The Dewarists is a new, 10-part television series that premieres October 16 at 8pm on Star World. The show features collaborations between artists of different genres, shot at locations across India. Each episode will centre around the creation of an original track by the combination of musicians, and will culminate in the performance of the new composition.

The series has been directed by acclaimed ad-filmmaker and Scribe frontman Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy. The U.K.-
based, DOP-director duo of Fred&Nick co-directed the series, which was produced by the good peeps at Babble Fish
Productions. The duo was recently nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Mumford & Sons’s video for ‘The
Cave’, which was shot in Goa last year.

The lineup for the first five episodes has been released on the official website, and features indie music stalwarts like Indian Ocean, Imogen Heap and Zeb & Haniya, as well as veteran Bollywood artists like Vishal-Shekhar, Mohit Chauhan and Shantanu Moitra. The second half of the series will (unsurpisingly) feature several names that feature on the lineup of The Dewarists Stage at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender. Monica Dogra (aka Shaa’ir of Shaa’ir + Func) will play the role of an informal host in the series, aside from featuring in one of the collaborations.

Check out the list of episodes below:

List of Episodes

1. Oct 16: Vishal-Shekhar and Imogen Heap (filmed in Samode and Jaipur)
2. Oct 23: Zeb & Haniya, Shantanu Moitra, and Swanand Kirkire (filmed in Mumbai)
3. Oct 30: Mohit Chauhan and Indian Ocean (filmed in Delhi)
4. Nov 06: Agnee, Parikrama, and Shilpa Rao (filmed in Panshet and Pune)
5. Nov 13: Shri, Monica Dogra, and Rajasthan Roots (filmed in Jaisalmer)

The Bacardi NH7 Weekender is a multi-genre, multiple-stages, first-of-its-kind annual music festival that started in 2010. In just one year, Bacardi NH7 Weekender has become the most anticipated music festival in the country. The festival features the best music from India and across the world – from underground artists that should feature on your playlist to award-winning artists you’ve been dying to see live.

Each stage will feature a different genre of music and experience. There’s dance and electronica at Eristoff Wolves Den, world, folk and eclectic music at The Dewarists Stage and rock and metal at the Bacardi Black Rock Arena – with a lot more to come.

The 2010 edition saw performances by Asian Dub Foundation, Reverend Soundsystem, Pentagram, Parikrama, Demonic Resurrection, Scribe, Bhayanak Maut, Zero, The Magic Numbers, The Raghu Dixit Project, Susheela Raman, Indian Ocean, Airport, Ankur Tewari & The Ghalat Family, and Swarathma amongst others.

The 2011 festival will be held at Magarpatta City, Pune between 18-20 November at a massive 17-acre premium facility.

The Bacardi NH7 Weekender will also host arguably India’s best tattoo convention, Tattoo Republic, in 2011.

The Bacardi NH7 Weekender is produced and promoted by MotherSwear Entertainment - the Festivals and large-format events division of Only Much Louder, and is co-promoted by Stephen Budd and Martin Elbourne.

Bacardi NH7 Weeknder Website

Bacardi NH7 Weekender Ticketing

The Syndicate is a professional artist booking agency. It is a comprehensive resource of artists, providing you with unprecedented choice for any event that you wish to book artists for. Our experience with artists and events is extensive, spanning the country and various genres. We have booked artists for many of the country’s biggest live shows and will ensure your event is entirely unique, and pretty kick ass.

Check it out - The Syndicate

Marketing Manager:

We are Hiring, woo hoo!

About us:

We are Only Much Louder and we are involved with multiple things revolving around independent music in India. We manage bands, produce concerts and festivals, run a record label among other things.

We are a small team of twenty-somethings (mostly). We have a few interesting projects coming up this year and we’d like some professional help. Possibly, from you!

What are we looking for:
We are looking to hire Marketing Managers who will be responsible for the marketing and business development activities of OML.

The Marketing Manager will:
•    Generate and develop sponsorship leads across the country for OML festivals and events
•    Conceptualize and execute the marketing campaign for OML events and festivals
•    Prepare marketing collateral and pitches that aid sponsorship syndication
•    Communicate with marketing and brand managers regarding various OML festivals and events with a view to establishing strong and appropriate relationships
•    Conceptualize and manage the online and offline marketing strategy of OML festivals and events
•    Interact with media buyers and media agencies to strike appropriate media and communication deals for OML festivals and events
•    Develop partnerships with travel, hospitality and media partners
•    Conceptualize and develop other marketing tools for the company.
The Marketing Manager will have:
•    Ability to generate and manage sponsorship leads and contacts
•    Excellent communication and presentation skills
•    An understanding of the music festival circuit and the music business in India
•    Comfort with online marketing and new media platforms
•    The ability to develop original concepts for communication materials
•    Good taste in music!
Additionally, what would help is:
•    Some experience in marketing concepts to brand managers

Other details:
Location: Mumbai

Salary: To be discussed

To qualify:

Send in your CV by email to jobs@oml.in with subject line: Marketing Manager. Please include a brief note about yourself in the body of the e-mail and why this is the role for you.

Only Much Louder, India’s premier artist management company, live events and production company is proud to announce it’s partnership with leading digital entertainment consulting agency TAG Strategic. This partnership which was announced at Midem 2010 will see both organizations working together on business activities covering India, the USA and the UK.

Ted Cohen, founder and Managing Partner of TAG Strategic, commented, “We are very excited about working with OML. Since we first started our dialogue with Vijay Nair and his management team, it was clear to us that this was a business with great potential, run by a great management team, and perfectly positioned to benefit from the huge interest we have seen in the Indian music and entertainment marketplace. Working together, TAG and OML will develop major opportunities across a number of verticals, in particular using our collective experience and industry networks to help businesses desiring a significant presence in India.”

Vijay Nair, founder and CEO of Only Much Louder, one of India’s brightest entrepreneurs and a recent winner of the UK British Council Young Music Entrepreneur award, added, “For the last 8 years, we have focused on developing the independent music scene in India and built an organic, sustainable business spanning across various verticals. Expanding our reach to America and Europe has been the logical next step for us, and we couldn’t have asked for better partners than TAG Strategic. With their immense experience in the industry and our understanding of the music business in India, we hope to further develop the potential India has to be one of the major players in the global music business. We share Ted and Khalid’s passion in building a scalable business and continue defying trends and having fun, while we are at it.”

The negotiations forming the partnership were led by Ajay Nair, Director, Only Much Louder, and Khalid Amin, MD Europe, TAG Strategic.

This post has been targeted to anybody even remotely close to the band Zero and those who have at least once in there lives dragged out all the energy out of their fat bellies to scream on top their lungs Standing By Standing By Standing By Standing By and will get the chance to do so once again this December.

Yes, they are re-uniting for a bunch of funkadelic shows. So this winter, provided you’re in the neighbourhood of wherever Zero is taking their music to, watch the four lads from Dadar hit the stage one more time after a not so long hiatus of two and a half years. They are still the same just a little older.

What to expect- Warren Mendonsa guitar extravaganza x Funky Bass Slaps courtesy Bobby Talwar x lot of hard hitting on the skins by Sid Coutto x Rajeev T singing in a British accent (Just Kidding) = Zero re-union

The tour that kicks off on the 19th of December in Bangalore will culminate in Delhi on the 27th. The All Important Dates-

19/12/09- Opus, Bangalore
22/12/09- HRC, Mumbai
23/12/09- Opus,Pune
26/12/09- Live-Sports Bar, Hyderabad
27/12/09- Cafe Morrison, New Delhi

So even if you have wedding plans on any one of those days post-pone it right away. You might not get another chance to celebrate christmas with Zero in December cause in their world it happens in July.

To join Zero on their Facebook group and remain updated on their Re-union tour follow the link below - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=2261751597&ref=ts

Mercury Award nominated British singer-songwriter Laura Marling and London based indie folk band Mumford & Sons are visiting  India in December as part of the British Council’s Soundpad Project.

Laura Marling, an immensely talented solo artist will be entering the recording studio in New Delhi with the indie folk  quartet of Mumford & Sons, Dharohar Project and Papon of East India Company fame.

The recording session will be followed by an India tour of Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons spanning across five cities.

Tour Dates-

10/12/09- Ashok Amphitheatre, New Delhi
11/12/09-High Spirits, Pune
12/12/09-Bandra Amphitheatre, Mumbai
17/12/09-Kyra Theater, Bangalore
18/12/09-Live, Hyderabad
19/12/09-Some Place Else,Kolkata

We wish Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons all the luck for what promises to be a killer tour!!

Those present at the British Council Auditorium in Mumbai on the 21-22 of November witnessed history as Only Much Louder in association with the British Council and the Delhi based YP Foundation organized the first ever Unconvention in India.Unconvention, a indie music conference aimed at the grassroots of the industry was all about analyzing the current state of the Indian indie music industry.

Some of the most exciting voices of the international scene like Andrew Dubber (New Music Strategies) and David Bianchi (Grand Union Management) joined forces with heavyweights of the Indian Scene like Vijay Nair (Only Much Louder) and Mazher Ramzanali (21 Tigers) to discuss, debate, inspire and provide solutions to the problems that plague the life of an indie musician in India.

By the end of two days inspiration roamed free inside the walls of British Council, Mumbai. Unconvention had given a nascent industry the right direction. Value chains were exposed, bands had new options on the horizon and the best of all artists were finally standing up for their rights and claiming what they deserved.

Unconvention was not just an eye opener for those involved with Indian indie it gave a dynamic industry the means of constant evolution. We hope for more Unconventions in India in the near future.

Lastly a huge round of applause to all those who managed to reach the British Council by 9 A.M. on November 21-22 inspite of the fact that it was a weekend. Who said rockstars are not punctual?

Vijay made a quick splash and dash trip to the land down under to be part of Musexpo and the One Movement. He took part in the ‘Incredible India’ panel along with other heavy weights of the Indian music scene like Adarsh Gupta, COO, The Times Group, Mandar Thakur, Jitin Abraham, President, 21 Tigers, Sudhir Shreedharan, Editor, Indian Music Talks, Oum Pradutt, Managing Director, Phase 1.

Details of the conference and panels here - http://www.musexpo.net/MusexpoAsia09/

Taking Indian music to new ears in Australia was our favourite rock band, Pentagram who had a brilliant show and came back with some rave reviews!

As part of the Shaair and Func’s tour of the UK, they are performing at a showcase for the UK music industry on the 3rd of November, 2009.

Very little needs to be said about Shaair and Func, they will completely rock the show there, and you should go watch them as they preview material from their new album and sprinkle the set with vintage Shaair and Func-ness!

Details you will need to make a note of -

Date: November 3rd, 2009
Venue: Gibson Guitar Studio
Address: 29-35 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NJ
Doors: 6.15pm

Entry is strictly by invitation only and if you want to get to the showcase, do send an email to paul@jenral.com or vijay@oml.in