It's been an eventful few weeks for our 2017 showcase acts! The Ninth Wave have been confirmed for TGE 18, Emme Woods has launched a crowd-funding campaign and Vistas, Elle Exxe & JR Green all have new music out

Scotland’s reception at the UK’s largest music business gathering, The Great Escape, has been hailed a “highlight” after more than 300 delegates signed up to take part.

The eighth Wide Days music convention (21-22 April) has been hailed the most successful to date, with full event passes for the event selling out and showcases attracting a record 1,000 registrations from members of the public.

Toni Malyn, head of marketing & customer support at EmuBands has written a guest blog which gives an insight into how data can be used to help route and plan tours. 

Arriving Thursday? There's stuff To Do!

The Skinny magazine and Black Bottle whisky are presenting a melting pot of live performances by innovative acts, matched with Black Bottle whisky cocktails.

Creative Scotland and Wide Days will host an international networking reception at this year's Great Escape Festival, allowing Scotland’s music industry and musicians to meet with invited international guests from all areas of the music industry.

For the last in our series of artist Q&A's, we chatted to Haydn from The Ninth Wave ahead of their Wide Days showcase at La Belle Angele this Friday...

Label head at Sony Music imprint, Music For Nations Julie Weir joins the Wide Days line-up as keynote, plus additional speakers announced for conference.

With this year's event fast approaching, we caught up with Elle Exxe who showcased at Wide Days last year to find out what she's been up to since the event... 

Having only been playing together since January 2016, its been an exciting start for Edinburgh based four piece, Vistas. Ahead of their Wide Days showcase at The Liquid Room, we get to know them a bit better... 

This year Wide Days are pleased to be partnering with Help Musicians UK, Claire Gevaux the Creative Director has written a guest blog to explain more about the music charity and the work that they do... 

We chatted with Marie from The Vegan Leather about the strangest gig they've ever played, what we can expect from their upcoming live show at Wide Days and what's next for the band... 

It is only two weeks to go until Wide Days and we have lots of interesting news including the latest conference additions, details of the Saturday activities and for early arrivals, some top tips for going out on the Thursday evening...

Wide Days chatted with brothers, JR Green about how they started playing music together, gig highlights and what's coming up for the band this year. Catch them at Teviot on Friday 21 April.

Glasgow's Declan Welsh has been creating quite the stir in the Scottish music industry over the last few years. Now performing with his band, The Decadent West, we chat to Declan about his music, strange gigs he's played and what's coming up for the rest of the year... 

Wide Days chatted with The Spook School about their music,  who they would like to see speak at the event and their recent trip to SXSW... 

We have been busy confirming themes and speakers include Geoff Ellis (DF Concerts), booking agent Beckie Sugden (X Ray Touring), Germany-based agent/promoter Baris Basaran (SSC Booking), manager Jenny Carroll (Air MTM) and PRS Foundation Chief Executive, Vanessa Reed.

It's been an exciting start to 2017 for Emme Woods, having just been announced to play The Great Escape Festival, playing the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival Ahead of Wide Days, we chatted with Emme to get to know her a bit better... 

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Help Musicians UK (HMUK) to offer a limited number of discounted bursary passes for emerging musical and industry talent.

We are pleased to announce the line-up for this year’s showcases which take place in Edinburgh venues Teviot Row House, La Belle Angele and the Liquid Room on Friday 21 April.