SoundBase is a new festival of learning for young people interested in music and looking to learn new skills from Music Plus mentors.
A FREE afternoon of tips on how to get your music heard from some of Scotland’s top writers and broadcasters. Register for the event here.
Speakers include:
Aarti Joshi
Aarti previously led the DF Concerts & Events Marketing, Communications & Sponsorship team as well as being a member of the company’s Senior Management Team. Day to day she oversaw Marketing campaigns for the likes of T in the Park, The Papal Visit, Ryder Cup Gala Concert, TRNSMT Festival and Edinburgh & Glasgow Summer Sessions.
Aarti also manages one of Scotland’s most successful independent acts – The LaFontaines and is promoter and DJ at one of Glasgow’s longest running alternative and female fronted club nights, Pretty Ugly. She is the Board of SWIM (Scottish Women Inventing Music) and The Advisory Board of the Marketing Society Scotland as well as the panel for Sub Club’s Dazzle Initiative which is focussed on increasing diversity in the clubs/DJ scene in Scotland.
Phoebe Inglis-Holmes (BBC Introducing)
Phoebe Inglis-Holmes is a broadcaster, DJ, writer, & record label coadjutor. Phoebe’s no-stone-unturned attitude to new music has led her to host shows on BBC Radio 1; BBC Radio 6music; BBC Radio Scotland; the BBC Scotland TV channel, & beyond.
Previously working in music media as a journalist & PR, Phoebe has toured extensively across the UK & international circuits both as a DJ & club-night manager in her own right; imprinting her brand of bass music on some of the world’s hottest underground events & clubs, from New York to Paris.
Aisha Fatunmbi- Randall (SNACK Magazine)
Aisha is a full time content and social media executive and BA Honours Journalism graduate. She is immensely passionate about culture, creativity, diversity and is a devoted writer who has spent four years writing for music and cultural publications as a freelance journalist.
Currently she is a contributing writer for SNACK Magazine, one of Scotland’s leading arts and culture platforms. Since joining the SNACK team Aisha has written feature pieces on social issues as well as music reviews and interviews for a wide variety of genres. Aisha is also a staff music writer for DSTNGR, a music, fashion and culture movement based out of London with a focus on diversity, where she writes daily music reviews.