BIGSOUND Recruit More Big Names For 2016 Speaker Lineup

BIGSOUND 2016‘s list of industry speakers has blown out with the addition of some international grunge and hip-hop luminaries.

Sonic Youth founder Kim Gordon, rap forefather-turned-Stones Throw Records head Peanut Butter Wolf and his label mate J Rocc will all be heading Down Under to deliver keynote speeches at Australia’s biggest music industry conference.

“It is an absolute honour to welcome these iconic cultural figures to BIGSOUND this year,” said co-programmer Nick O’Byrne of the new additions. “Kim Gordon has been on our dream list of speakers for years and we’re so excited to hear from such an influential, challenging and still-relevant figure in music and art.

“Also on that dream-list has been one of the most important labels in the history of hip-hop, Stones Throw. We can’t wait to hear founder Peanut Butter Wolf and long standing label mate J Rocc reflect on the music and people who have made it so seminal.”

They’ll be joined by previously announced keynoters Jaddan Comerford (UNIFIED) and A.B. Original (Briggs & Trials), as well as a cavalcade of other incredibly diverse industry speakers and buyers from across Australia and the globe.

More than 40 of those have only just been announced, including head of Pandora’s US Music Maker program Lars Murray, Milk! Records’ Jen Cloher, Collision Course PR’s Tim Price and more.

BIGSOUND 2016 will also feature a buttload of industry masterclasses, while a whopping 89 artists have already been announced on the conference’s live music programme, including A.D.K.O.B, BANFF, Gideon Bensen, Tigertown, Totally Unicorn, Sydonia and more.

BIGSOUND 2016 will run across 3 nights, from 7th – 9th September in Queensland’s cultural nerve centre of Fortitude Valley, lining up 150 bands across 15 venues.

Catch the latest speaker & buyer announcement below.

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BIGSOUND 2016

Wednesday, 7th September – Friday, 9th September

Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

Tickets: BIGSOUND

BIGSOUND 2016 Speakers & Buyers

Kim Gordon (USA) – Keynote

J Rocc & Peanut Butter Wolf – Stones Throw Records (USA) – Keynote

Lars Murray – Pandora (USA) – Mini Keynote

Brodie Lancaster (AUS) – Mini Keynote

Bruce Tweedie – Music Mill (AUS)

Alex Black – Big Deal Music (USA)

Andrea Szew – Szew Law Group (USA)

Paul Barclay – ABC (AUS)

Guy Blackman – Chapter Music (AUS)

Michelle Brown – 4ZZZ (AUS)

Christine Cao – The Windish Agency (USA)

Chris Carey – Media Insight Consulting (UK)

Jen Cloher – Milk! Records (AUS)

Claire Collins – Bossy (AUS)

Katie Cunningham – Junkee Media (AUS)

Cam Durnsford – PBS 106.7FM (AUS)

Melody Forghani – twnty three (AUS)

Stephen Goodhew – FBi (AUS)

Cath Haridy – Catherine Haridy Management // Support Act (AUS)

Tim Hollo – Green Music Australia (AUS)

Chris Johnson – Amrap (AUS)

Lachlan Kanoniuk – FasterLouder (AUS)

Mitch Knox – TheMusic.com.au (AUS)

Siobhan Kranz – Mushroom Promotions (AUS)

Jared Kristensen – Ticket Squad (AUS)

Jessica Krishnaswamy – BBE (AUS)

Kučka (AUS)

Tom Larkin – SIGNAL Agency Group / The Studios In The City / Homesurgery MGMT (AUS)

Nikita Lavrinenko – Paper and Iron Booking (Germany)

Regan Lethbridge – Lemon Tree (AUS)

Stu MacLeod – RTR FM (AUS)

Ivano Maggiulli – Brace Yourself PR (UK)

Tyler McLoughlan – The Sound Pound (AUS)

Tim Price – Collision Course (AUS)

Jodie Regan – Spinning Top Music Manager (AUS / USA)

Jonno Seidler (AUS)

Roger Shepherd – Flying Nun (NZ)

Tim Shiel (AUS)

Jessica Strassman – Columbia Records & StarTime International (USA)

Marcus Teague (AUS)

Mark Vaughan – Atomic Soul (Norway)

Julia Wilson – Nice Rights / Midnight Choir / Rice Is Nice (AUS)

Nick Yates – UNIFIED (AUS)

Joining…

Jaddan Comerford – UNIFIED (AUS) – Keynote

A.B. Original (Briggs & Trials) (AUS) – Keynote

Matt Ash – Raw Power Management (USA)

Alex Becket – Creative Artists Agency (USA)

Alex Bruford – ATC Live (UK)

Marcy Bulkely – Wild Card AV (USA)

Laura Byrne – Made In Katana / The Scouted (AUS)

Jon Coombs – Secretly Publishing (USA)

Dana Erickson – Grandstand Media & Management (USA)

Emmy Feldman – Canvasback (USA)

Jane Flynn – Songs For Children (Hong Kong)

Sebastian Freed – The Bowery Presents (USA)

Alastair Green – Maker (AUS)

Lawson Higgins – The Royalty Network, Inc (USA)

Zac Ives – Goner Records (USA)

Jeremy Maciak – Vagrant Records / BMG (USA)

Lindsay McDougall (AUS)

Dean Ormston – APRA AMCOS (AUS)

Jim Pitt – Conan (USA)

Josh Roth – Superfly (USA)

Katie Rynne – Select Music (AUS)

Jon Salter – ATO Records (USA)

Jackie Shuman – Good Ear Music Supervision (USA)

Chris Swanson – Secretly Group (USA)

Edwin Tehrani – New World Artists (AUS)

Taylor Testa – Universal Music Publishing Group (USA)

Roman Trystram – Creative Artists Agency (UK)

Marco Walzel – Avocado Booking (GER)

Tom Wironen – Post Hoc Management (USA)