News
Stay informed with the latest from the SMIA, including our own news, developments, and exclusive features, alongside key music industry updates from Scotland and beyond.
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Born To Be Wide: Harmonising With Edinburgh’s Festivals
Join Born To Be Wide for their ‘Harmonising with Edinburgh’s Festivals’ panel to coincide with their 16th birthday celebrations on Thursday 6th February at the Pleasance in Edinburgh from 7pm. Harmonising with Edinburgh’s festivals: developing partnerships with the Scotland’s music scene. Edinburgh is known globally as the Festival City, hosting a broad range of international…
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SMIA Workshops: Touring in Rural Scotland
As part of the SMIA’s innovation-led development programme, designed to help nurture business talent and build infrastructure in Scotland’s music industry, we will be hosting this free entry ‘Touring in Rural Scotland’ workshop at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, taking place on Tuesday 25th February 11am – 1pm. About the Workshop Are you band,…
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Independent Venue Week 2020: Scottish Shows
ABERDEEN Krakatoa Friday 31st January – Atlas Empire + Gulls + New Kings TICKETS OTDSaturday 1st February – Derange + Fragments + Virtues TICKETS OTD EDINBURGH Leith Depot Monday 27th January – 3 Mushrooms + The Angry Beaver Conspiracy + Acolyte TICKET LINK TBCTuesday 28th January – The Party Slogan + The Heartbreak Diet +…
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SMIA Workshops: An Introduction to Events Management
As part of the SMIA’s innovation-led development programme, designed to help nurture business talent and build infrastructure in Scotland’s music industry, we will be hosting this free entry ‘Introduction to Events Management’ as part of this year’s Question Session at The Lighthouse in Glasgow, taking place on Saturday 8th February 3pm – 5pm. About the…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Kerr Wilson (CreamFloats)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… Hello! My name is Kerr Wilson and I am the founder of CreamFloats – a music-tech start-up based in Edinburgh. We have identified the disjointed nature of finding and discovering music via YouTube – the biggest music distributor online. We’ve all been there, finding an…
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Research will measure how much the music industry is worth to Scotland’s economy
A new partnership of academics and music industry professionals is set to map and measure the impact of the music industry on Scotland, it was announced today (16 December 2019). Led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) – a membership organisation and innovation agency which exists to…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Diljeet Bhachu (Scottish-Asian Creative Artists’ Network [ScrAN])
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… Hello, I’m Diljeet and I’m a musician-activist-researcher based in Glasgow. I’m currently doing lots of different things – I’ve just finished a PhD, so I’m juggling some university teaching work, coaching, and writing and playing music, as well as a job in the heritage sector. As…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Stephen A. Watkins (SAW)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… I am a specialist ALT. POP. Record Producer & Mixer. Artists and their managers hire me to send their music into space. You can usually find me hunchbacked over a mixing console and blowing something up in the various rooms in town – or working down here…
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SMIA Workshops: Booking and Promoting Music Shows
As part of the SMIA’s innovation-led development programme, designed to help nurture business talent and build infrastructure in Scotland’s music industry, we will be hosting this free entry ‘Booking and Promoting Music Shows’ workshop at Clarks bar in Dundee on Thursday 28th November 4pm – 6pm. About the Workshop Sarra Wild is a DJ, events…
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The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) Announce Newly Appointed Directors
The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) today announces the appointment of seven new Directors who have joined its Company Board. The newly-appointed Directors of the not-for-profit organisation – which exists to represent and develop Scotland’s music industry – are Alan Clarke (The Business Growth Partnership), Caroline Parkinson (University of Edinburgh / CP Creative Project Management), Fiona Ellis (DF Concerts), James Bruce (City of Edinburgh Council), Katch Holmes (Knockengorroch /…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Kirstin McEwan (Dumfries Music Conference)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… I am one of the core team members behind Dumfries Music Conference (DMC), working as the Marketing Manager. My role involves content creation, social media, management of our website and maintaining communications with partner organisations and the press. I also work as a photographer and…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Hamish Fingland (Kingdom Management)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… I work as an Artist Manager at Kingdom Management where I look after The Ninth Wave, LUCIA, Walt Disco and a new band from Edinburgh called Medicine Cabinet. I come from a band background having previously played in a number of bands, released a few records…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Jen O’Brien (Music Broth)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… I’m Co-Founder of Music Broth, Scotland’s first musical instrument and equipment library, social enterprise with charitable status. I run Music Broth alongside Founder Felix Slavin from our base in Govanhill, Glasgow. Our whole ethos is to provide equitable access to musical opportunities for all. Felix…
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SMIA Workshops: Networking and Building Relationships in the Music Industry
As part of the SMIA’s innovation-led development programme, designed to help nurture business talent and build infrastructure in Scotland’s music industry, we will be hosting this free entry Networking and Building Relationships in the Music Industry workshop at The Melting Pot (Workshop Space) in Edinburgh, taking place on Tuesday 30th July from 3pm – 6pm. About the…
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SMIA at XpoNorth 2019
We’re very much looking forward to attending XpoNorth in Inverness this week, continuing our long-term partnership with Scotland’s leading creative industries festival. Robert, Dougal, Blue and Tommy from SMIA will all be attending XpoNorth, as well as many of our active members. We will be hanging out in the cafe and are happy to arrange short…
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SMIA Members Spotlight: Benjamin Schogler (Skoogmusic)
Tell us a bit about you and what you do… At Skoogmusic we make technology that lets anyone make music. David Skulina and I founded the company in 2009 after developing a new kind of musical instrument for disabled children and we have evolved the tech from there to make music making accessible to everyone.…