Popular Music Journalism graduate Nick Pollard’s interview with Live Nation’s and Download Festival’s Andy Copping.
Popular Music Journalism student Nick Pollard produced entertaining daily podcasts providing coverage of each SMILEfest 2013 day’s events.
Steve Strange was a Welsh pop singer, club owner and promoter. He became famous as the leader of the new wave synthpop group Visage and was one of the most influential figures behind the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s.
Simon Price is a music journalist, critic, DJ and promoter. Simon has worked for Mojo, Uncut, Q, Metal Hammer among many others and promotes club nights in Brighton and London.
Producers are an English supergroup consisting of record producers Trevor Horn (bass and vocals) and Steve Lipson (guitar), and musicians Lol Crème (guitar and vocals) and Ash Soan (drums).
Jo McKay is the director of LarMac Live that works on production and ground management of large-scale events, festivals like Creamfields, Common People, and companies like AEG, MTV, Live Nation and others.
Mark Jones is the MD of Wall of Sound records and a BBC6 presenter. He’s worked on releases for Grace Jones, Aeroplanes, Röyksopp & Robyn and Tiësto vs Diplo ft Busta Rhymes.
Paul Gallagher is the oldest brother of the Gallagher’s and worked in A&R at Creation Records. He’s also a DJ and a book author.
Andy Copping is Download Festival’s booker and promoter and Live Nation’s head of UK touring.