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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