The Brief

What?
The aim is simple, to create a Music Village to support and promote Glasgow’s music industry at every level. A home for music in the city.
The endeavour is to use this Music Village as a centrepiece for a full calendar of events, expos, competitions and conferences all relating to music and the industry. To create a close knit community of performers and professionals, where connections can be easily made and used to their premium positional.

Where?




Why?
Music is a fundamental part of everyday life. It affects everybody and is constantly changing and evolving. At present music takes many forms whether it is performing, recording, appreciating or promoting the facilities to partake all exist within the city context.
The aim is to put all these facilities, services and individuals under one roof, so to speak. A recording studio next to record label, a promoter next to a venue, an equipment
shop next to a rehearsal room. Historically it was Record labels and genres that created a scene phenomena, Detroit has Motown, LA has Aftermath and Manchester had Factory. Glasgow will have The Village.


Who?
The Village is for anybody and everybody involved in the music industry at any level. The goal is to create an environment where music can be accessed, experienced, created,
learned, promoted, distributed, and enjoyed. The Village is for the music consumer,
the man on the street who spends his hard earned cash on the music he enjoys, for the Record Company executive, looking to explode his artist onto a global stage, or the struggling band, looking for their one chance to make it big, and for everybody in between.


When?
With all Facilities are in place the plan is use them (along with other city facilities) to host a full calendar of events, expos, festivals, conferences, competitions, awards, seminars and workshops. The vast array of facilities and professionals on site will act as guide, one month for production or sound engineering, the next for management or promotion,
multimedia or web design. These events would be matched with a series of music events and festivals utilizing both the venue space and the festival site its self. Each month, a different genre perhaps?


How?
The Music Village will act as a hub of musical activity in the city, fusing all facets of the industry together. There are 5 key aspects of the proposal.

-Retail
The existing retail area of the Kings Court will be updated, the court itself closed in with the addition of a canopy. A selection of music retail shops, along with a bar, restaurant and cafe will occupy the spaces. Relocation grants will be giving to help encourage both outgoing and incoming tenants.

-Rehearsal and Recording
The arches, currently know as Paddy’s market, will be converted into a series of different size rehearsal and practise spaces along with recording studios, again of different scales. Some space to the north and east will be used as storage space for festival equipment.

-Commerce
Just like genres of music, the number of jobs, businesses and opportunities in the music
industry are countless. The Briggait building will act as headquarters for the Village cooperative, those responsible for running and coordinating the facilities and the events held. The building will house a large no of mixed use spaces, for offices, studios, retail, performance and lecture. The space will be available to any person or organisation involved
in the industry, record companies, managers, producers, distributors, multimedia artist, web designers or promotion agencies.

-Venue
The Venue of the proposal will be Glasgow’s first and only purpose built music and multimedia venue. It expected capacity will be between 3000 – 4000 people. It will have completely adjustable floor plan along with state of the art acoustics and lighting. The Venue will be linked directly to the festival site, expanding the space and allowing for 2 stages to run simultaneously. There will also be a bar, restaurant and Music Hall of Fame that will be open to the public.

-Festival Site
A the heart of the village will be the festival site. It can hold up to 25000, inclusive of the linked venue space. The stage will be uniquely positioned on top of the Paddy’s market which will ensure that the audience will have a clear view of the stage from anywhere on the site. All equipment and mobile facilities will be stored onsite; the staging
area will utilize the railway line to store all equipment in modified railway cars, while all site equipment will be store in the arches next to the Briggait. This will ease logistic problem that maybe encountered by holding a regular festival. Close proximity to Glasgow
Green could allow for further expansion.