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23-805: The Association of Independent Music is a non-profit organization initiated in March 1999 and the current AIM's CEO is Paul Pacifico which previously held titles as CEO of the Featured Artists' Coalition (commonly abbreviated to FAC) and President of the International Artists Organisation (commonly abbreviated to IAO), a professor at the Berklee College of Music (the overseas campus in Valencia , Spain ) and also owns his own Independent music company. The trade body

46-623: A West End production of the Lion King . In 2005, Kerlin started to support American urban acts such as ATL at the Hackney Empire, the Scala and Shepherd's Bush Empire. He was asked to support Hadouken! on their UK tour, as he shares the same management company as them. In September 2008,Theo Kerlin released his debut single, "Rope Chain", alongside a music video which gathered popularity on YouTube. In December 2008, Master Shortie

69-659: A White Boy", which was shortly followed by the aforementioned album. The track "Swagger Chick" features Vanessa White from girlgroup The Saturdays . In the spring of 2009 Master Shortie supported Basement Jaxx on their UK tour. Master Shortie played at the 2009 Wireless Festival on the 4th of July. In October 2009 he supported Lil Wayne at his three Hammersmith Apollo dates in London. In March 2010, Master Shortie announced that he and his record label, Odd One Out, had signed to Hitz Committee, RCA (formerly Jive ) and Sony . In 2012, Master Shortie's mixtape Studying Abroad

92-454: A fair share of the profits. Bands such as Marillion and Radiohead paved the way for such thinking. In 1999, Marillion decided to turn down offers of a recording contract with an independent label and contacted their fans by email to ask them if they would be prepared to pay for the band's next album in advance. This successful venture enabled the band to retain the rights to their own music instead of being forced to surrender their rights to

115-410: A label in the traditional way. Radiohead released their 2007 album In Rainbows as an online digital download and let fans choose how much to pay for it. However, despite the vast sums of money being made by websites such as iTunes Store and Myspace , the artists themselves receive little or none of the revenues. This provided incentive for the formation of FAC to help reshape the organisation of

138-671: A promising artist and manager partnership. The winners were manager Danny Blackman and act, Pale Seas. Master Shortie Theo Jerome Kerlin (born 7 May 1989) is a British MC who is credited by his stage name Master Shortie . He is also a singer and has established his own record label, Odd One Out. He was included in the Sound of 2009 poll. Kerlin is from Mitcham in South London . His father ran an east London jazz bar throughout his childhood, which led him to listen to many genres of music, encouraging him to start rapping at

161-435: A vital support network to independent festivals organizers." The trade body was initially founded in 2008 by DJ Robert John Gorham, more commonly known as Rob da Bank (who is also founder of the annual Bestival music festival), and Bestival director Ben Turner. The body currently represents approximately fifty member events. The 2023 AIM Independent Music Awards were presented on 26 September 2023 at

184-593: The Roundhouse in London . The first set of nominees were announced on 19 July 2023. The rest of the nominees as well as the Best Live Performance and Diversity Champion recipients were announced on 23 August 2023. Featured Artists%27 Coalition The Featured Artists Coalition ( FAC ) is a nonprofit organisation  set up to protect the rights of featured musical artists, particularly in

207-521: The FAC is broad and includes featured artists such as Tom Jones , Robbie Williams , Little Boots , Badly Drawn Boy , Sia , Amy Studt , The Boxer Rebellion , Kevin Hewick and many others. In the past it was normal that the musical artist would sign away their rights to a record company for a contracted number of years and/or albums . This resulted in the record label having almost complete control over

230-653: The age of 12. He started off at The Kidz in the Biz Academy in South East London. After a short stint at the BRIT School , at the age of 14, he soon dropped out, claiming "it wasn't me, it didn't suit me". At 16, Kerlin enrolled on a BTEC course at Nescot, studying Music Technology. He then started recording and producing his own adolescent hip-hop songs with producers and an underground reggae singer called Sparky. Kerlin also appeared as Simba in

253-438: The artist and their promotion for the duration of the contract . However, since the recent and sudden impact of the digital age on music and on the distribution of music, artists have not only come closer to their audience, but further from the profit due to their lack of representation at the negotiating table. Because of this inequality, FAC has tried to ensure that featured musical artists are central in these deals and receive

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276-569: The following six as its key demands: It has also worked in concert with the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and the Music Producers Guild in campaigns to protect rights of performers and musicians and for "artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits". The FAC was launched at Heaven on 11 March 2009. On 24 September 2009, an open meeting for featured artists

299-581: The highest accolade of the night. The Artist and Manager Awards 2012 was held at the Troxy on 27 November 2013. Winners included Amanda Palmer for Industry Pioneer and Zane Lowe for Industry Champion. Artist awards were given to Madeon and Plan B and Ben Howard's manager, Owain Davies was awarded the Breakthrough Manager award. Spotify sponsored the event and awarded a ten thousand pound grant to

322-830: The industry or their own rights. The FAC aims to provide a direct campaigning voice for featured artists, both established and new, on commercial issues (such as the deals done between major content providers and record labels ) and policy issues (such as copyright term extension and anti piracy measures). The directors of the board include Billy Bragg , Dave Rowntree of Blur , Nick Mason of Pink Floyd , Ed O'Brien of Radiohead , Kate Nash , Hal Ritson of The Young Punx , Howard Jones , Mark Kelly of Marillion , Sandie Shaw , Master Shortie , Lucy Pullin of The Fire Escapes, Ross Millard of The Futureheads , Fran Healy of Travis , Crispin Hunt of Longpigs , Rumer , Paul Pacifico, Roxanne de Bastion and Annie Lennox . Membership of

345-400: The music industry and provide a means for featured musical artists to profit directly from their own work. Against the backdrop of dramatic falls in record sales in recent years this is seen as a crucial means by which artists can potentially make a living off their own work and create viable policies for the future of the industry. Equally, FAC has stressed the importance of not criminalising

368-513: The music industry. The organisation are also branching into other trade bodies, such as the Association of Independent Festivals. The Association of Independent Festivals (commonly abbreviated to AIF) are being a division of the AIM which are works with the direct aim of aiding independent festivals and labels. The aims of the Association of Independent Festivals is "represent, empower and provide

391-438: The new digital age . It encourages a greater connection between fans and artists and aims to promote transparency in the music industry specifically to the benefit of the artists themselves. It is a UK based organization, founded in early 2009, lobbying and campaigning for the rights of featured artists (i.e. 'the musicians and bands whose names are on the cover of the record' as distinct from session musicians ). It

414-414: The ordinary fan for digital downloads and instead would rather focus developing alternative forms of revenue. The FAC has taken a markedly different stance from the 'traditional music industry' on several key issues such as copyright term extension and, in particular, online piracy where the FAC has argued against 'criminalizing fans' through prosecuting not for profit file sharing of music. It lists

437-484: Was enlisted in the Sound of 2009 poll, whereby he was tipped to be the one to look out for in 2009. He stated that the hype was helping him "work twice as hard". In January 2009, Master Shortie stated that his new album, A.D.H.D , was slated to release in the summer of 2009. Citing that the reason for the album name is that "my music is just so crazy and it's so all over the place and it craves attention." In April, Master Shortie released his third single, "Dance Like

460-416: Was formed by a number of high-profile artists as a reaction to the conventional stance by the music industry that saw artists as not constituting an organised body and so often not possessing direct control over their own work. The FAC's aim is to not only promote the rights of established artists, but also to support those of the up-and-coming featured artists and young emerging acts who are not familiar with

483-624: Was held at Air Studios . The inaugural Artist and Manager Awards was held in conjunction with the MMF at the Roundhouse in London 's Chalk Farm on 13 September 2011, at which Ed Sheeran and Mumford & Sons performed. Massive Attack won the Artists' Artist Award, Ed Sheeran won the Award for Breakthrough Artist and Everybody's Management and its artists won the Achievement Award,

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506-497: Was initiated in order to represent smaller indie artists, bands and labels. The organization provides support, education, publicity and assistance to their members through music awards and festivals. The Association of Independent Music advocate"providing a collective voice for UK's independent music industry" and "supporting UK's independent music." The organisation has expanded and representing approximately eight hundred varying record labels, artists and companies of diverse sorts within

529-453: Was released. The record featured artists such as Ed Sheeran , Rizzle Kicks and Chiddy . Through October 2013 Master Shortie worked on his latest piece. He announced over Twitter that it would be named Nobody Taught Me and also shared the EP's artwork. On 4 November 2013, he released the first song of the album, "Where I'm At". It debuted on the music sharing site SoundCloud , where he had had

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