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<DIV class="description UIOneOff_Container">If you're in a band...this <STRONG>FREE</STRONG> event is for YOU! <BR>
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Spellbound will be hosting an evening with <STRONG>Martin Atkins </STRONG>to provide you with an excellent <BR>
opportunity to learn about increasing your bands chance for success! An intimate <BR>
setting for an insightful lecture, question & answers and the ability to meet Martin <BR>
in person.<BR>
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<STRONG>Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club <BR>
1103 Bladensburg Rd NE Wash, DC<BR>
</STRONG>(located less than a mile from The Rock & Roll Hotel)</DIV>
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21+ with ID - Starting promptly at <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">8pm</SPAN><BR>
Street parking available</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV class="description UIOneOff_Container">But this is not just for bands, we welcome anyone interested in the music industry <BR>
that wants to learn more about it. As well as any fans of Martin, who'd like to stop <BR>
by and show their support.<BR>
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Martin Atkins is the definition of entrepreneurial activity in cultural arts endeavors, <BR>
his 30+ years in the music business spans across genres and borders and industries.</DIV>
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He was a member of Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke. He founded industrial supergroup Pigface, <BR>
The Damage Manual, and Murder Inc., and has contributed to Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. He is the <BR>
owner of Invisible Records and Mattress Factory Recording Studios (est. 1988). He is the author of <BR>
Tour:Smart, a Suicide Girls columnist, and a full time lecturer at Columbia College Chicago. Martin <BR>
is a producer, drummer, documentary film maker, DJ, and father of four. Whatever the future of music <BR>
is, you can pretty much bet that he'll be in the middle of it.</DIV>
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Martin wrote his book Tour:Smart in 2007 and has since spoken around the world <BR>
at the Midi Institute in China, NAMM, SXSW, CMJ, NYU, USC, Drumtech in London, <BR>
By:Larm in Oslo, and many more. </DIV>
<DIV class="description UIOneOff_Container">A distillation of Martin's 30+ years in the music business, the book and Martin's <BR>
Tour:Smart presentation contains not only valuable insight into his methods, but <BR>
an unusually candid discussion of mistakes and failures. It covers routing strategies, <BR>
strategies to sustain, sponsorships, geography, guerrilla marketing, and entrepreneurial <BR>
activity in the music industry.</DIV>
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<STRONG>LEARN MORE:</STRONG><BR>
Martin Atkins bio: <A onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "60f17fa9ff51a32ac93316e0ff632f05", event)' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpyiAQWYyI" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="COLOR: #3b5998">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpyiAQWYyI</SPAN></A><BR>
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Tour:Smart in action: <A onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "60f17fa9ff51a32ac93316e0ff632f05", event)' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xihQewYWH8k" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="COLOR: #3b5998">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xihQewYWH8k</SPAN></A><BR>
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