Below you can find the EuroSonic Noorderslag 2009 conference program. For an overview per day or location, you can check out the timetable.
This session is now almost able to call itself an institution as this will be it's fourth edition! Yet again we invite you to suspend all thoughts of seriousness, to relax, take a beer or two and enter into the spirit of the humour that has always attended the music industry which some forget is all about entertainment! Listen and feel to join in with tales of your own as a couple, perhaps a few, experienced music professionals share true (though sometimes a little embellished and perhaps adapted to protect the guilty!) stories of life in the various tracks that make up the music business highways and byways. Expect to laugh (hopefully) smile (probably) groan (certainly) and perhaps even hold back a tear (perhaps - but we hope it won't be that bad!)
Moderator: Allan McGowan (Allan McGowan consultants, GB)
Allan McGowan has over thirty years of experience in record retail, as a concert promoter, artist manager and booking agent. He is Agenda Advisor to the ILMC, Associate Editor of IQ, News Editor for Vip News and Administrator of music publishing company Wintrup Songs Ltd. He regularly participates in many of the major international music trade events.
Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury Festival, GB)
Carl Leighton Pope (The Leighton Pope Foundation, GB)




