“The Wheel of Fame” by Doug Davenport

Posted with kind permission of Doug Davenport

Reburn and Toni McMurray to open for Evolver One this Saturday in JHB!!!

Music Exchange attendees already getting the benefit of the conference!!!

Blues Room Sandton Sat, 3rd April 2010

- Doug Dee

Feedback on Workshop

Hi Brian,

Thank you for a hands-on workshop!
With your help I created a blog, soundcloud profile, twitter feed and facebook page…Wow!
I look forward to start using these soon…

All the best,

Gideon

Feedback

Fantastic event and a stimulating and learning experience for all of us who attended. Thanks to to the organisers and speakers who shared their knowledge and experience.

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Music Exchange 2011 on the cards

By: Sindy Peters

Martin Myers, co-organiser of the 2010 Music Exchange in Cape Town, ended the conference on 23 March with thankful sentiments to all involved in adding value to this year’s event. He announced that Music Exchange 2011 is definitely on the cards with Charles Goldstuck, president and CEO of TouchTunes Interactive Networks hoping to be back next year.

Hill goes full-time

Myers announced the resignation of Tim Hill, who has played a pivotal role in organising the conference, from Totalmedia to join the Music Exchange team on a full-time basis adding his marketing, media and PR skills to the team.

An annual national conference

The ultimate goal of Peter Lacey and Myers, along with the rest of the Music Exchange team, is to reach the status of other large conferences like Design Indaba and Tourism Indaba in the country. Within the next five years or so they’d like to position Music Exchange as an annual national conference hosted in Cape Town for the entire South African music industry including all genres.

The event took place at the Protea Hotel Victoria Junction from 22 – 24 March 2010.

For more information, go to www.musicexchange.co.za.

Creating a cost effective web presence – Brian Currin

Brian Currin’s Presentation

Music Exchange 2010 [Powerpoint, 7MB]

Thank you for attending Music Exchange

From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to sincerely thank you for your involvement in either attending or reading about Music Exchange 2010.

We will be holding Music Exchange 2011 around the dates of the Argus cycle tour and will confirm these with everyone as soon as they are set in stone.

We have an exciting journey ahead of us and we look forward to sharing our plans with you shortly. In the mean time, we would like to hear any feedback, recommendations and comments from you so that we can keep up the quality and success of Music Exchange going forward. Furthermore, we would be grateful if you could please write a couple of lines about the conference that we can post on our feedback page on www.musicexchange.co.za.

Best regards,

Sipho, Martin, Peter and Tim

Rebel World Cup gig on the cards

LLOYD GEDYE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Mar 26 2010 17:31

From Mail & Guardian

Hot under the collar Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse

Legendary musician Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse is leading a drive by angry local musicians to stage a rival concert on the same night as Fifa’s World Cup kick-off celebration.

Local music professionals are furious that so few South Africans will feature in the official Fifa concert. Their call to arms this week — to mount a free rival concert — was made at Music Exchange, an industry conference in Cape Town.

One delegate suggested the rival concert should be called “Fuck Fifa”, although he later conceded that the name would probably not fly.

Fifa’s concert at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium in Soweto will feature only three South African acts — Vusi Mahlasela, BLK JKS and The Parlotones. African superstars Vieux Farka Touré, Angélique Kidjo, Tinariwen and Amadou and Mariam will take part alongside international artists including Alicia Keys, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas and Shakira.

South African music professionals are also simmering because Fifa contracted American-based events management company Control Room to run the concert, instead of a local company.

Mabuse said a rival concert is about “opportunities for South Africans. Why should South African musicians be denied the opportunity to be exposed to the rest of the world, when those that already have been privileged enough to have opportunities get to come here and make money and then go?” he asked.

The Fifa concert will be broadcast to millions of viewers around the world.

“Are we going to be silent about this?” Mabuse demanded. “Hell, no; it’s either there are more South African musicians involved in this concert or there is not going to be a show.”

Reacting to the controversially expensive tickets for the Fifa event — priced at R450 to R1 150 — Mabuse said: “We must do concerts for free. We must go out and find our own venues on that day and perform.”
Keevision chief executive Yoel Kenan agreed with Mabuse’s idea, saying of Fifa’s control: “We are in an environment where this is the reality and we are not going to be able to change it. We must ask how can we leverage the World Cup to promote the music from South Africa. If we put all our energy and resources together, we can do it.

“We can get YouTube and Puma as sponsors — they are not Fifa sponsors and they are all waiting for something to do. If it comes from the heart and it’s a South African project, I think people will feel it.”

Fifa spokesperson Delia Fischer referred the Mail & Guardian to Control Room, the American events management company organising the kick-off concert. But she said only the first round of artists has been announced and there would be more South Africans on the final bill.

Attempts to get comment from Control Room proved unsuccessful.

Photos 23rd March 2010

Day 2: 23rd March - Andrew Mac, Verity, Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, Shannon Hope

Music Exchange photographer: Michael Currin – michael.currin.co.za

Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse and Doug Davenport

Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse and Tim Hill

Peter Lacey

Neo Muyanga and Doug Davenport

Andrew Mac and Verity

Gillian Ezra

Brian Currin's blog views over months

Brian Currin

Doug Davenport

Karl Gostner

Miles Keylock

Doug Davenport

Martin Myers

Doug Davenport

Martin Myers

David Alexander

Tim Hill

Shout music video

Photos from the day before: 22nd March

Photos 22nd March 2010

Music Exchange photographer: Michael Currin – michael.currin.co.za

Karl Gostner

Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse

Charles Goldstuck

Martin Mayers and Charles Goldstuck

Aron Turest-Swartz , Peter Lacey

Aron Turest-Swartz

Yoel Kenan

Nicholas Motsatse

Nick Matzukis

Nick Matzukis

Dave Duarte

Photos from the following day: 23rd March

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