Location: Glasgow
Venue: The Lighthouse
Dates: 31 August 2005 to 03 September 2005

With brand new summer dates, over 500 key music industry professionals from around the world are expected to converge on Glasgow from 31 August to 3 September for MusicWorks - the International Cross-Media Music Convention and Live Music Festival.

We can now announce the 2005 theme of ‘New Territories for the Entrepreneur’ to target all music industry sectors as well as cross-media businesses like video, film, TV, games and new media. A particular focus of the New Territories theme will be a series of in depth presentations on the current opportunities and challenges of doing business in China, India and South America.

And with a host city like Glasgow that has a long held reputation as one of the premier music centres of Europe, live music is again a top priority during MusicWorks with an extensive range of gigs, showcases and club nights all in the pipeline.

Location: Glasgow
	Venue: The Lighthouse
	Dates: 31 August 2005 to 03 September 2005
	With brand new summer dates, over 500 key music industry professionals from around the world are expected to converge on Glasgow from 31 August to 3 September for MusicWorks - the International Cross-Media Music Convention and Live Music Festival. We can now announce the 2005 theme of ‘New Territories for the Entrepreneur’ to target all music industry sectors as well as cross-media businesses like video, film, TV, games and new media. A particular focus of the New Territories theme will be a series of in depth presentations on the current opportunities and challenges of doing business in China, India and South America. And with a host city like Glasgow that has a long held reputation as one of the premier music centres of Europe, live music is again a top priority during MusicWorks with an extensive range of gigs, showcases and club nights all in the pipeline.

Location:   Glasgow
Venue:   Radisson SAS Hotel
Dates: 27 October 2004 to 29 October 2004

MusicWorks is the UK's leading Media and Music Business Convention, bringing together music and creative industry professionals, policy makers, entrepreneurs and visionaries from around the world for three days of presentations, discussions and exhibition, and four nights of live music in the NightWorks Festival.

Location: Glasgow
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel
Dates: 29 October 2003 to 01 November 2003

MusicWorks offers a unique opportunity for the music industry to come together in an inspiring location to explore developments across associated sectors including video, film, radio, TV, computer games and new media.

Only in it's second year, the event saw delegate sales increase by 32%, with even more attendees coming from out with Scotland than in it's inagrual year in 2002. Over 500 delegates representing 14 different countries and 300 different organisations converged on Glasgow to discuss global issues affecting the music industry.

MusicWorks 2003 presented a dynamic programme of seminars, exhibitions, live music, experimental fringe events and networking opportunities over four stimulating days. Some of the highlights included; Alan Morris, the Executive Vice President of Sharman Networks Ltd previewing the new beta version of Kazaa V2.6, the latest update of the world’s most popular file sharing software. David Arnold’s fascinating insight into his extensive work as resident Bond movie composer and a fascinating presentation by the Swiss legend Dieter Meier of Yello. For the final seminar, Sholto Ramsay, MD of HelpMeGo.To Ltd gave his off the wall prediction on where the music industry will be in one, ten and fifty years time. Please visit musictank.rechord.com for up to date reviews and discussions on each seminar at this years event.

Neil Butler, Director of MusicWorks said:

"This year’s Convention has established MusicWorks as a major event in the music industry calendar and as the Convention for networking and exploring new business opportunities that are emerging across different sectors of the music industry such as film, TV, video, games and new media. It is also undeniably a great showcase for the Scottish music industry and Scotland".

The dates of next year’s MusicWorks Convention will be announced in January 2004.

Location:   Glasgow
Venue:   Musicworks
Dates: 31 October 2002 to 02 November 2002

MusicWorks is the UK's New Music Convention and Festival and took place for the first time from 31 October to 2 November 2002. The event provided a unique opportunity for the music industry to come together to explore future developments with associated sectors including video, film, TV, games and new media. Musicworks focussed on challenging and pertinent issues and provided a platform for media convergence and excellence.

Following the success of the event in 2002, discussions between the stakeholders are underway for the event to be developed further for 2003.