April 2013/Week 1
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Wide Days To Unveil UK Plans For Ground-Breaking Touring Network GET YOUR 'WIDE DAYS' DELEGATES PASS HERE: http://www.widedays.com/tickets See page 2 for a breakdown of Wide Day events and page 10 for more convention updates
Scotland’s spring music convention, Wide Days, is to unveil plans for a UK version of a musician-led touring network, which boasts 30,000 members in its native Brazil and last year facilitated over 6,000 gigs. Details of the British Fora Do Eixo, which will run under its translated name Off Axis, are to be included in a special presentation at the Edinburgh event on Thursday 11 April. The talk will be given by Jeff Thompson, from the Manchester-based Un-Convention organisation which hosts grassroots music events around the world and is spearheading the initiative: “We have supported Wide Days since its launch in 2010 and it is the perfect platform to announce our plans for Off Axis,” he says. Commenting on the addition to the programme, Wide Days coorganiser Olaf Furniss says: “I am delighted that Wide Days is able to provide the first opportunity in the UK for people to learn about this exciting venture, which has the potential to help many artists.” In Brazil, the Fora Do Eixo touring network was launched to help acts reach new audiences in cities and festivals in other parts of their country. Musicians with a fanbase in their own region host acts from outside, and in return receive credits which they can use. Founded in 2005 the network has become a powerful lobby for artists and is set to be the subject of a film by leading music business commentator, Andrew Dubber, and the makers of the documentary, Last Shop Standing.
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