MIKE SMITH AND MARK RONSON KEYNOTE

We are delighted to announce that Columbia Records Managing Director Mike Smith will be appearing in conversation with superstar producer/artist/DJ Mark Ronson, who was one of his first signings to the label in 2006.
With renowned journalist and broadcaster John Harris helping to steer the conversation, Mike Smith and Mark Ronson will be discussing the label/artist dynamic, why their creative relationship has been so successful and numerous other subjects.
Mike Smith said, “I have been coming to In The City for more years than I care to remember and, as well as being a consistently fantastic showcase for live music I have always found it a great place to exchange ideas with like-minded people and debate the key issues affecting our industry. Mark Ronson is an artist that I have a huge amount of respect for, not least because he was my first signing to Columbia Records and hopefully we will be able to give everyone an insight into how we work together and, more importantly, what it takes to maintain a constructive and creative relationship between label and artist.”
In addition In The City is pleased to announce that Mike Smith will also be hosting an exhibition of 60 of his acclaimed sketches entitled Artist & Repertoire at the highly respected Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester throughout the duration of ITC 2009. A hugely impressive history of live music over the last two decades, Mike Smith’s collection of beautiful pencil drawings document almost every gig he has ever seen covering long-forgotten bands playing in tiny bars through to globe-bestriding stadium acts.
The exhibition is a pre-cursor to a book of Mike Smith’s drawings also entitled ‘Artist & Repertoire,’ which will be published later this year.

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ITC LIVE 2009

As well as the now-legendary, soon-to-be-announced, top secret ITC Unsigned line up, bands already confirmed include: Frightened Rabbit, Televised Crimewave, Esben and the Witch, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Bicycle Thieves, Crystal Fighters, The Drums, Clues, Hatcham Social, Munch Munch, Tripwires, NewIslands, Underground Heroes, Sharks, Telegraphs, Spycatcher, Cate Le Bon, Simon Lynge, Asakusa Jinta, The New 1920, Attack Attack, Twin Atlantic, Bear Driver, Me Vs Hero, Saving Aimee, Young Guns, Futures, Wall St Riots, Taxi! Taxi!, The Molotovs, Goldheart Assembly, Capital, The Neat, The Sport, MAY68, Young British Artists, Visitor, Tek One, Cars On Fire, Wounds, Swound!, Wild Palms, LR Rockets with more added every day.

Showcases confirmed include NME Radar, BBC Introducing, Xfm, SJM Concerts, Now Wave, Big Scary Monsters, Swn, Front Magazine, Love Music Hate Racism, Same Teens, Future Sounds, Drowned in Sound, Rock Sound, Fierce Panda, Sentric and Murkage.

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