Distinctiveness, authenticity & stagecraft / Unigrywrwydd, dilysrwydd a chrefft llwyfan
Saturday, 17th March 2018
at 10:00am
– Doors open at 9:30am
Chapter Arts Centre / Canolfan Celfyddydau Chapter
Alan
James started his career, as one of the UK’s first full-time, salaried,
Entertainment Officers, at the University of London Union. There he
promoted important London shows for The Smiths, Joy Division, Misty In
Roots, Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group, Wah!, The Raincoats, Scritti
Politti and The Slits – amongst many others over a four year run.
In
the early Eighties he became a pioneer of world music working on the
inaugural WOMAD Festival in 1982 as tour manager for The Burundi
Drummers on their historic first visit to Britain. The rest of that
decade saw him hosting the first ever world music radio show on regional
radio (Worldwide for GWR), co-programming the ground-breaking ICA,
Clevedon and Mersea Island WOMAD Festivals, touring with The Smiths,
setting up the Yu Fe Danse Sound System in Bristol and providing the
pre-show music for Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Tour.
From 2001
to 2006 he was Head Of Contemporary Music at Arts Council England and
continued his freelance DJ’ing, writing and artist management
activities.
In 2007 he set up an artist management, creative
production and consultancy company called Hold Tight which currently
manages Spiro and 9Bach. Hold Tight has also worked with The Imagined
Village, The Bays and The Heritage Orchestra, Chris Wood’s Handmade
Life, Sam Lee, Johnny Kalsi’s Dhol Foundation and Sheema Mukherjee.
Alan
was Chairman of EFDSS, and Chairman of the Welsh Music Foundation which
developed opportunities for Welsh music and with its partnership Cerdd
Cymru:Music Wales produced WOMEX, the leading world music expo, at
Cardiff in 2013.
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Dechreuodd
Alan James ei yrfa fel un o Swyddogion Adloniant cyflogedig,
llawn-amser cyntaf y Deyrnas Gyfunol, yn Undeb Prifysgol Llundain. Tra
roedd roedd yno bu’n hyrwyddo sioeau pwysig Llundain ar ran The Smiths,
Joy Division, Misty In Roots, Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group, Wah!, The
Raincoats, Scritti Politti a The Slits – ymysg llawer o rai eraill dros
gyfnod o bedair blynedd.
Yn yr Wythdegau cynnar roedd yn un o
arloeswyr cerddoriaeth y byd, gan weithio ar yr Ŵyl WOMAD gyntaf yn 1982
fel rheolwr taith i The Burundi Drummers ar eu taith hanesyddol gyntaf i
Brydain. Yn ystod gweddill y ddegawd honno buodd yn cyflwyno’r sioe
radio cerddoriaeth y byd gyntaf erioed ar radio rhanbarthol (Worldwide
ar ran GWR), yn cyd-raglenni yng ngwyliau torri tir newydd yr ICA,
Clevedon a WOMAD Mersea Island, teithio gyda The Smiths, sefydlu’r Yu Fe
Danse Sound System ym Mryste ac yn darparu’r gerddoriaeth cyn-sioe ar
gyfer Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Tour.
Rhwng 2001 a 2006 roedd
yn Bennaeth ar yr Adran Gerddoriaeth Gyfoes, Cyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr,
ac yn parhau gyda’i waith fel DJ ac awdur llawrydd, ynghyd â’i
weithgareddau rheoli artistiaid.
Yn 2007 sefydlodd gwmni rheoli
artistiaid, cynhyrchu creadigol ac ymgynghorol o’r enw Hold Tight sydd
ar hyn o bryd yn rheoli Spiro a 9Bach. Yn ogystal, mae Hold Tight wedi
gweithio gyda The Imagined Village, The Bays and The Heritage Orchestra,
Chris Wood’s Handmade Life, Sam Lee, Johnny Kalsi’s Dhol Foundation a
Sheema Mukherjee.
Roedd Alan yn Gadeirydd ar EFDSS, ac yn
Gadeirydd ar Ffederasiwn Cerddoriaeth Amatur Cymru a ddatblygodd
cyfleoedd ar gyfer cerddoriaeth Gymreig, ac a gynhyrchodd, mewn
partneriaeth â Cerdd Cymru: Music Wales, digwyddiad WOMEX, prif expo
cerddoriaeth y byd, yng Nghaerdydd yn 2013.
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