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FACE THE MUSIC
Co-presented with Face The Music ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE
FRIDAY 15 – SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2 DAY CONFERENCE PASS FULL $90/CONCESSION $70 1 DAY CONFERENCE PASS FULL $60/CONCESSION $40

Face The Music provides Melbourne’s music community with a platform for professional and creative development. Following on from last year’s sell out event, Face The Music returns to the Arts Centre for two days of presentations, discussions, networking, music-making workshops, and insightful tips and tools to aid your music career. Working in close collaboration with Face The Music, MMW is proud to present a series of special panel sessions and keynotes.

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SMALL ROOMS, BIG DREAMS
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2 PM – 2.50 PM

TIM SCOTT (GASOMETER HOTEL) JOEL MORRISON (OLD BAR, PUBLIC BAR) EMILY ULMAN (BONEY, THE TOFF) ANASTASIA CASAGRANDE
(REVERENCE HOTEL) SAMUEL WALD (ARTIST VOICE) SEAN SIMMONS (PREMIER ARTISTS) MATT LEOST (THE ARTERY FOUNDATION)

Small band rooms have played a signi?cant role in making Melbourne the music capital of Australia, with venues such as The Old Bar, Boney (ex-Pony), The Tote, Cherry Bar, Ding Dong Lounge, The Toff in Town (just to name a few) providing the launch pad for hundreds of bands. And no-one knows this better than the booking agents who watch the shows, cut the deals, put up the posters, count the numbers and watch as bands outgrow

rooms on the way to bigger things. This session provides a rare opportunity to talk to agents away from their phones, all in one room. Hear the seasoned experts discuss how to make small gigs work, why small rooms are so important to the industry, how small gigs ?t into a greater band strategy, and how taking small gigs a little seriously can lead to much bigger things.

KEYNOTE – JAMIE FARKAS
SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 10 AM – 10.50 AM

JAMIE FARKAS (VICE MUSIC, USA)
For the ?rst time speaking in Australia, MMW is proud to bring out VICE Media’s General Manager of Music, Jamie Farkas, to present an inspiring and insightful Keynote presentation. Joining VICE at the launch of the VICE Records in 2003, Farkas has gone on to oversee VICE Music partner with artists spanning a rainbow of genres – including Justice, Action Bronson, Snoop Lion, Black Lips, The Raveonettes, OFF!, and Death From Above 1979. In 2011, Farkas helped

launch a strategic partnership between VICE Music and Warner Bros. Records, expanding the label’s presence and global distribution network. Over her 10 years at VICE Music, Jamie Farkas has developed a multi-faceted, international music department which, along with the label, includes music supervision for all VICE properties and projects, corporate consultations, sponsorship and endorsement procurement, artist relations, and talent bookings, and works in tandem with Noisey – VICE’s music channel – to curate the channel’s YouTube content and festival partnerships.

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