ITC Keynotes - a sneak peak...

Now we know you’re a greedy bunch, so we’ll be letting slip our full list of keynotes over the next few weeks. But for now, to whet your appetite for ITC 2007, we thought we’d let you in on just a couple of the people we’re bringing over to Manchester this year to set the musical world to rights:

Daniel Miller, the founder of Mute Records - home to Depeche Mode, Erasure and Nick Cave – has agreed to a rare interview talking about his life and career.

David Enthoven and Tim Clark of IE Music, managers of one Mr Robbie Williams, talk live in conversation about themselves, their company and the need to change existing music industry business models.

And last but not least Sub Pop Records co-founder Jonathan Poneman will be speaking to music journalist Keith Cameron (NME, Q, Mojo, Guardian and others) about the legendary label’s glory years of grunge, its current position as home to some of America’s finest indie and his personal take on today’s music industry.

In addition, we’d like to let you know that this year Xfm has signed up as a key media partner of In The City 2007 and will be dedicating a major slice of airtime to the event. Also CokeMusic, The Coca-Cola Company’s European music initiative, has also teamed up with In The City Unsigned through their innovative CokeMusic program. And of course we’d like to welcome back The North West Development Agency and Manchester City Council as supporters of ITC.

Pretty impressive we think you’ll agree - though you just wait till we announce the rest of In The City's line up. And please, don't get us started on how good the bands are this year.

You'll just have to wait and see...