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The Committee Room is a feature whereby we interview each of our committee members and media partners to give you a little more insight into who’s involved with Hinterland 2009 and what they do.
A Badge of Friendship are gig promoters and DJs based in good old London town. They
have been around since 2005 and have had the fortune of doing some really great shows
with bands like Hell is for Heroes, The Twilight Sad and Enablers to name but a few.
ABoF have DJ-
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Recipient of the Radio Academy's 2008 John Peel Award For Contribution To New Music,
Jim Gellatly has been spreading the New Music gospel in Scotland for over 20 years.
Formally with Beat 106 and Xfm Scotland, he recently launched the "Jim Gellatly's
NEW MUSIC" podcast, as well as a new slot on BBC Radio Scotland. more >>>
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Domino Records is a London based leading independent record label, which celebrated
its fifteenth anniversary in 2008. The eclectic record label is worldwide home to
Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Kills, and more recently
signings like Yo! Majesty, Eugene McGuinness, The Count & Sinden and Animal Collective.
With such a vast array of such diverse artists, Domino lies at the heart of the
music industry whilst retaining the ability to operate solely on its own terms, tastes
and mood. more >>>
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Rockfeedback.com started nearly a decade ago as one of the first wholly independent
online music magazines in the UK. Rockfeedback have also promoted shows for the past
six years, putting on legendary gigs from the likes of The Libertines, Bloc Party,
Graham Coxon’s more >>>
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After starting life as a simple gig listings Gigwise has since become the UK's leading
independent music website covering live music throughout Europe, North America and
Australasia.
more >>>
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1965 Records is the baby of Raf Rundell and James Endeacott (formerly of Rough Trade
Records), who first signed The Libertines and The Strokes. Now the label looks after
The Draytones, The Metros and Toddla T but is best known for signing Dundee four-
A forward thinking, artist friendly record label with no regard for genre or hype.
65 just does what feels good -
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Tam Coyle started promoting gigs in 1982 (his first show featured the debut performance
of Primal Scream) and by the mid eighties he was promoting most of the C86 bands
specialising in the holy trio of 4AD/Creation/Factory records. Tam started DJ'ing
in the legendary Night Moves in 1982 and has worked at most of the main venues in
Glasgow. more >>>
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LuckyMe are a cutting edge, Scottish arts and music collective who have recently
joined Hinterland Festival’s 2009 committee. Co-
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The first of our interviews features Rock A Rolla Magazine founder, Vuk Valcic. He
lets us know how his cutting edge, much respected alternative music magazine started
and what’s on Rock A Rolla’s radar for 2009. more >>>
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