A powerful assortment of high music executives from the U.Okay. and all over the world — plus one Grammy profitable artist — got here collectively in London final week for an unique cocktail reception and dinner hosted by Luminate and Music Enterprise Worldwide.
The Music Leaders Dinner, SWXS London Version — held June 5 through the inaugural U.Okay. offshoot of the famed Austin convention — noticed round 60 execs and entrepreneurs from the music biz collect at Little Home Mayfair, Soho Home’s extra intimate London providing.
Hosted by Luminate CEO Rob Jonas and Music Enterprise Worldwide founder and writer Tim Ingham, the occasion — described as essentially the most significant trade gathering since earlier than the pandemic — introduced collectively leaders from labels equivalent to Recognition/Hipgnosis, Goldstate, Amuse, Mixcloud, Epidemic Sound, Pophouse, UMPG, Consider, AWAL, UMG UK, Sony Music Publishing, Consider, Beggars Group and extra. In the meantime, trade heavyweights equivalent to Max Lousada and Merck Mercuriadis, plus artist managers behind Adele, Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 and finance leaders equivalent to Raine Group attended, as did even Grammy-winning musician James Blake.
Alongside the possibility to talk with their trade buddies and friends, company loved a three-course menu that included sea bass, beef carpaccio, cauliflower quinoa, dry age sirloin, chalk stream trout and sticky toffee pudding, plus Thienot Brut champagne and Soho Home’s signature Picante cocktail.
The Music Leaders Dinner, SWXS London Version (picture courtesy of Photographer London)
The primary London dinner of its type happened amid a interval of worldwide development for Luminate, the leisure knowledge and analytics firm that works throughout the music, movie and TV industries and powers the Billboard music charts. Its country-level engagement date has been broadened to now cowl some 60 worldwide markets, whereas it just lately partnered with South Korea’s KreatorsNetwork to assist assist Okay-pop labels of their international enlargement efforts.
The inaugural SXSW London closed on Saturday after 5 days of panels, talks, reveals and extra. Among the many musicians to carry out had been the likes of Tems and Mabel, whereas the legendary Abbey Street curated a collection of dwell reveals and conversations, together with an on-stage Q&A with Stylish legend Nile Rodgers.
Selection guardian firm PMC owns the SXSW franchise and Luminate.