Music & Media Finland 2012  Celebrity interview´s will be announced later.

 

Music & Media Finland 2011 Celebrity interview´s were

HARVEY GOLDSMITH

Harvey Goldsmith is a legendary concert promoter and producer from the United Kingdom. Awarded several times for his outstanding contribution to the music industry, Harvey Goldsmith has promoted shows with a predominant number of major artists, including Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Queen, The Eagles, U2, Coldplay, Madonna and Elton John. Goldsmith is also known for his contribution to charity, having promoted some of world's biggest charity events, such as the unforgettable Live Aid in 1985 and The Concert for Kampuchea in 1978, featuring Paul McCartney, Queen and The Who. Harvey was the instigator and Producer of the Led Zeppelin reunion show in December 2007.

 

MARTIN MILLS 

Martin Mills is the owner of the Beggars Group, one of the biggest independent music groups in the UK and the largest owner-run group of labels in the alternative sphere worldwide, which comprises four primary labels XL Recordings, 4AD, Rough Trade, and Matador. He has been actively involved in independent music distribution in the UK and instrumental in the setting up of the Association of Independent Music, IMPALA, the Worldwide Independent Network and Merlin, the independents' rights licensing body. Mills is generally involved in music industry issues also through his participation in the Music Industry Forum, the Music Business Forum, and as a director of PPL and VPL, the industry's rights licensing bodies. Over the years, Martin Mills has worked with a number of world class artists including White Stripes, Pixies, Interpol, Cat Power, Mercury Rev, The Delgados, Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, Badly Drawn Boy, The Cult, Bauhaus, Adele, Radiohead, Gary Numan, Dead Can Dance, Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver, and TV On The Radio, among others.

 

ARTEMYI TROITSKY

Artemyi "Artjom" Troitsky is one of the most influential cultural people in Russia and an internationally known music journalist. In 1986 he took part in organising the Soviet Union's first charity concert, "Account no 904" for the victims of Chernobyl. After that, he wrote many books on Soviet rock and its history, including Back in the USSR - The True Story of Rock in Russia. In the 1990s, Troitsky was the musical director of Channel 2 in Russia's national television and also worked as a talk-show host and the first editor-in-chief of the Russian Playboy. He has also written many magazine columns criticising wider society. During the new millennia, these have been compiled into two article collections, which have only been published in Finland. Nowadays Troitsky has his own radio programme. In addition, he gives lectures in universities in Moscow on music journalism and the history of the music industry, has his own concert agency and record company and is an active member of a Russian environmental movement.