MusicMatters 2013 – The Conference

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Last week we had the MusicMatters conference here in Singapore. Actually, the conference has grown so big, it now goes by the name of AllThatMatters and this year there were five main components, MusicMatters, MusicMattersLive, the MusicMatters Academy, DigitalMatters and the newly added YouTubeFanfest. I won’t bore you with numbers, but it was an expansive [...] Read full article

MusicMatters Quick Update

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For the past two days I’ve been in conference and live music mode, attending the MusicMatters conference here in Singapore. Tuesday was a day of talks and panels about digital media and online video. Yesterday was a whole day of music industry talk, including an interview with Johnny Wright, manager of Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Justin [...] Read full article

The Society For Film – An Update

It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned by side-project, The Society For Film. This is a collaboration with Hong Kong based film reviewer, James Marsh, who is Asian Editor for Twitchfilm and programmes for Fantastic Fest and writes for Verite Magazine and Cathay Pacific’s inflight Discovery Magazine. The core of the project is now regular [...] Read full article

80s Music – Songs Of Disenchantment

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My daughter is doing a school project dealing with music’s social impact. The students are being asked to pick a decade and research songs from that period, while looking at the social issues people faced at that time. She chose to look at the 80s and her preliminary inquiry brought up the cold war, nuclear [...] Read full article

10 Things I’m Looking Forward To At This Year’s MusicMatters

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Next week, Asia’s premier Music Industry conference hits Singapore again. As always MusicMatters promises to be bigger and better than ever. OK, they always promise that, but it certainly looks to be true again, as the conference continues to expand and diversify its programme. This will be my fourth time at the conference and it [...] Read full article

You Can’t Deny – Update

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Last week I announced You Can’t Deny What’s Inside, my first solo commercial music release. I’m thankful for the positive and encouraging response from so many of you. I’m writing now as a way to reply to some of the questions I’ve received. At the time I called You Can’t Deny What’s Inside an EP, [...] Read full article