V2 is celebrating its tenth birthday, which makes me feel very old. I remember the happy days when if you wanted to amuse yourself you could phone up the always helpful V2 regional promotions team and say "hello, is that V2, Richard Branson's new record company?" For some reason always being qualified as such really started to piss them off a bit after a while. Happy days. I bet no one ever says "hello, is that V2, Morgan Stanley's record company?" Strange that. By the way, V2's new website is now live, and I notice that the label's new logo which, if I'm being 100% honest, I think looks pretty ugly in isolation, actually looks quite nice in the context of the site.
Anyway, I'm digressing ever so slightly. This is meant to be about the rather interesting project V2 is running with the Times which is offering one individual who is either already running an independent label of their own, or who has a solid business plan to establish one, the opportunity to gain a music business development grant worth £35K and the support of V2's Cooperative Music division - the bit of V2 which works in partnership with and supports smaller indie labels like Wichita Recordings, City Slang, Bella Union, Dance To The Radio and Memphis Industries.
Which is all kinda cool. Perhaps I'll enter. We could set up a CMU record label - that would be good. We could call it Conflict Of Interest Records. Hey I like that, do you know what, I'm going to the URL below to find out more info and download an entry form. Oh, hang on, I've still got some EMI restructure news to do. Ah well, after that, I'll be there.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/stateofindependence