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Five Day Forecast – w/c 20 Dec 2010
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 20 December 2010
Hello, I’ve got something a bit different for you today. Rather than rounding up what’s coming up in the music world over the next five days, I’m going to tell you what’s happening at CMU over the next five months. So that’ll be fun, won’t it? No, really, it will. We’ve got loads of brilliant and exciting stuff coming up. Look, here it is…
01: Artist Of The Year. So, tomorrow the waiting comes to an end and we finally reveal our top artist of the year. Actually, anyone who read last week’s CMU Weekly will already know who it is, but that’s beside the point. Tomorrow we publish a lengthy feature explaining exactly why that person is top of the pile in 2010, which I expect you all to read. There will be a test (there won’t).
02: Review Of The Year. On Wednesday it’s the return of our ever popular CMU Review Of The Year, which rounds up all the big stuff that happened in the world of music in the last twelve months and shrinks it all down to easily digestible nuggets. Like those mini burgers they sell in M&S but with words. We’ve slavishly gone back through our archives and pulled out all the most interesting and exciting stuff, so stay tuned.
03: The Great Escape. As we announced earlier this month, CMU will be programming the conference section of next year’s Great Escape festival in Brighton. We’re very excited about this and have already lined up some very cool stuff, though it’s currently all top secret, and telling you now would require subsequently killing you, which would be no way to start the Christmas holidays. But rest assured, you’ll find out more about what is in store at the ultimate music business gathering next May here in the CMU Daily from January. Though if you’re willing to take my word for it that it will be brilliant, and you fancy picking up a pre-Christmas bargain, you can get early bird tickets at a special price at www.escapegreat.com.
04: CMU-Tube and podcast. Two new additions to the CMU media empire will be coming your way in the new year. Firstly, there’s the relaunch of our CMU-Tube video service, which will bring you great interviews, live performances and more every week. And we’ve also got the new CMU podcast, which will round up the week in music every Friday from 21 Jan. Hosted by Chris Cooke and myself, it will feature the usual waffling in the CMU style you’ve come to know and love, but in glorious audio. Bonus.
05: CMU Training. The next series of our acclaimed one-day CMU training seminars begins on 12 Jan. As before, we’ll be covering music copyright, music PR and developing business models for the music industry. They’re filled with up-to-the-minute information and ideas at an affordable price. Hey, but don’t take my word for it, here’s what one delegate said earlier this year: “The best music business training event I have attended; relevant and up to date, your knowledge of and enthusiasm for the industry is simply exceptional”.
And there ends my final Five Day Forecast of 2010. There will be more in 2011, so please stop your crying. The last CMU Daily of the year will be with you tomorrow, and it will then return on 6 Jan, followed lazily by CMU Weekly on 21 Jan, along with our first podcast.
So, now all that remains to do is wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I hope it’s all extra festive, restful and fun.
Andy Malt
Editor, CMU
