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City Showcase have booked a club night...with a difference!
 
Be sure to put this September date in your diary - a get together for City Showcase Club members at The Regal Room in Hammersmith on 9 September from 7.30pm.
 
A panel of experts (including David Stark - Editor of SongLink, Sean Devine of ASCAP and Ian Richards (Promoter at The Academy Group) will be listening to and mentoring club members who have signed up to perform tracks live at The Regal.  This is a unique opportunity to perform live at our open mic night, be mentored by top industry executives as well as having a fun evening meeting other club members and saying hello to the City Showcase team (the room has a bar and serves great food).
 
Headlining the night will be two acts who have been attending City Showcase masterclasses this year - Von Kleet and Dan Raza. As part of the masterclasses they were encouraged to try co-writing and they’ll perform these on the night.
 
This event is free for all but only Club members will have the opportunity to perform.  If you are a Club member and want to perform email us at [email protected]
 
Other benefits of being a City Showcase member include a bevy of offers and discounts. Details of some of the current offers running are below:
 
SongLink
SongLink is offering City Showcase members 15% off subscription rates, providing their demos are of suitable quality and have been approved.  Applicants need to send either a web link, 2 mp3s or a CD to SongLink for subscription approval, and can then subscribe at the SongLink website putting "City Showcase" in the additional notes field at http://www.songlink.com/subs.html
 
British Music Experience
Club members entry: 2 for 1 and 20% off in the shop (T&C excluding certain items).
 
The Unsigned Guide
Club members are entitled to a £5 discount from a 12 month subscription to The Unsigned Guide Online, usually costs £25 for the year but members may get this for £20. Contact [email protected] for claim your discount!
www.theunsignedguide.com

2002 Studios 
www.2002studios.com
2002 Studio is please to offer City Showcase members the following offer:
Have your tracks professionally mastered at £32 per track or £270 for an album (7-12 tracks). This compares with our normal price of £45 per track and £320 for an album! We master any type of music from pop, dance to hip hop and rock.  Contact 2002 Studios with your City Showcase ID and then we will talk you through the process.  We look forward to hearing from you!
Come and record at 2002 Studios in London! We specialise in everything from producing album's for singer/songwriters to helping grime and hip hop artists record their beatz and and vocal on them. For regular studio hire (not including producing services) we are happy to offer City Showcase artists a special rate of £32 per hour (instead of £40 an hour) for a maximum of 5 consecutive hours.
Call us on 020 8907 8634 or email [email protected]

Dean Street Studios 
www.deanst.com
10% discount for club members on recording time in Studio’s 1,3 and 4.
 
CMU
Is offering a £15 discount on their training days:  
www.thecmuwebsite.com/events
 
Hit Sheet   
www.hitsheet.co.uk
Is offering all Club members a discount of £50 on all subscriptions.
 
Rocksound
Is offering a 5 issues for £5 deal - use this link.
http://secure2.subscribeonline.co.uk/ROCK/subscription.cfm?ctry=GBR&cmp=CORPDDOFFER
 
Sonic Arts
www.sonic-arts.com/getintouch.html
Sonic Arts are happy to offer 20% off our standard prices including Audio Mastering and Post Production; CD and DVD Duplication and Pre-release Anti-Piracy solutions including Audio Watermarking and Copy Protection. Just mention City Showcase.  
 
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is offering a 60 day Solo premium account to members - this offer is open until September (with 60 days starting from the day you sign up with them). SoundCloud is an online audio platform that lets bands, artists & music professionals receive, send and distribute their music. The service helps musicians throughout the lifetime of a song, from collaborating on unfinished tracks direct from the studio to promoting finished releases across the web. SoundCloud allows you to share your music privately to colleagues and industry contacts. Or to millions of fans via Facebook, Twitter, social networks, music blogs or your own website. Profile users include artists such as Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones and Moby, to labels like Epitaph, Domino and Universal.
Key features gained from using the Solo account with SoundCloud include customizable artwork players, private sharing features such as the secret link, more stats and increased audio storage of up to 12 hours. More details on account features can be found here- (http://soundcloud.com/premium). 
To sign up: http://soundcloud.com/premium/redeem/cityshowcase
 
 

Related Links

http://www.cityshowcase.co.uk/event/city-showcase-rising-in-september

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