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SMIA Workshops: Maintaining a Healthy Work/Life Balance During the Coronavirus Crisis
Since lockdown, many people are working from home and are struggling to strike a healthy work/life balance because the lines are more blurred. This workshop will deliver tips to help create or maintain more balance.
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BBC Scotland – Coronavirus: Scotland’s Response
The SMIA’s General Manager Robert Kilpatrick spoke with BBC Scotland at The Glad Cafe regarding the impact the pandemic is having on the music industry alongside Glasgow Barrowlands, Karine Polwart and Castlesound Studios.
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Live after lockdown: venues on the idea of gigs with social distancing
Countries like Spain and Sweden have began phasing in live music events and the NME looks at how viable this could be for the UK in the immediate future.
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SMIA Workshops: Current Funding Opportunities for Music Professionals
There are always a number of great opportunities for funding your ideas and projects, and at the moment due to the pandemic, there’s even more funds available than normal. Join us to find out more about what opportunities exist for you.
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RSNO goes digital with its Friday Night Club
New online series of never-before-seen concert footage keeps audiences connected with the orchestra.
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XpoNorth 2020 Digital Edition Announced
Scotland’s leading Creative Industries Conference XpoNorth announce an immersive digital edition of XpoNorth 2020 that will take place across the original dates of Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 June.
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Artists and labels made over £5million from Bandcamp sales last Friday
The music distribution platform Bandcamp waived its revenue cut for 24 hours meaning all proceeds went straight to artists/labels.
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Music Venue Trust ‘Crisis Fund’ Passes £1million Mark
Following the launch of its #saveourvenues campaign last week Music Venue Trust has announced that donations have already passed the £1m milestone.
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I Work In Music: Tomlin Leckie
The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) presents ‘I Work In Music’ – a new series consisting of educational and entertaining interviews with professionals from across the full spectrum of the music industry in Scotland. In the third episode we meet Tomlin Leckie, an Edinburgh-based blues harmonica player/teacher and owner of the Tomlin Harmonica School. Filmed and edited…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Gareth Goodlad (Danger Kill Productions)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… I’m a videographer and musician I run the video production company Danger Kill Productions and play in the band Posable Action Figures. I grew up in the Shetland islands, I have always had a love of music right from an early age. I sort of…
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SMIA Launches Advisory Group Amid Coronavirus Crisis
The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) announces the appointment of its inaugural Advisory Group, made up of music practitioners operating across different sub-sectors of Scotland’s music industry.
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The List teams up with GigsGuide to host virtual concert listings
As of March, The List have begun accepting submissions for online events as part of their website’s listings service, ensuring that anyone broadcasting or hosting a virtual event can get some help spreading the word.
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Can the music business survive coronavirus?
The UK industry is the most successful in the world after America, but labels, venues, studios, artists and road crews are all under threat as the pandemic brings everything to a halt.
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How music has fought pandemics for 2,700 years
People singing from balconies during coronavirus lockdown are part of a long tradition of using music to fight fear, stretching back through the Black Death to the 7th century BC.
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Recorded music community comes together to provide additional support to artists
The UK’s record labels are coming together with streaming services and other parts of the music industry to provide additional hardship funding to musicians in need.
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Can live streaming save the music industry in lockdown?
During the coronavirus crisis, musicians are taking to social media to broadcast gigs from home. But is anyone earning any money from them, and is this sustainable?