FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Underground
Music Seminar (view
website)
Welcome to the Music Business You're
F**ked
Produced by Martin Atkins and
Curse Mackey
@ Underground Inc. Offices / Chicago / USA
Sept. 10-11th, 2005
TheRecordIndustry.com
is proud to announce their participation in the
Underground
Music Seminar, presented by Martin
Atkins (Invisible Records, PiL, NIN, Pigface)
& Curse Mackey
(Pigface, Thrill Kill Kult).
The Underground
Music Seminar is an informational
symposium that is designed to benefit you through personal
interaction with the producers and guest speakers. These
are closed door discussions with information and focus
designed exclusively for the benefit of those in attendance.
We want to know...what do you want to know about the
music business?
Find out if your dream is a nightmare
in waiting.
Hear some stories that you won't forget. Learn some
lessons that no one else in the business will tell ever
take the time to teach you. These are closed door meetings
with limited spots available.
This is not a candy-coated seminar to prepare you to
schooze for a non-existent sound design job or to learn
to mix a grammy nominated hip-hop single. This is about
survival in the real world business of sex, drugs and
rock n' roll. This is the truth. You will invest differently
after this experience - or you might run for your f#ckin'
life. If you do choose to continue, at least you'll
know some of what you are in for.
Some
of the topics to be covered:
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Package
Tour Assembly :
soundscan, pollstar, genre, lessons!
So you want to...start a label,
start a merch company, work/start a recording studio..
Sponsorship/Support
Radio Promotion: Avenues, Strategies, Services
Press, Marketing
Production: What goes on in a studio?
Indie Labels: What they want!
Talent Buying: Tools, Techniques, Idiots & Egos
Gurilla Marketing
& Culture Jamming Techniques
DIY or DIE
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Before you lose your ass, your
mind, your relationship, your car, the reason you started
this in the first place, and thousands and thousands
of dollars, why not blow $399 on a unique two day Immersion
Seminar with a couple of guys who have been there,
done that, and are still doing it !
ALIENWARE
is showing its support of the UNDERGROUND MUSIC
SEMINAR by giving away a new computer to one
of our seminar attendees. Each participant
will be entered into a random drawing at the end of
the seminar to win a killer computer workstation from
ALIENWARE. This is an awesome machine valued
at almost $2000.00 and is capable of rocking
hard on demanding graphic and audio software.
All
attendees are automatically entered into the drawing to
win the ALIENWARE
computer.
Seminar
attendance is limited to 25 participants,
and spots are filling up quickly!
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Speakers include :
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Martin Atkins:
Invisible Records, Underground
Inc.
Performer,
Producer, Label Owner, Music Business Entrepreneur
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"It's still tough for me. I joined Public
Image Limited in 1979, toured the world, played
on live television in Europe and on American Bandstand
in the States, met Dick Clark, after 5 albums with PiL
joined and managed Killing Joke,
spent some time with Ministry
documented in In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing
Up, worked with Nine Inch Nails,
(I'm in the Head Like a Hole video and worked
on the Broken CD), started the bands Pigface,
Murder Inc, and The
Damage Manual,and now have an 18 year old
label, Invisible Records and Underground Inc.
distribution with over 250 releases, my own recording
studio, screen printing business, and hopefully a state
of mind that now has me only strive to achieve the do-ably-impossible.
Into this mix, I see a constant barrage of lies and
bullsh*t. It's preposterous to me to see late night
TV ads to become a radio DJ, a record producer, or TV
personality. The traditional paths to obtain these jobs
do not exist anymore and if you've read this far, that's
already more than 399 dollars worth of insight...
Arm yourself with the knowledge to rise above the shit
and set yourself apart from the hordes of people with
the same dreams.During my second set of teaching classes
at Columbia College (The Business of Touring), as a
member of the part-time faculty, I was allowed to bring
in people with experience to talk to the class. Having
watched Curse Mackey with his bands Evil
Mothers and Grim Faeries,
go on to produce the Woodstock Tattoo and Body Arts
Festival, he seemed a natural to inform my class
about what it takes to do that. Not hanging out with
cool tattooists, (although I'm sure that's part of it),
but the horrors, rigors, and discipline of working with
traffic flow architects, to assuage the fears of the
mayor of Woodstock, the police chief and growing army
of skeptics...It wasn't until I sat at the back of the
class and listened to Curse discuss his evolution as
a music business entrepreneur, from bar back to DJ,
from unsigned band guy to playing live in Europe, to
tour managing while playing in Thrill
Kill Kult and Pigface,
promoting concerts and club events on up to massive
cultural festival...that it struck me just how totally,
potentially f*cked everyone is attempting to do anything
in this business. And that's when the idea for this
seminar was born."
Curse Mackey:
Co-Founder
of Seminar, Performer, Producer, DJ, Promoter, Tour
Manager
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"I
have experienced the highs, the lows, and the way below
that of the entertainment biz. I have accomplished my
dream of taking my band around the world only to come
home, well, homeless, with no job, no girlfriend, no
car, no cash.
I have produced events that have earned me thousands
of dollars in a night and I have lost it all the next
night on another event. I have created festivals and
music that has received world wide recognition and to
this day I wonder what the f*ck is going to happen next.
How am I going to keep it all together? How am I going
to handle the deal of the day? It's just the way this
business operates.
There
are no sure bets, promises are broken more than kept,
and the door of opportunity is sometimes
nothing but a broken window that one has to crawl through
in order to "get in". But who is going to show
you that window? I love what I do. I am extremely fortunate
to be where I am at. Everything I have learned about
the music business I have learned from face to face
experience.
This
is not a candy-coated seminar to prepare you to schmooze
LucasFilm for a non-existent sound design job or to
learn to mix a grammy nominated hip-hop single. This
is about survival in the real world business of sex,
drugs, and rock n' roll. This is the truth. You will
invest your time and money differently after this experience
- or you might run for your f*ckin' life. If you do
choose to continue, at least you'll know what's in store."
Gary Kuzminski :
Founder
of TheRecordIndustry.com,
Sir
Real Labs, JaGoFF
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In
1998 he founded Sir Real Labs
and cut his visual/marketing teeth in the early rave/techno
movement. Sir Real's artwork helped to pioneer the aesthetic
of the early rave/techno movement with eyepopping visuals
gracing hundreds of classic rave flyers, posters, magazines
& cd covers. In 1993, he joined forces with David
J. Prince as the creative director of Reactor
Magazine (Further, Even Further). In the years
following, Sir Real Lab's client-base has grown to include
many Fortune 500 companies while still keeping it's
feet firmly in the underground. Gary is also a featured
college lecturer on the subject of Gurilla
Marketing & Culture Jamming and is currently
co-writing a book on the subject entitled, "The
Masses are Asses".
In 2000, he founded TheRecordIndustry.com
in reaction to the crackdown on the independent media
& distribution (i.e. Napster, MP3, etc.) at the
hands of the "recording industry". Since it's
inception TheRecordIndustry.com's sole purpose is, and
always will be: Weening you from the teet of the beast
by empowering the independent through news & technology
and information. D.I.Y. or DIE.
Beyond
being a practitioner of the visual & gurilla arts,
Gary is an accomplished musician and, over the years,
has played, written & recorded with Billy Corgan,
Tranquility Bass, D-Settlement, Frequency Lab and others.
Currently, he is one half of the ulimate in DIY electro-sleaze
funk, JaGoFF. By employing
the techniques that he has gathered throughout his travels,
JaGoFF has been exposed to over 6 million eyes &
ears through high profile features on the world's top
music sites, P2P networks, etc. JaGoFF has toured for
the last 2 seasons with the Vans
Warped Tour and has showcased at many a music
conference. They are currently recording their 2nd album
entitled, "One Nation Underdog"
Jolly
Roger :
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Legendary
Tour Manager for Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Ohgr, Pigface,
Chelab & Cheap Trick.
Don Byczynski :
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Live Engineer
fr Vans Warped Tour, The Damage Manual and more.
Mike Johson :
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Founder of
Failed
Experiment Records, Red Line Distribution
Mat Matlock :
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Founder of
Space
380 Radio Promotions Company
Cliff Sieloff :
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Creator of
the Pigface Tour Documentary
Luke Stokes:
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Founder of
Deezal
Records, Radio DJ, Tour Manager, Abstract
Science
Adam Grayer :
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Marketing & Band Co-ordinator
Jager
Music
*Due to the demands of this industry
all guest speakers
are subject to availability
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