Andrew Dubber is Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University, researching music media, copyright, popular culture and broadcasting in the digital environment. He has written extensively about the impact of digital technology on New Zealand radio, and has worked with the BBC researching online fandom and specialist music radio. He lectures in Online Music, Radio Production, Music Programming for Radio, and Music Enterprise.
Dubber is a consultant to music, broadcasting and production companies, and has worked extensively in the music and radio industries. His website New Music Strategies has discussed issues confronting the independent music sector in the online environment for the past five years and he is a regular blogger and commentator on issues around popular music, copyright and online culture.
Steve Lawson is a musician, teacher, lecturer and writer – both magazine journalism and contributor to a number of blogs about different aspects of the world of music. His main musical outlet has been as a solo bass guitarist for the last 10 years, but involves a lot of collaborating with other artists too, and has resulted in 10 albums being released on his own (imaginary) record label, Pillow Mountain Records.
He’s taught bass guitar, composition, improvisation and performance to degree, masters and PhD students, and has lectured in a number of universities in the UK, Europe and US on the changing situation in the world of music, particularly as it relates to musicians avoiding the pitfalls of the old-era record industry machine.
His experiences in using social technologies to tell the stories around music have also led to him consulting with the Central Office Of Information in the UK Government, The British Council, The Business School at Leicester De Montfort University and with the Department of Social Computing at Imperial College, as well as delivering keynote speeches at conferences organised by PRS For Music, The Musicians Union and JAMES: Joint Audio & Media Education Services.