooner Remix

If you require further information or a complete discography, please contact Jagz
directly on: jagzkooner@me.com

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Joe Frankland (PRS Foundation)

Joe Frankland is Senior Grants and Programmes Manager at PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development across all genres.

Since 2000 PRS Foundation has given more than £23.6 million to over 5,700 new music initiatives by awarding grants and leading partnership programmes that support music sector development. Widely respected as an adventurous and proactive funding body, PRS Foundation supports an exceptional range of new music activity – from composer residencies and commissions to festivals and showcases in the UK and overseas.

Through schemes such as Momentum, The Open Fund, ISF, Women Make Music, The Composers’ Fund and Flash Funding, PRS Foundation support the creation, performance and promotion of outstanding music.

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Nina Condron (director, Horus Music Limited)

Nina Condron is a director at Horus Music Limited, a fully independent global music distribution and label services company that was the winner of the Queens Award for International Trade 2017. Horus Music started in 2016 after previously operating as a label and management company. Nina has been with the company for over 4 years starting as an intern and landing a permanent position as the business development manager for 3 years until she was promoted to director in 2017. Nina graduated from the University of Gloucestershire with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Popular Music. As a director of Horus Music, she manages all members of the distribution and business development teams in the UK, India, Korea and Asia Pacific. Her main duties are to develop and expand the company by building new client relationships with artists, labels and stores in the global and digital sphere. She has had experience in lots of different aspects of the music industry including running her own independent label, working at a booking agency, performing at festivals as a solo artist, and putting on gigs for both the label and as a hobby. Horus Music is focused on working with local platforms and has secured deals in Asia that most Western distributors don’t have. Horus Music provides physical distribution in the UK, digital distribution to platforms around the world, online digital PR to help artists increase their online social presence, and playlisting campaigns pitching to independent and service owned playlists on Deezer, YouTube and Spotify. Horus Music also has a separate publishing company Anara Publishing that pitches for sync opportunities in major Hollywood films, games and TV shows.

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Emma McGann (Award nominated singer/ songwriter)

Songwriter Emma McGann has been award-nominated alongside Adele & Katy Perry for her efforts with music and livestreaming. Passionate about interacting with her audience, McGann’s TEDx Talk explains the importance of her YouNow livestreams, which have amassed over 10 million views. She’s also a broadcaster & ambassador for livestream/crypto app ‘Rize’.
A first-degree music graduate, Emma has taken part in Masterclasses at Abbey Road & Maida Vale, achieved airplay on BBC R1 with her single ‘Cherry On Top’ and her recent album ‘B.R.A.V.E’ gained 20,000 streams in its first month as a completely independent release.

Check out Emma’s site

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Lucy Wood (Latitude Festival)

Lucy Wood is the music booker for Latitude Festival, a 35,000 capacity arts and music festival in Suffolk. Prior to this, she worked at London live music promoters Eat Your Own Ears for seven years on the programme and production of gigs, Field Day festival, and other cross-arts cultural events. Lucy has worked in the music industry for 15 years, with earlier roles including stints at Warp Records and 19 Entertainment.

Lucy is a budding social scientist, and recently completed a research project on audience behaviours as part of an MSc in the Sociology of Culture at London School of Economics.

Lucy also a part-time mentor on range of projects helping young people participate in culture.

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Annie Nightingale (BBC Radio 1)

Annie is best known as Britain’s first female DJ on Radio 1 and is now the station’s longest serving broadcaster. She remains the only female DJ in the world to have been honoured with an MBE by The Queen.

Her career has been a fantastical musical journey beginning with hanging out with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who, becoming a journalist and TV presenter, and being a co-owner of a chain of fashion boutiques. Having cracked the all-male preserve of DJs at Radio 1, she began a long career in broadcasting, always choosing her own music and championing dozens of artists who later became world-wide successes.

Then a second career in television began when she took over as solo presenter of BBC TV’s legendary series The Old Grey Whistle Test, recently voted top music programme in The 100 Best TV Shows of all time.

Annie brought her irreverent humour to the show at exactly the time of the punk revolution. She has always played and enthused about underground and new music, and through her championing of breakbeat, she is now known as Queen Of Breaks. She DJs at clubs and festivals all over the world, with concomitant scrapes and adventures. She has been bugged in Russia, drugged in Iraq and mugged in Cuba, the last with nearly fatal consequences.

Annie now introduces you to the weekend, every Friday morning 3-5am.

 

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Simon Raymonde (Bella Union, Cocteau Twins)

Simon Raymonde is head honcho of Bella Union, one of the UK’s finest record labels, which is celebrating 20 years of releasing quality music by artists including John Grant, Father John Misty, Midlake and the Flaming Lips.

Besides the label, Simon is best known as bassist and co-songwriter in legendary band the Cocteau Twins and musical director/ songwriter for This Mortal Coil. Simon has worked sporadically with his own musical ventures including a solo record Blame Someone Else in 1997 and the Snowbird album Moon in 2014 – both on Bella Union. He will be releasing the first output by his latest venture Lost Horizons on Bella Union in 2017.

Raymonde has also produced a number of artists including the Czarz, the Autumns, Lift to Experience, and Rothko, as well as the late Billy Mackenzie.

Bella Union was awarded Best Independent Label of the Year awards by Association of Independent Music (AIM) in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, as voted by all of the UK’s indie retailers. In 2012 AIM also awarded Simon the Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

For more info: http://bellaunion.com

 

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Rob da Bank (Bestival)

Legendary DJ, promoter and Solent University teaching fellow Rob da Bank was born in in Portsmouth and grew up in Warsash. He is now an Internationally respected music festival owner, radio DJ and music industries innovator. He has been a music journalist, record label owner, radio and club DJ and co-founder of music festivals Bestival on the Isle of Wight and in Canada, and Camp Bestival in Lulworth, Dorset. He is also a partner in music media syndications company Earworm and the main force behind the launch of the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF).

This year sees Bestival take up its new residency at the stunning Lulworth Castke site in Dorset. To celebrate Rob is making a long overdue return to SMILEfest.

 

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Jon Davies (Shazam)

Jon Davies is Director, Music Partnerships at Shazam, one of the world’s most popular apps with more than 300 million active users worldwide. Jon connects Shazam to a wide contact base of major and independent labels, music services, agencies publishers, management, and promotion teams, Jon has led several strategic partnerships with some of the leading music and digital companies around the globe.

An experienced public speaker, he has represented Shazam at several industry events including SXSW, Great Escape, Midem and CMJ.

Twitter: @jon_davies_

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Speech Debelle (rapper, musician)

Mercury Prize winning British rapper Speech Debelle received huge critical acclaim for both her debut album Speech Therapy (2009) and her second album, Freedom of Speech (2012).

She has enjoyed notable success across several art forms. Alongside her award-winning musical output, she has curated exhibitions at the Southbank Centre and has also worked with the Royal Court Theatre. Speech has presented a BBC documentary on homelessness and has worked with several major charities including Oxfam and Barnardo’s. She is also the creator and host of ‘The Work Brunch Podcast’.

Speech Debelle’s third record ‘Tantil Before I Breathe’ was released on March 17 this year. Here’s the first song off the album ‘Strange Ways’ as premiered on DIY Mag.