Association of Independent Promoters presents

Promoter Masterclass: Being Resilient 

How to build a career as a concert promoter

Live on | Facebook | YouTube

With Conal Dodds (Crosstown Concerts) & John Rostron (Association of Independent Promoters)

The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the global live music industry overnight.

How do concert promoters remain resilient in this kind of emergency situation? 

What can we do to ensure the live music industry bounces back even stronger?

Join Conal Dodds as he takes you through his incredible career as a concert promoter. He’ll share how to be resilient during the current crisis & how live music can make a return.

After ruling out a career in manual labour, Conal Dodds went on to co-promote one of the Britpop era’s defining events – two sell-out, 125,000-capacity Oasis shows at Knebworth in 1996. Having left Metropolis Music in 2016, he set up Crosstown Concerts with Paul Hutton and businessman Fraser Duffin, promoting shows with acts including Massive Attack, Lana Del Rey and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, along with The Downs Bristol (30,000 cap) and London’s On Blackheath festivals (25,000).

Crosstown Concerts is now one of the UK’s leading independent promoting companies. With offices in London and Bristol, their artists include Lana Del Rey, Kano, Snow Patrol, Pixies, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Jack Savoretti, Agnes Obel, Patti Smith, IDLES, Of Monsters and Men, The Heavy, George Ezra, The Wombats, Richard Hawley, Jack White, Of Monsters and Men and many others. Crosstown continue to help develop new talent – the Crosstown Recordings label released the first singles by Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Keir, George Gretton and Harvey Causon. As promoters, newer acts include Fenne Lily, Lord Apex, Pom Poko, Katy J Pearson and 808 Ink…