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Stories written by Laura GrivainisThorne
Though born in Ealing, Laura only recently returned to London after establishing her music industry bona fides in San Francisco, California, where she rubbed elbows with the top players in jazz as Marketing Director for boutique concert promoter Stanford Jazz Workshop. Her background also includes marketing, PR & production duties for several independent labels such as Primarily A Cappella and Tinder Records, and she was producer for award-winning sound design and commercial music house Ripe Sound (with credits including SFX work for Electronic Arts and Disney and ad campaigns for international brands T-Mobile and Capital One). Laura is a former bassist/singer/songwriter who (still) lives to rock and likes it loud. She has a degree qualification in English to help her write and talk nice.

Sun Shines Brightly at 2012 Great Escape

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Share TMV’s UK Writer Laura G Thorne is feeling the love at this year’s Great Escape in Brighton England.  Tries to control herself, but can’t. Where music’s concerned, The Great Escape is the sun around which all planets rotate in the UK from May 10-12.  While top billing goes to its artist showcases – there [...]

A Day in the Life: Cameron Farrelly, Account Director, Music Marketing Partnerships, The O2

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Share In Part 1 of a two-part interview, TMV’s Laura Thorne had a sit-down in London with Cameron Farrelly of Pd3, to discuss a typical day, his approach to music and brand partnerships, the ultimate gig experience, and why Katy Perry is his BFF. Watch the video which is contained within the body of the [...]

SOPA Post-DEFCON: The Campaign Continues, But Now What?

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Share TMV’s UK Staff Writer Laura G Thorne considers the current state-of-play post-SOPA while resolving the age-old quandary of how many internet pirates can dance on the head of a pin. Much controversy was stirred up by SOPA (the Stop Internet Piracy Act) introduced by the US Congress in Oct 2011 (and PIPA, its Senate [...]

TMV Predictions For 2012

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Share Well 2012 is hurtling past and we are already into our 10th day of the new year! TMV’s UK staff writer Laura G Thorne and Jakomi Mathews teamed up to come up with our predictions for 2012 – we hope you enjoy them! Social Marketing & Music As everyone and their Granny knows, the [...]

Live Music Landscape

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Share TMV’s London correspondent Laura G Thorne attended last week’s Live Music Landscape conference and reports back on the industry’s recent hills and valleys. 2Pears (facilitators of peer2peer networking and collaboration specialising in creative and startup companies) presented the latest in their ongoing series of Music 4.5 events last week in London to discuss the [...]

Everything Old is New Again: AIR Studios Launches New AirVinyl App

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London’s iconic AIR Studios launches its first digital app, AirVinyl, today.

INDUSTRY OPINIONS – Streaming Royalty Rates

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TMV gets comments from Spotify, PRS for Music, Merlin and two independent record labels

Bits and Bytes and Everything Nice – Internet Week Europe

Internet Week Europe

Share TMV’s Laura G Thorne was in London taking the collective temperature at Internet Week Europe. Here’s the upshot: The streets were alive in London as the pied pipers of tech arrived on November 7th for Internet Week Europe, a one-week-long celebration of innovation and everything web. Headquartered in Covent Garden’s swish Hospital Club and [...]

Up in the Sky – It’s a Cloud-Based Music Service

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Share TMV’s Laura G Thorne has been checking out the Catch Media’s “My Music Anywhere” app while considering the larger issues of data usage and metadata tracking. As listener habits evolve – led by new platforms and formats, most notably smartphones and other mobile devices – consumers can now take their music collections with them [...]

SoCon 2011-Traditional Media Versus the Brave New World: Score Tied 1-1

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Share Tagged with the descriptor “Brand Journeys in Social Media,” the first SoCon 2011 conference in London brought together senior marketers from “brands, agencies and supply-side businesses” to look at how social media is being used by some of the leading companies and experts in the field. Organised by John Horsley, the leader of LinkedIn’s [...]

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