Lara Baker
10.15-11 TC014
Lara is BBC Introducing Live's head of sessions content and programming. Named in Music Week’s Women in Music Roll of Honour and SheSaidSo's Alternative Power List in 2018 and 2017, Lara is a music industry professional with over 13 years experience in events management, strategic marketing, brand management, comms and PR. Lara sits on UK Music’s Diversity Taskforce, supports the Love Music Hate Racism campaign and organises regular women in music and diversity-focused events. She blogs regularly on these matters for The Huffington Post, has contributed to articles in Marie Claire, Forbes, Music Week and many other publications. Lara created the annual AIM Independent Music Awards, shining a light on the wealth of talent on UK independent labels, as well as various music businesses conferences including Music Connected, Women In Music & Entertainment & Indie-Con.
The UoG Music Graduate Panel
11.15-12.30 TC014
Not so long ago they were studying with us at UoG - now they’re working in the music and media industries. Hear about what it's really like and get the inside track on securing and sustaining work in the music business. Our guests will respond to a blend of prepared topics from the Chair and live questions from the floor, so come primed with any questions you would like to put to the panel.
Not so long ago they were studying with us at UoG - now they’re working in the music and media industries. Hear about what it's really like and get the inside track on securing and sustaining work in the music business. Our guests will respond to a blend of prepared topics from the Chair and live questions from the floor, so come primed with any questions you would like to put to the panel.
Demi Marriner's debut EP 'Tracks and Trails', and follow up EP 'Dandelion' reached numbers 1 and 2 in the iTunes UK Country Album Charts, and she is now working on new material, with a live EP currently in production. Demi has made her mark performing in the UK, Ireland, Europe and Canada, including support shows for Jon Gomm, Tia McGraff, BJ Barham (of American Aquarium), Cattle & Cane and Elles Bailey. As well as playing the main stage at Wychwood Festival and the Forest stage at 2000 Trees, she has been a regular at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and supported Rufus Wainwright at Birmingham Symphony Hall.
(Popular Music 2015-2018) 
Kenny Vaughan is the Licensing Manager at Sony Music Entertainment and Ministry Of Sound, buying and selling music rights for compilations and assisting the development of new systems to help Sony process metadata. Before joining Sony, Kenny was the Label Manager for Naim Records where he ran the marketing campaign for Eska’s Mercury-nominated debut album. Other campaigns include MOBO Award-winners Sons Of Kemet, Neil Cowley Trio, Get The Blessing, Marc Ford and Sabina Sciubba.
(Music and Media Management 2009-2013) |
Andy Burgess is a pioneer in the vertical filmmaking space and was a Shorty Award Snapchatter of the Year Finalist in 2018. He has worked in partnership with Forbes, Three, BBC, College Humour, UNICEF, Nasdaq, Joby, Topdeck Travel and more, creating unique and engaging native content for social. Andy has a weekly episode on IGTV following his travels all around the world and building a community of like-minded storytellers and filmmakers. He recently spoke at VidCon Australia about the importance of authentic storytelling on social.
(Popular Music 2012-2015) 
Lauren Geary has been events and marketing coordinator at Tarren Production since 2017, after several years gaining experience at festivals and events in artist liaison and PR roles. She also worked with PPL in a data management role before its recent merger with The PRS. While at UoG, Lauren won the Chartered Management Institute Harmsworth Award for writing the year’s outstanding research project.
(Music and Media Management 2012-2015) |
Kaptin Barrett
12.45 TC014
Kaptin Barret is Head of Music for Boomtown Festival, one of the UK’s largest festivals where over 600 artists from around 30 countries perform in a theatrical pop up city. He is a co-host on Ujima 98Fm’s Super Soca Show and a DJ under the name AAA Badboy, playing at various clubs and festivals around the world and recording mixes for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra among others.
Chairing this session is Dr Matt Lovett academic subject lead for Music at University of Gloucestershire.
Dr Monique Charles
2pm TC014
Monique is a sociologist and an authority on Grime and politics. Her PhD thesis - 'Hallowed by the Grime?: A musicological and sociological genealogy of Grime music and its relation to black Atlantic religious discourse' - combined her interests in music, spirituality, sociology and the African diaspora. She teaches at both the Institute of Contemporary Music Practice, and University of West London. Amongst many other publications she has recently contributed to The Corbyn Effect (2017) and Blackness in Britain (2016).
Sharron Kraus
3.00 TC014
Sharron is a singer and songwriter, and will be talking about how music & songwriting can grow out of and work with stories, poetry and landscape.
As well as drawing on folk traditions Sharron's music is influenced by gothic literature, surrealism, myth and magick. Her songs tell intricate tales of rootless souls, dark secrets and earthly joys, the lyrics plucked as sonorously as her acoustic guitar.
She has released seven solo albums, the first of which, ‘Beautiful Twisted’, was named by Rolling Stone in their Critics’ Top Albums of 2002. Sharron has been featured in The Wire, fRoots, Uncut, The Sound Projector and Dirty Linen, and is one of the musicians focused on in Jeanette Leech’s Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid, Psych and Experimental Folk. She has appeared on Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’, and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Shropshire, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US.
As well as drawing on folk traditions Sharron's music is influenced by gothic literature, surrealism, myth and magick. Her songs tell intricate tales of rootless souls, dark secrets and earthly joys, the lyrics plucked as sonorously as her acoustic guitar.
She has released seven solo albums, the first of which, ‘Beautiful Twisted’, was named by Rolling Stone in their Critics’ Top Albums of 2002. Sharron has been featured in The Wire, fRoots, Uncut, The Sound Projector and Dirty Linen, and is one of the musicians focused on in Jeanette Leech’s Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid, Psych and Experimental Folk. She has appeared on Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’, and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Shropshire, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US.
Music Business Networking Session
4.15 TC007
After our day of music panels and guests, this is the all-music networking session, involving guests who are able to stay on, graduates, students and staff. All music students are welcome and some formal 'speed networking' activities are planned too - so bring any evidence of your work or business cards along!