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Trevor Carter Memorial Gig

Those of you who know Bruce Thompson well, will know that he lost his songwriting partner and best friend Trevor Carter on 30 January 2011. As a fitting tribute, Bruce is now helping to organize a Trevor Carter Memorial Gig in Bristol, showcasing local bands who performed with Trevor.

If you would be interested in contributing to the Trevor Carter Memorial Gig as a performer or crew, or just want to go along and watch what is sure to be a first class evening of entertainment, please let them know as soon as possible via contact form on the website below. Please note that all proceeds of this event will be donated to the charity CRY, as determined by Conny and Trevor’s family, and Bruce and the rest of the crew will be donating their time for free.

Contact Trevor Carter Memorial Gig

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Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen

Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening?

Here’s Advanced Presenter Julian Treasure to help. In this useful TED talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to’s of powerful speaking, from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. A talk that might help the world sound more beautiful.

To watch presenter Julian give a great talk about a subject from which we can all benefit, visit Julian Treasure How to speak so that people want to listen

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Julian Treasure On TED: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Advanced Presenter Julian Treasure is on TED again, this time with a great talk Shh! Sound health in 8 steps.

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health, and even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap ear buds) and restore our relationship with sound.

If you don’t know about reductive listening, expansive listening, schizophonia, or noise-induced hearing disorder, then you really do need to watch this video and listen to Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

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See Julian Treasure live on the TED website

Have you seen the TED video by Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us? Have you heard that there are four major ways sound is affecting you all the time? Do you feel uncomfortable with unpleasant sounds, and don’t know why?

Julian Treasure is the chair of the Sound Agency, a firm that advises worldwide businesses including offices, retailers and hotels on how to use sound. In this video on the TED website he shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Click here to watch Julian now.

An Advanced Presenter, and the author of the book Sound Business, Julian keeps a blog by the same name that ruminates on aural matters (and offers a nice day-by-day writeup of TEDGlobal 2009). In the early 1980s, he was the drummer for the seminal post punk band Transmitters, highly acclaimed in the much respected underground scene which accompanied the punk revolution.

Visit www.soundbusiness.biz for details of the book Sound Business, as featured on BBC TV and radio and in The Economist, TIME Magazine, The Director, The Guardian, Brand Management and others.

Click here to visit the Sound Business blog

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South West Fast Trackers

The South West Fast Trackers are a highly motivated group of business leaders, visionaries and philanthropists who have achieved a common standard of excellence by completing the Christopher Howard Fast Track to Success. These people are so motivated and empowered, that put them in a room with a so called ‘problem’, and out will come a solution and a business model to turn it into a wealth making opportunity.

Many of the South West Fast Trackers are Advanced Presenters in their own right, and give lectures, presentations and seminars all over the world. Their network consists of speakers, coaches, masters and mentors in every conceivable discipline, and if they do not have the expertise you need, they know someone who does.

For more information about South West Fast Trackers, click here to visit their website