BPI member company employees are eligible to attend these free events, and places can be booked here.
Location:
Gibson Brands, 61-62 Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 8NQ.
Date:
13th November 2019
Schedule:
6.30pm – Doors open + Welcome drink
7.00pm – Panel + Q&A
8.15pm – Pizza & Drinks
9:30pm – Event closes
UK record labels association the BPI is delighted to announce that “Wisdom Wednesdays” returns on 13th November and will be hosted by Gibson Brands, 61-62 Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 8NQ.
This event will enable BPI members to network, learn and be inspired. The evening consists of two parts – a panel discussion and Q&A with four successful music industry professionals sharing their personal journey, and offering invaluable insight into their thought processes, followed by a mixer with free drinks and pizza.
The latest panel focuses on music curators – how they made it and the roles they play in shining the spotlight on exciting music in an attention-poor music landscape. With fierce dedication and deep knowledge of their respective cultural niches, our fantastic speakers each look after a wide spectrum of genres, from mainstream to cutting edge pop, through to urban and alternative. In this panel we will try to uncover the paths they have travelled – how they discovered music, how they managed to turn their passion into a career, how they navigated the ups and downs of the various cultural shifts they witnessed along the way, and what makes them tick.
Our speakers cover a wide variety of backgrounds, with BBC Radio 6 Music’s Sam Moy, GRM Daily’s Posty, Popjustice’s Peter Robinson and Spotify’s Sara Sesardic. (See below for more information on the panellists).
Previous Wisdom Wednesdays events have hosted speakers from Abbey Road, AEI, Barbican, BMG, Concord Music, Dirty Hit, Downtown Music, Glassnote UK, Kobalt/AWAL, Lewis Silkin, Machine Management, Merky, PIAS, Remote Control Agency, Sony Music, Warner Music and Yes Please. Tickets normally sell-out fast, so members are asked to ensure they book their free place in advance here.
This third Wisdom Wednesdays panel of the year will be moderated by Music Week’s Ben Homewood, and the following line-up has been confirmed:
Peter Robinson - Journalist & Founder, Popjustice
Peter Robinson is a journalist best known for founding and running the iconic brand Popjustice, which became the UK’s biggest independent pop site and is now one of the world’s longest-running music blogs. Along the way there have been Popjustice books, club nights, live showcases, a record label and compilation albums along with curation for Apple Music and an In Residence series for Spotify. Peter has been writing about music since he was 15 and his content has appeared in places like the Guardian, Q (where he is a contributing editor), Vice, ES Magazine, NME, heat, GQ Style, BEAT, The Fader, i-D, The Observer, Stylist, The Times, Attitude, Pitchfork, Time Out, and more. His words have also popped up in books, tour programmes and sleevenotes, in award-winning PR campaigns and on the TV.
Posty - CEO & Founder, GRM Daily
Posty is CEO and Founder of GRM Daily, the UK’s leading urban music platform. Posty founded GRM Daily in 2009 and has turned it into a platform which has over 1 Billion YouTube views and a social reach of over 2 million.
He also has a record label, GRM Records and has worked with a number of high profile artists including Skepta, Chip and Giggs via his platform. GRM Daily has been named the official leading UK youth culture website and is multi award winning across a variety of categories, including Most Influential Digital Platform at the Young Music Awards. GRM also provides media services such as video production, advertising, consultancy and creative.
Sam Moy - Head of Content Commissioning, BBC Radio 6 Music
Sam is Head of Content Commissioning for BBC Radio 6 Music, commissioning programming across the network and looking after day to day management of the output. Sam also leads the charge on the annual 6 Music festival, which in past years has been held in Manchester, Tyneside, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow. Prior to joining the station, Sam was at Radio 1 for many years and produced Chris Moyles, Jo Whiley, Greg James, Rob Da Bank and launched Annie Mac on the network. Sam was also an Event Producer at the BBC Electric Proms and produced shows with Oasis, Dizzee Rascal, Goldfrapp and Robbie Williams.
Sara Sesardic - Senior Music Editor, Spotify
Sara Sesardic is senior music editor at Spotify. As part of the music culture and editorial team, Sara curates playlists with a focus on all things pop for the UK and Ireland. Before joining Spotify, Sara was a radio producer, and has worked across various shows for stations like BBC Radio 2, Heart and Absolute Radio.
BPI member company employees are eligible to attend these free events, and places can be booked here.
Location:
Gibson Brands, 61-62 Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 8NQ.
Date:
13th November 2019
Schedule:
6.30pm – Doors open + Welcome drink
7.00pm – Panel + Q&A
8.15pm – Pizza & Drinks
9:30pm – Event closes
