Davyd Winter-Bates (Bury Tomorrow)

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 (author, Nirvana)

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 (Marketing Director, Epic Records)

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 (photographer, The Clash, Led Zeppelin)

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 (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.

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.

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.

 

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.