Below you can find the EuroSonic Noorderslag 2009 conference program. For an overview per day or location, you can check out the timetable.
Many of the Booking Agents that control the international touring business have been around since helping to invent and construct the industry as we know it today, but this is a volatile business and things change. Over the last few years new and younger faces have appeared, both in the UK and throughout Europe to make their mark and to oversee the ways that the recent seismic shifts in the music industry impact on the touring of new and established artists. We invite some key players to comment on and discuss what has changed, what remains constant, how they go about their day-to-day business and how these Agents of today see the future of the live industry.
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.
Matt Bates (Primary, GB)
Natasha Bent (The Agency, GB)
I am a booking Agent at The Agency Group, London/UK representing artists worldwide excluding North America.
Rense van Kessel (The Alternative, NL)
Kalle Lundgren (Pitch & Smith, SE)
Agent / president and c/o founder of Pitch & Smith Agency. Agent responsible for acts like Gossip, Jose Gonzalez, Wolf Parade, Junior Boys, Peter Bjorn and John among many others.
Steven Thomassen (Toutpartout, BE)
President and founder of Toutpartout agency.
Steve Zapp (International Talent Booking, GB)
