Folks seemed to be hitting their stride at Open Music Media Belfast. This was, after all, the 9th such meetup in Belfast in just over a year. Not including UnConvention Belfast in February 09. – which was essentially an accumulation of the energy built up by these thinly-veiled excuses to drink beer in the company of friends.
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Stephen O’Regan, founder of Balcony.TV and Gawain Morrison of Filmtrip added some salient and at times contentious thoughts on “thinking creatively” about media outside of just music and how that can be used to your advantage, which was great to get the juices flowing during the brief Q&A. But as always the real value was during the open chit-chatting before and after.
Among the faces I’d never met before, I chatted to a former record store owner, a recording studio manager, a music publisher & music strategist, a booking agent/artist manager, two local venue owners and a partridge in a pear tree. Whew! Bring on 2010, I say…
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Gawain’s talk made me consider that one of the best things musicians can do is seek out other creative people: especially film-makers, budding film-makers and anyone in general with even a basic camcorder who is willing to take some footage.
The more content the better, and the more practise, the better everyone gets.