NME Editor Here For Resonate

The editor of NME, one of the UK’s longest-running music bibles, Conor Nicholas, is on the guest speaker list at this year’s Resonate.

He’ll be talking to local music industry folk about, amongst other things, how to get onto the pages of the famed weekly music mag.

Other speakers include Darling Department publicist Rachel Hendry, V2 Records’ Polly Birkbeck and James Roberts, A&R Editor for Music Week.

The local music industry will have the opportunity to learn from some of the UK’s most influential music professionals at free seminars in Auckland and Wellington in March.

Presented by the British Council of New Zealand, Mai FM and the New Zealand Music Industry Commission, Resonate 05 will be held at the Auckland Art Gallery from March 3 to 5.

A plenary session, The Great Music Media Scrum, will be held at the NZ Film Archive Mediaplex in Wellington on March 2 between 12 noon and 4pm.

Topics over the four days include the rise of the independent label; how to get your band noticed in the UK; what you have to do as an international artist to make the pages of NME; current trends in the UK market; the future of music press; what effect digital will really have on the physical side of the business; and whether there is a need for bands to have their own publicists.

British Council Arts Manager Jodie Molloy says the forum is a unique opportunity for anyone in the business of music to learn from some of the UK’s best creative talent. Sessions are no-cost events that are free to the public.