Thousands of music lovers are set to descend on The MAC theatre next month for the city’s largest music showcase event.
Over 4,000 people are expected to attend the Output music conference and showcase on February 8. The day will see music industry fans attend a series of seminars, panels and keynote speeches featuring some of the national music industry’s most highly-noted speakers and practitioners.
Acts playing this year include NI Music Prize winner Joshua Burnside, Sam Wickens, who recently featured on Sky Arts’ Tony Visconti’s Unsigned Heroes, Londonderry teenager ROE, who is set to play at Eurosonic Festival in Holland later this month, and Empty Lungs who recently completed a 71 date headline tour across Europe.
In the evening the spotlight will once again turn onto Northern Ireland home-grown talent, with a series of free showcases taking place across venues in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. It’s an opportunity for the traveling industry to sample and connect with some of 2017’s most talked about new bands and artists, with shows presented by Irish promoters, festivals, management companies, blogs and media organisations.
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Showcase hosts include music blogger, Nialler9, Northern Irish arts and music publication The Thin Air, Dublin based filmmakers Feel Good Lost, PRS for Music and IMRO.
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The closing keynote Q and A will feature a panel discussion around scoring for horror and thriller films and television shows.
Included in the panel are:
● Rich Vreeland (Disasterpiece) From Los Angeles, Rich scored one of the most compelling and original horror films of the last decade-2014’s ‘It Follows’, with the music being described “as a masterpiece of both musical technique and dramatic storytelling – and one of the most remarkable scores of the year”.
● Stuart Braithwaite. The driving creative force and founder behind the iconic band ‘Mogwai’ Stuart is one of the globe’s most forward-thinking and compelling composers. The band’s music have been used to score everything from award winning television series (Les Revenants) to feature-documentaries (most notably ‘Zidane’ and ‘Atomic’ ,the Mark Cousins film).
● Carly Paradis. Carly is the composer for Line Of Duty – one of the most talked-about BBC dramas of the last decade. Carly has also composed for horror films, drama and has had a longstanding creative relationship with Clint Mansell for whom she plays piano.
● Rory Friers. From Northern Irish band And So I Watch You From Afar, Rory in 2017 completed the score to the zombie film The Cured starring Ellen Page (Juno/Inception)
The panel will be moderated by director and Belfast Film Festival co-founder Brian Henry Martin with Score Draw Music’s Mark Gordon.
They join an unmissable day of keynotes, panels, sessions and Q and As that include Jeremy Pritchard from Everything Everything discussing music and streaming, Head of Music Licensing for BBC Nicky Bignell and Head of Music for Sky Peter Bradbury talking about placing music in television, Nadia Khan (manager Lethal Bizzle) and Sean Adams (Drowned in Sound/BBC 6 Music) on the anatomy of a successful music video premier, Coldplay album producer Danton Supple discussing producing a-list hit records, The 1975 and Kendrick Lamar videographer Christian Tierney on work behind the lens, Phil Taggart (BBC Radio 1) and more discussing how to break open Ireland as a territory, Niall Horan’s touring drummer Gerry Morgan and Alana Henderson (Cellist, Hozier) on working as a session musician, Metal Hammer’s Adam Rees on PR in rock and metal, and many many other sessions including talks by PRS for Music, CMU, Oh Yeah Centre and the Association for Independent Festivals.
The showcasing takes place from 8pm-12 midnight with the official Output Belfast after party featuring Everything Everything DJs taking place at Babel Rooftop Bar from midnight to late.
Delegation is free to attend but requires sign-up. To sign up and get the full schedule go to at www.outputbelfast.com.