Unfortunately my hopes of being able to write this blog from sunny California on the eve of the BPI Sync Licensing Trade Mission to Los Angeles have been foiled by a volcano with an unpronounceable name in the Nordic wastes of Iceland and the consequent grounding of flights across Europe. This past ... [More]

The BPI Sync Licensing mission is now just about a week away, although it probably seems like those concerned have been working on nothing else for months now………   The programme is obviously at this late stage more or less finalised, although there are still a few niggling loose ends which will ... [More]

The deadline for registrations to the 2010 BPI Sync Licensing mission passed last week, and I’m pleased to say despite the testing commercial times we live in (or maybe precisely because of?), we have had a record number of applications and are taking over 40 companies to the City of Angels this coming April. The delegate list contains a large number of ‘first-timers’, plus some returnees. Hopefully, whatever category our delegates fit into, all will find it a useful and hopefully profitable experience. [More]

My MIDEM this year didn’t start until Sunday evening, as other commitments made an earlier arrival not possible. However, Easyjet Flight # 3103 from Stansted duly deposited me at Nice airport mid afternoon and - courtesy of the Nice/Cannes express bus - I had my delegate registration ID round my neck, and was on the British Music @ MIDEM stand within a couple of hours. Although the ‘exhibition day’ was nearly over, there was still plenty of activity and bustling evidence of the increased number of UK delegates that we had at this year’s MIDEM. [More]