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Schedule announced for CMU:DIY x The Great Escape
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 19 April 2016
The schedule has been published for CMU:DIY x The Great Escape, the educational programme that takes place on day three of the new music festival in Brighton next month.
As previously reported, CMU:DIY x TGE is this year focused on ‘going live’. New artists need to play live to hone their craft and build a fanbase, and often that means staging your own gigs or club nights. Through a series of interviews, presentations, discussions and demonstrations, CMU:DIY x TGE will talk new talent through the process of staging and promoting gigs, getting other bookings, connecting with the industry, and using the live space to build and capture a fanbase.
This year’s CMU:DIY x TGE is supported by TuneCore and will take place at Brighton’s Old Courtroom and Lighthouse, with a series of interviews and panels at the former, and more focused talks and one-on-one conversations, plus practical demos of the latest music-making technologies, at the latter.
The day is hosted by Dice’s Jen Long, producer/DJ John ’00’ Fleming and CMU’s Chris Cooke, who says: “New artists often read that the music industry in 2016 is all about live, which is often depressing to hear, because it can be hard to make any money at all out of gigging at the start of your career. But those gigs are crucial, because they are where you build your initial fanbase from which everything else – recordings, merch, brand partnerships, direct-to-fan, and future touring activity – all stems”.
“But it can be hard getting the gigs when no one knows you or your music”, Cooke adds. “So one of the best ways to get started is to put on the show yourself. Or maybe a regular gig or club night that gets itself – and then yourself – some attention. Quite what that means might differ depending on the kind of music you are making, but we’ll be covering all the bases with the CMU:DIY programme at The Great Escape this year”.
Check the schedule for this year’s DIY programme at TGE here. CMU:DIY x The Great Escape is open to all TGE delegates, but standalone DIY tickets are also available for just £25 from this link.
