WIDE DAYS ANNOUNCES 2014 DATES & EARLY BIRD TICKETS

Scotland’s Wide Days music business convention has introduced a new format for its daytime programme, which will take place at Teviot Row House in Edinburgh on April 9-10, 2014.

Day one will focus on topics relating to the live sector. John Langford, director of concerts, events and ticketing at The Hydro, is confirmed to take part in an interview about the flagship Glasgow venue and its impact.

The sessions on day two will concentrate on topics relating to rights holders - record labels, publishers, artists and managers – with one panel set to feature decision makers from radio, retail and digital platforms talking about why they get behind a release.

“Wide Days 2013 was our most successful event yet, with unprecedented media coverage and directors from some of the world’s leading music companies attending,” says founder Olaf Furniss. “Wide Days 2014 is our fifth anniversary and we plan to make it even better.”

Organisers have frozen the price of both the standard pass [£49] and the premium pass [£125], which helps raise funds to host the event and support the concession rates [£38 students and £34 Musicians’ Union members].

Delegates registering before January 16, when further details of the programme will be announced, benefit from a special early bird rate of £33 [standard] and £100 [premium].

Wide Days 2014 convention passes can be purchased from: http://www.widedays.com/tickets


ABOUT WIDE DAYS
Wide Days is Scotland’s only convention dedicated exclusively to music business seminars, presentations and showcases. The annual boutique event is hosted in Edinburgh by not-for-profit organisation Born To Be Wide. It provides a forum for the next generation of industry players and veterans to exchange knowledge and ideas.

Since its launch in 2010, Wide Days has consistently attracted high-profile speakers including leading festival promoters, managers, publishers and technology experts. Its concise live programme, which is open to the public, provides a snapshot of some of Scotland’s most exciting emerging acts, across a diverse range of genres.

In 2013, BBC Newsnight Scotland filmed a nine-minute report on the music industry from Wide Days and the event was described as “an unmissable fixture in our calendar” by leading trade publication Record Of The Day. For additional quotes see http://www.widedays.com/testimonials.

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