Clive Leighton of Public-i Music Events and Media and Lee Parsons of Ditto Music have joined forces to bring you the ultimate courses to establish your career within the music industry. Coming from complementary areas of the business, you will benefit from their direct involvement at the sharp end with structured informal presentations featuring guest contributors and "take away literature". With ongoing support and mentoring, Music Industry Courses view your attendance as a mutual commitment and our contacts, expertise and direction will provide opportunities to help you get to where you want and deserve to be. This course puts you and your talent in the spotlight. Together we will lead you onto that bigger stage.  

Clive Leighton is an award winning event organiser, former head of marketing, media, industry liaison and band booker for Bloodstock, the successful Heavy Metal Festival turning it from a 1000 attending event in 2006 into 8500 in 2008. A regular contributor to BBC Online and tv/ radio guest Clive is a veteran of over 600 performances and specialises in creating slots for, supporting and mentoring unsigned/ emerging bands. He has created PR for events and performers including; Page/ Plant, Peter Green, Whitesnake, Brain May, Cozy Powell, Rory Gallagher, Deep Purple, Association of Festival Organisers and umpteen breaking acts and initiatives. His ability to tailor industry supply around your personal and professional specifics is his hallmark as he encourages individuality as a gift to be celebrated and not suffocated. Clive is currently working on 2 UK Festivals and building on his industry connections to unify Festivals worldwide in creating performance opportunities for new acts.

Lee Parsons and Ditto Music have been described by The Independent as the cutting edge of digital marketing. He created music industry history when his company made international headlines when he guided Koopa to be the first unsigned act to break the UK top 40. Twice. Additionally, his unique skills has to date generated 7 UK top 40 singles, all from unsigned artists as well as 7 Irish Top 40s and 3 top 20’s. With a stable featuring around 800 artists he has a complete overview of how to run a successful record label and can teach you how to effectively market your release, creating the biggest impact and maximising income. Lee will empower you to manage your own success, covering aspects of setting up your own label, how to licence your music and all detail relating to international showcase and funding. Lee currently presents his own live TV programme Ditto Music Live, highlighting and featuring the cream of established and newly breaking bands.

We're bringing an inaugural one day taster course to the Holiday Inn, Birmingham on Saturday 7 March 2009 from 10am to 5pm.

MiC also run a more comprehensive two day course at the same venue on Fri 14 and Sat 15 May 2009 for £149.