Shaken but not Undeterred: ILMC 2002 Dates

The International Live Music Conference (ILMC) has announced the initial details of its 14th meeting next year. For ‘ILMC14’ the three-day conference will return to the five-star Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, over the weekend of March 8-10 2002. This time it comes wrapped in a spoof sixties spy movie theme that will see the invitation-only delegates challenged to complete a three-day mission that may not be ‘impossible’ but may certainly turn out to be ‘implausible’, ‘indigestible’ or even occasionally ‘incomprehensible’ (that is, should they choose to accept it, of course).

The ILMC’s usual array of in-depth debate, specialist breakout sessions, industry trade association meetings, and a whirlwind of social activities, culminating in the notorious ‘ILMC Gala Dinner and Arthur Awards’ on the Saturday night at the new venue of The Savoy, will drive the the 2002 conference programme. The events that have taken place since September 11 - and which have seriously affected the live music industry - will be reflected in the conference programme and have been taken into account in the organisers’ planning.The ILMC’s Martin Hopewell comments: "This year’s crowd safety debate has sparked an enormous and continuing communal response from around the industry, as well as in the wider music press and broadcast media, and we anticipate that the equally serious issues facing the business right now will make for compelling main sessions at ILMC14." Specific details of events surrounding the conference will be announced later, and conference session details will be confirmed in January when input from the members has been received.

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