Sooner than all that, Manchester music convention In The City is just two weeks away, and they announced their line up of speakers last week.
On Sunday 5 Oct you'll get an opening address from legendary artist manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who is the "official host" of ITC this year, of course. Culture Minister man Andrew Burnham will then give a keynote speech, before attention is focused on the festivals sector, with Green Man Festival MD Fiona Stewart, Tixdaq's Steve Machin, DF Concerts/T In The Park chief Geoff Ellis, Primary Talent MD Peter Elliott and Heather McGill of 2 Rock all set to participate. There'll also be a session on the marketing challenges for the modern music industry, with Virgin US Co-President Ray Cooper, ad agency KLP's Natasha Kizzle and Henry Semmence from Absolute Marketing all taking part.
On Monday 6 Oct it will be onto management, and therefore the return of Loog-Oldham to the stand, where he'll be joined by Supervision Management's James Sandom and Cerne Canning and the current chair of the IMMF, Petri Lunden, who will all be giving their respective viewpoints. The afternoon will then be dedicated to all things digital with Tim Hadley (Vodaphone), Tim Grimsditch (Nokia), Edward Averdieck (Real World), Ben Drury (7 Digital), Graeme Ferguson (SonyBMG), Mark Mulligan (Jupiter Research), Steve Purdham (We7) and Charles Caldas (Merlin) among those taking part.
And finally, on Tuesday 7 Oct, the development of music TV will be under the spotlight with former TOTP producer Chris Cowey, Phil Poole (Box TV), Chris Price (MTV), Symon Hallam (Joost), Martin Talbot (Official Charts Company), Emma Smithwick (BBC Switch) all offering their take.
These, I should add, are just the highlights. You'll find full info at www.inthecity.co.uk, and if you're a press type you should get in touch with [email protected].
Meanwhile, here's what In The City co-founder and Director Yvette Livesey says: "It is a really strong line-up of panels this year. We have deliberately widened our focus and have tried to give people a big picture view of where the music business is heading. We have a whole host of industry heavyweights lined up to debate some of the biggest issues facing our industry and I'm sure we're going to have an extremely educational and inspirational three days in Manchester".