In-store music provider Imagesound Project Manager Vacancy

Imagesound Project Manager:

Basic Salary £27k - £32k with car allowance and commission

By a combination of site visits, information relayed by the sales team and the reading of plans you will be able to accurately specify equipment to meet the client’s requirements. Your role will be end to end attending site meetings, briefing the installation team, overseeing the job, commissioning, programming and delivering training on completion as required.

The Project Manager will be required to attend meetings, with not just sub-contractors, but also with the client, where they will be the sole representative of the Company and its products.

Working under the remit of the Sales Director you will report directly to the Senior Project Manager.

Full job description and person specification is available on request.

All applicants to apply in writing directly to Caroline Miles at caroline.miles@imagesound.co.uk.

Agencies need not apply.

Only applicants that are successful will receive notification of their application.

In-store music provider Imagesound is on the search for new talent to join the team!

Roles to fill immediately in our Project Management team and our New Business Sales team.
Interested?
Full job descriptions will be posted early next week but if you think you are the right person to join the team then why not drop me a line: diane.whalley@imagesound.co.uk

There are exciting times ahead!

Become your own Music Mogul

All artists will say at one time or another they owe it all to their fans. In the case of My Major Company this is a truism, MMC is an online record label that uses web-based "crowd funding" to finance one of 10 acts it is promoting at anyone time. You can invest from £10 to £1000 and once the artist reaches £100,000 the finance can then be used for recording costsr. Any profits made from resultant music sales, tours and merchandising is split between artist company and investors on a 20/40/40 basis.

Check out the artists currently being promoted and pick your favourite.

http://www.mymajorcompany.co.uk

Pringle of Scotland Animation by David Shrigley

Life behind the scenes ....



Pringle Of Scotland

David Shrigley

Adidas Collaborations.

Adidas Marketing Consultant Gary Aspden discusses collaborations with Ian Brown and Bathing Ape amongst others.

Gary Aspden: Collaborations Before They Were Ubiquitous from hypebeast.tv on Vimeo.

The Soundcarriers.

Shameless plug for some mates here. The Soundcarriers have had a rollercoaster last 12 months with a critically aclaimed 2nd LP 'Celeste', radio sessions for BBC 6 Music and Ratcliffe and Maconie on Radio 2, and now support slots on the Go Team tour which stops off in Nottingham this week. Keeping it local (ish), the band also featured in the John Smedley Times recently (right), showing some love for Derbyshires finest knitwear producers.

Here's a short peice of film showing how the band achieved the sound on the Lp, with the aid of some serious analogue kit and an empty warehouse (!?).







the Soundcarriers

100 Club saved from closure.

A place for live music since 1942, last September's announcement that West End rock'n'roll omphalos the 100 Club was closing was grave indeed. And in December, it seemed the game really was up when a public campaign to buy it fell short of the £500,000 required. Even pleas by Macca, Mick Jagger and Beady Eye fell on deaf ears.

But the Converse shoe company - which, it should be remembered, has made special edition plimsolls featuring The Ramones, AC/DC, The Clash and Nirvana - has stepped up to keep it open, meaning that stretching ahead once more is a full programme of rock, jazz, punk and more (Sick On The Bus and Drongos For Europe play a double-header there on March 24!).

Here's a short film made before the news, but featuring some great footage!





the 100 Club

How they were written

The Guardian have been running a very interesting series on artists who play a live track and then discuss how they wrote the lyrics and what was the inspiration behind the track. Good variety of artists on show with differing takes on song foundations.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/feb/17/pierces-how-we-wrote-video

Radiohead 'The King of Limbs'

Radiohead will be unveiling its eighth studio album, The King of Limbs,' this week, and as they did in 2007, the band is planning on releasing it in a decidedly unique way.
On Valentine's Day, the band announced that their new full-length album will be released for download on Feb. 19 and in physical form on March 28, with an elaborately packaged "newspaper" version coming out on May 9.
Unlike in 2007, when the group allowed fans to pay any amount they wanted for 'In Rainbows,' Radiohead's new album will have a set price -- £6 for the digital version and £30 for the newspaper packaged set. On the album's official website, the group heralded 'Limbs' as (perhaps) the world's first "newspaper album." The packaged album includes two 10" vinyl records, a CD, large pieces of artwork, and 625 smaller pieces of art -- all of which will be held within a full-color piece of "oxo-degradable" plastic. One lucky owner of the digital version will also receive an autographed, two-track 12" vinyl record, though it's not clear what music will be included on the record.
Though some may interpret this release as a sign that Radiohead has "abandoned" the "pay what you want" model, band manager Chris Hufford said that the strategy simply represents a "logical progression" in the group's ongoing experiment with today's shifting corporate landscape.





King Of Limbs Website

MUSIC : TRACK OF THE WEEK

Instead of the usual new track this week, were doing a bit of 'Brit Awards' highlights.
Check out a selection of the best performances of the evening including Mumford and Sons, Adele and Tinie Tempah.

Iron & Wine.

“Kiss Each Other Clean,” the latest album from Iron & Wine, is a showcase of experimentation for an artist whose style is still in a state of evolution. While the band’s earlier releases were more of a pure folk-rock sound, “Kiss Each Other Clean” adds a wide variety of instruments and heavier studio production. While in some cases one may see this as selling out as a result of success, the reality is that Sam Beam and Iron & Wine are just growing and using their success to explore new places.






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Imagesound Launch 'Live' Support Chat Room

Imagesound launch it's new 'live' support chat room today aimed at supporting it's on-line sites worldwide with instant responses to their service issues.

' This provides us with yet another way to keep in touch with our customers' says Steve Kelly, Head of Service, who will manage the chat room site.

'Improving the functionality of how Imagesound responds to it's customers worldwide is a key objective for the business, the delivery of music and media without the need for a traditional box is now backed up with the live chat room support making the process an end to end on-line solution'

Diane Whalley Sales Director @ Imagesound

Music Matters is being supported at The Brits tonight

Music Matters is a collective formed by musicians and all those who work in and around music to ensure people are reminded of its enduring quality. The campaign aims to enable the tens and thousands of musicians in this country to dedicate their time to making music full time.

The Music Matters campaign is to introduce a trust mark to appear on all licensed music services. The mark will act as a guide for music fans, making it easier to find sites which have been fully licensed to distribute music.

Check out some of the brilliant short animated films that Music Matters have made about the inspirational stories of artists such as Kate Bush.

The Impact Of Music On Everyday Lives

To understand attitudes towards music played in public places we took to the streets of Britain to ask shoppers and office workers what impact music has on them in their everyday lives.

This is a great site for research on the effects your music has on your audience!

Pop up Music for Originals

Shoe brand Clarks Originals is hosting live music at its pop-up store on London’s Regent Street. They events will include sets from Clash Music/Strummerville artists who have been mentored by the Strummerville Foundation which aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians in the name of Joe Strummer.

http://www.brand-m.biz/pop-up-music-for-originals_9298.html

MUSIC : TRACK OF THE WEEK

The Strokes are back! New York indie royalty return with a new Single and Album (coming early spring).

You can check out the new track below! You can also download the track for Free @ thestrokes.com/

Spotlight on Jamaica

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley's death, and on Friday BBC Four kick start their Reggae Season. A series of documentaries will look at some of the most ground breaking artists to come out of Jamaica and investigate how they influenced British musicians.




the mighty Bob Marley ...





Reggae Britannia Trailer : BBC 4



Reggae Britannia

Lost & Found

BBE's 'Lost and Found' compilation series sets out to expose lesser known or forgotten lights of Soul Music, Rockabilly, Ska, Jump Blues & Real Rn'B from the 50's and 60's.

Put together by Keb Darge, who has compiled more releases for BBE than any other DJ selling close to 200,000 CDs and vinyl over a 10 year period.Volume three is co-compiled by the legendary Paul Weller , soul music collector and ex member of both The Jam and The Style Council.

The short promo film features Darge, Weller and Portisheads official beat digger Andy Smith, who is also resident at their Lost & Found night at Madame Jojos in London.

As ever with this music ... the dancing is amazing.





Kent Records

BBE Records

Paul Weller News

Vinyl People.

An American short film featuring Vinyl collectors, producers and aficionados. From the owner of a Charlie Parker album worth £5000 who believes in playing it and prefers mono to stereo, to the producers at Norton Records where rock musicians who had fallen off the charts are restored to vinyl to be heard again. To that add the proprietor of Fynl Vinyl, straight out of a Nick Hornby novel and a homemade Gramophone brought by it's owner and maker to Washington Square Park every Sunday to play a collection of 78's.

Vinyl People from Howard Silver on Vimeo.

Norton Records has been running since the mid eighties, and have reissued many long forgotten classic retro rock n'roll, rockabilly, garage and r n' b nuggets. Amongst them is The Sonics 'have love will travel' .. possibly one of the finest records ever made, and well worth two and a half minutes of anybodys time.





http://nortonville.blogspot.com/

Horace Andy / Ashley Beedle - Inspiration Information 2

A nice bit of film of Dj / producer Ashley Beedle putting together an Lp with his hero and reggae legend Horace Andy.

Horace is famous for his collaborations with Massive Attack, but within reggae is best known for this classic made nearly 40 years ago ..





The Lp is out on Strut Records.

Thin Lizzy Guitarist Gary Moore Dies

The legendary Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore has died at the age of 58.

One of the greatest players of his generation, Belfast-born Moore was skilled at blues, hard rock and jazz music.

Thin Lizzy manager Adam Parsons said he had died in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Record Dealers.

Zaf of Soho's iconic Reckless Records and eponymous online store Zaf's Music hooks up with fellow vinyl vendors Nick The Record and Martin Snow - two of the UK's most in-demand record dealers - to discuss their long-lasting passion for the wax and how digitization of music has helped or hindered their trade.



http://www.spinetv.net/

Retail Trust Search for a Star with Mastercard Competition

House of Fraser's Alice Galloway triumphs after the final showdown at the Retail Trust London Ball!

Monday nights Retail Trust London Ball was a brilliant event! Well Done to all the Retail Trust team for all your hard work in making this happen.

Imagesound are providing a recording session at our USP Content studios for the winner Alice Galloway and we can't wait!

The Return Of Fleet Foxes.

On May 3rd Fleet Foxes will release Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop/Bella Union), the much-anticipated follow up to their 2008 self-titled debut.

The twelve track LP was recorded over the course of a year and was recorded and mixed by Phil Ek and co-produced by Fleet Foxes.

Here's a free download of the title track made available on their website.

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues by subpop

MUSIC : TRACK OF THE WEEK

The BBC's 'In New Music We Trust' event happened this past weekend up in Sheffield. Bringing together 12 hours of dance and electronic music. Set's from Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Skream & Benga and T.E.E.D went off in the full capcity students union.
To hear all the event click here In New Music We Trust

Our music track of the week this week comes from Breakage, His 20 minute D'n'B/Dubstep mix was massive @ INMWT and we have picked his brand new single out later this month for this weeks best new track.

Breakage - Fighting Fire