If you’re in a band, make cool videos, design amazing things or run a cutting edge blog, we want to hear from you.

As part of a wider event called ‘Unknown Pleasures, which celebrates the life of Ian Curtis on the 30th anniversary if his death, Un-Convention have teamed up with the creators of iconic indie-rock footwear, Converse, to search for 300 of the UK’s most promising creative minds to attend a once in a lifetime event.

Winning applicants will be taken to The Un-Convention Factory at the Heritage Centre, Macclesfield on May 8th. Here they will work with iconic figures in independent music, including Har Mar Superstar, Peter Hook (New Order), Karen Piper (Radarmaker) to record, design and release an album, in only one day.

Participants will be responsible for steering reputable bands through the record label process; planning, recording, designing, marketing and distribution of a remake of Iggy Pop’s classic album The Idiot, featuring a track each from:

Reverend Soundsystem
The Whip
I Am Kloot
New Education
The Virgin Marys
All processes will be based on democratic decisions between participants and industry innovators including Soundcloud, Music Glue and Radar Maker and cultural figureheads including:

Har Mar Superstar
Peter Hook – New Order
Brian Travers – UB40
Graham Massey – 808 State
Andrew Dubber – New Music Strategies
John Robb
Don Letts
This spectacular one-day conference brings together creative participants with promoters, musicians, record label bosses, music industry consultants and learned experts with to share their invaluable combined knowledge, with its DIT (Do It Together) ethos.

Un-Convention produces music conferences directly relevant to the growing number of musicians, small labels and creatives trying to build a career in music, independent of the major labels and their outmoded strategies.

As part of the event there is also:

Fine food and drink
An opportunity to network and gain valuable insights
Merchandise design workshops
How to build electronic instruments
An exclusive gig
How To Apply…

Click here to find out more and secure your place www.unconventionhub.org

Contact katy@unconventionhub.org

@unconvention