festival schedule gonorthfestival.co.uk Amanda Millen goNORTH Festival Director goNORTH 2014:

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The Highlands and Islands has long provided a nurturing environment for creative people to expand their horizons. Welcome to and goNORTH, ’s leading What goNORTH does is provide a helping hand to anyone creative industries festival, featuring two intensive days and looking to get ahead in their chosen creative career. nights’ worth of networking, sessions and showcasing.

If you have the energy and the passion, we can direct you Our experienced goNORTH team is here to connect creatives to the right people and places. and direct them to the power players in their world. So We’ve come a long way; more aspirational and encompassing whatever your chosen genre; be it acting, directing, writing, more disciplines than ever before, working with our partners editing, animating, making music, designing high end fashion, Emergents. We’re constantly battling to bring you the latest making textiles, painting or developing games, we can set thought, developments and innovations in your genres. you on the right path. This year, as ever we’ve a host of leading industry players in the field of fashion, music, gaming, screen, broadcast If you have talent and the will to succeed, then goNORTH is and publishing. All are available for one-to-one chats. Just here to help you... approach one of the goNORTH team and we’ll set it up for you. I’ll be here throughout the 48-creativity-packed hours that is goNORTH Festival 2014 and I’m more than happy to The first step starts here. have a chat. Just come up and say hello. I’ll also be tweeting @AmandaMillen so let’s talk!

festivaldesign vsdesignstudio.co.uk schedule gonorthfestival.co.uk Meet the Team

The annual goNORTH Festival is produced by a small team of hard-working experienced professionals who work across various genres within the creative industries. Between us, there aren’t many people we don’t know. And if we don’t know – we ask!

Amanda Millen Olivia Rodger Jan Patience Director Project Manager Communications Amanda first worked with goNORTH while Olivia got involved with goNORTH when With over 25 years, experience in journalism, on secondment from the BBC to Highlands she moved from to the Highlands Jan is a sought-after PR and communications & Islands Enterprise (HIE) in 2007. As well in February 2011. Prior to this, she spent 11 consultant for the creative industries. She as being goNORTH’s director, she heads up years working in television production at BBC writes regularly about visual art for The Herald, ScreenHI. Both roles centre on growing and Scotland. Olivia has sound knowledge of end- The Daily Record and Homes & Interiors developing the independent production to-end television production and is committed Scotland magazine. Current PR clients include; sector and providing showcase platforms for to continual professional self development as goNORTH, Absent Voices and The George Highlands and Islands talent. Developing skills, well as supporting the development work Wyllie Foundation. Currently co-writing talent and capacity across the region in the carried out by goNORTH and ScreenHI. biography about renowned Scots artist, production sector is her main focus. George Wyllie. Tom Duncan Content Producer Alex Smith Alan De Pellette Music Producer Elgin-based Tom is a freelance producer/ director, shooting factual content for Screen & Broadcast Producer Alex joined the goNORTH team in 2010 broadcast and business. He studied Screen Alan is an award-winning writer and director. and manages the delivery of its music Project Development at Napier He was 18 when he started writing for Melody element. He leads on the development of University, graduating in 2009. Clients have Maker and The Sunday Times, interviewing the wider music strategy, supporting growth included; BBC Learning, Central Station and most bands from the Britpop era. He moved across a diverse range of Highlands and Business Gateway. He joined goNORTH in into radio, where he created long-running Islands based music businesses. He also June 2012 after working with ScreenHI. His BBC football comedy, Off The Ball. He helped coordinates the goNORTH Festival Tour and debut short, Joose, was nominated for a to create hit TV shows, Chewin’ The Fat and works with a developing list of partners in BAFTA New Talent Award in March 2012 and Still Game. An elected committee member of the UK, mainland Europe, Scandinavia and has since gone on to direct a half hour BAFTA Scotland, he recently finished a stint the US. documentary for the BBC. as its acting director. meet the team gonorthfestival.co.uk 2_3 Register FREE as a delegate online before you arrive or at our registration desk on the day. We’re encouraging people to use Facebook to sign up as it’s Festival easier when you then collect your delegate pass. You’ll also be able to register using your Smart Phone. Need to Know Your pass allows you access to all areas of the goNORTH programme though the Music showcasing venues are open to the general public. 9am 2am

Registration & General Information Film Showcasing Hit the Ground Running Trade Market 9am–6pm MERCURE 11am–5pm POP UP CINEMA MERCURE 9am–5.30pm MERCURE 11am–5pm MERCURE (Lower foyer)

Our open call this year has been our This one-day training course is Public Sector Briefing most successful to date with submissions designed for anyone who wants to get BAFTA-winning Animation Shorts 10am–10.30am MERCURE coming from across the globe. Check out a foot in the door on film and television As He Lay Falling our bite-sized chunks of the vast wealth of dramas. Devised and run by professionals, Cast & Crew Screening For public sector staff working with clients filmmaking talent from home and abroad. our trainees will be receiving invaluable 5th Thursday Wednesday 4th Wednesday in the creative industries, or who would like 4th Wednesday Multum in Parvo experience and making life-long contacts. to develop a better understanding of the Short film by author Denise Mina sector in 2014. Find out which panels are Music Showcasing goNORTH Pop Up Cinema the best fit and line up a meeting with 8pm–12.30am VARIOUS VENUES (see map) Gaming Playground 5pm-6pm MERCURE (Caledonian Suite) speakers or delegates. 11am–4pm MERCURE (Lower foyer) Around 60 acts have been selected Iain Hamilton to play in goNORTH’s eagerly awaited Networking Reception with SMIA Jeni Oliver showcase programme which takes place CARE plus Q&A with filmmakers & Honeycomb Creative Works

Thursday 5th Thursday at venues throughout Inverness. Cast & Crew Screening 6pm–8pm TOWN HOUSE 5pm-6pm POP UP CINEMA MERCURE Radio goNORTH Come and join us for a glass of sherry, Broadcasting LIVE throughout the Festival Film Screening 50 Kisses some canapés and a performance from 10am–4pm MERCURE BAR Scottish Premier of Collaborative Feature the current holder of the Scottish Album 8pm-9.30pm POP UP CINEMA MERCURE of the Year Award, RM Hubbert. Radio goNORTH is our own bespoke radio station which broadcasts for the HIE Opening Party duration of the festival. Our trainees have Closing Party with Special Guests 6pm–8pm IRONWORKS been working for the last two weeks to & Wall of Sound DJ set learn on-the-job skills as budding radio This exciting event brings together all 11.30pm–late IRONWORKS professionals. Catch live performances and our disciplines. Scotland Re:Designed is Wall of Sound is an iconic British interviews with all our key industry talent. presenting our Runway Show, featuring independent record label celebrating some of the best new designers from 20 years. Mark Jones creator and the Highlands and Islands as well as founder will be joining us for nothing some other creative surprises. less than a trademark DJ set to round off our two days of this year’s goNORTH. Access by delegate pass only.

festival need to know gonorthfestival.co.uk 4_5 Gaming Curated Playground Films

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Gaming Playground Binary Pumpkin Lol Scragg and CARE plus Q&A with filmmakers BAFTA-winning Animation Shorts 11am–4pm MERCURE (Lower foyer) Bruce McNeish Cast & Crew Screening As He Lay Falling 5pm-6pm POP UP CINEMA MERCURE Cast & Crew Screening The Scottish Games Network is the industry Blazing Griffin Peter van der Watt Multum in Parvo organisation for the video games and and Stephen Hewitt Writer/Director/Producer Tristan Aitchison Short film by author Denise Mina interactive sector in Scotland. Exclusively for has brought together a professional team Dave Sapien Ltd Dave Sapien 5pm-6pm POP UP CINEMA MERCURE goNORTH, SGN has brought together some from across the UK. It features H&I talent Maureen Pringle and was edited by 5th Thursday

Wednesday 4th Wednesday Extra Mile Studios Bobby Farmer, Patrick 4th Wednesday of the most innovative game designers As He Lay Falling was made in the Vince and Stuart Henderson Catherine Weir, who has developed her working today. Our ‘Playground’ gives you Highlands as part of a Creative Scotland the opportunity to try out their creations; editing skills to broadcast level. Guerilla Tea Matt Zanetti and Alex Zeitler funded scheme delivered by Digicult and and feedback your thoughts. For one day only! Paul Dunkley, Paul Terry and Neil Rolland Hopscotch Films. ScreenHI provided Hidden Armada Will Wright and Michael Doig will be available after the screening to additional budget for several members Each of our Playground companies strives answer questions on the creative process of crew for the shoot. for excellence, innovation and to showcase Hunted Cow Studios Andrew Mulholland and what the learning curves have been Scotland as a hotbed for indie games. They and Stuart Gray Director Ian Waugh and Producers, along with Tristan. work commercially on the likes of Harry Lost Zombie Studios Jody Gallagher Richard Warden and Jim Webster will be Potter and Medal of Honor to Play to Cure: and Matt Sharpe present to answer your questions about Genes in Space with Cancer Research UK; Film Screening 50 Kisses tight budgets and shooting the Highlands. creating responsive interactions, vivid visual Ludometrics David Thomson Scottish Premier of Collaborative Feature and tight gameplay to deliver the best 8pm-9.30pm POP UP CINEMA MERCURE Me and the Giants Ltd Will Adams Multum in Parvo is an engaging and experience to users. 50 Kisses is a ground breaking project that touching story made by three cousins Quartic Llama Erin Michno and Tom De Majo brought together new talent in a global who introduce us to their parents and Team Junkfish Jaime Cross collaboration with the sole aim of creating their extended families, with anecdotes an extraordinary feature film. In the summer of growing up in Glasgow. And last but not least, the winners of this of 2012 the London Screenwriters’ Festival Denise Mina, Rosie Toner and Brian McNeill year’s inaugural Moray Game Jam, Power issued a challenge to the writing community have brought a genre of storytelling to Punch Studios with their game Vaccine. – create a script that filmmakers will work life. Will bring tears to your eyes. The team are: Natasha, Stuart, Elliot, Mark with you to produce. The best 50 of those and Carl. films was then woven together to create a Come and meet, talk, play! feature length film. Gail Hackston, Producer, and Simon McCay Producer and Star of Close Encounters, one of the shorts, will be on hand to answer your questions about the difficulties in bringing together two years’ work and 1870 scripts. An unenviable task!

gaming playground gonorthfestival.co.uk curated films gonorthfestival.co.uk 6_7 Fashion Trends & Let’s Talk Tradeshows 10.30am–12.30pm IRONWORKS

In the first hour of this two-hour long workshop, style guru, Anne Ritchie will look at trends in fashion for autumn-winter 2015/16. Conference This session is designed specifically for design, textile and fashion companies and focuses on colour, design and product trends for Wednesday 4th Wednesday Venues textiles, fashion, accessories and jewellery. In the second hour, Laurian Davies of UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT), who work with the UK government to get financial help for designers and brands showing internationally, will help gauge if you are ready to show overseas. Which tradeshows are right for you? How do you get accepted? What are the politics of the trade show scene? Anne Ritchie Ironworks How does the funding process work? Laurian Davies 122b Academy Street, IV1 1LX

The Ironworks is Inverness’s premier live music venue. Boasting state-of-the-art facilities, it’s run by a team of professionals dedicated to bringing the best in live music entertainment to its clients. The venue has played host to some of the biggest names in music while nurturing Opening Keynote: Where Next? local grassroots talent. The Future of Digital 10.30am–11.45am MERCURE

In this opening address, Neil Cartwright, managing director of Million The Mercure Media, will address the question on the lips of everyone who works in Church Street IV11DX the creative industries; where next for the future of digital? Neil Cartwright

The Mercure Hotel is a short walk away from Inverness railway station. It forms the hub of goNORTH during the festival. This is where you will find our admin team, as well as the all-important registration desk. Our film screenings, gaming playground and trade market are all based here, Meet the Broadcast, as is Radio goNORTH and Hit The Ground Running. Broadsheet & Tabloid Journalists 10.30am–11.45am TOWN HOUSE

Securing press interest in you as an artist or in your product can mean The Town House the difference between success and failure. But what are journalists High Street IV1 1JJ looking for in this digital age? In this panel, we have gathered a group of top-flight journalists who specialise in covering the creative The elegant and historic Town House on the corner of Castle Street and industries. Our panel is made up of experienced broadcast, broadsheet Alan Morrison High Street boasts a grand interior with an imposing staircase which takes and tabloid journalists whose currency is the ebb and flow of content Paul English you from the entrance to the various meeting places on the upper floor. and images. This is the panel where you will glean insider knowledge Nicola McAlley This is the venue for our Networking Reception on Thursday evening as on the best way to approach the media. What makes them grin and Drew Farrell well as several sessions and workshops. what makes them gurn? Siobhan Synott

8_9 Interior Trend Workshop: Autumn-Winter 2015/16 12.30pm–1.30pm IRONWORKS

Anne Ritchie leads a workshop on interior colour trends, discusses retail and global trends in lifestyle and product design and gives an overview of Maison et Objet, the international trade show in Paris. With over 30 years experience in the textile and design industries Wednesday 4th Wednesday as well as extensive knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced by the design sector, Anne has real insight into the challenges faced by designers in the Highlands & Islands, having delivered trend presentations and one-to-one sessions to design businesses throughout the region for many years. Anne Ritchie

Born to be Wide: Building the Team 12pm–1.15pm MERCURE

For any artist, building a team is an essential part of building a career. However, finding the right manager, lawyer, label, agent, PR Olaf Furniss and publisher to work with, not to mention tour manager, producer, Eric McLellan accountant and promoter, can be a daunting task. This panel looks at Alex Knight the different aspects which should be considered when deciding who Robert Hicks to work with and how to ensure everyone works together as an Marc Strain effective unit. Allie Shaw

Meet the Creative Nordics 12pm–1.15pm TOWN HOUSE

The Nordic countries have developed an enviable reputation over a number of years, for textiles, music, literature and recently for hugely popular television such as The Killing. With the Highlands and Islands stretching to the same latitude as Norway, Sweden and Finland, it is not really a surprise that we should look to our northern neighbours to see Christian Ulf-Hansen how they are achieving this success. This is an opportunity to find out a Janne Moeller bit more about what is happening across creative industries and across Inge Ejbye Sorensen Scandinavia, how they support the sector and more importantly, is there Donna Heddle a place for you in these markets? Inger Dirdal

10_11 MPG: Meet the Producers MPA: Getting to Grips with Publishing 1.30pm–2.45pm MERCURE 3pm–4.15pm MERCURE

This session brings together a diverse selection of award-winning In 2012, the music publishing business in the UK generated around producers to attempt to blow away some of the myths, introduce a £900m in revenues, not far behind total recorded music revenues. Mick Glossop greater understanding of what producers actually do, and look at the Songs have to come first. This panel will explore the role of the music Giles Perring valuable role they play in contemporary music production. There will publisher in creating, protecting and promoting musical works and in

Wednesday 4th Wednesday Simon Gogerly 4th Wednesday be a particular focus on how artists across levels of experience can Tony Doogan developing the careers of songwriters and composers. Where does develop more creative relationships with producers. Roddy Hart the money come from? What are the different types of publishing Allan McGowan deals? What does a publisher actually do? Our varied panel of publishers Steve Farris represent a variety of companies, while Argyll-based singer/songwriter Kirsty Geoghegan Joe McAlinden offers up an artist’s perspective. Joe McAlinden

Meet the International Film Festivals Meet the Publishers: Saraband & Freight Books 1.30pm–2.45pm TOWN HOUSE 3pm–4.15pm TOWN HOUSE

How many films get submitted to film festivals? Who chooses which Independent publishing houses, Saraband and Freight Books, have had a films get programmed? What gives a festival its identity and what do major impact on Scotland’s publishing scene with lists reflecting creative those in charge look for when selecting new films? Find the answer to all vision, high quality production and bravery in a constantly changing and these questions and get some serious insight into how you can get your challenging market. In fostering unique platforms for Scotland’s new film into a film festival in this stellar panel session featuring some of the writing and writers, they have provided a rich seam of quality writing. Claire Mundell In this session, Sara Hunt of Saraband, and Adrian Searle of Freight, will most renowned and interesting film festivals in Europe. Come and James Mulligan hear from programmers from Silhouette Film Festival in Paris, Diane Henderson introduce the work of their publishing houses and examine opportunities Sara Hunt Cork International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival Fanny Corcelle and challenges facing independents in the current market. Adrian Searle and the London office of the Sundance Film Festival. Katie Metcalfe

Music Week Keynote Interview

4.30pm–5.15pm MERCURE Tom Pakinkis

Music Week’s Tom Pakinkis will interview a leading figure on their career Guest Speaker to and some of the key issues facing the industry today. be announced

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conference programme gonorthfestival.co.uk 12_13 SGN: Gaming Masterclass 4.30pm–5.45pm TOWN HOUSE

Video games are awesome. They can build whole new universes. They can connect millions of players. They offer experiences which film and television can’t even imagine. Yet for many people video games are just ‘toys’ – for kids – with nothing to say to proper grown-up artists. Wednesday 4th Wednesday We’ve got two people who disagree. Gary Penn is a designer, developer and official games media legend. He’s worked on hundreds of games (including Grand Theft Auto). Christopher Brookmyre is an author and gamer. His novel, Bedlam, is set inside video games (and is being turned into a game itself). Video games are changing the world. Come and Gary Penn find out how… Christopher Brookmyre

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14_15 Creating the Right Creative Business for You The Pathway to Successful Music Placement 10.30am–12pm IRONWORKS Across Visual Media

In this practical, brainstorming workshop, Patricia van den Akker, 12pm–1.15pm MERCURE Director of The Design Trust, will take you through a series of With the contraction of revenue streams in the traditional music thought-provoking questions and exercises to create the right industry, music placement continues to be a key area for artists Thursday 5th Thursday creative business for you. What do you really want? What does 5th Thursday Mark Gordon looking for secondary uses for their material. This session will look Rob Schustack success look like? What is the right business model for you? Where at how this aspect of the industry works and offer an in-depth Mark Allen do you get in the way of yourself? What’s next for you, and how examination of music placement in television, film, advertising Jim Brackpool Patricia van den Akker will you get there? and gaming. Simon Pursehouse

The Next Ten Years: Co-operatives – a Flexible Approach to Future Trends & Technologies Collaborative Working 10.30am–11.45am MERCURE 12pm–1.15pm TOWN HOUSE

By now we all accept digital is key to the future of entertainment. Some 75% of creative businesses in Scotland employ fewer than five But what next? An astonishing 90% of the world’s online data was people, so working collaboratively offers the opportunity to create created in the last two years. There are now more mobile handsets scale for new projects, as well as access to new skills and networks. than there are people. Around 25% of all entertainment in the UK is Jim Maxwell, Business Development Manager of Co-operative now streamed. While this transformation happens, what are the key Development Scotland, leads a panel looking at collaborative models Allie Shaw trends, technologies and consumer behaviour that will shape the which still leave space for flexibility and individuality, support and Paul Sims Jim Maxwell creative industries over the next five to ten years? This panel of Neil Cartwright funding. Panel speakers; Nathalie Agnew of Muckle Media and Sharon Natalie Agnew specialists will gaze in to the crystal ball and attempt the impossible Matt Riley Fullarton, director of 422.TV. Sharon Fullarton – predicting the future! Kate Baker

SDI: Meet the Nordic Documentary Makers 10.30am–11.45am TOWN HOUSE

The campaign for an independent Scotland is suggesting forming an independent state with its Nordic neighbours. What about starting It was my first time attending with documentary? goNORTH and I thought it was Scandinavian countries have a long tradition of loving and nurturing Ben Kempas the documentary form. They have an incredibly dynamic production Christian Falch great – SXSW without the system and their documentaries are festival favourites. What is their Beatrix Wood secret and, more to the point, how can we work together? Barbara Orton Riina Spørring sunburn! Join us to discuss cooperation and co-production! Zachariassen Sharon Grogan, Events Producer, BAFTA Scotland

conference programme gonorthfestival.co.uk 16_17 Scotland Re:Designed in Conversation With… 1.30pm–3.30pm IRONWORKS

Scotland’s position as a global heavyweight in the field of fashion has been strengthened by leading designers such as Holly Fulton, Christopher Kane and Jonathan Saunders, as well as textile brands

Thursday 5th Thursday such as Harris Tweed Hebrides and Brora Cashmere. Championing and nurturing fashion and textile talent is the main objective of Scotland Re:Designed. It offers support and the opportunity to showcase work to new audiences. Clients have included; Bebaroque, Common People, ESK Cashmere and William Chambers Millinery. Panelists Chris Hunt, Anne Ritchie Karen Radley, Patricia van den Akker and Anne Ritchie discuss how Chris Hunt Highlands and Islands designers can grow in a notoriously competitive Karen Radley industry. Patricia van den Akker

Global Radio: Reaching Millions via the World’s Communicator of Sound 1.30pm–2.45pm MERCURE

Nothing communicates music better than radio. It’s still the most powerful technology on the planet, reaching millions of music fans and consumers on a daily basis. Whether it’s FM, AM, satellite, digital, online or mobile, radio transmits a more powerful dialogue for music than any other forum. This session presents a panel of radio experts Sat Bisla who ‘act local, but think global’. These broadcasters and their radio Jeff Zycinski brands influence labels, publishers, agents, promoters, brands, music Ally McCrae supervisors, blogs and consumers – both in markets and across global Wilbert Mutsauers territories. This panel offers an opportunity to meet, listen, see and Vic Galloway interact with radio experts. Jim Gellatly

Same Old Story: Characters & Storytelling 1.30pm–2.45pm TOWN HOUSE

Stories allow us to form values, organise meaning and interpret the world. When shared they transmit ideas and influence behaviour. What is the secret to creating memorable characters and great storytelling? What is the difference between archetypes and Donald Iain Brown stereotypes and how do you make your characters stand out? In a Denise Mina world full of choice for viewers everywhere they go, are great stories RM Hubbert always able to stand out from the crowd? Come and hear some first Billy Boyd class storytellers from different mediums share their experiences and Chris Dolan thoughts on what makes a great character and story. Michael Redmond

18_19 BPI: Content Protection in the Digital Era Demo Jury 3pm–4pm MERCURE 4pm–4.45pm MERCURE

Are you protecting your content from digital piracy? Is your valuable This session will offer showcasing artists a unique opportunity to Sat Bisla pre-release content controlled and monitored? Are you maximising get constructive feedback on their material from a range of respected Mark Jones revenue from legitimate digital sources or is someone else monetising industry figures. Eric McLellan

Thursday 5th Thursday your content instead? Members of the BPI’s Anti-Piracy Unit give an 5th Thursday update on the services they offer and the initiatives with which they are currently involved. They will be joined by representatives from across the industry to discuss how content protection works at a Meet the Agent: SF, Fantasy & Horror practical level. This will be a full interactive session with scope for John Hodge 4.30pm–5.45pm IRONWORKS audience in-put on the challenges they face with content protection. Simon Drake When it comes to finding an agent in science fiction (SF), fantasy or horror, one name is at the top of every writers’ list; John Jarrold. As editor and editorial director specialising in SF and fantasy with Orbit at Macdonald Futura (forerunner to Little Brown UK), Random BAFTA Presents Pitching Perfect House and Simon & Schuster, John published Iain M Banks, Terry 3pm–4.15pm TOWN HOUSE Brooks, David Gemmell, Arthur C Clarke and Michael Moorcock. He commissioned the Lucifer Box novels from The League of Gentlemen’s It’s a dirty job, but we all have to do it if we want to make programmes Mark Gatiss, and published bestselling thrillers by John Sandford, for television. We’re talking about pitching, one of the most vital skills Lorenzo Carcaterra and Stel Pavlou. In this session, he’ll introduce the required to succeed in the modern competitive hothouse that is the work of the John Jarrold Literary Agency, and give guidance on UK television industry. So what’s the secret to successful pitching? market trends. John Jarrold Is it something everyone can learn? What’s the best advice to any

aspiring or even seasoned programme maker from those in the know? Jeff Zycinski Come along and hear from some of the leading lights in British television Paul Murray about how to pitch, how not to pitch and why it’s so important to Harry Bell In Conversation with Richard Jobson understand the value of pitching. Gregor Sharp 4.45pm–5.30pm MERCURE

Dunfermline-born Renaissance man, Richard Jobson, started out as the teenage frontman for seminal Scottish punk band, The Skids, before going on to become a poet, model, writer and filmmaker. In what promises to be a lively session, he talks to Olaf Furniss about his remarkable career and working across such a wide variety of Richard Jobson creative disciplines. Olaf Furniss I made some great contacts, was inspired by your seminars Network Drama Masterclass and entertained by your bands. 4.30pm–5.45pm TOWN HOUSE British drama has arguably never been in a better place, with high Carry on with the good work. quality and popular UK shows beamed to millions around the world. The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 consistently produce hit drama shows for Anna Fon, festival delegate all tastes, while Sky has entered the market with a huge investment in original British drama that has upped the ante for everyone working in drama today. Come and join us for a look inside the network drama world: commissioning, producing and delivering. conference programme gonorthfestival.co.uk 20_21 11am Gavriss The Wish I Heart Chair Good Situation The Soloist Latvia (3) Russia (7) England (10) Souls Vacant Russia (20) Film Glasgow (9) Edinburgh (7) 12pm Old Iron Le Passage Second Wind Top Oats Hart’s Desire Woman France (16) Russia (6) Carrbridge (19) Methlick (7) Showcasing Russia (18)

Wednesday 4th Wednesday 1pm The Stash Gerry’s War Air/fix Ping: A Tale of No Less Than Liar* Bellshill (3) Inverness (5) Edinburgh (11) Two Brothers* 50 kg Edinburgh We have created our very own pop up cinema this Edinburgh (8) Ukraine (12) (13) year at goNORTH. In keeping with de rigueur trends, 2pm The Selkie’s The Man Who Naïve Murder on The Port* we are bringing you the best of world cinema in our Lover Mistook… Belgium (11) The Dance Edinburgh (17) very own space. Sitting comfortably, lights dimmed, Caithness (20) Glasgow (4) Foor pop corn at the ready? Then we’ll begin… Methil (4) 3pm Spectators Collect Don’t Know To Paris, Sassie’s Gran Along The Glasgow (4) India (8) Who I Am to Paris! Northern Way* Peterhead (3) Russia (27) Ireland (5) Ukraine (8) 4pm Overture The Land, I Lost House The Boy Who Russia (10) Farm Russia (17) Turned Yellow England (6) Methlick (7)

11am Murder on Overture Greenfingers 16-UY* That’s The The Dance Russia (10) England (14) USA (18) Why Floor Northern Methil (4) Ireland (5)

12pm Gerry’s War Don’t Know Still Can’t Hear The Zealot Good Souls No Less Inverness (5) Who I Am Her Mouth Edinburgh Glasgow (9) Than 50 kg

Thursday 5th Thursday Peterhead (3) Northern (15) Ukraine (12) Ireland (10)

1pm The Land, I Lost House Falling The Port* My Brother Second Farm Russia (17) Glasgow (2) Edinburgh Went For Wind* England (6) (17) Sweets Russia (6) Edinburgh (3)

2pm MacBeth: An The Traveller Situation Old Iron The Stash Collect Education Edinburgh (8) Vacant Woman Bellshill (3) India (8) Edinburgh (10) Edinburgh (7) Russia (18)

3pm Naïve Top Oats Along The Le Passage The Boy Who Belgium (11) Carrbridge Way* France (16) Turned Yellow (19) Ukraine (8) Methlick (7)

4pm The Man Who Isabel, a Most Hart’s Desire Spectators Whistle My Mistook… Determined Methlick (7) Glasgow (4) Lad - Cast & Glasgow (4) Woman Crew Kingussie (30) Banchory (15)

11am 5pm

*contains strong language, () film duration in minutes 22_23 Conference Programme

10.30am 6pm

(Lower foyer) Ironworks Mercure Town House Mercure Ironworks Mercure Town House Mercure (Lower foyer) Public Sector Briefing 10am-10.30am MERCURE Public Sector Briefing 10am-10.30am MERCURE

10.30pm 10.30pm Fashion Trends Opening Keynote: Meet the Broadcast, Creating the Right The Next Ten Years: SDI: Meet the Nordic & Let’s Talk Where Next? The Broadsheet & Tabloid Creative Business Future Trends Documentary Makers Tradeshows Future of Digital Journalists Gaming for You & Technologies 10.30am-11.45am Trade Market 10.30am-12.30pm 10.30am-11.45am 10.30am-11.45am Playground 10.30am-12pm 10.30am-11.45am 11am-5pm 11am-4pm 12.30pm The Pathway to Co-operatives - a 12.30pm Interior Trend Work- Born to be Wide: Meet the Creative Successful Music Flexible Approach to shop: Autumn-Winter Building the Team Nordics Placement Across Collaborative Working 2015/16 12pm-1.15pm 12pm-1.15pm Visual Media 12pm-1.15pm 12.30pm-1.30pm 12pm-1.15pm

1.30pm 1.30pm Scotland Global Radio: Same Old Story: MPG: Meet the Meet the Re:Designed in Reaching Millions Characters & Producers International Film Conversation With… Via the World’s Storytelling 1.30pm-2.45pm Festivals 1.30pm-3.30pm Communicator of 1.30pm-2.45pm 1.30pm-2.45pm Sound 1.30pm-2.45pm

3pm BPI: Content BAFTA Presents 3pm MPA: Getting to Grips Meet the Publishers: Protection in the Pitching Perfect with Publishing Saraband & Freight Digital Era 3pm-4.15pm 3pm-4.15pm Books 3pm-4pm 3pm-4.15pm

4.30pm Music Week Keynote SGN: Gaming 4.30pm Meet the Agent: Demo Jury Network Drama Interview Masterclass SF, Fantasy & Horror 4pm-4.45pm Masterclass 4.30pm-5.15pm 4.30pm-5.45pm 4.30pm-5.45pm In Conversation with 4.30pm-5.45pm Richard Jobson 4.45pm-5.30pm

6pm HIE Opening Party and Fashion Show 6pm-8pm THE IRONWORKS 6pm Networking Reception with SMIA and Honeycomb Creative Works 6pm-8pm TOWN HOUSE

conference programme gonorthfestival.co.uk 24_25 Map and Venue Key

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03 10 Young St Mercure Hotel The Phoenix Church St IV1 1DX 110 Academy St IV1 1LX map and venue key gonorthfestival.co.uk 26_27 Brian Baglow is the Founder of the Scottish Games Network, writer, lecturer in interactive entertainment, designer, developer, researcher, Speakers speaker and professional loudmouth. He started his career in the games industry as a writer, working with legendary DMA Design on titles including the original Grand Theft Auto. He moved, more or less willingly, into marketing and public relations. Since then Brian has Directory worked with several hundred game developers. He most recently seized power and transformed the Scottish Games Network from a Brian Baglow grass roots community, into the official industry body for Scotland.

Kate Baker Kate Baker is Creative Brand Manager and Designer with over 20 Natalie Agnew formed Muckle Media in 2012 after working for years experience spanning fashion, interiors and media. She is also a international PR company, Fleishman-Hillard and Porter Novelli. She trained fashion designer and trend forecaster and is currently Head of specialises in working with brands to create marketing programmes Brand Creative at Jigsaw Group. Kate’s previous experience includes which ensure excellent return on investment (ROI). Brands she has Founder-member and Head of Trends at WGSN.com, the world’s first worked with include; Akamai, British Airways, Butlins, Campbeltown online Trend Forecasting service where clients included; Louis Vuitton, Picture House, Casio, Easynet, The Employee Relations Institute and L’Oreal, Selfridges and The BBC. She also launched Big Sky London, a Musical Fidelity. She is a winner of the CDS Award Scheme and gold high-end film and photographic studio. winner of Outstanding Small Consultancy in the 2013 Scotland Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Pride Awards. Natalie Agnew

Harry Bell is Co-owner and Creative Director of Scotland’s leading factual TV independent, Tern TV. Harry was born and brought up on Tristan Aitchison is an eternal student of Storytelling at the University Loch Awe, Argyll. He worked on oil rigs before a move into TV. His of Spinning Yarns (formerly Telling Tales Polytechnic). He writes. career started in London working in formatted factual entertainment He makes films. He takes photos. Tristan’s first ever screenplay was shows with Ant and Dec, Jerry Springer, Richard and Judy and Carol shortlisted for the John Brabourne Big 5 Comedy Award in 2011 and Vorderman. When Harry moved back to Scotland he opened Tern’s since then he has worked developing scripts with BAFTA winning Glasgow office followed shortly after by Belfast to win factual director Marcus DF White. Last year Tristan spent 4 months in Kenya commissions. Tern credits include: Gutted (BAFTA winner), The filming a feature documentary about the intersex and transgender Harry Bell Father The Son and The Housekeeper (Prix Italia winner), Donald community of Nairobi. This is currently in post production. Campbell: Speed King (Grierson nominee), Vinnie Jones: Russia’s Toughest and John Barrowman’s Pets with Problems. Tristan Aitchison

Mark Allen is Creative Director at ThinkSync Music, an independent Sat Bisla is President and ounder of leading business conference music licensing, music supervision and placement service for Films, MUSEXPO. His varied career has helped expose platinum-selling artists Games, TV, Advertisements, Virals and Instore Playlists. ThinkSync to American and worldwide audiences. He has worked as DJ, radio Music was formed over nine years ago and has grown into one of the programmer, artist manager, and A&R scout and/or consultant for most active placement and licensing companies in London with a Interscope, Atlantic, Epic, Columbia, Sony, Island, Warner Bros, global outreach. Label representation partners include Ghostly Nettwerk and others. After helping promote platinum-selling artists International, Luaka Bop, Houndstooth (Fabric), Alter-K, Partisan such as Dido, Keane, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Ting Tings, Sam Sparro, Records and more. ThinkSync also offers a complete music supervision , Missy Higgins, The Temper Trap and others for the American Mark Allen service for film, TV and trailers. Recent film projects include Working Sat Bisla and/or worldwide audiences, he started A&R Worldwide, an artist Title’s The Borrowers, this year’s SXSW Grand Jury winner Gimme The discovery and development platform acquired by the world’s largest Loot and Film 4’s Dreams of a Life. radio broadcaster, Clear Channel Radio and live entertainment company Live Nation in 2001. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 28_29 Billy Boyd is from Glasgow and a graduate of the Royal Scottish Neil Cartwright former Head of New Media at Sony Music UK, Neil is Academy of Music and Drama. He is known and loved around the now MD of digital marketing agency Million Media where his clients world for his role as Pippin in the hugely successful Lord of the Rings have included , Channel4, MIDEM, The Prodigy, Ministry trilogy of movies. His other films include Master and Commander, Of Sound, Trinity Films, Avalon TV Productions, ITB, and The Orchard. On A Clear Day and Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy and his theatre work Named in the Courvoisier Future 500 as one of 500 people who will includes The Slab Boys, Macbeth and Sunshine On Leith. Billy is also a help shape the future of the UK. musician and the lead singer of the acclaimed Scottish band, Beecake.

Billy Boyd Neil Cartwright

Fanny Corcelle Fanny Corcelle is Programme Co-Ordinator of Silhouette Jim Brackpool tried and failed to be a pop star. He made his way Film Festival, Paris. through PR, promotions, management and finally into synch and licensing. He joined BT Sport in May 2013 as Head of Music, where his team provide licensing, reporting and creative support to BT Sport producers and music users across the business. BT Sport shows live Premier League Football, Premiership Rugby, top flight European football, Moto GP, WTA and much more. BT Sport has exclusive UK Inger Dirdal headed up the Norwegian Music Export Office for 12 TV rights to UEFA Champions League and Europa League from 2015. years, during which time she was responsible for approximately 100 Jim Brackpool international exhibitions/networking events and industry-led delegations to many countries. She was an initiator in the formation of NOMEX, an association of the five Nordic music export offices, where she sits on the board. She currently works with Norcode – Norwegian Copyright Development Association and Waterfall Music, an Oslo based publishing company. Inger Dirdal Christopher Brookmyre is the author of seventeen novels, including the Jack Parlabane series and the Jasmine Sharp trilogy, as well as the gamer-as-unlikely-hero epic A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away. His recent SF novel Bedlam is being developed as an FPS and will be released this autumn. Laurian Davies Laurian Davies trained as an archaeologist but has spent her entire working life in clothing and textiles. Her passion is helping fashion businesses grow and she works with freelance designers on improving business, encouraging manufacturers and designers to strengthen Christopher marketing and promotional skills. To date, she has taken hundreds of Brookmyre UK designers and brands to exhibitions all over the world.

Donald Iain Brown is Head of Talent & Change, BBC Scotland. He Chris Dolan is an award-winning poet, author, playwright and television was appointed to this newly-created post in September 2005. In this writer. His play, The Pitiless Storm, premiers at the Assembly Rooms strategic and senior role, he is responsible for the long-term planning this Edinburgh Festival; his third novel, Potter’s Field, comes out in and management of both production and craft staff, and for ensuring September; his next Rebus adaptation follows shortly. He has written that new ways of working are adopted and embedded into the over 100 hours of TV and radio drama, and many documentaries and organisation. Donald Iain has worked for BBC Scotland since 1989 in is one the main tutors on the MA Television Fiction Writing at Glasgow a variety of roles across TV and radio including presenter, researcher Caledonian University. and production manager. Donald Iain Brown Chris Dolan speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 30_31 Tony Doogan has been honing his production and engineering skills Christian Falch has produced six documentaries, including Two since 1990, mostly working in Glasgow. He has worked with some of Raging Grannies and The Exorcist in the 21st Century. The latter was the most influential Scottish artists of recent years including Belle and nominated for awards in Europe and the US. In 2013/14, he received Sebastian, , , Teenage Fanclub and The Reindeer slate funding from NRK and The Norwegian Film Institute and Section. In a diverse career, he has also worked with Super Furry co-produced The Donald Duck Principle for Avanti Media in Berlin. Animals, Dirty Pretty Things and collaborated with David Byrne on the soundtrack for the film, Young Adam. He also collaborated with Mogwai on the film soundtracks to Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain and Tony Doogan Douglas Gordon’s documentary, Zidane. Christian Falch

Simon Drake is Director of Naim Label Group, where he founded AIM Drew Farrell has over 20 years experience working a Freelance Best Small Label-nominated Naim Edge Records. Naim is dedicated to Photographer for a variety of editorial clients; including chip brave new music and includes Naim Jazz Records, which now boasts a corporates, as well as international and national arts organisations. multi-MOBO winning, Mercury Prize-nominated roster for experimental He is a regular contributor to UK and Scottish broadsheets, shooting artists. Simon was named one of 30 Under 30 rising stars in the UK a range of subjects from news to business, sports, features and government’s 2012 Make It In Great Britain campaign. He also sits on festivals. He has worked with Scottish Ballet, including tours to China the BPI Young Executive Board and is a regular guest lecturer on Bath and France, Scottish Opera, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as Spa University’s Commercial Music degree course. In 2009, Naim well as the Edinburgh International Festival, RSNO and various theatre Simon Drake became one of the first independent record labels in the world to sell Drew Farrell companies including The National Theatre of Scotland. For the last fully uncompressed music from their own website. two years, Drew has covered the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, for Creative Scotland.

Paul Dunkley is Creative Director, Motion Designer and Founder of Steve Farris is Managing Director of Polar Patrol Publishing, set up LÉON studio. He has a passion for creating title sequences for short by members of Snow Patrol. He progressed from doing lights for The and feature length films as well as television. He thrives on working in Levellers while he was still in his teens, to becoming A&R assistant at the independent film community, sharing ideas and collaborating with EMI then A&R manager at Sony/ATV. Steve signed Snow Patrol and talented, like-minded filmmakers. Paul loves film and named his studio Belle & Sebastian to their first publishing deals. after one of his favourites.

Paul Dunkley Steve Farris

Paul English is a Feature Writer at the Daily Record & Sunday Mail Linda Fraser is the Creator and Trainer of Hit the Ground Running. In and a principal member of the papers’ entertainment team. He mostly 1997, Linda Produced the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award winning covers TV, music, theatre and film and devises, co-produces and short, Swimming with the Tiger. In the same year, she secured her first presents online content including podcasts, interviews, short films and job as a runner on a film in Glasgow, and so began a successful career live music sessions. Paul recently established The Glad Cafe acoustic working mainly as a Production Co-ordinator on film and television sessions which have seen performances by , RM Hubbert, dramas. Randolph’s Leap, Beerjacket and The Pearlfishers run on dailyrecord. co.uk since the start of the year. He has fronted two series of STV’s Paul English holiday show Scottish Passport, and presented Comedy Heroes, The Linda Fraser Choir, The Real Fairytale of New York, 2010 and The Tom Morton Show for BBC Radio Scotland. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 32_33 Sharon Fullarton is Director of 422.tv is one of the premier post- Kirsty Geoghegan has working for independent music publishers, production and visual effects houses in the UK, offering a range of Airstate and Valentine, since 2011. As Music Publishing Manager, she post production facilities in Manchester and Glasgow, supported by oversees the smooth-running of its daily business operations. Airstate a substantial technical infrastructure, which provides an end to end, offers a royalty collection service while marketing catalogues. They tapeless workflow environment. 422.tv services include on and off line specialise in maximising performing right royalties for music used editing, sound design, high end finishing and grading, CGI, visual within broadcast media. Media music publishing clients include top effects plus motion graphics. music production houses; Adelphoi, Finger, Siren, Hear No Evil and Soviet Science. Sister catalogue, Valentine Music, is a British music Sharon Fullarton Kirsty Geoghegan publishing institution. Founded in 1972, it spans three decades of musical history and covers jazz to bluegrass to orchestral to soul. Luminaries include; Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith and The Ventures.

Olaf Furniss is founder of Born To Be Wide, an organisation which hosts music business seminars and Scotland’s Mick Glossop is Director of the Music Producers Guild (MPG), which convention/showcase Wide Days. represents the interests of record producers, recording engineers, He reports for a wide variety of media including the BBC, The mixers and anyone involved in the production of recorded music. He Scotsman, MusikWoche and IQ, and has written for Billboard, Music has been producing, engineering and mixing for over 30 years. Initially Week, Audience and Fono Forum. Olaf has worked as a consultant for known for recording and producing new wave and punk bands such music industry conferences including Sonic Visions, by:Larm, Reeperbahn as Magazine, Public Image Ltd, The Skids and Penetration, he had Festival, goNORTH, Berlin Music Week and Canadian Music Week, success collaborating with many other artists, including The Waterboys, Olaf Furniss organising and/or moderating over 200 panels in the past five years. Frank Zappa, Ian Gillan, John Lee Hooker and Lloyd Cole. He has a 25 Mick Glossop year history with Van Morrison and spent most of 2004, 2005 & 2006 extensively mixing Van’s archive material.

Vic Galloway presented BBC Introducing in Scotland on BBC Radio Simon Gogerly is one of the UK’s leading mix engineers. Over a Scotland until 2010. He currently presents a weekly indie music show career spanning 25 years he’s worked with some of the world’s top on the same channel. An experienced presenter, he has fronted selling recording artists. In 2006, he was awarded a Grammy for his outside broadcasts from festivals such as; T in the Park, SXSW, Indian work on the album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Starting Summer, and Live 8. Vic’s TV work also hosting The Music Show on out as a musician, Simon played with several London bands before BBC Two; BBC Four’s Caledonia Dreaming and Channel 4’s Transmission. playing keyboards on tour with electropop band Dead Or Alive. He In June 2012, he presented a BBC Two documentary on the South by then landed a job at Mayfair Studios where he engineered hundreds South West Festival in Austin, Texas for the Artworks series. As a of sessions and progressed to mixing hits including, Altogether Now Vic Galloway freelance journalist, he contributes to broadsheets, magazines and Simon Gogerly by The Farm and Missing You by Soul II Soul. At the end of the 1990s websites. His first book on music, Songs in the Key of Fife, about the Simon teamed up with and their on-going relationship East Neuk scene, was recently published. has included work with & , U2, Massive Attack and Paloma Faith.

Jim Gellatly made his debut on Moray Firth Radio in Inverness in Mark Gordon founded Score Draw Music in 2004 to deliver bespoke the late 1980’s, Jim has since enjoyed stints at BBC Radio Scotland, music for the moving image. The company delivers incidental and title Northsound 1 and . He recently returned to the relaunched XFM music for television projects from drama to pre-school. Score Draw Scotland, hosting the daily Drivetime show. He also presents a weekly has worked on projects for AMC, The Discovery Channel, Fox and the showcase on Amazing Radio and writes a New Music column for the History Channel. They delivered bespoke music brands, including Scottish Sun. Adidas, Reebok, Lidl and Skoda. Projects include providing titles and incidental music to accompany a 39-part children’s television show. Mark has worked with global broadcasters including; Disney Junior Jim Gellatly Mark Gordon Latin America, ABC Australia, Canal + France, and BBC Kids in Canada. He is scoring a 52-part series for Nickelodeon to be distributed globally by the Jim Henson Company. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 34_35 Alison Goring worked for many years as an Assistant Director in film Donna Heddle has been based at Orkney College UHI is now Director & TV production before moving into training and development. She of the Centre for Nordic Studies which researches interdisciplinary oversees two training schemes for film & TV practitioners in Scotland Northern and Nordic studies based in Kirkwall and Scalloway. Her which offer training at all levels from new entrants right through research interests are Scottish and Northern isles cultural history, to producers. small island studies, language, literature and the interface between research and community. She is currently leading several national and international research projects involving Northern studies in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic and Viking Studies. Donna was awarded a Alison Goring Donna Heddle Personal Chair by UHI in June 2013.

Gail Hackston produced the world record breaking crowdsourced Diane Henderson is Deputy Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International feature film 50 Kisses with the London Screenwriters Festival and is Film Festival. She has worked in cinema exhibition in the UK since the late prepping with the team for the next Create 50 Challenge. A writer/ 1980s. A graduate of photography from Edinburgh’s Napier University, director herself, her most recent short film Cancer Hair is being she first became involved in cinema through various front-of-house and shown at film festivals around the world. cinema marketing roles at The Edinburgh Filmhouse. In 1992 she took up a post at Edinburgh College of Art and, as curator of the its year-round exhibition programme, she worked with a wide range of artists from the UK and beyond. She worked as general manager of Edinburgh’s Cameo Gail Hackston Diane Henderson Cinema from 2000-2004. She is a voting member of BAFTA UK and has served on the juries of various international film festivals.

Iain Hamilton is currently Head of Creative Industries with Highlands Robert Hicks was instrumental in founding Rock Ness, Loopallu, and and Islands Enterprise. Prior to working on developing support establishing Belladrum as a key fixture on the festival calendar, Robert programmes for the creative sector, Iain was a working musician and has been at the vanguard of Scotland’s live sector for over 12 years. was one of the founders of goNORTH. He is also a partner in the Ironworks venue in Inverness. Adding a management strand to his business in 2010 to represent acclaimed singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni, this development has led to the launch of his own label with Rachel, called Middle of Nowhere Recordings. Iain Hamilton Robert Hicks

Roddy Hart is frontman of Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire. The John Hodge is Head of Internet Investigations at the British Recorded band’s recently released debut album was produced by Danton Music Industry’s (BPI) Anti-Piracy Unit, John manages a team of Supple (Coldplay, ). As well as having his own show on BBC regional investigators throughout the UK as well as a dedicated Radio Scotland, Roddy was responsible for curating Forever Young: in-house internet investigations team. The unit is responsible for A 70th Birthday Tribute To Bob Dylan for 2011 tackling both physical and online copyright infringement. featuring artists such as Rosanne Cash and Josh Rouse and broadcast by BBC Radio 2 and Sky Arts. For Celtic Connections 2013, he curated The Roaming Roots Revue, which included Beth Orton, The Roddy Hart Low Anthem and LAU. Hart has performed for the Queen at the John Hodge Scottish Parliament, toured internationally, and played with major artists such as , Kris Kristofferson, Ray LaMontagne and Jeff Beck. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 36_37 Ross Hogg is an Animation Filmmaker based in Glasgow, Scotland. John Jarrold spent 15 years as a librarian before moving into book He Graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in June 2013 with a publishing in 1988. He set up his own agency in 2004 specialising in First Class Honours degree and was named the winner of the GSA SF, fantasy and horror. He has around 40 clients and has turned down Newberry Medal. Ross’ debut animated film, The Man Who Mistook over 9,000 submissions to the agency, which has had over 50 books His Wife For A Hat, (adapted from Oliver Sacks’ seminal work) had its released by major publishers in the UK and US in 2013, and many world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and was others in translation across the world. The agency has clinched nominated for a British Academy Scotland Award in 2013. His second multi-book deals for over 20 debut novelists. animated film, Spectators, had its world premiere at the Ottawa Ross Hogg International Animation Festival. Spectators has since won the British John Jarrold Academy Scotland New Talent Award and the Celtic Media Festival Award for Animation in 2014.

RM Hubbert is a Guitarist and Singer from Glasgow, Scotland. He Mark Jones rock and rolled for 5 years in a Prock (Pop/Rock) band writes about love, death, mental illness and a dog called D bone It’s called Perfect Day. Appeared on the BBC, played Wembley, Royal not as depressing as that last sentence might suggest. His second Albert Hall and graced the cover of Just Seventeen, Number One and album, Thirteen Lost & Found, won the Scottish Album of the Year Jackie magazines. Started pressing and distributing deals for small Award in 2013. labels and acts, helping Kruder and Dorfmeister, Basement Jaxx at Soul Trader Record Distributors. Then went into the studio and recorded the first ever single on Wall of Sound. Twenty years young and hundreds of albums and singles later, bringing the diverse roster RM Hubbert Mark Jones to the world. Mark also hosts his own radio show on BBC6 Music and programmes festivals.

Sara Hunt is Founder and Director of award-winning Glasgow-based Ben Kempas with 15 years of experience as award-winning Documentary publisher, Saraband. She worked in publishing in London and New Filmmaker and Cinematographer working out of Munich, Ben joined York before founding Saraband in 1994. Saraband has extensive the Scottish Documentary Institute in Edinburgh in 2011. As Producer international experience, an increasingly Scottish focus, and a growing of Marketing and Distribution, he connects filmmakers and audiences portfolio of innovative digital projects. The list focuses on literary in innovative ways – developing campaigning strategies, online fiction, memoir and narrative non-fiction, particularly in nature and communications, distribution technology, and fundraising tools. sustainability. Sister imprint Contraband is dedicated to crime, mystery and thrillers. Digital projects include acclaimed Burns Night Sara Hunt app, and new Scottish books discovery tool, Bookspotting. Ben Kempas

Chris Hunt worked in London in luxury goods and high street fashion Sean Kerwin is an audio ninja, he has been producing music for over PR before moving to Glasgow where he established Scotland’s first 15 years and specialises in electronica for a range of outlets including design collective, Scotland Re:Designed. He works behind the scenes commercial release, broadcasting and new media. For Dabster across the Scottish design sector from interiors to fashion as mentor Productions, Sean is a production master, a recording specialist, and and curator. He also runs Genuine PR, an international PR & events its most experienced trainer currently at Perth, Abertay and Glasgow agency. www.scotlandredesigned.com Kelvin College.

Chris Hunt Sean Kerwin speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 38_39 Alex Knight is Co-Founder, Fat Cat Records, which began life as a Nicola McAlley has been STV’s Highlands & Islands reporter for 12 record shop in 1989 before becoming established as a label in 1996. years. She has been based in Inverness since 2002. Such is the varied Having become home to several Scottish artists over recent years nature of news, she could be interviewing the First Minister one day including PAWS, , We Were Promised Jetpacks and and a Hollywood star the next. She particularly enjoys covering Honeyblood, the label’s wider roster features a diverse list of acts such cultural stories and has been delighted with the emergence of so as TRAAMS, Mazes, Vashti Bunyan and Dustin O’Halloran. The label many festivals in this part of the region in recent years. Nicola is also has a US base and previous signings include Sigur Rós and passionate about trying to spread the word about how much Frightened Rabbit. creative talent there is in this part of the world. Alex Knight Nicola McAlley

Al Lorraine is a Producer and the Training Course Manager at Dabster Simon McCay is a Director and co-founder of Burning Horseshoe Productions. He has delivered structured mentorship through the Productions Ltd. He has appeared in a number of short films, TV chaos of the Edinburgh Festival to produce world class programming. pilots and two feature films. Simon’s interest in filmmaking started He has designed training courses for arts funding bodies and support with Close Encounters, which he produced in 2012 for the 50 Kisses networks and produced pioneering pubic engagement sessions for film competition. In February this year Simon was delighted to find Stirling University’s Social Policy Research Centre amongst others. that Close Encounters had made the final edit of the feature, 50 Kisses, and we are very proud to help bring the film’s Scottish premiere to goNORTH. Al Lorraine Simon McCay

Jim Maxwell is Business Development Manager, Co-operative Ally McCrae is a radio DJ best known for presenting the BBC Introducing Development Scotland (CDS) Jim leads CDS’s client support, show on BBC Radio 1 with Jen Long. His career in the industry began developing services and matching client needs with suitable advisers. at Stirling University, where he ran their student station, Air3. He He is the first point of contact for new enquiries. previously presented BBC Introducing in Scotland. He is the co-creator of Detour Scotland, an online video blog which has developed into a key promotional outlet for new new Scottish artists.

Jim Maxwell Ally McCrae

Joe McAlinden is a classically trained singer-songwriter who writes Allan McGowan has 30 years experience in the advertising, music and records music from a studio in Argyll. He recently released a new and entertainment industries. He has worked in record retail, as a Edwyn Collins-produced solo album, Bleached Highlights, on AED concert promoter, artist manager and booking agent for companies Records. His band, Superstar, were signed to in 1992 including Chrysalis and Virgin. He is currently news editor for Vip by Alan McGee and released seven albums in eight years. He has News, an on-line data and news service for the live music industry. played/written/collaborated with Rod Stewart, Teenage Fanclub, Big Star/Alex Chilton, Eugene Kelly (), The Boy Hairdressers, NOM, BMX Bandits, Matthew Sweet, artists Jim Lambie and Iain Joe McAlinden Forsyth & Jane Pollard, novelist Alan Warner, BBC Scottish Symphony Allan McGowan Orchestra, Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, Brianna Corrigan (The Beautiful South). He has also written for Channel Five, Disney ABC, Sky One, Sky Sports, Sky HD and Vodafone. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 40_41 Eric McLellan began his music industry career as an intern at Universal Janne Moeller is Rights Manager at Edinburgh-based independent Motown Records in 2004. He worked for four years at Sony Music in publishing house Black & White Publishing, where she handles foreign Creative Services and video production. He came to Sire in 2008 and rights sales, licensing and subsidiary rights. Born in Copenhagen 1971, worked his way up the A&R ranks. He is currently director of A&R at she worked for Gyldendal Book Clubs from 1995-1999, before moving Sire Records/Warner Bros. Records and ADA. He is responsible for to London to work as a literary agent at The Susijn Agency. She moved discovering, signing and developing artists. Eric’s CV includes A&R’ing to Edinburgh in 2004 to run the writers’ retreat programme at projects for Delta Rae, Ewert & The Two Dragons, Kill It Kid, Ben Fields Hawthornden Literary Institute. and Cold Fronts. His most recent signing is rapper Deniro Farrar Eric McLellan whom he brought to Vice Records and Warner Bros. Records. Janne Moeller

Richard Melvin is the Director of Dabster Productions and leads from Alan Morrison is Group Arts Editor of The Herald, Sunday Herald and the front at work and play. Now eight years as an independent, the Evening Times newspaper titles, where he commissions across all arts challenges are just as tough but on an ever increasing scale. Delivering genres and writes regularly about music, particularly by Scottish bands training with an inspirational rather than aspirational mindset is at the and musicians. For most of his career, however, he has specialised in core of Richard’s and therefore Dabster’s heart. film, and was Editor of The List, Associate Editor of Total Film and Reviews Editor/Contributing Editor of Empire, as well as film critic for The Daily Record for several years. Over the past two decades, he has been a regular guest on various BBC Radio Scotland shows. He is Richard Melvin Alan Morrison also currently Artistic Director of the Kirkcaldy Film Festival, which launched in 2013; this year’s festival runs from September 19th-21st.

Katie Metcalfe is a Shorts Programmer at Sundance Film Festival. James Mullighan has been Creative Director of Cork International Based between the UK and the US, Katie has been a Shorts Programmer Film Festival since May 2013. He is also Contributing Editor for VODO, for Sundance Film Festival since 2010. She first cut her short film Cinovate and Rich Pickings, and producer of Marketing and Distribution teeth working with Future Shorts and went on to help launch Secret for the Sleep Paralysis Project. Most recently he was Chief Executive Cinema, producing live cinematic events worldwide. She also worked Officer of Transmedia Next, and in 2011, he directed the 65th Edinburgh with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk on their US launch and International Film Festival. The Australian was also Creative Director more recently she helped Vimeo produce and program their NY-based of Shooting People and the producer of RESFEST’s UK, Irish and Festival & Awards. Australian tours. James serves on the Boards of Encounters Short Film Katie Metcalfe James Mullighan and Animation, Sheffield DocFest and the London Short Film festivals.

Denise Mina spent a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Paris, London, Claire Mundell is an award-winning Film and Television Producer. Invergordon, Bergen and Perth. She left school early and worked in a Recent credits include the feature Not Another Happy Ending written number of dead end jobs, all of them badly, she says, before studying by David Solomons, directed by John McKay and starring Karen Gillan at night school to get into Glasgow University Law School. Denise in her first leading feature role. Claire also co-produced the BIFA-winning went on to study for a PhD at Strathclyde and misused her student feature Weekend, written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and the grant to write her first novel Garnethill. Denise has written twelve BAFTA Scotland winning Crying With Laughter, written and directed novels, three plays, five graphic novels and regularly contributes to by Justin Molotnikov. Prior to her film career, Claire was Head of CBBC television and radio in the UK. Scotland, where she originated, produced and executive produced Denise Mina Claire Mundell various TV factual, drama, entertainment and live shows over a ten-year period, including the BAFTA and RTS-winning 26-part, Shoebox Zoo, a live action CGI fantasy family series and UK Canada co-production starring Peter Mullan. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 42_43 Paul Murray is the Creative Director of Matchlight Productions, Gary Penn is a games industry veteran of some 30 years who’s focusing on features, daytime and factual entertainment programming. enjoyed success in a variety of roles: an accomplished writer, editor, Prior to joining Matchlight, Paul was Head of Objective Scotland consultant, voice actor and designer in a breadth of capacities where he oversaw the production of The Secret Removers, the Banff focussed on magazines and games. He’s been a stimulating columnist Award-winning Fresh Meat House and 50 Funniest Moments (all for for the likes of PC Gamer and Edge, a producer for Konami and BMG Channel 4). Before joining Objective, he was Creative Director at STV and, more recently, a creative force for good on original works such productions where he created the BBC daytime hit Antiques Road as GTA, Crackdown, Denki Blocks! and the BAFTA award-winning Trip. Paul started out with Ideal World/IWC, and unleashed Kirsty and Quarrel. He’s an officially recognised Games Media Legend and all Paul Murray Phil onto the world – producing the original pilot and first series of Gary Penn round good egg who just wants the world to be a more playful place Location, Location, Location. in every possible way.

Wilbert Mutsauers is Station Manager at radio stations 3FM Serious Giles Perring has a studio on the Isle of Jura where he produces Radio (Dutch rock/pop/alternative radio station), Radio 6 Soul & recordings. A musician [and music educator] for over three decades, Jazz and FunX urban radio. Since 2009, Wilbert has been responsible with a successful production music catalogue to his name, he actively for strategy, marketing and programming of these three public stations, looks to work across a wide range of musical forms. After producing associated online content and social media strategy. Wilbert has a the recordings of his own diverse musical projects, he began to emerge degree in communications and has been creative and marketing as a producer of other artists in the early noughties. He has worked director at Universal Music, Sony Music and Live Nation/Mojo most recently with singer songwriters such as Karl Culley and Ginny Concerts. Wilbert also advises several cultural and music-based Clee, as well as punk/folk band Brigada Mercy. He has been acclaimed Wilbert Mutsauers organisations such as the TAX-Videoclipfund, as well as musicians, Giles Perring for his work in the World Music arena with the Tuvan band Yat Kha. media and advertising agencies. He is also a member of the Dutch Creative Council.

Jeni Oliver In the last 10 years Jeni worked with a broad spectrum Simon Pursehouse is Director of Music services at independent music of creative businesses and social enterprises for Highlands & Islands publisher, Sentric Music, where he drives the sync side of the business Enterprise. Recently seconded to Scottish Development International, overseeing music being placed in TV, movies and adverts worldwide. Jeni’s focus is to help Scottish creative businesses internationalise. Sentric’s catalogue is currently featured on a daily basis on shows such as Hollyoaks, Skins and Made In Chelsea.

Jeni Oliver Simon Pursehouse

Barbara Orton is an award-winning Independent Producer, and Karen Radley is founder of premium womenswear collection, Scoop founder of the Glasgow based True TV and Film (1994). She makes International. She began her career with family firm, Radley. She factual and documentary films for the UK and international markets. moved from international selling, to manufacturing and into a design Recent credits include; producing a two part series on popular role before managing Quorum, whose stable of designers included dancing for BBC 1 Sunday night prime time called Bruce Goes Celia Birtwell, Betty Jackson and Ossie Clark. Karen played a leading Dancing with UK TV star Bruce Forsyth, co-producing a series of role in staging an exhibition of the work of Ossie Clark at London’s 5 x 43 mins with Germany’s Lichtblick Film for ZDF/Arte, Gardens V&A museum. of Delight, (2012). Barbara Orton Karen Radley speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 44_45 Michael Redmond was struck by lightning and lived to tell the tale. Neil Rolland is an Edinburgh based screenwriter and filmmaker who While this may not have actually happened to Michael Redmond is currently in post-production on his debut feature film Take It Back himself, it is a fate which befell his character Father Stone in Channel and Start All Over. Neil created Write Shoot Cut, which is a platform 4’s classic comedy, Father Ted. Michael started his career scripting dedicated to celebrating and showcasing independent and undiscovered comedy for Irish radio and television. After moving to London in 1987, filmmaking talent from across the world online and at regular events he established himself as a firm favourite on the comedy circuit, in Edinburgh. headlining at clubs throughout the UK. Michael has appeared on a number of other high profile TV shows, including Comedy Nation Michael Redmond (BBC2), Friday Night Live (LWT) and Just for Laughs. Neil Rolland

Matt Riley is Head of Digital Marketing at AWAL/Kobalt Label Rob Schustack is Senior Creative Director of advertising & video Services. He was a DJ and promoter, before joining London-based games with Primary Wave, one of the largest independent music electronic label Hospital Records. He worked on licences and brand marketing, talent management and music publishing companies in the partnerships with the likes of Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, US. He has over 15 years of music industry experience, most recently Samsung, EA Games, Disney, BBC and Channel 4 while overseeing at The Orchard, where he was director of film/TV & advertising, in all promotional output on the web. Artists he worked with included; charge of sync and creative licensing for the company’s catalogue. Netsky, Camo & Krooked, High Contrast and Fred V & Grafix. The label Some of the brands and bands he’s worked with include Honda, won three BT digital music awards and became the first UK record Google, Target, Coke, Verizon, Miller Lite, Crayola, Match.com, MLB, Matt Riley label to stream live on YouTube, broadcasting, Hospitality at Brixton Rob Schustack Grand Theft Auto, Wu Tang Clan, RJD2, The Black Angels, The Academy, in April 2011. This year, Matt joined AWAL/Kobalt Label Raveonettes, Boyz II Men, Lonestar and Black Flag among others. Services, working on artist campaigns for the likes of Todd Terje, A musician and avid music fan, he played in bands and worked as Lissie, SOAK, Matthew & The Atlas and Jasmine Thompson. a runner for local punk clubs, before moving into A&R at Atlantic Records. He then start up a successful music production company. Rob still plays and produces music at every opportunity.

Anne Ritchie has been giving trends presentations for some 20 years Adrian Searle is a Founding Director of Freight Design, publisher at and through extensive travel is able to bring an international dimension Freight Books and Founding Co-Editor of Gutter, Scotland’s leading to colour, fashion and interior trends. Anne also organises, on behalf literary magazine. He has edited a number of anthologies of new of HIE and SDI, Learning Journeys for Scottish designers to key writing including The Hope That Kills Us: An Anthology of Scottish international trade shows and retail stores in major cities including Football Fiction (Freight, 2002) and The Knuckle End: A Meaty London and Paris. Collection of New Scottish Writing (Freight, 2004). He co-authored 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle (Freight, 2012) with artist Judith Hastie, a BA top five Christmas Book of the Year 2012 and winner of two Anne Ritchie Adrian Searle Scottish Design Awards 2013. He is currently working on Look Up Edinburgh, to be published October 2014, as well as writing a novel.

Gavin Robinson is originally from the North East of Scotland, Gavin Gregor Sharp is Commissioning Editor, Comedy, BBC. He has worked graduated from architecture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2010 for the BBC and in the independent sector as a writer, producer and before going on to study animation. Graduating from animation in executive producer. He began his career as a trainee at Scottish 2013, Gavin is now working as a freelance animator. His degree film Television and is currently commissioning editor, comedy at the BBC, Hart’s Desire won the 2013 BAFTA Scotland Award for Animation. where he has been executive producer on series such as; Outnumbered, We are delighted to be showing it as part of our short film screening Count Arthur Strong and The Trip to Italy. showcase at goNORTH 2014.

Gavin Robinson Gregor Sharp speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 46_47 Scott Shaw has a lifetime’s experience of working in the commercial Marc Strain is the bass player and chief organiser of Scottish indie-rock and public sectors of the radio industry; imparting that information to band Fatherson who recently released their debut album I Am An the next generation is the thing that gives Scott his biggest buzz. Just Island. Instead of working with a traditional record label to release the as happy behind the microphone or in front of a classroom, Scott looks album, Fatherson chose to put the record out with a label established forward to sharing his enthusiasm for radio with as many as he can. by their management, A Modern Way, and hand-picked a team to work the release. The release has attracted wide-spread coverage from publications such as Kerrang, Rock Sound, Big Cheese, This is Fake DIY and The Line of Best Fit, as well as being play-listed on XFM Scott Shaw Marc Strain and regular airplay on a number of BBC Radio 1 programmes.

Allie Shaw currently heads up Brand Development for Public Enemy Julia Sutherland is a Producer, Performer and Presenter who worked and Digital Distribution company Spit Digital, which is owned by for over 10 years at BBC Scotland. Now at Dabster Productions she Chuck D. She moved into this role after working as an online writer for continues to pioneer new ground in radio production and our training MTV and VH1, and owning her own award-winning International Music projects. Julia is currently working on two broadcast projects for BBC Magazine. Allison is Founder and CEO of Manic Monkee MGMT, offering Radio Scotland as well as presenting and writing for both television consultancy and marketing solutions for a range of digital platforms, and radio. artists, producers and brands. She is also CMO for innovative music licensing platform, Hollywood Elite Composers. Allie Shaw Julia Sutherland

Paul Sims has been licensing digital music since its inception. Siobhan Synott is an award-winning Film Writer and Broadcaster. Introducing Universal and Warner Music to ringtones, he went on to She is chief film writer for Scotland on Sunday, and served on the take up Executive Director roles at Webtv and DX3 and also negotiated Edinburgh International Film Jury last year. She also contributes to the the first unlimited MP3 download service for DATZ. For the last six BBC, STV, BAFTA, Daily Record, Sunday Times, Best, Sunday Mail, and years Paul has headed up the music and licensing element of the world’s (best of all, she says…) The Lady. largest crowd sourced agency MOFILM whose clients include Coca Cola, Diageo, Chevrolet and Playstation.

Paul Sims Siobhan Synott

Inge Ejbye Sørensen is the Producer of the feature film Timelock Paul Terry is a Writer of music and books. His film scores include and has worked for a decade as an award-winning Producer of Tristan MG Aitchison’s chiller Care (2014) and Caroline Harvey’s short documentaries and factual programmes for Channel 4, BBC Scotland film starring Felicity Jones and Christopher Eccleston, Emily (2013). and STV. Inge is a Research Fellow in Digital Economy and Culture His solo records (under the moniker Cellarscape) include the acclaimed at CCPR at University of Glasgow. new album The Act Of Letting Go (2014). He also co-authored (with Tara Bennett) the official LOST Encyclopedia and Fringe: September’s Notebook for the hit Bad Robot TV shows.

Inge Ejbye Sørensen Paul Terry speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 48_49 Christian Ulf-Hansen is a London based manager and agent for artists, Jim Webster is Co-Founder – with Tony Kearney – of Solus Productions, with a specialism in publishing. He initially worked for The Performing where his credits include; Balaich Eileen, Iseabail, Turas Tony Series Rights Society moving on to become the European representative for 1/2, A Lùib Nam Boirreanch (BBC ALBA), Eileen’s Boys, Happy Birthday the US royalties organisation BMI. In 2002, Christian set up his own River City, Shonnie the Shooter (BBC Scotland) Zombie Rule No.9 management company, and now has an enviable track record of (BBC Radio Scotland). Current work includes McQueen of Scots, securing licensing in film and TV and finding new songs and writers Turas Tony and Birds Eye View. for successful artists. He works regularly in Scandinavia and is a regular speaker at major trade events such as Spot Festival in Denmark, Christian Ulf-Hansen By:Larm in Norway, and Is This It in Finland. Jim Webster

Patricia Van Der Akker is Director of The Design Trust, an online Beatrix Wood of Trix Pix Ltd, has 20 years co-production and business school for designers and makers, which receives over screenwriting experience with the Nordic territories. She has worked 25,000 visitors a month. An experienced and inspiring creative on award-winning feature, documentary and multi-media films, business adviser, coach and trainer, Patricia is known for a practical, including Emergency Call, The Commissioner, In The Shadow Of no-nonsense approach. She writes regularly about craft and design Doubt, Game Over, The Real McCoy, Brothers of the Forest and Boy businesses, including The Design Doctor, in Crafts Magazine. Hero 001.

Patricia Van Der Akker Beatrix Wood

Richard Warden produced three half-hour dramas before attending Riina Spørring Zachariassen trained as a lawyer before working with the Canadian Film Centre. His Toronto-based features were Ice Men CPH:DOX as Head of Industry. In 2012 she joined Vibeke Windelov as and Fairytales & Pornography. In Nova Scotia, Richard executive a Freelance Producer. Alongside her work with Vibeke Windelov at produced 12 shorts, managed international co-production event Windelov/Lassen, she joined one of Denmark’s biggest production Strategic Partners, and produced his third feature Growing Op. houses Fridthjof Film (who produced the EMMY-winning doc He now makes documentaries and dramas out of Glasgow. ‘Armadillo’) in 2013, where she is finishing 5 international feature documentaries shooting in Denmark, India, Syria, Egypt.

Richard Warden Riina Spørring Zachariassen

Ian Waugh is an alumnus of Screen Academy Scotland. Ian’s short Jeff Zycinski is Head of Radio at BBC Scotland. He commissions and films have screened internationally and his experimental drama Leaves schedules programming for BBC Radio Scotland and also leads the was nominated for Best UK First Feature at London’s East End Film teams who pitch and produce programmes for UK networks such Festival. He recently finished production of As He Lay Falling which as Radio 4 and Radio 3. Jeff began his career as a news reporter in will premiere later in the year. commercial radio (Capital Radio in London, MFR in Inverness, Radio Clyde in Glasgow) and joined the BBC 20 years ago as a General Programme Producer in Selkirk. He also worked in television, devising and pitching entertainment formats for BBC 1 and BBC Choice (the Ian Waugh Jeff Zycinski precursor to BBC3). He has won numerous awards for his work in journalism, entertainment and topical programming. Jeff has a strong interest in developing new comedy talent for BBC Scotland and openly admits to spending his spare evenings in basement comedy clubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh. speakers directory gonorthfestival.co.uk 50_51 Festival Partners

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Closing Party Nose Roman Glasgow The Broken Broken The Ravens 8.15-8.45 H&I Schnarff Schnarff 9.15-9.45 H&I Lionel 10.15-10.45 H&I Broken Records 11.15-11.45 Edinburgh Ironworks

The Phoenix The Charlotte Brimner Charlotte 8-8.30 Eleanor Nicolson 9-9.30 H&I Dr Wook 10-10.30 H&I Michael Cassidy 11-11.30 Glasgow Music Bronagh & Bronagh the Boys 8-8.30 Glasgow Rose Irenie Miss 9-9.30 H&I Keys Cyrptic 10-10.30 H&I Angus Munro 11-11.30 Crieff The Phoenix The Deenos Copper Lungs Copper 8.30-9 Dundee Black Cub 9.30-10 H&I Champion Felix 10.30-11 Glasgow Fruit United 11.30-12 Glasgow music showcase gonorthfestival.co.uk music showcase Showcase

Vladimir 8.30-9 Dundee Indian Red Lopez 9.30-10 Aberdeen - Wecamefrom wolves 10.30-11 Perth Bizerk Hector 11.30-12 Glasgow Deenos Blackfriars Prehistoric Friends Prehistoric 8-8.30 Glasgow Vasa 9-9.30 Glasgow Friends in America 10-10.30 Glasgow Delta Mainline 11-11.30 Edinburgh Blackfriars Fires Forest 8-8.30 Aberdeen Garden of Elks 9-9.30 H&I as Adopted Holograph 10-10.30 Glasgow Suit Fat 11-11.30 Glasgow Market Bar Market Culann 8.45-9.15 Irvine Honey Pale 9.45-10.15 Sweden Algernon Doll 10.45-11.15 Glasgow Market Bar Market Dorec-A-Belle 8.45-9.15 H&I Shaped 9.45-10.15 H&I Pinact 10.45-11.15 Glasgow Room The Netsounds Unsigned Our Future Glory Our Future 8-8.30 Dundee Coast Silver 9-9.30 H&I Yawns The 10-10.30 Glasgow Things Poor 11-11.30 Perth/Glasgow

Room The Netsounds Unsigned Dante 8-8.30 Edinburgh Beecake 9-9.30 Glasgow R51 10-10.30 Northern Ireland Model Aeroplanes 11-11.30 Dundee

Mad Hatters Oui Love Le Prince Miiaou Prince Le 8.30-9 France Tree Atom 9.30-10 Glasgow Griefjoy 10.30-11 France Machines in Heaven 11.30-12 Glasgow Mad Hatters Bloggers Scottish Foreignfox 8.30-9 Dunfermline Halfrican 9.30-10 Glasgow Siobhan Wilson 10.30-11 H&I Deathcats 11.30-12 Cumbernauld

Hootananny Gigs Bandwagon and Youth The Young 8-8.30 Dunfermline Strange Baby 9-9.30 Glasgow F**K Art Let’s Dance 10-10.30 Germany Canteen Teen 11-11.30 Glasgow/ Edinburgh Hazey The Janes 12-12.30 Dundee Hootananny Gigs Bandwagon Moon Kids The 8-8.30 Fife Scary People 9-9.30 Dundee Hold Fast 10-10.30 Norway Neon Waltz 11-11.30 H&I Miaoux 12-12.30 Glasgow 8pm 9pm 11pm 8pm 9pm 11pm 12am 10pm 12am 10pm As well as bringing you the best home-grown new music talent, we have worked worked have music talent, we new home-grown the best as bringing you As well bring a selection of top to and Scandinavia Europe across with partners from 2014. goNORTH to and Sweden Norway France, Germany, from artists international And remember… music around. new the sound of best So sit back and enjoy at goNORTH. it first heard you

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