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TIU is a new music platform that exhibits the best selection of new national and international artists in regular showcases. Offering a platform in which artists can promote their music, at the same time as doing what they like best, playing live, is the most important committment of TIU.
TIU is growing. After a year of programming showcases in Madrid and Barcelona, TIU returns in a renewed festival format to Barcelona in October. Some of the artists that we have programmed during this first year and a half of our life include Future Islands, Com Truise, Porcelain Raft, The Black Tambourines, Dulce Pájara de Juventud, Univers, Ocellot and many more...
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TIU
TIU is an all-day festival dedicated to exhibiting the best selection of local and international new music. With a special focus on Barcelona bands, this is a great opportunity to explore the excellent local underground music scene.
TIU has joined forces with those music labels, collectives and artists that best represent the "underground", with the objective of celebrating the maturity of some of their projects. This is the ideal opportunity to see fresh talent alongside new international bands.
Born from zero, TIU is a festival that benefits from the support of an experienced team, and the willingness and energy of many of the top music collectives in the city, who enable this to become a unique and special date in the Barcelona cultural calender.
The renovated former textile factory space of Fabra i Coats (www.bcn.cat/fabriquesdecreacio/es/fabra.html), in Sant Andreu is a spectacular setting in which to showcase new live music projects.
TIU has joined forces with those music labels, collectives and artists that best represent the "underground", with the objective of celebrating the maturity of some of their projects. This is the ideal opportunity to see fresh talent alongside new international bands.
Born from zero, TIU is a festival that benefits from the support of an experienced team, and the willingness and energy of many of the top music collectives in the city, who enable this to become a unique and special date in the Barcelona cultural calender.
The renovated former textile factory space of Fabra i Coats (www.bcn.cat/fabriquesdecreacio/es/fabra.html), in Sant Andreu is a spectacular setting in which to showcase new live music projects.
Main features
The first artist confirmations for its first edition, to be celebrated on 20th October 2012 in new contemporary arts and culture centre of Fabra i Coats are as follows:Dulce Pájara de Juventud (BCore) - dulcepajaradejuventud.bandcamp.com/
Beach Beach (La Castanya) - beachbeach.bandcamp.com/
Ocellot (Discos La Gàbia) - ocellot.bandcamp.com/
l'Hereu Escampa (Famèlic) - lhereuescampa.bandcamp.com/
Wind Atlas (Boston Pizza Records) - windatlas.bandcamp.com/
New confirmations will be revealed soon.
Why this is important
At TIU, we believe this is the right moment for an event like this. The main objective of TIU is to build a one-day festival, tailor-made to promote local artists and represent the local music scene. To achieve this, we have established partnerships with many of the principle record labels and independent music collectives in the city, to provide them with the perfect platform to exhibit their music.TIU is an innovative concept in the festival arena, in which the principle stakeholders in the local scene are involved in building the event from the ground up. In this way, these stakeholders have the opportunity to shape the format and contours of the festival. At the same time, TIU benefits from the experience these stakeholders bring to the table.
TIU advocated a new mode of working that is entirely necessary in this challenging time for the cultural industry. A framework that permits the showcasing of new, different and more daring musical projects. And in which local industry stakeholders can participate in networking sessions and seek solutions to problems that affect the local musical scene as a whole. In this sense, TIU is not a typical festival, in that it aims to establish a working relationship with local artists and music collectives that benefits both parties and strives to break the typical vertical structure present in most large events.
The festival is also a great promotion opportunity for new music artists in that they will be assured a large and varied audience, and a fantastic setting in which to play. These new artists, pieces of the Barcelona cultural fabric will then have the opportunity to further emerge from the Underground, playing alongside international artists who help achieve a greater impact in terms of press and publicity around the event.
Goals of the crowdfunding campaign
1. Engage the general public with project concept and contribute to the promotion of a community around the local emerging music scene.2. Raise funds to be able to cover some of the basic costs of the festival production.
3. Source collaborators from the local music community.
4. Provide a minimum financial stability to the project in its first year of existence.
