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'Do It Yourself? Self Releasing YOUR Music' 21st February 2008

Thursday 21st February, 4.45pm - 6.30pm
Dukes Hotel, 65-67 University Street, Belfast, BT7 IHL

NIMIC are hosting a high profile ‘Music: It’s the Business’ event that looks specifically at how to plan and manage a digital and physical music release.

How do you manage your release campaign to maximize your exposure, opportunity and incomes?

This seminar is presented by music industry expert – Phil Ellis and will feature self releasing artist Ben Glover.

This event is held in association with the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival which takes place from 20th until 24th February.

Speaker Profiles:

PHIL ELLIS
Phil Ellis has twenty years of professional music industry management experience with a vast range of artists signed to film, publishing and recording companies worldwide.

This experience encompasses a wide range of musical genres, from developing pop and rock artists to the Moscow State Symphony orchestra and chart hits with dance producers.

In 1997, Phil set up an international record label which draws on public and private sector resources to sustain itself, is embedded in a Higher Education curriculum to provide training to new entrants to the industry, enables global reach across the industry and enjoys high profile support from the UK music industry.

The label has enjoyed 40 releases and commercial sales of over 250,000 units on recorded products licensed overseas and in the UK. With 350 on-line products and deals with leading internet distributors, RF Records has just been awarded a UK third “Exemplary Feature Award” for its model by the QAA in a recent inspection.

Phil developed, in 1998, the first Higher National Diploma in Music and New Media management, which is now a Foundation Degree operating in conjunction with University of Salford.

Phil’s local, national and international knowledge of the music industry is second to none. He is in regular contact with all the key trade organisations including AIM (Association of Independent Music), PRS/MCPS, MPA (Music Publishers Association), the Music Managers Forum and more important has a respected relationship with Radio One/One Xtra and Channel 4 Ideasfactory.

As well as operating as an independent consultant, Phil Ellis is Business Development Manager for the Arts at City College Manchester, one of the largest FE colleges in the UK.

BEN GLOVER
Ben Glover has been compelled to write songs since his mid-teens when he was awoken and unsettled by Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.

He continues to be influenced by similar artists whose songs contain lyrical richness and who take a poetic approach in exploring the human condition.

When he was sixteen, Ben started performing in his home village of Glenarm, situated on the north coast of Ireland.

After graduating in Law he inherently knew that it was essential for him to pursue a career in music. In the summer of 2004 he put together his studio and touring band, “The Earls.” and in the spring of 2006 they released their eagerly awaited debut EP, “The Ballad of Carla Boone.” The EP earned Ben the Big Buzz Irish Entertainment Award for “Best New Irish Pop Act” and was critically acclaimed by many leading Irish DJ’s, including the BBC’s, Gerry Anderson, who called the EP “one of the best records ever to be made in Northern Ireland.” Ben followed up the EP with his full-length debut recording in August 2007.

He and the Earls travelled to Nashville, Tennessee to record with renowned producer/musician JD Foster (Calexico, Richmond Fontaine, Richard Buckner). Ben was joined in Blackbird Studios’ celebrated Studio A with such heavy hitters as 21-time Grammy Award winner Vince Gill on mandolin and backing vocals and John Deaderick (The Dixie Chicks, James Taylor) on Piano/B3.

Willie Nelson’s longtime harp player, Mickey Raphael, blew harmonica alongside Al Perkins’ (Rolling Stones, Neil Young, CSNY) lonesome pedal-steel guitar. Buddy Miller and Grammy Award winner Jim Laude.

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