I had an interesting time at the first Open Music Meet on Wednesday after spotting Andrew Dubber’s, tweet earlier in the week.
The event was a roundtable discussion and social organised by Jonas Woost of Last fm, and Dave Haynes. The get-together got a fab fab kickstart being led by US visitor Anthony Volodkin creator of MP3 blog hub Hype Machine.
It’s been great over the last year getting to know, listening to and engaging with the online music community with Shiny Red client, ad-supported music service, We7. It’s fair to say it’s been an exciting year to be watching and the strong opinions I see online everyday were certainly reflected in the room. Although I have to confess to only catching the last half hour, so I’m keen to get there on time for the next one – check out Grumblemouse’s post for a better account of the evening!
Aside from those already mentioned, there was a great mix of people representing a spread of interested parties, from artists like Antigone, live music start-ups like Ian from Songkick and Jakomi of The Music Void.
A few more details here if you fancy coming to the next one.
thanks for coming down. See you at the next one! Photos will be going up soon at http://opemusicmedia.wordpress.com
Hey Dave, it was a great event, I look forward to the next one!
[...] Thanks to everyone who gave us shouts on Twitter and covered the evening on their own blogs. We’re now busy planning the next meetup which should hopefully be in late June / early July. The discussion is likely to be on the theme of ‘feels like free’ and ad-funded music and we’re trying to confirm guest speakers right now. All suggestions and feedback are welcome so feel free to get in touch directly or by leaving a comment below. For now we’ll leave you with a short but sweet music video of the night made using the very cool Animoto. Don’t believe the hype! [...]