Industry Insights with Jon Davies (Shazam)
Jon Davies is Director, Music Partnerships at Shazam, one of the world’s most popular apps with more than...
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Industry Insights with Jen Long
Industry Insights with writer, broadcaster and DJ Jen Long. Jen worked extensively for the BBC presenting a new...
SMILEfest 2017: Annie Nightingale, “Turning up to a gig when it’s raining… that’s what makes the culture.”
Annie Nightingale is best known as Britain’s first female DJ on Radio 1 and is now the station’s...
SMILEfest 2017: Simon Raymonde talks Cocteau Twins, Bella Union and his new venture Lost Horizons
Simon Raymonde is a former ’twin’ of Cocteau Twins and the head honcho of independent label Bella Union....
SMILEfest 2017 Getting in and getting on: Building a sustainable music career
Recap of SMILEfest 2017 second panel Getting in and getting on: Building a sustainable music career. Guests: Jen...
SMILEfest 2017: Speech Debelle, ‘I prefer to be overwhelmed by my own black magic.’
Speech Debelle is a rapper and musician from South London who came down to the University for SMILEfest...
SMILEfest 2017 Demo Surgery feedback, ‘This is brilliant!’
Solent Music’s Demo Surgery 2017 highlighted some of the best music created by Southampton Solent University’s music students....
SMILEfest 2017 programme schedule announced
Find SMILEfest 2017 event here. 12.00 Performance: Courtney Gray Courtney Gray is on BA (Hons) Popular Music Performance...
Beyond EDM: EDM vs underground at SMILEfest
Beyond EDM: panel at Southampton Solent University’s annual music industry conference SMILEfest 2015. With Danny Howard (Radio1), Fabio...
Send your music to Demo Surgery 2017 now!
Demo Surgery is Solent Music’s showcase part of SMILEfest conference day where an industry A&R panel listens to...
Glen Matlock’s (Sex Pistols) journey to punk
Glen Matlock is the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols....
SMILEfest panel: Davyd Winter-Bates (Bury Tomorrow) and Will Gould (Creeper)
David and Will from Bury Tomorrow and Creeper talk about early days, college, first bands and how they’ve got to where...
SMILEfest panel: Beyond EDM
Beyond EDM: panel at Southampton Solent University’s annual music industry conference SMILEfest. With Danny Howard (Radio1), Fabio (D&B legend),...
Great feedback from the SMILEfest 2016 Demo Surgery
Solent Music’s Demo Surgery at SMILEfest 2016 showed that the students on Southampton Solent University’s music courses continue...
SMILEfest 2016 Conference – Preview
The eighth annual SMILEfest Music Media Industries Conference starts at 11am on 16th March 2016. Here are some...