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Neil Simpson (ATC Management)

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.

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Anthony Reynolds (author and musician)

Anthony Reynolds is a Welsh artist and biographer. He has worked as a solo act and in collaboration with other in his band Jack that was signed to Warner/Chappell Music. They also recorded an EP with former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde.

Anthony has written four full-length biographies for bands like The Walker Brothers, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen and the band Japan.

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Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols bassist)

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.

 

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Neil Kulkarni (author of The Periodic Table of Hip Hop)

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.

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Sarah Howells (Byrde, Paper Aeroplanes)

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 .

 

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Sophie Harris (Time Out NY)

Sophie Harris is senior associate digital content editor and contributing music editor at Time Out New York.

Sophie has over ten years of experience writing for international magazines and broadsheets (The Times, MOJO Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time Out London, Time Out New York, Men’s Health, Foam), broadcasting and hosting for the BBC World Service and WNYC, and sub-editing (The Guardian, The Big Issue). In 2009, Sophie moved to New York to be Associate Music editor at Time Out New York, then Senior Associate Digital Content Editor and Contributing Music Editor. Having lived and worked in Los Angeles and Sydney, Sophie is currently based in London.

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Dannii Evans (promoter and manager for Jamie Woon, Eska)

Dannii Evans is a promoter, producer and artist manager. She has been producing events and live experiences for the past 8 years under the guise of OneTaste. Started in 2004 by herself and acclaimed musical talent, Jamie Woon, Dannii and Jamie desired to create a night and community in London that bridged the gap between underground and mainstream cultures. Specialising in music and spoken word, she has created one of the most important events in the London and UK arts scene in recent years.

In 2010 Dannii was nominated for the emerging category of most influential people in media by The Independent newspaper in the UK and won fellowships to the International Society of Performing Arts Congress 2011 & 2012 in New York City and Toronto. In March 2012, she was also included in Q Magazine feature, the 18 most influential new voices in music.