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Wednesday saw the first of Punch Records “series of seminars discussing contemporary issues surrounding the music industry…” titled, Women in the Music, with a panel of key players in the industry such as Sarah Love (MTV and BBC 1XTRA), Sacha Brookes (Galaxy) and Reena Combo (Editor, Lifestyle) and Justice Williams. The next seminars are as follows:

Wed 25th Feb: Live Performance
Wed 11th March: Digital Dialogues
Wed 29th April: Music Moguls

They take place from 6pm – 8.30pm and all FREE! More information is available here.

Our friends at Punch have long been supporting the UK’s music industry and ‘specialise in a range of music events & touring productions including spoken word, theatre, dance, film and visual arts.’

So, this new series of seminars is great news for all those musical entrepreneurs and producers based in the West Midlands!

A big Fierce! congratulations to Created in Birmingham, Chris Unitt and the team for winning the 2008 Weblog Award for Best UK Blog!

This is the second award for CiB following last years ‘Media Guardian Innovation Award’ (Joint-winner) for Independent Blog 2008 under Pete Ashton’s reign and Chris Unitt and the team have followed in his award-winning footsteps!

Congratulations to Pete Ashton who was also nominated for the same award and I’m sure we all recognise that CiB would not be what is today without the hard work of people like Pete and Chris and all those who support it!

So congratulations again to CiB and the Creative Industries in Birmingham, long may it continue!

And here’s a warm welcome to Kate Spragg, the new face of CiB from all the Fierce team!

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