Martin Atkins - Tour:Smart and Break the Band April 6, 2009

If you're in a band...this FREE event is for YOU!

Spellbound will be hosting an evening with Martin Atkins to provide you with an excellent
opportunity to learn about increasing your bands chance for success! An intimate
setting for an insightful lecture, question & answers and the ability to meet Martin
in person.

Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club
1103 Bladensburg Rd NE Wash, DC
(located less than a mile from The Rock & Roll Hotel)


Cash only bar (ATM on site)
21+ with ID - Starting promptly at 8pm
Street parking available


But this is not just for bands, we welcome anyone interested in the music industry
that wants to learn more about it. As well as any fans of Martin, who'd like to stop
by and show their support.

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Martin Atkins is the definition of entrepreneurial activity in cultural arts endeavors,
his 30+ years in the music business spans across genres and borders and industries.

He was a member of Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke. He founded industrial supergroup Pigface,
The Damage Manual, and Murder Inc., and has contributed to Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. He is the
owner of Invisible Records and Mattress Factory Recording Studios (est. 1988). He is the author of
Tour:Smart, a Suicide Girls columnist, and a full time lecturer at Columbia College Chicago. Martin
is a producer, drummer, documentary film maker, DJ, and father of four. Whatever the future of music
is, you can pretty much bet that he'll be in the middle of it.

Martin wrote his book Tour:Smart in 2007 and has since spoken around the world
at the Midi Institute in China, NAMM, SXSW, CMJ, NYU, USC, Drumtech in London,
By:Larm in Oslo, and many more.
A distillation of Martin's 30+ years in the music business, the book and Martin's
Tour:Smart presentation contains not only valuable insight into his methods, but
an unusually candid discussion of mistakes and failures. It covers routing strategies,
strategies to sustain, sponsorships, geography, guerrilla marketing, and entrepreneurial
activity in the music industry.

LEARN MORE:
Martin Atkins bio:

Tour:Smart in action:

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