Routes by job · 8 picks · Wed to Fri · Pro pass
Teams, touring and keeping artists well.
For artist managers: the label and DSP meet-ups, touring business, and the sessions on independent careers and wellbeing. Built to fit around the calls you'll be taking anyway.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Touring pays the bills now. Here's what it costs to run.
Night Department's Kathi Longinus, BLK Matter's Elise Milani and business manager Daniel Berrocal on the infrastructure behind a touring artist, with Pollstar's Brij Gosai. For managers and agents.
With Brij Gosai, Daniel Berrocal, Elise Milani, Kathi Longinus, Scott Campbell
A&Rs from Universal to InFiné, open for pitches.
A structured meet-up with label and A&R people including Universal Music Switzerland's Burak Yeniyol and InFiné's Enora Pellerin. Bring two tracks, not ten.
With Bastian Meyer, Burak Yeniyol, David Rishty, Enora Pellerin, Hiroki Beck, Joel de Vriend
Artists who build the tools instead of waiting for them.
Coldcut's Matt Black, Manchester house DJ and Syntho founder Josh Baker, and SYNC IT's Nathan Duvall on artists as founders. For producers with a product idea.
With Josh Baker, Matt Black, Nathan Duvall
Every streaming and distribution rep you need, in one room.
Beatport, Bandcamp, Believe, Revelator, Subvert and more, in a structured meet-up. Come with a release plan and a question, not a pitch deck.
With Alex Branson, Amanda Cruzeiro, Arnau Sabaté, Austin Robey, Cameron Cox, Charlie Bird
Batteries, slow travel and lower-impact tours.
Curator Chloé Gatignol, A Greener Future's Jamal Chalabi and power entrepreneur Jasper Goossen, with journalist Greg Cochrane, on touring that burns less. For managers and agents planning next year's routing.
With Chloé Gatignol, Greg Cochrane, Jamal Chalabi, Jasper Goossen
Twenty artist managers, open for questions.
Including Black Coffee's manager Cristiana Votta, Mathame's Guillaume Thollet and Kwame Kwaten. For artists looking for management and managers looking for peers.
With Bas Kaspers, Cristiana Votta, Grace Russo, Guillaume Thollet, Hayley Lennox, Isabelle Fallmann
Afrojack on what the job does to your head.
Afrojack, JODANI and Lucas & Steve on mental health and growth behind big-stage careers. Candid talk from people at the commercial top.
With Afrojack, JODANI, Lucas & Steve
How Mau P built an independent career at full size.
Mau P, the house DJ behind 'Drugs From Amsterdam', with Pacha Group CEO Aloki Batra and his label and management team. For artists weighing a deal against doing it themselves.
With Aloki Batra, Jelle Keizer, Julius Leuftink, Mau P, Talina
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