We're pleased to share our first panel topics and speaker for our 10th anniversary edition which takes place on 11-13 April in Edinburgh.

We've teamed up with our friends from Glasgow-based agency Antidote Booking for a special welcome bash on the Thursday. 

The full longlist for this year's SAY Award has been revealed and we are delighted that it features four of our previous Wide Days acts.

More than 340 (up from 250 in 2017) music industry delegates from across Europe attended the Wide Days convention in Edinburgh on 20-21 April, for a series of panels, presentations and showcases featuring a selection of Scotland’s most exciting new acts…
 

Our weekend passes have sold out for the second year running, with delegates from ten different countries joining us next week.

We're pleased to announce that musician Rhoda Dakar is the latest speaker to join the line-up for Wide Days. She is a leading figure in the Two-Tone scene and she fronted the Bodysnatchers before joining The Special AKA and co-writing the hit Free Nelson Mandela. 

We are pleased to launch the official Wide Days 2018 delegate directory and mobile app.

With just over a month to go until Wide Days 2018, we are pleased to announce the latest additions to the conference programme with streaming, gender balanced festival bills and secondary ticketing...

We are excited to announce our 2018 showcase line-up, which features a diverse snapshot of Scotland’s most exciting emerging talent...
  

We're pleased to be a part of PRS Foundation Keychange initiative whereby ourselves and 29 other international music industry conferences...

Our first panel topics and speakers for this year’s Wide Days conference are confirmed and include sessions on new record label models, how venues and festival can improve disabled access and what the wider industry can learn from the metal scene.

We are pleased to announce the return of our bursary scheme supported by Help Musicians Scotland, offering a limited number of passes for emerging musical and industry talent.

Applications to showcase at Wide Days 2018 are now open to Scotland-based acts from all genres. Artists have until midnight on 9 February to apply.

Award winning music convention, Wide Days, will take place in Edinburgh on 20-21 April 2018. The event combines a one-day conference, with an evening of multi-genre showcase by seven of Scotland’s most promising acts...

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.