Daniel Gumble

4 weeks ago | ukmusic.org | Daniel Gumble

26.03.2025: UK Music has responded to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement. Responding to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement, UK Music Chief Executive Tom Kiehl said:“The Chancellor has talked again about her strategy for economic growth and some of the potential benefits of Artificial Intelligence.

1 month ago | ukmusic.org | Daniel Gumble

20.03.2025: UK Music Chief Executive Tom Kiehl has warned that big tech firms must not be allowed to trump the UK’s £126 billion creative industries, as Technology Secretary Peter Kyle heads to the US to call for greater trans-Atlantic collaboration on AI. Technology Secretary Peter Kyle’s week-long trip to the US will see him pitch the UK as an international hub for AI investment and innovation.

1 month ago | ukmusic.org | Daniel Gumble

06.03.2025: Ahead of this year’s International Women’s Day, UK Music Head of Diversity, Eunice Obianagha, explores the strides the music industry has made in cultivating greater gender equality, as well as the challenges that still need to be overcome. Over the past week, I’ve been immersed in the deeply soulful music of the late, great Angie Stone, who recently passed away. As I reflected on what to title this article, her song ‘More Than a Woman’ came to mind and resonated deeply.

1 month ago | ukmusic.org | Daniel Gumble

06.03.2025: To mark International Women’s Day this March 8, UK Music takes a moment to celebrate the progress the industry has made in making our sector a more inclusive space, while highlighting the need to not only continue but accelerate the drive for gender equality and bring about meaningful, lasting change. For International Women’s Day 2025, we wanted to explore this year’s theme of ‘Accelerate Action’ and how it can be applied to the music industry ecosystem.

1 month ago | ukmusic.org | Daniel Gumble

06.04.2025: Last week UK Music and UK Music members supported the annual Leicester Music Conference. Now in its second year, the conference provided a fantastic range of industry insights across two days. Hosted at 2Funky Complex in Leicester, the conference is the brainchild of local music entrepreneur Dr Yasin El Ashrafi of HQ Recording Studio and Kate Rounding of Technology in Music Education (TiME).