Hey Music Mag - Issue 5 - April 2019
Hey! Grab your glitter, put fuel in your campervan and hit the road! With festival season on the horizon, our jam-packed Festival Special issue helps you make summer 2019 one to remember. Whether you want to ‘go big’ or ‘go boutique’, our UK festival guide will steer you to the best music festivals in good old Blighty. Or take flight with our pick of the coolest international festivals on the planet. What’s more, we chart the evolution of dancing in fields and there’s fun festival trivia with which to impress your mates. Elsewhere, we catch up with hot-right-now UK hip-hop stars Children of Zeus before they re-embark on their UK tour, get lyrical with songwriting genius Tim Fraser, and question whether 1989 was the best year for music – ever. Your summer planning starts here! Enjoy the issue.
Hey!
Grab your glitter, put fuel in your campervan and hit the road! With festival season on the horizon, our jam-packed Festival Special issue helps you make summer 2019 one to remember. Whether you want to ‘go big’ or ‘go boutique’, our UK festival guide will steer you to the best music festivals in good old Blighty. Or take flight with our pick of the coolest international festivals on the planet. What’s more, we chart the evolution of dancing in fields and there’s fun festival trivia with which to impress your mates.
Elsewhere, we catch up with hot-right-now UK hip-hop stars Children of Zeus before they re-embark on their UK tour, get lyrical with songwriting genius Tim Fraser, and question whether 1989 was the best year for music – ever.
Your summer planning starts here!
Enjoy the issue.
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Photo_ David Holderbach<br />
“[IMS co-founder] Pete Tong is a ‘change<br />
agent’ and one of the best brains in our<br />
scene. [With IMS] we’ve created an amazing<br />
platform for the genre and it’s rewarding to<br />
see people enjoy it so much. I love Sonar and<br />
Amsterdam Dance Event but felt that Ibiza<br />
was a good place for an event of this kind.<br />
“IMS is a powerful platform but it wasn’t<br />
designed to have a mandate for change<br />
in the industry. It puts the topics out there<br />
but I felt we also needed a body to help<br />
implement change. We put it to the vote<br />
with the IMS delegation and when the<br />
response was so positive myself and<br />
Kurosh Nasseri put in the seed money<br />
to launch the trade organisation, the<br />
Association for Electronic <strong>Music</strong>.<br />
“AFEM is a labour of love but I think it’s<br />
probably my greatest contribution to this<br />
culture and I hope it survives me and<br />
becomes as powerful as the CMA [Country<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Association] is to country music.<br />
“AFEM was a miracle to come together,<br />
to bring rivals into a room to discuss and<br />
share issues and to find that common<br />
ground between us. It’s almost back to<br />
the principles of why dance music was so<br />
special at the beginning.<br />
“We’ve really made a stand on topics like<br />
mental health and sexual harassment, and<br />
credit to Mark Lawrence, our CEO, for living<br />
and breathing a lot of this stuff day-to-day<br />
and being the nerve centre for so much<br />
disruption going on in our industry.<br />
“The response to sexual harassment has<br />
been strong; Get Played Get Paid has been<br />
a huge success and to hear that artists are<br />
now getting royalties through because of our<br />
work with PROs is incredible. For me,<br />
though, the fact that our industry can now<br />
speak with one voice is the real highlight.”<br />
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