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Information on the 2017 Future Sound of Nottingham will first be announced (as always) on the\u00a0Nusic New Music Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Followed by announcements on our social media \u2013 FeelTheNusic on facebook, twitter and youtube.<\/p>\n

The #FSN2017 Final date is May 7th.<\/strong><\/p>\n

#FSN2017<\/p>\n

KEY DETAILS ANNOUNCED:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– 07\/05\/17 – The #FSN2017 final took place at Rock City.<\/p>\n

– 11am 24\/04\/17 – The New Music Podcast<\/a> has announced the Music Industry Expert Panel for the final.<\/p>\n

– 11am 10\/04\/17 – The New Music Podcast<\/a>\u00a0has announced the #FSN2017 finalists.<\/p>\n

– 11pm 27\/03\/17 – \u00a0Voting is LIVE. Click here<\/a>. The voting link is located within the podcast post, at the top.\u00a0<\/span>This year Voting is direct via our website nusic.org.uk. We are using an online poll verified by email submission that:
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\u2013 Drives people to the website, hopefully building audience and therefore resulting in more people listening to your music (we acknowledge this aspiration is undermined once artists work out the direct link to the vote and start sharing that link, we ask them not to, let them know it makes us sad and kills a New Music Fairy everytime they do it, but can\u2019t stop them \u2013 banning them from doing so is impossible to police so not an option).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Lets you see scores (helps artists know how they\u2019re doing).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Lets peeps share and publish the poll all over social media (if that functionality is working).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Requires a verified email address to vote (which means once a vote is placed a link with be sent to that email address requiring verification), this is to stop multiple voting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 We also have some code that let\u2019s the website recognise emails, this serves a dual purpose of preventing multiple voting and helping you work out if your vote has counted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Let\u2019s us see a list of all emails registered so will be able to see any cheating.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Allows us to keep the votes secret in the last 24 hours of voting, we do this to drive audience to the podcast (wanting to find the result) giving your music more exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n

We ask voters if they\u2019d like to sign up to the Nusic and the LeftLion email newsletters, this is optional, any voter not wishing to do that will miss out on the joy of our newsletters in their inbox but their vote will still count.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the record Nusic team members do vote in the public vote, before it goes live, as part of the testing of the system, their votes will be discounted. At no point in the whole of FSN do Nusic members actually vote (for real) themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

You should also know that Al G from LeftLion is running this poll for us and he is a bit of an IT genius, if you cheat he will spot it. We will issue one warning if we see any suspicious emails (any more than five starts to raise eyebrows), two strikes and sadly you are out of FSN.<\/span><\/p>\n

– 11am 27\/03\/17 – The New Music Podcast<\/a> has announced the Semi-Finalists for #FSN2017.<\/p>\n

– 11am 13\/03\/17 – The New Music Podcast<\/a> has announced the judges for Round One.<\/p>\n

–\u00a011am\u00a027\/02\/17 – The\u00a0New Music Podcast<\/a>\u00a0has announced entry details for Round One.<\/p>\n

–\u00a011am\u00a027\/02\/17 –\u00a0Round One Rules are live. They can be found at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n

–\u00a011am\u00a013\/02\/17 – The\u00a0New Music Podcast<\/a>\u00a0features the first news on #FSN2017, including the announcement of the FSN Final date.<\/p>\n

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FINAL RULES \u2013 AUDIENCE VOTE, PLUS MUSIC INDUSTRY EXPERT PANEL<\/b><\/p>\n

FSN aspires to create for Notts musicians the opportunity to play in front of large audiences, on iconic stages, in front of music industry professionals that can help them. <\/b><\/p>\n

The voting process is quite complicated, there is method in the apparent madness though! Every rule is about trying to create as epic an experience as possible for the musicians taking part, hopefully the best gig of their lives, one that might even change their lives.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mixed voting system, between audience vote and a \u2018Music Industry Expert Panel\u2019 vote.<\/b> This is an attempt to get the best of both worlds in terms of fairness and also to create a system that helps stimulate a vibrant gig for the musicians. We appreciate there is a risk we simply end up pissing off everybody.<\/span><\/p>\n

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HAVING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY EXPERT PANEL:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2013 Addresses the natural numerical advantage of bands with audience votes, and so re-balances things a bit towards the solo artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Makes sure raw talent, yet to build any following, is recognised.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Gives you a chance to perform in front of well connected, music industry humans, who can help your career. On the Nottingham level this panel is huge, pretty much every major player in Nottingham is represented {the one exception is Dean Jackson from the BBC, who prefers to stay neutral (as we do, so we empathise)}. This in itself is a big opportunity regardless of the result. For example in both 2013 and 2012 FSN artists have so impressed the judge representing Splendour, that they have booked them for Splendour even though they didn\u2019t win (Sam Jones in 2013, Indiana in 2012). In 2014 two of the six finalists secured management from judges, off the back of their performance. In 2015, one of the finalists secured management from a Final judge, off the back of their performance. In 2016 Lisa Hendricks played the FSN final, in 2017 she was booked for Splendour by one of the FSN judges.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Those experts are:<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

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