THIS YEAR’S TWISTERELLA (UN)CONFERENCE

Twisterella 2025 (Un)Conference

ALL AGES & FREE ENTRY*

Saturday 11th October 2025

Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Road, TS1 2QJ

Are you an aspiring musician? Would you like to receive advice and feedback from music industry professionals? If so, the Twisterella (Un)Conference is for you.

Our aim is to provide you with support and guidance in a relaxed and informal setting, to ensure you get the knowledge you need to get your music the exposure it deserves.

THE PLAN:

• 10:30am – 11am: registration & coffee in Middlesbrough Town Hall’s Old Fire Station
• 11am – 12pm: informal and conversational roundtable sessions with music industry experts who will be on hand to chat about things like releasing an album, promoting your music, building an audience etc.
• 12pm – 12:30pm: A&R listening panel

To get your song heard by our A&R panel, send it to: https://twisterella.co.uk/contact

Hosted by BBC Introducing in the North East’s SHAKK with expert panellists covering many different areas of the music industry, with a special focus on album releases this year!

Panellists include:

• Katherine Cantwell (social media manager at Heavenly Recordings – Gwenno, Kneecap etc)
• Matty Aston (publicist at Super Cat PR – English Teacher etc)
• Bradley Kulisic (manager at Singing Light – Lambrini Girls, Pigsx7 etc)
• Kingsley Hall (Benefits)
• Alice Fuller (Deputy CEO of Generator)

* Please note: Twisterella Festival is a separate ticketed event

Previous panellists include:

· Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland // BBC Radio 6 Music)
· Emily Pilbeam (BBC Introducing in West Yorkshire // BBC Radio 1)
· Rianne Thompson (BBC Tees Introducing // Amazing Radio)
· Matt Hanner (Booking Agent at Runway Artists)
· Shell Zenner (Amazing Radio)
· Claire Dupree (NARC. Magazine)
· Michael Lambert (A Modern Way Management – Fatherson, Roddy Woomble, Tom Joshua etc)
· Ross Lewis (Immediate Audio // Tour Manager for James Bay)
· Julian Ive (The Cluny)
· Jodie Nicholson (Independent Artist & Creative Freelancer)
· Danny Lowe (Press On Vinyl)
· Shakk (BBC Tees Introducing)
· Eve Conway (Emerging Artist)
· Joe Coates (Please Please You – Promoter in York & Leeds)
· Scott Lewis (Clue Records)
· Simon Pursehouse (Sentric Music)
· Ally McCrae (BBC Radio 1 / BBC Three / Artist Manager / Radio Plugger)
· Helen Hammill (Cattle & Cane)
· Bob Fischer (BBC Tees)
· Carli McNaught (Blogger and Marketeer)