11.10

Panel – Digital futures

What are the issues facing today’s musicians working in the digital domain?

Chair: James Hannam  

Guests:

Angie Somerside (Marketing Director, Epic Records) 

Dannii Evans (artist manager and promoter – Jamie Woon, Eska and others)

Sarah Robertson (Head of Marketing at Colston Hall)

Sarah Howells (singer with Paper Aeroplanes)

Joel De’ath (Label Manager, Sony Records)

12.15

Panel – Punk rock so what?

This year is the 40^th anniversary of UK punk. But what is the true legacy of punk and should anyone really care?

Chair: Johnny Hopkins

Guests:

Pennie Smith (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)

Glen Matlock (original bassist and songwriter with Sex Pistols (1975-77 and 1996 – 2008), Rich Kids, The Faces (2009-2011) and Glen Matlock and the Philistines)

Rachel Aggs (singer and guitarist with Shopping)

Nick Soulsby (author of I Found My Friends: the Oral History of Nirvana)

More tbc

13.20

Demo Surgery

Solent’s musicians and producers get their music critiqued by a wide ranging panel of music industries experts.

Chair: Chris Anderton

Guests:

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

Matt Harvey (Paperhouse Music & Entertainment Management)

Neil Simpson (artist manager at ATC Management)

Sophie Harris (Time Out NY)

15.10

James McMahon (Kerrang! editor) in conversation with:

Will from Creeper & Davyd from Bury Tomorrow

Solent University teaching fellow James comes face to face with two Kerrang! bands from Southampton – only going to prove that this city still rocks

16.20

Electronic music pioneer Richard Barbieri (of Japan, Porcupine Tree and many others) – in interview with author and musician Anthony Reynolds

17.10

Richard Barbieri in performance

A rare chance to witness an electronic music genius in action