Born to be Wide

Wide Days - Teviot Row House, Edinburgh, Wed 11-Thu 12 Apr 2012

Music seminar an invaluable asset for industry

27 Apr 2012

Now in its third year, Wide Days is fast becoming something of a mainstay within the Scottish music scene. Due to the ambition of curator Olaf Furniss, and his close partnership with various initiatives within the local music community, the event has…

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Third Annual Wide Days Seminar

3 Apr 2012

Following on from successes in 2010 and 2011, the informal music conference, slash industry showcase that is Wide Days returns – with seminars for those wanting to get in to the music business during the day, followed by live performances and showcases…

Born to Be Wide - The musician's guide to music videos

Music seminar offers advice for making and promoting music videos

18 Oct 2011

Don’t know your PPL from your VPL? Couldn’t tell your ISRC code from your elbow? Born To Be Wide is here to help. For any musician looking to make the leap from local pub gig to, well, basically anything that will make you any money, a little bit of…

Born To Be Wide Showcase of Edinburgh music

Day-long appreciation of music made in Edinburgh

29 Jul 2011

As a salute to Edinburgh’s musical vibrancy, this second annual Born To Be Wide showcase wants to shine a spotlight on what the capital has to offer with a series of ten-minute taster sets, secret shows and instore performances throughout the…

Music industry seminar Wide Days 2011 features top speakers

Showcase sets from Withered Hand, Capitals and Rachel Sermanni

5 Apr 2011

Following its successful launch in 2010, the organisers behind Scotland's Born To Be Wide return to the capital on the 7th April 2011 with their jam-packed A&R seminar Wide Days, featuring a tasty programme of panels and workshops by day and selective…

Born To Be Wide - Wide Days

1 Apr 2010

It's business time! Scottish music scene-nurturing organisation Born To Be Wide has another fantastic event planned, with a line up of acts equally as impressive as the industry figures sharing their music industry knowhow. Seminars and showcases have…

Jeans Team

18 Feb 2010

Berlin duo Jeans Team have been doing the thing they do better than most and for longer too, both predating and outliving the electroclash scene during which they came to prominence, after originally emerging from Berlin’s art and music scene a decade…

Born To Be Wide - German Night

12 Jan 2010

Born to be Wide is a bit of strange one. It’s not really a club more of a muso social, it mixes up genres, seminars, producers, musicians, journalists and various other odds and ends. ‘It started out as a way to bring people in the Edinburgh scene…

Musicians' guide: Live music nights

27 Nov 2008

The Mill Launched at the end of the summer, this platform for emerging new talent hosts gigs at The Caves, Edinburgh, and Oran Mor, Glasgow. For more info, visit www.themill-live.com Born To Be Wide A night set up to make connections between…

Born to be Wide relaunches at a new home

12 Mar 2008

Edinburgh’s fortnightly club night, music scene networking event and general midweek social club, Born to be Wide, is relaunching at a new venue, Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms, from April. The first date at the new site will be on 3 April with Martin…