Irish Music Week 19 (formerly Hard Working Class Heroes) have announced the first round of international industry peeps joining them for the conference.
It is one of the largest gathering of music industry professionals from bookers to labels, managers, music supervisors, radio folk and journalists from around the world and here in Ireland. It takes place 1st – 5th October 2019.
The first batch of International representatives including our very own Phil Taggart are:
• Adam Ryan – The Great Escape
• Almudena Heredero – Primavera Sound
• Debbie Ball – Create Spark
• Dev Sherlock – SXSW
• Ellie Rumbold – Partisan Records
• Javier Lopez – Reed MIDEM
• Jeff Bell – Partisan Records
• Kees Van Reijen – IMPALA
• Lisa Hresko – A2IM
• Michael Lambert – Wide Days
• Mikey Rishwain Bernard – M for Montreal
• Oskar Strajn – ESNS
• Philip Taggart – Slacker / BBC Radio1 / Hometown Records
• Ralph Christoph – c/o pop Festival and Convention
• Rev. Moose – Marauder
• Sindri Ástmarsson – Iceland Airwaves
The conference is made up of workshops, panels and networking events across a bunch of areas you want to be aware of as you grow as an artist or professional in the music industry. The live showcases will take place across Friday and Saturday, the 4th and 5th of October.
Some of last year’s big successes from the festival include Just Mustard, The Wood Burning Savages, Wild Youth, Æ Mak, Flynn, Pillow Queens, ROE, Bad Bones, A. Smyth, Kitt Philippa, Laoise, THUMPER, Maria Kelly, Molly Sterling, Joshua Burnside and more.
