32 Music Week 05.10.12 PEOPLE PERSONNEL CARTER TAKES NEW ROLE AS BBC RADIO POPULAR MUSIC HEAD BBC RADIO
live music team and structure, and build the live music strategy for the division’s events portfolio. He previously held the role of editor, Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra, and most recently as event director, leading the strategy, planning and delivery of Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend - Radio 1’s biggest ever live music event. During his time at Radio 1
JASON CARTER has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of Popular Music, Live Events across several BBC Radio stations. In his new role, Carter will be responsible for delivering all of the BBC’s live music events and concert coverage across BBC Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2 and 6 Music. The position is part of the BBC
Audio & Music’s strategy to create a central team responsible for the range of music events across the BBC’s four popular music. Following his appointment
Carter will assemble a new central NEED TO KNOW Week by week, build the best contact book in the business
Carter has been responsible for the creation of Radio 1’s Big Weekend, 1Xtra Live and Radio 1's first teen concerts, now titled the Radio 1 Teen Awards. He has also led BBC Introducing for the corporation since 2007; he will continue to do so in his new role. Carter said of his appointment:
“I’m delighted to be appointed as the lead for all Popular Music events across the audio and music division. It’s a real privilege to head up the central team delivering the BBC’s live annual music events calendar. "One shared team supporting
the radio networks will provide even more specialist events expertise, as we look to the future
and more ambitious concert coverage, as well as also providing more clarity with the wider music industry.” Bob Shennan, Controller of
Radio 2 and 6 Music said: "Jason brings a wealth of knowledge and live music experience and, with the success of Radio 1's Hackney Weekend newly under his belt, I'm looking forward to working with him and his new team to make our popular music events even bigger and better than ever.” This appointment follows an inaugural speech from the new director general of the corporation, George Entwistle, who announced a planned restructure of the BBC’s music division.
LIVE NATION UK
JASMINE SKEE has joined the company as marketing director, following her role as the
head of music sponsorship at O2. Skee replaces Carolyn Sims in
the role, who recently joined Time Out as marketing director. Skee has been responsible for rebranding 15 Live Nation and Academy Music Group (AMG) UK music venues, including the O2 Arena. She also previously served on the marketing team at Sony Ericsson. Elsewhere at the company,
TIMCHAMBERS, SVP International Corporate Development of Live Nation Entertainment, has departed. He was previously involved in managing Brixton Academy and Shepherd's Bush Empire, the formation of the McKenzie Group (now AMG), the launch of TicketWeb UK. He also joined Ticketmaster and led the development of the European Music Services & Business Development teams. Since the merger with Live
Nation, Chambers led the negotiations which resulted in the acquisitions of Ticketnet (France),
Serviticket (Spain) and the expansion of Live Nation into Croatia amongst other projects. Chambers said: “I shall miss a
number of colleagues and friends who I deeply enjoyed working with over the last fourteen years... However, I am looking forward to exploring new opportunities early next year."
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MY BIG BREAK How UK luminaries arrived in the music industry… Liam Toner, Head Of Classical & Crossover, Sony Music Entertainment
“I was a music-obsessed teen (it’s only a short hop from glam rock to Wagnerian music drama after all). Then retail dues were paid at the legendary Murrays Record Centres in Dublin, Virgin, HMV before I learnt the marketing ropes at Simon Foster’s trailblazing Virgin Classics. Then the Holy Trinity - Philips Classics, Deutsche Grammophon and Decca. “Major label marketing is what you’d expect – a
#49 Ben Challis, General Counsel, Glastonbury Festival / Co-founder & Director A Greener Festival
Ben Challis is a UK lawyer specialising in entertainment law. He has been general Counsel for 3A Entertainments (one of the UK's leading concert promoters), and is executive producer for television and general Counsel for the Glastonbury Festival. Challis regularly writes about
music business law and intellectual property law and has contributed to numerous books including a chapter in New Ways and New Trends in
Arts Management on environmental sustainability in the arts. He is a regular conference
speaker with focus on the live music sector and has also edited Music Law Updates. Challis is on the board of
Julie’s Bicycle (a creative industries environmental sustainability awareness organisation), avisiting professor at Buckinghamshire New University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
heady mixture of great artists, outright charlatans, satisfying triumphs and abject failures (fortunately more of the former). My biggest break was probably the pop labels turning up their noses at the emerging, terminally unhip crossover market at the time – a free run in a new segment is a rare indulgence. “I spent two enjoyable years as Universal Classics and Jazz VP in Canada then International Marketing. “And now the Sony Classical project. Exciting
times. The music industry jigsaw pieces are well and truly up in the air right now, but for all the griping, you hardly ever meet someone who wishes they were working somewhere else. Same here.”
TOP TIP The two most essential attributes are: Common sense (what all those expensively-sourced,
marketing consultancy buzz words invariably boil down to) and a sense of humour (when the project you’ve sweated months on is torpedoed on a whim, you need to be able to laugh manically Joker-style, open a bottle of red and move on). And NEVER bear a grudge (you’ll be working with the swine in some other capacity further down the line).
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