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Music Biz Conferences: Hard Working Class Heroes and Creative Belfast Presents Output

Hwch14Two Irish music industry conferences are coming up in October. Hard Working Class Heroes is both a music festival and industry conference happening in Dublin in early October. Later in the month the one day only event, Creative Belfast Presents Output, takes place in Belfast in Northern Ireland. Output will combine a daytime biz conference with evening music showcases. Both events are free.

Hard Working Class Heroes

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Hard Working Class Heroes takes place this year October 2 through 5 in Dublin.

One of the organizers, Jim Carroll, says all events are free and shares some of the panels he thinks are especially outstanding. You can find the conference schedule here.

He also says there will be about 100 bands in the showcases. You can find the schedule here.

Videos of some of the panels from 2013 are also available.

Creative Belfast Presents Output

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Creative Belfast Presents Output is a one day event on October 16 in Belfast.

The daytime business conference will include a full array of speakers, panels, discussions, workshops and speed networking.

The evening "will feature up to 50 bands and artists in 12 venues."

Output is hosted by the Belfast City Council.

Industry participants:

"Speakers at the Output conference will include Andrea Madden, music supervisor on Made in Chelsea; Hugh Platt, deputy editor of Thrash Hits magazine; Tom Robinson from BBC 6 Music; artist, performer and motivational speaker Andrew WK; ‘The X Factor’ finalist, Janet Devlin; BBC Young Folk Musician Of The Year Aidan O’Rourke; composer and cellist Peter Gregson and Niall Byrne of leading music blog Nialler 9."

"Organisations and companies taking part in the conference programme include PRS, Polar Patrol Publishing, Sentric Music, PPL, MCPS, IMRO, Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape, MCD Promotions, Body and Soul, Norwich Sound and Vision, Go North, SESAC, Raygun, The Thin Air and Wicksteed Works, Independence Festival and Facebook."

Scroll to the bottom of this page for more industry events in Belfast.

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