Hosted by Lara Magnelli, a member of our Marketing team, each episode of Sounds Like These is an informal, insightful, and inspiring conversation with a variety of music industry professionals: from songwriters, producers, composers, and session players to people working in music for film, TV, and games, record labels, PRs, music charities, and more.
Discussing their careers, showbiz anecdotes, as well as matters of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the music business and beyond, with a common denominator at heart: their devotion to music.
New episodes are released every other Thursday.
MUSIC INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
We ask our guests for their top tips to progress in the music industry, their most memorable stories and anecdotes, and the causes they care about, touching on matters of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
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Lara chats with Sam Jones, a music consultant, event producer, creative producer, and educator, currently teaching across various Music Business modules at ICMP.
Sam's career has seen him work both on a local and international level, producing events and festivals (Africa Express 2019, Line of Light 2021), setting up venues (The Sanctuary, St John's Old Church) and recording studios, and much more. His experience also includes working on multiple projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
As a Music Business Teaching Fellow, Sam teaches at ICMP across different programmes and has recently written and launched our new BA Live Event Management course, together with ICMP faculty members and music industry professionals Jamie Johnston and Ken Foreman.
Lara chats with Audrey Riley, cellist, composer, arranger and MD with over 30 years of experience, currently teaching on ICMP's BMus and MMus Popular Music Performance programmes.
Audrey went through some of the work she's credited on (the list is endless), including her collaboration with The Smiths - the first of her career - Moloko on the amazing 'The Time Is Now', Coldplay on their album 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head', The Foo Fighters on 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace', and The Smashing Pumpkins on the eternal track 'Tonight, Tonight'. Audrey shared her experience working on these classic tracks as well as some anecdotes from those studio days. She also delved into more philosophical sides of music, both as a creative and curious person and as a listener and lover of music in its many forms. Audrey also shared her love for teaching, especially at ICMP, and how this job allows her to challenge her beliefs when it comes to music and, of course, life.
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If you work for a music charity, a record label, a PR/social media agency, a booking company, or else... Let's chat!
