WELCOME TO THE SEPTEMBER SHOWCASE NEWSLETTER

The busy summer season is finally drawing to a close, despite the glorious Indian Summer many of us are currently basking in across most of the UK!

So pull up a chair and quench your thirst with the juiciest news picks from our friends at Live UK, TPi and Record of the Day who have once again been kind enough to give us first dibs on their breaking news. All rounded off nicely with a few words from this month's sponsor, The Whatever Crew!

- September 2011 featuring -

• SHOWCASE TOWERS NEVER SLEEPS!

• MANCHESTER MUSIC SEMINARS

• NEWS PICKS FROM LIVE UK MAGAZINE

• NEWS PICKS FROM TPI MAGAZINE

• NEWS PICKS FROM RECORD OF THE DAY

• FEATURED CLIENT, THE WHATEVER CREW

SHOWCASE TOWERS NEVER SLEEPS!

With 2011 disappearing with speed, the time is upon us to start putting together the 2012 edition of Showcase! Steve and I have been working hard behind the scenes to continue improving the much loved product and have some great new developments to introduce…

• Increase of printed copies by 40% (not many publishers can say that these days!)

• Increased promotion into Europe
• New "International Suppliers Guide"
• New cross platform mobile application in the making
• Sponsors of the TPi Awards 2012 'Favourite Freight Company' Award

Making the decision to print an extra 2000 copies for the next edition was an easy one. With the brand new international suppliers guide ready to feature in the new book and the support it has already received across Europe, means we have teamed up with Eurosonic Noorderslag (Netherlands) and Popkomm (Germany) to extend the Showcase brand into a truly European source of contacts.

With tight deadlines approaching for our January launch, bookings for the print, website and mobile app are now being taken up to the end of November 2011. To secure your place in the best edition yet, please contact James or Steve on +44 (0)1892 557825.

Manchester Music Seminars is a brand new music business conference aimed at the 16-24 year old grassroots music community looking to pursue a career in the industry. 

Taking place in Manchester's Northern Quarter at the Umbro Design Studio, MMS will be a day long creative and educational event bringing together high ranking members of the music industry to offer guidance and advice to their grassroots counterparts, discussing relevant and targeted topics aimed specifically at those looking to climb the rungs of the industry ladder.

With confirmed keynote speakers including Mary-Anne Hobbs (Xfm), Dave Pichilingi (Liverpool Sound City) and Steve Levine (UK Music, MPG), MMS will offer a comprehensive programme covering all major aspects of the music business, with confirmed panel titles including 'A Method To The Management', 'Critiquing The Melody Makers', 'The Perfect (Radio) Pitch' and 'Keeping What's Yours and Earning What You're Owed'.

Tickets are on sale priced at £37.50 and can be purchased from http://manchestermusicseminars.eventbrite.com/

For more information contact info@manchestermusicseminars.co.uk

or visit our website www.manchestermusicseminars.co.uk

Twitter: @ManMusicSeminar

Facebook: Manchester Music Seminars

PPL's proposed 2,000 per cent rate rise is branded 'ludicrous'

Venues fear new fees will threaten business
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Variety key to music and comedy show

AN EVENT that combines live music and comedy, refining an annual tradition of Christmas variety shows, expects to sell more than 20,000 tickets across two dates at Birmingham's LG Arena.
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Time Out moves into ticketing

LISTINGS GUIDE Time Out is planning to launch an in-house ticketing operation by the end of the year.
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Truck in £150,000 festival breakdown

OXFORDSHIRE'S 5,000-capacity Truck Festival is to be placed into liquidation with debts of at least £150,000 after failing to reach projected ticket sales and concessions revenue.
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NEWS PICKS FROM TPI MAGAZINE

Jodrell Bank: Ready for Transmission

When a truly spectacular live event took place at Cheshire's Jodrell Bank in July, it brought music and science together to make production history. TPi reports.
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Liberty Parade 2011

When TPi exclusively visited Romania's biggest outdoor live event, a holiday resort met all-night rave culture to establish Europe's biggest dance music production. TPi went backstage at the 11th annual Liberty Parade.

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Batman Live

Theatre production experts, arena rock specialists, a team of acrobats and an original story captures the live experience and backstage possibilities of an American comic icon. TPi Attended Batman Live.

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A Whole Spectrum of Change Is Upon Us And its Far More Than Channel 38…

Chris Headlam, MD of Orbital Sound, makes a wake-up call to everyone involved in theatre and live event sound, offering practical recommendations for the use of wireless technology.
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NEWS PICKS FROM RECORD OF THE DAY

A  new report looking into online music consumption habits shows that since 2009 the number of people who pirate music has dropped by 25 percent in Sweden. The sharp decrease coincides with a massive interest for Spotify. 

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Amazon has refreshed its entire range of Kindle tablets, adding a seven inch $199 colour Android model, a keyboard-less 4GB Touch model at $99 and a non-touchscreen 2GB $79 version. It also took an aggressive step into TV and movie delivery, bundling free streaming with the new Kindle Fire and a taster for Amazon’s Prime movie delivery store. 

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RCA and Jive have been reshuffled, with bosses Charlie Lycett and Nick Burgessleaving. A source told Sun Bizarre: "Current Jive artists are the ones who will be worried, with new A&R staff set to arrive." RotD understands Lycett left on 7 September. Unconfirmed rumours suggest Colin Barlow is taking over RCA.

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Facebook has stepped up its fight with Google and Apple to become the single website that connects users to every aspect of the internet. 

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Lady Gaga's manager Troy Carter, at the Facebook f8 conference, said: "If it was up to me, I'd give away the next album and put it on every handset that I can put it on, to get that scale," he said. "You can't be scared to fail. Sometimes we're going to get big results, and sometimes you learn a lesson, make an adjustment and move on." 

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