Friday 24 October 2008
Friday 17 October 2008
BEST OF ITC 2008 @ CAMDEN BARFLY
BEST OF IN THE CITY 2008
Monday 27th October 2008
Camden Barfly
DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB
BADDIES
THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP
TO THE BONES
TICKETS £6 adv, DOORS 7pm
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
In The City's traditional curtain-closer will take place on Monday 27th October at Camden Barfly, in the form of the Best Of ITC 2008 show, hosted and broadcast by Xfm's John Kennedy.
Choosing the best four bands from the best ITC live lineup ever wasn't an easy task but we're delighted to announce...
DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB
DSC’s In The City saw them playing two shows in two hours including the NME night at South where, hoarse but still carrying boundless energy, they gave an incredible performance to a packed and excited crowd. Kneading New York’s vibrant 1970s punk scene with the Detroit garage stage of the mid 1990s, you can’t fail to be blown away by the dirty overdriven guitar riffs, heavy bass, booming drums and fantastically raw and powerful vocals. Their debut single ‘Rivers And Rainbows’ is released on the day of the gig.
BADDIES
An overwhelming favourite from this year's ITC Unsigned, Baddies’ two ITC shows caused ripples of excitement through industry and fans alike, with both gigs turning out to be an A&R fest. Monday 27th also marks the release of their single 'Battleships' and will act as their official single launch party. Described by the NME as "raucous rock righteousness from Southend. Sounds like Future Of The Left torturing Howlin Pelle Almqvist" and The Times as "like the Beastie Boys have challenged the Pixies to a sing off while Klaxons woo woo the fight along from the sidelines. And they're all loving it".
THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP
Seemingly the name on everyone's lips in the run up to ITC, Jessie Rose and her band didn't disappoint - playing to packed houses at Ruby Lounge and Chicago Rocks - including a certain Mr Jarvis Cocker watching from the wings. Her soulful bouncy pop has been winning over many hearts in Manchester for the past six months and we’re sure she’ll win over the rest of the world before too long.
TO THE BONES
Bolton's To The Bones were a late in the day addition to the ITC Unsigned list at our Manchester A&R panel in August and getting those extra coffees in now seems all the more sensible - they've since recieved great airplay on Xfm and BBC – with Steve Lamacq making Duke Type A his album of the week - and played storming shows at both the Rock Sound night and at their official ITC show. Likened to Queens Of The Stone Age amongst others, their incendiary live shows have to be seen to be believed.
Tickets cost £6 adv and are available from TicketWeb or by calling 0844 847 2424.
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Teenage Cancer Trust Auction - The bids are coming in thick and fast...
In aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, ITC is auctioning off a painting of In The City co-founder Tony Wilson – commissioned from acclaimed artist Sid Maurer by ITC 2008 host Andrew Loog Oldham.
Combining art and music is a way of life for American artist Sid Maurer who began his career as an assistant art director for Columbia Records when he was only 17 years old. Sid got his first break during the ‘50s when he was commissioned by the head of Epic Records to design all the album covers for the label. The burgeoning music industry in New York was the place to be for anyone with a creative instinct and Sid found himself working alongside another up and coming freelance artist named Andy Warhol.
At weekends, Sid would play trumpet in local jazz clubs but as more work came his way, he expanded his commercial art studio to tackle a wide range of projects for both the music and film industry. Developing his own style of painting, Sid gained greater recognition throughout the ‘60s and his work adorned album covers, poster designs and he was even involved in a film for Warner Brothers. During that period, his paintings began to appear in galleries across the world and over the past 60 years he’s developed an esteemed catalogue of work that ranges from sport to music to culture.
His distinctive approach involves creating large mixed media pieces that combine bold, dynamic colours with the typographical eye of a graphic designer. Sid has had commissions from ESPN and MotorSport America magazine as well as David Bowie, Boy George and his old friend, Donovan.
Originally to be auctioned off during ITC itself, due to great demand Sid’s exclusive portrait of Tony Wilson will now be auctioned off in a slient auction via email by In The City to the highest bidder.
To enter simply send your bid to tct@inthecity.co.uk. The auction will close on Friday 31st October, with winners notified on Monday 3rd November.
All proceeds will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
In addition, Sid has produced limited prints of the Wilson Painting – these are available by contacting ITC on the above email address and cost £100, with a percentage of the proceeds again going to Teenage Cancer Trust.
ITC ITUNES ALBUM 2008
Don’t forget In The City have also announced that the In The City Unsigned 2008 album is now available to download from iTunes.
The album is free to all In The City delegates or just £4.74 to others. The album contains a bumper 45 tracks from all of the acts appearing at In The City Unsigned 2008.
Friday 10 October 2008
Thursday 9 October 2008
Thursday 2 October 2008
TED COHEN, CARL BARAT, JOHN MCCLURE, UNSEEN OASIS FOOTAGE
Well, we’ve announced some late, late additions to our stellar panel line-up.
On Monday 6th October, Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat and Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure will join Peter Hook, Steve White and more on the ‘Importance Of Being Idols’ panel – which addresses the dumbing down of the use of the word celebrity and how to stay creative at the same time.
In addition Ted Cohen, chairman of Tag Strategic and digital legend, will lead a panel rounding up that day’s digital theme. Alongside a group of the day’s earlier panellists, Ted will summarise the ITC Digital Session and discuss the future of all things digital.
Finally filmmaker extraordinaire Dick Carruthers will be showing exclusive never-before-seen ‘outside of the edit suite’ footage from the private and exclusive Oasis gig he recently shot in front of 100 fans at Black Island Studios during his eagerly-anticipated keynote at ITC.
Ted Cohen, Carl Barat and Jon McClure join a list of high-profile speakers keynotes set to appear at ITC 2008 including: guest host and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Sire Records founders Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher, Warners legend Lyor Cohen and Big Life founder Jazz Summers, the UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham MP, iconic music photographer Kevin Cummins, legendary filmmaker Dick Carruthers, the incomparable Jarvis Cocker, Web 2.0 prophet Eric Garland and grime icons Wiley and Bless Beats.
REGISTER NOW
So, to register as a delegate for this year's ITC, please visit www.inthecity.co.uk - or contact Gavin via gavin@inthecity.co.uk for more details on registration and to take advantage of our special Midland hotel rate of £109 per night.
ITC ITUNES ALBUM 2008
Don’t forget In The City have also announced that the ‘In The City Unsigned 2008’ album is now available to download from iTunes.
The album is free to all In The City delegates or just £4.74 to others. The album contains a bumper 45 tracks from all of the acts appearing at In The City Unsigned 2008. Just copy and paste the code below:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=291005293&s=143444
ITC PODCASTS 2008
In The City are proud to announce that this year we’ll be producing a daily podcast of the best of the day’s panels. Running from Sunday – Wednesday, the podcast will give you the chance to listen again to the previous day’s ITC Daily Summary Panel presented by John Robb each morning as you head out for that first coffee of the day. To subscribe search the iTunes store for “ITC 2008” and hit subscribe.
BRAND NEW ITC WEB COVERAGE
Want to catch up with all the news of the day? Want to find out who punched who in which panel, and which band’s singer finished their set hanging from the ceiling? This year ITC is stepping up its game and so from audio highlights of the day’s best panels to news of secret special guests and all of ITC’s gig listings www.inthecity.co.uk will be the only place for the best online coverage. And make sure you sign up to the ITC mailout for even more of the same, direct to your inbox by clicking here clicking here.
On Monday 6th October, Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat and Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure will join Peter Hook, Steve White and more on the ‘Importance Of Being Idols’ panel – which addresses the dumbing down of the use of the word celebrity and how to stay creative at the same time.
In addition Ted Cohen, chairman of Tag Strategic and digital legend, will lead a panel rounding up that day’s digital theme. Alongside a group of the day’s earlier panellists, Ted will summarise the ITC Digital Session and discuss the future of all things digital.
Finally filmmaker extraordinaire Dick Carruthers will be showing exclusive never-before-seen ‘outside of the edit suite’ footage from the private and exclusive Oasis gig he recently shot in front of 100 fans at Black Island Studios during his eagerly-anticipated keynote at ITC.
Ted Cohen, Carl Barat and Jon McClure join a list of high-profile speakers keynotes set to appear at ITC 2008 including: guest host and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Sire Records founders Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher, Warners legend Lyor Cohen and Big Life founder Jazz Summers, the UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham MP, iconic music photographer Kevin Cummins, legendary filmmaker Dick Carruthers, the incomparable Jarvis Cocker, Web 2.0 prophet Eric Garland and grime icons Wiley and Bless Beats.
REGISTER NOW
So, to register as a delegate for this year's ITC, please visit www.inthecity.co.uk - or contact Gavin via gavin@inthecity.co.uk for more details on registration and to take advantage of our special Midland hotel rate of £109 per night.
ITC ITUNES ALBUM 2008
Don’t forget In The City have also announced that the ‘In The City Unsigned 2008’ album is now available to download from iTunes.
The album is free to all In The City delegates or just £4.74 to others. The album contains a bumper 45 tracks from all of the acts appearing at In The City Unsigned 2008. Just copy and paste the code below:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=291005293&s=143444
ITC PODCASTS 2008
In The City are proud to announce that this year we’ll be producing a daily podcast of the best of the day’s panels. Running from Sunday – Wednesday, the podcast will give you the chance to listen again to the previous day’s ITC Daily Summary Panel presented by John Robb each morning as you head out for that first coffee of the day. To subscribe search the iTunes store for “ITC 2008” and hit subscribe.
BRAND NEW ITC WEB COVERAGE
Want to catch up with all the news of the day? Want to find out who punched who in which panel, and which band’s singer finished their set hanging from the ceiling? This year ITC is stepping up its game and so from audio highlights of the day’s best panels to news of secret special guests and all of ITC’s gig listings www.inthecity.co.uk will be the only place for the best online coverage. And make sure you sign up to the ITC mailout for even more of the same, direct to your inbox by clicking here clicking here.
Wednesday 1 October 2008
TED COHEN, CARL BARAT AND JON MCCLURE ADDED TO ITC LINE-UP – PLUS DICK CARRUTHERS TO SHOW EXCULSIVE OASIS FOOTAGE AT THE EVENT
Well, we’ve announced some late, late additions to our stellar panel line-up.
On Monday 6th October, Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat and Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure will join Peter Hook, Steve White and more on the ‘Importance Of Being Idols’ panel – which addresses the dumbing down of the use of the word celebrity and how to stay creative at the same time.
In addition Ted Cohen, chairman of Tag Strategic and digital legend, will lead a panel rounding up that day’s digital theme. Alongside a group of the day’s earlier panellists, Ted will summarise the ITC Digital Session and discuss the future of all things digital.
Finally filmmaker extraordinaire Dick Carruthers will be showing exclusive never-before-seen ‘outside of the edit suite’ footage from the private and exclusive Oasis gig he recently shot in front of 100 fans at Black Island Studios during his eagerly-anticipated keynote at ITC.
Ted Cohen, Carl Barat and Jon McClure join a list of high-profile speakers keynotes set to appear at ITC 2008 including: guest host and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Sire Records founders Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher, Warners legend Lyor Cohen and Big Life founder Jazz Summers, the UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham MP, iconic music photographer Kevin Cummins, legendary filmmaker Dick Carruthers, the incomparable Jarvis Cocker, Web 2.0 prophet Eric Garland and grime icons Wiley and Bless Beats
On Monday 6th October, Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat and Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure will join Peter Hook, Steve White and more on the ‘Importance Of Being Idols’ panel – which addresses the dumbing down of the use of the word celebrity and how to stay creative at the same time.
In addition Ted Cohen, chairman of Tag Strategic and digital legend, will lead a panel rounding up that day’s digital theme. Alongside a group of the day’s earlier panellists, Ted will summarise the ITC Digital Session and discuss the future of all things digital.
Finally filmmaker extraordinaire Dick Carruthers will be showing exclusive never-before-seen ‘outside of the edit suite’ footage from the private and exclusive Oasis gig he recently shot in front of 100 fans at Black Island Studios during his eagerly-anticipated keynote at ITC.
Ted Cohen, Carl Barat and Jon McClure join a list of high-profile speakers keynotes set to appear at ITC 2008 including: guest host and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Sire Records founders Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher, Warners legend Lyor Cohen and Big Life founder Jazz Summers, the UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham MP, iconic music photographer Kevin Cummins, legendary filmmaker Dick Carruthers, the incomparable Jarvis Cocker, Web 2.0 prophet Eric Garland and grime icons Wiley and Bless Beats
WILEY, BLESS BEATS & ERIC GARLAND KEYNOTES
Big Champagne founder Eric Garland will be talking about his acclaimed ‘In Rainbows, On Torrents’ report from earlier this year and UK Grime superstars Wiley and Bless Beats will be breaking down their huge summer hit ‘Wearing My Rolex’ for delegates in an exclusive In The City production masterclass.
What was that you just hummed? “Usually drink, usually dance, usually bubble?” But I thought you didn’t ‘get’ grime…?
On Sunday 6th October UK Grime superstars Wiley and Bless Beats will be holding a production masterclass at In The City 2008, which aims to give delegates a unique insight into how they wrote and produced their smash hit single ‘Wearing My Rolex’ which dominated the charts throughout the summer.
With the help of a trusty laptop Wiley and Bless Beats will completely deconstruct the song to illustrate exactly how they created their Grime anthem.
Richard Blowie, known as Wiley, is arguably the most influential musician from grime’s spiritual home of East London. He’s influenced the careers of nearly every artist to come through the scene and was one of the founding members of the Roll Deep Crew.
In addition to being a prolific producer and solo artist, he has helped guide the careers of several grime MCs younger than him, including onetime Roll Deep partner Dizzee Rascal. Wiley and Dizzee have collaborated in some of their musical productions as well, including Run the Road, a series of compilations documenting the energy of the grime genre. 2008’s Grime Wave saw Wiley collaborating with a new generation of young MCs, fulfilling his role as a true mentor.
With abilities that belie his 22 years, multi-talented East London producer/MC Bless Beats has recently produced and co-written tracks for, amongst others, DJ Ironik, Skepta, Princess Superstar alongside remixing others from Yo Majesty! to Fat Man Scoop.
Bless Beats has also been making waves as a DJ around the UK as one half of Presidential Sound with collaborator Most Wanted.
In addition to his keynote masterclass, Wiley will also be performing live as part of ITC at the Channel M night at Moho Live on Tuesday 7th October.
“In Rainbows, On Torrents”…
Eric Garland, founder of BigChampagne, will be giving a keynote address on Tuesday 7th October entitled ‘In Rainbows, on Torrents,’ which will examine the white paper he wrote with Will Page, Chief Economist, MCPS-PRS Alliance, earlier this year examining in further detail Radiohead’s decision to release their album ‘In Rainbows’ on a pay-what-you-want basis.
Eric Garland is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BigChampagne Media Measurement, a privately held technology and metrics company specializing in online media. At present, BigChampagne's metrics include online retailers (iTunes), social networks (MySpace, YouTube), portals Yahoo and AOL, Clear Channel, MTV and through strategic partner Mediabase, traditional broadcast. Garland is recognized as one of the industry's leading authorities on the intersection of popular entertainment and technology.
Each year, Garland contributes data and analysis to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) flagship publication "IT Outlook." His advisory board membership includes the digital initiative of the Recording Academy (The Grammys), where he has served alongside artists Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West. Garland was formally recognized for his outstanding contribution to the Recording Academy in 2007.
WIRED magazine anointed BigChampagne ‘the Nielsen television ratings of online music’. BigChampagne pioneered the measurement of multimedia content distributed using new platforms (YouTube, BitTorrent) and is today an entertainment industry standard research tool. BigChampagne's chart syndication partners include Entertainment Weekly and E! Entertainment Television.
Before co-founding BigChampagne in 2000, Garland was an associate with global management consulting firm Towers Perrin in the Communication and Measurement practice.
In addition, this year In The City has teamed up with the Teenage Cancer Trust and will auction a one-off painting of ITC co-founder Tony Wilson at the event, with all proceeds going to the TCT. The artwork, which arrived from New York this week, was commissioned by ITC guest host Andrew Loog-Oldham and created by acclaimed artist Sid Maurer. His painting of Tony will be auctioned during ITC through a silent bid. Andrew Loog-Oldham will reveal the painting at the opening of ITC and will declare the amount raised by the end of day three. There will be updates daily on the amount bid. A handful of limited edition prints will be created and hand signed by Sid on request at the convention. They are likely to become rare collector’s items.
ITUNES ALBUM 2008
Don’t forget that the ‘In The City Unsigned 2008’ album is now available to download from iTunes.
The album is free to all In The City delegates or just £4.74 to others. The album contains a bumper 45 tracks from all of the acts appearing at In The City Unsigned 2008.
What was that you just hummed? “Usually drink, usually dance, usually bubble?” But I thought you didn’t ‘get’ grime…?
On Sunday 6th October UK Grime superstars Wiley and Bless Beats will be holding a production masterclass at In The City 2008, which aims to give delegates a unique insight into how they wrote and produced their smash hit single ‘Wearing My Rolex’ which dominated the charts throughout the summer.
With the help of a trusty laptop Wiley and Bless Beats will completely deconstruct the song to illustrate exactly how they created their Grime anthem.
Richard Blowie, known as Wiley, is arguably the most influential musician from grime’s spiritual home of East London. He’s influenced the careers of nearly every artist to come through the scene and was one of the founding members of the Roll Deep Crew.
In addition to being a prolific producer and solo artist, he has helped guide the careers of several grime MCs younger than him, including onetime Roll Deep partner Dizzee Rascal. Wiley and Dizzee have collaborated in some of their musical productions as well, including Run the Road, a series of compilations documenting the energy of the grime genre. 2008’s Grime Wave saw Wiley collaborating with a new generation of young MCs, fulfilling his role as a true mentor.
With abilities that belie his 22 years, multi-talented East London producer/MC Bless Beats has recently produced and co-written tracks for, amongst others, DJ Ironik, Skepta, Princess Superstar alongside remixing others from Yo Majesty! to Fat Man Scoop.
Bless Beats has also been making waves as a DJ around the UK as one half of Presidential Sound with collaborator Most Wanted.
In addition to his keynote masterclass, Wiley will also be performing live as part of ITC at the Channel M night at Moho Live on Tuesday 7th October.
“In Rainbows, On Torrents”…
Eric Garland, founder of BigChampagne, will be giving a keynote address on Tuesday 7th October entitled ‘In Rainbows, on Torrents,’ which will examine the white paper he wrote with Will Page, Chief Economist, MCPS-PRS Alliance, earlier this year examining in further detail Radiohead’s decision to release their album ‘In Rainbows’ on a pay-what-you-want basis.
Eric Garland is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BigChampagne Media Measurement, a privately held technology and metrics company specializing in online media. At present, BigChampagne's metrics include online retailers (iTunes), social networks (MySpace, YouTube), portals Yahoo and AOL, Clear Channel, MTV and through strategic partner Mediabase, traditional broadcast. Garland is recognized as one of the industry's leading authorities on the intersection of popular entertainment and technology.
Each year, Garland contributes data and analysis to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) flagship publication "IT Outlook." His advisory board membership includes the digital initiative of the Recording Academy (The Grammys), where he has served alongside artists Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West. Garland was formally recognized for his outstanding contribution to the Recording Academy in 2007.
WIRED magazine anointed BigChampagne ‘the Nielsen television ratings of online music’. BigChampagne pioneered the measurement of multimedia content distributed using new platforms (YouTube, BitTorrent) and is today an entertainment industry standard research tool. BigChampagne's chart syndication partners include Entertainment Weekly and E! Entertainment Television.
Before co-founding BigChampagne in 2000, Garland was an associate with global management consulting firm Towers Perrin in the Communication and Measurement practice.
In addition, this year In The City has teamed up with the Teenage Cancer Trust and will auction a one-off painting of ITC co-founder Tony Wilson at the event, with all proceeds going to the TCT. The artwork, which arrived from New York this week, was commissioned by ITC guest host Andrew Loog-Oldham and created by acclaimed artist Sid Maurer. His painting of Tony will be auctioned during ITC through a silent bid. Andrew Loog-Oldham will reveal the painting at the opening of ITC and will declare the amount raised by the end of day three. There will be updates daily on the amount bid. A handful of limited edition prints will be created and hand signed by Sid on request at the convention. They are likely to become rare collector’s items.
ITUNES ALBUM 2008
Don’t forget that the ‘In The City Unsigned 2008’ album is now available to download from iTunes.
The album is free to all In The City delegates or just £4.74 to others. The album contains a bumper 45 tracks from all of the acts appearing at In The City Unsigned 2008.
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