Scottish Enterprise want to celebrate The MOBO Awards taking place in Glasgow on Wednesday 30 September. They contacted Radio Magnetic’s parent company, Inner Ear, to organise an event on the eve of the awards ceremony at The Hub, Pacific Quay, Glasgow. We were really interested by the concept of The MOBO Awards coming to Glasgow so we, alongside Soma Skool, Open Ear and New Media Corp have devised the Glasgow. Music. Now. event.

It’s absolutely free and all starts at 1pm on Tuesday 29 September so get there for 12.30 if you think it would interest you.

Glagow. Music. Now. will showcase a selection of excellent Glasgow acts performing, including Punjabi No. 1, Preston Reed, S-Type and Scatterbrain feat. Loki, Marrik and Depths and the Flyin’ Jalapenos breakdancing troupe. There will be music industry and educational stalls, demos and workshops throughout the course of the day (including demonstrations on Ableton Live and video making on a budget) and two panel discussions. The first of these panel debates will be chaired by Channel 4 Nations and Regions Director, Stuart Cosgrove and sitting on the panel we have Mickey Ferrari (Umoja Events), Esa Williams (Sub Club), Laura McCrum (Urbanscot) and MC Profisee (Cloak x Dagger) debating the relevance of MOBO in Glasgow via two discussions: Scotland’s Cultural Soul in the Digital Age; and What do you know about The MOBO Awards.

The second panel is a general music industry discussion organised by the James Watt College Music Business Department. On the day you’ll receive a free goodie bag courtesy of the good people at Soma Recordings and there will be a raffle in aid of the Nordoff Robins music therapy trust, where you’ll stand the chance to win, a Flip Camera, Traktor Duo software, MOBO tickets and mini Pro Tools studio set-up. Anyone with an interest in MOBO or an interest in the music business in Glasgow should head along on Tuesday for what should be an informative and entertaining day. For those who aren’t able to attend this event Radio Magnetic will be documenting the entire event and audio and video extracts will be available from the Radio Magnetic website in the coming weeks.

scottish-enterprise.com
openearmusic.com
somaskool.com
newmediacorp.co.uk