BEYOND THE MUSIC has announced 70 new artists for its 2024 music lineup. Partnering with brand new curators for its second year, including SXSW, Manchester Pride, BBC Introducing and Secret Garden Party, Beyond The Music will welcome over 200 artists to perform for its 3 day takeover of Manchester’s Northern Quarter and Aviva Studios from 9th – 12th October 2024. Tickets for the second edition of Beyond The Music are available here.
Led by its NO ARTISTS. NO MUSIC ethos, the music lineup for Beyond The Music 2024 strives to showcase a genre-spanning range of grassroots artists on a global platform. Its by-night music programme will follow upon 3 days of vital music industry conversation between some of the most important voices in music, tech and content at Aviva Studios; offering brand new artists from Manchester and beyond the chance to perform in front of some of the industry’s most powerful players.
Earlier this year, the festival issued a call out for new artists to perform at Beyond The Music 2024. As a result, 70 brand new artists have been added to this year’s festival, with 25% of the lineup dedicated to local North West-based artists, including [ K S R ], Yasmin Coe, poor effort., Moreish Idols, Cody Frost and more.
Speaking about the lineup for Beyond The Music 2024, festival founder Oli Wilson says: “Our festival is all about supporting the new wave of music talent. We haven’t booked headliners, we’ve selected this lineup with an amazing range of curators and also from several thousand new artists that applied to play this year.
From going through that process and booking the festival it seems like there is a revolution pending in music and we’re really proud to be able to give a platform to this new generation of musicians. The talent isn’t just in one genre, it’s in every genre, and we’re representing that diverse mix of music and people in the festival.”
BEYOND THE MUSIC 2024 – MUSIC LINEUP
(New additions in bold)
[ K S R ] | 024Kas | 32 Tens | Adjua | Adjustments | Adwaith | Aleighchia Scott | Alex Apolline | Alexandra Whittingham | Alien Chicks | Ambiere | Arka | Arkayla | Arthur Black | Baby Said | Bandit | Bastet | Better Joy | Black Market Gallery | Blossom Caldarone | Britizen Kane | Bronagh | Caleb Kunie | Cam Mannix | Campfire Social | Charlie Cooper | Charlieeeee | Cheidu Oraka | China Lilly | Chroma | Chunky | Claire Welles | Cody Frost | Congratulations | Conor & The GreenKeepers | Coults | Crashface | Crysometimes | D3LTA | Daisy Veacock | Danny H | Danny Ray | David Arlo | Death by Denim | DeeD0t | Ditz | Divinitas | Divorce Finance | Dog Sport | DR DR | Drella | Elcee The Alchemist | Ellen Beth Abdi | Fan Girl | FEMUR | Formal Sppeedwear | Frances Mistry | Fuzz Lightyear | Gemma Rodgers | George Lawson | Good Grief | Goodnight Louisa | Greytooth | Hadewych Van Gent | Half Happy | Hannah Mazey | Harriet Dagnall | Heavy Salad | Hollowbody | Honey Motel | Hooton Tennis Club | Human Interest | I AM FYA | Indoor Pets | Isabelle Mettle | Ivey | J Chambers | Jaws The Shark | JAXN | Jords | Junkyard Tornado | Just Banco | JYellowL | Karen Dió | Katie & The Bad Sign | Kitty Bella | Kuill | LALA Hayden | Lavelle | Lavender Rodriguez | Laymarie | Lazy Day | Lei Hope | Leo Hermitt | Levi Love | Lili Holland-Fricke | Little Strange | Lotusbliss | Low Pulse (Joey T & Lady Lady) | Lucy Deakin | Lucy McWilliams | M1llz | Mace The Great | Marii Ella | Martial Arts | Melanie Baker | Mellt | Mere Amore | Metrodome | Michael Brindley | MilkMaiden | MINAS | Modema | Moreish Idols | MOULD | Ms Dee | Mumzy Stanger | MusiqByChina | Nico Harmony | No Substance | Nucci | Nyah Grace | OneDa | OnTheBeats | Ownlane Kay | Pat | Pippa Crossland | Plasticine | poor.effort. | Prido | Private Joy | PRNCSS | Queen Cult | Renee Stormz | Riya | Rosebud | RTB Cypher | Run Remedy | Sacha T | Sadaxe | SAINT | Saint Harmony | Salo | Saloni | Sarah Bates | Selve | Shader | Shelf Lives | Shlug | Sianthevisionary | Skee | Slate | Slimzz | Sno | Soul 31 | Spielmann | Teleshopping | The Beautiful Sinners | The Empty Page | The Manatees | The Mercians | The Outcharms | The Red Stains | The Redroom | The Restarts | The Rolling People | The Vanns | The Wytches | Third Kulture | Tough Cookie | Trip Sitter | Troopz | Tsana | Victoria Jane | Vulva Voce | West Side Cowboyy | Willow Parlo | WRKHOUSE | Yaang | Yasmin Coe | Zeddy | Zoe Graham | Zola Courtney
BEYOND THE MUSIC 2024 – STAGE CURATORS
Abbie McCarthy’s Good Karma Club | Awesome Friends | BBC Introducing | Blue Flag Entertainment | Clash | Classical | Curated by Chunky | D2D | Discover Live | Disorderly Conduct (The Manc) | Fat Out | Focus Wales | Future Yard | Gig Pig | Lamacq LIVE | Manchester Pride | Manchester Punk Fest | Manchester Tastemaker Collective | Mas O Menos | MCR4PAL | Melodic | Moovin | Nice Swan | NQ | Pie Radio | Raise The Bar Manchester | Rodeo Mag | SAMS | School Night | Secret Garden Party | Sour Grapes | Studio 88 | SXSW
In addition to its night time music programme, Beyond The Music will take over Aviva Studios with an expansion upon its preexisting conference structure. Spanning twelve summits, four keynotes, ten networking sessions, talks, and exclusive announcements, its 2024 delegate programme welcomes some of the most influential voices in music, tech and content to uncover solutions on some of the most pressing challenges in the music and content sector today. This year asking ‘Is It Time For The Music Industry’s Great Reset?’
The speakers so far announced for the 2024 edition of Beyond The Music include: Andy Burnham (Mayor of Greater Manchester), Rebecca Ferguson MBE (Artist), Tony Harlow (Warner Music UK), Grace Blakeley (Economist / Author), Sam Taylor (BBC Radio 3), Matt Wilkinson (Apple), Dan Chalmers (YouTube), Jen Smith (CIISA), Tom Gray (The Ivors Academy / Gomez), Nick Raphael (NWS), Tom Vek (Artist), Zelda Perkins (Can’t Buy My Silence), Erinch Sahan (Doughnut Economics Action Lab), Laura Harper (Lewis Silkin), Gemma Vaughan (AO Arena), Futurecut (Songwriters/Producers), Dr. Jo Twist MBE (BPI), Annabella Coldrick (MMF), Andy Edwards (UK Music), Jon Collins (LIVE), Richard Jacques (Composer), Sophie Jones (BPI), Dotty (Apple Music), Sam Duckworth (Get Cape, Wear Cape Fly / MVT), Karen Gabay (BBC broadcaster / filmmaker), Ben Wynter (AIM), Atlanta Cobb (MIM), Kara Mukerjee (Warner / Restore The Music), Sarah Wilson (Tunecore), Dr Diljeet Bhachu (Musicians’ Union), Ni Maxine (Artist), Grace Meadows (Help Musicians), Roxy Erikson (Music Climate Pact), Elijah (DJ / Writer), Abbas Lightwalla (IFPI), Gregor Pryor (Reed Smith), Nick Fellingham (Condense), Laurence Oxenbury (PPL), Nickie Owen (Universal), Sarah Williams (IMPEL), with more to be announced soon.
Beyond The Music has been hailed for its unwavering dedication to opening the floor for honest and topical discussions across music industry issues – and today brings a new wave of announcements for their daytime programme. Today’s announcement includes The Evolution of Black British Music, later expanding with Who Is Looking After The Industry’s Mental Health? – A Collective Remedy where Music Minds Matter will lead a groundbreaking cross industry mental health initiative bringing together industry allies in order to deliver a cross sector strategy.
2024’s conference programme will bring together some of the biggest names in the music industry, for example, welcoming Warner Music UK’s CEO and Chairman Tony Harlow for an opening Keynote discussion. The conference will also revisit their call for climate action with an update on the Music Climate Pact from its leader Roxy Erikson. New to the schedule this year is the Classical Summit, the first Classical Summit to be held in the North, it aims to help usher classical music into the mainstream in both audience and discourse.
BTM will also open vital conversations around the support of the broken grass roots pipeline during the Growing the grassroots: How cross industry investment can save the music ecosystem panel. The Economics Summit will feature economists from outside of the industry as well as stakeholders from within including Grace Blakely and Erich Sahan, Dan Chalmers (YouTube), Annabella Coldrick (MMF) and more in search of a new economic model. Tom Gray (The Ivors Academy / Gomez) will take to the stage once more for his BTM Address, this year asking “Just how did we get here? A short history of a messy business”.
This year, the conference schedule opens discussions in new territories of the creative industries, expanding into discussions surrounding gaming, tech and content. Artificial Intransigence: Where’s Our AI Copyright Law? will bring copyright, legal, musical and AI experts to debate what needs to be done to protect our creative industries – and what legislation/regulation should look like.
The newly announced Gaming & Music Summit will see a talk with IVOR NOVELLO award-winning, GRAMMY®, and BAFTA nominated Composer Richard Jaques, whose credits include Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy and Sony’s Little Big Planet 2, about his career and the intrinsic and changing nature of music in today’s video game landscape.
Staying true to their mantra of providing tangible and real-time solutions, Beyond The Music 2024 comes with a plethora of networking and learning opportunities. Planned across the weekend are networking events hosted by the likes of PRS, PPL, BPI, MMF, Musicians Union Universal Publishing, Music Tech UK and Gameopolis. AIM’s Regions and Nations Roundtable which will look into the current musical landscape in Manchester. The session will facilitate candid conversations between independent artists, music entrepreneurs, and music stakeholders by addressing regional challenges and providing a space to connect.
About Beyond The Music:
Co-founded by promoter and social enterprise founder Oli Wilson and Sarah Pearson, Founder of Wasted Youth Music, alongside Rose Marley, CEO, Co-operatives UK, Beyond The Music’s founding members span CityCo, Co-operatives UK, Factory International, GMCA, MCR BID, Manchester Accommodation BID, Co-op Live, AO Arena, and BPI and supported by Manchester City Council.
Their desire to empower and equip attendees and performers with knowledge and a space for honest conversation has extended to their lineup, as the festival earlier issued a call out for new artists to perform at the 2024 edition, to which over 2,500 artists applied.
Tickets to Beyond The Music 2024 are on sale now. A standard Delegate Pass (including conference and festival access) is priced at £225, a Festival Day Ticket ranges from £15 – £25, and a Festival 3-Day Ticket is available from £45 – tickets are available here.
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