- Nicola Slade
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Nicola Riches (nee Slade) is a music industry journalist, PR and author based in London.
Nicola has worked for various consumer magazines and websites including The Fly (deputy editor) Mean Fiddler (where she launched the very first Reading and Leeds festival websites) Clickmusic, Slant (Virgin Megastores' in-store magazine), and Music Week, where she worked as online and digital editor.
Nicola spent four years as editor of Record of the Day, an influential music industry daily news service and magazine. More recently she has worked in a PR capacity for lobbying organisation UK Music, where she put together a campaign to save BBC radio station 6Music and was responsible for submissions to the BBC Trust and the Home Office on broadcasting and live music licensing.[1] She currently works freelance in a PR and Campaigning capacity for the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the organisers of the Ivor Novello Awards.
She is author of Download the Lowdown (a guide to downloading music) and How To Make Music In Your Bedroom, a guide to home recording, marketing and distributing your own music without the need for a record label. Both books are published by Random House/Virgin.[2] Nicola has just signed her third book deal with publishing house Music Sales to produce the Music Managers Forum's 'Music Industry Bible'.
Nicola also regularly appears as a music reviewer/commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire show[3] and on a variety of panels at music industry trade events and conferences, such as Musexpo,[4] Canadian Music Week, You Are In Control (Reykjavik),[5] Music Export Finland and by:Larm in Norway.
References
- ^ http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1040359
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=58940
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/victoriaderbyshire/2009/02/
- ^ http://musexpo.net/MusexpoEU08/08speakers.html
- ^ http://yaic.wordpress.com/interviews-2009/nicola-slade-interview/
Categories:- Living people
- British music journalists
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