Organisers of music industry convention thingy In The City yesterday revealed details of this year's big interview. As I'm pretty sure we've previously reported, this year's ITC will take place a wee bit later than before, at the end of October. That means the big interview event will take place on 29 Oct.
This year it will see the former Chairman of BMG Music, Richard Griffiths, interviewing the current (and rather new) Chairman of SonyBMG, Ged Doherty. Both Griffiths and Doherty have had long careers in the major label sector, and both held senior positions at both Sony and BMG prior to their merger. During that time they both worked with a stack of great artists, the former playing an integral role in the development of Westlife, the latter Kula Shaker, but you know, nobody's perfect (ah, that's not fair - I quite liked Kula Shaker, and Westlife aren't that bad. Oh, no, actually. They are). With Doherty freshly in the top job at the merged major, and with Griffiths now working in artist management, it should be an interesting session.
Elsewhere in ITC proceedings Billy Bragg will tear himself away from reading the small print of music websites to interview music management legend Peter Jenner, who is Bragg's manager but has also overseen the careers of other artists of some note, including Pink Floyd, The Clash, Ian Dury and Mark Bolan. Other keynote speakers for this year include Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis and Elecktra Record Founder Jac Holzman.
For more information on all this may I suggest a visit to http://www.inthecity.co.uk - unless it's press information you require, in which case give the Velocity chaps a call.