July 19th 2017
What does Brexit mean for Tier 5. See work
permits FAQs for CME Artist Services take on this issue.
Sept 11th 2016
CME Artist Services announces the most competitive fees in Tier
5 Music sponsorship. See work
permits for more information.
July 15th 2nd
2016
The Lancaster Music Festival. Applications
for 2017 are now open (closing date June 1st 2017).
June 2nd 2016
The 2015 Lancaster Music Festival was a huge success. Applications
for 2016 are now closed
Oct. 16th 2015
The 2015 Lancaster Music Festival was a huge success with well
over 50,000 festivalgoers descending on Lancaster
City centre for five days of non-stop music and partying.Lancaster
Music Festival are now closed. Applications for 2016 music
festival start Dec. 1st.
July 1st. 2015
Applications for the 2015 Lancaster
Music Festival are now closed. Applications for 2016 music
festival start Dec. 1st.
Jan. 2015
Applications for the 2015 Lancaster
Music Festival are now open. See Lancaster
Music Festival website for more information and instructions on
how to apply
April 2014
CME Artist Services announces that Lancaster
Music Festival is now the main focus of our promotion due
to the increased success and dramatic increase in attendance figures.
See Lancaster Music Festival website for more information and
instructions on how to apply
Nov.
7th 2013
Lancaster
Music Festival wins Marketing Lancashire's Tourist Event of
the Year Award
Oct. 18th 2013
Lancaster
Music Festival provides Lancaster with its busiest weekend
ever (according to the Lancaster Guardian) with an estimated 25-32,000
festivalgoers
Sept. 14th 2013
CME Artist Services launch their UK Autumn Tour with Beatrice
Mason (Brazil) and Heidi
Happy (Switzerland):
Oct. 2nd Dalton Rooms, 14 Dalton Square, Lancaster LA1 1PL
Oct. 3rd Blackpool Music Centre Workshop (10am - 3pm)
Oct. 3rd Penny Street Bridge Hotel, Lancaster LA1 1XT
Oct. 4th Queens Head, Box SN13 8NH
Oct. 5th Three Horseshoes, Bradford-upon-Avon BA15 1LA
Oct. 6th Moonies Fun Bar, 57 High St Pewsey, Wiltshire SN9 5AF
(4pm-7pm)
Oct. 7th Bell Inn, Bath BA1 5BW
Oct. 8th White Hart, Atworth SN12 8JR
Oct. 9th. Old Duke, 45 King St Bristol BS1 4ER
Oct. 10th. Bay Tourism Event, Nice Café, Lancaster Castle LA1
1YJ(7pm - 9pm)
Oct. 10th. Lancaster Music Festival Launch Party, Penny Street
Bridge Hotel, Lancaster LA1 1XT (9.15pm - 11.30pm)
July. 10th 2013
Lancaster Castle headline acts selected for 2013 Lancaster Music
Festival 2013 (Slamboree and Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra)
July. 1st 2013
We are closed for taking applications for Lancaster Music Festival
2013 and the UK Autumn Tour 2013
Feb. 1st 2013
We are now starting planning Lancaster Music Festival 2013.
Nov. 19th 2012
We are now reserving our Spring UK Tour for our tour exchange
partners. This means that our annual events are now the Lancaster
Music Festival (Oct. 11-13th) and our Autumn UK Tour (Oct.
3-10th). The Autumn tour will be posted next month.
Sept. 1st
2012
The Sugarhouse in Lancaster to host the Lancaster
Music Festival Grand Finale on Sunday. Oct. 14th with the
Live and Unsigned lineup (see Aug. 10th news). Lancashire Hotpots
also headline on Sunday at the Dalton Rooms 6-8pm)
August 15th
2012
Kindread
are selected for the CME Artist Services
UK Tour 2012
August 10th
2012
The Live
and Unsigned winners Co
Co and the Butterfields to join NW regional finalists, Kaitain,
Freerunner,
Hannah-Nicole
Gorge and Katie
O'Malley at Lancaster
Music Festival
July 15th 2012
The
Lancaster Music Festival has stopped taking applications from
musicians.
April
13th 2012
The UK Border Agency has introduced (April 6, 2012) new
rules for musicians (and other workers covered under Tier 5 sponsorship)
wishing to perform in the UK for less than one month (Permitted
Paid Engagements or PPEs). However, they appear to be charging
for this service and CME Artist Services will undercut their fees
while also guaranteeing rapid processing service. See work
permits FAQ for more details.
March 16th 2012
The acts for the Spring
UK Tour are selected and Autumn 2012
Tour and Lancaster
Music Festival 2012 promotions have started.
January 28th
2012
The Autumn Tour and Lancaster
Music Festival promotions will start taking applications from
Feb. 1st. The Spring
UK Tour will close Feb. 1st. See opportunities
for more information.
October 20th
2011
Both the Autumn Tour with Caravanblack from Brazil and the Lancaster
Music Festival were a great success. Follow up with pictures and
videos expected in November. Both events will be receiving applications
for 2012 by the end of November (watch this page)
September 3rd
2011
Announced, the final selection for the Lancaster
Music Festival 2011 including the following artists from Sonicbids
who will be joining 80 other acts:
Danika
Holmes
Jim Reid and Heidrum
Keith
Thompson Band
Los
Salvodores
Marco
Marconi Trio
Marina
Zettl&Thomas Mauerhofer
Marisa Yeaman
Templebys
Threefifty
Duo
August 26th
2011
Announced, the Autumn UK Tour act
is selected. Dao
A E Caravan Black from Brazil
March 30th 2011
Announced, the two acts taking part in our UK May Tour are Danika
Holmes (USA) and Budduza
(Austria). Acts wanting to take part in our next year event go
to UK Spring Tour 2012.
March 22nd 2011
We apologise that we are still trying to resolve the final selection
for the Spring 2011 UK Tour. We currently are down to 3 contenders
having already selected one and aim to have this resolved by the
end of this month at the absolute latest.
February 1st
2011
The Spring 2011 UK Tour application is now closed. We expect
to announce the selected acts by March 15th. The Spring 2012 UK
tour applications will be taken from March 1st.
25th and 27th
November 2010
Both the UK
Autumn Tour 2011 and the 2011
Lancaster Music Festival are open for applications
on these dates respectively.
20th October
2010
Feedback from a hugely successful 2010
Lancaster Music Festival posted on the festival website.
31 August 2010
Lancaster
Music Festival 2010 Participants Announced We have
selected the following Sonicbids
artists to perform with 90 other acts: ThreeFifty
Duo from New York, Marina
& Thomas from Vienna, Los
Salvadores from UK, Level
10 from Tampa Bay and Marisa
Yeaman from Melbourne. Three other acts were selected but
could not attend.
20 August 2010
UK Autumn 2010
Tour Participants Announced We have selected Ali
Milner from Vancouver and ThreeFifty
Duo from New York. Acts that reached our finalist stage are
now on our artist roster
For more information on the acts and the tour click <HERE>.
30th April2010
UK
Spring Tour 2010 applications open.
15 March 2010
UK Spring 2010
Tour Participants Announced We have selected Miss
Quincy Sideshow from British Columbia and Red
Gap from the Isle of Man. Three other acts that were shortlisted
were unable to take part so we contacted our artist
roster and Red Gap responded first. For more information on
the acts and the tour click <HERE>.
01 February
2010
Spring 2010
Tour Application Closed (Feb. 1). This is our sister
tour to the UK Fall Tour (started in 2005) that was launched in
2006 and has been running every year since. The acts that are
selected through our peer
review will be announced on this page early March 2010. Applications
for the next Spring tour 2011 will be announced at that time.
As always any act that receives a high score will be placed on
our roster.
Lancaster
Music Festival. This event was such a success last
year that it will comprise 26 venues, over 100 acts and include
classical genres (as well as everything else) in 2010. Open for
application from November 1st. Click <here>
to apply. Applications close July 15th. Final notification of
selections August 1st (in practice many acts will know before
then).
18 October 2009
Acts selected for the Lancaster
Music Festival were Nomad
67 (UK), Van
Preston (USA), Red
Gap (IoM), The
Convulsions and Butch
Ross (USA). Reviews for last four acts are on the festival
home page. This event was such a success that it will be open
for application in November
10 August 2009
Acts selected for CME UK Fall Tour 2009:
Krishna
Jones (Australia), Van
Preston (USA) and Erik Morrell (Sweden)
Closed 2009 opportunities will be open for 2010 from
November
1 June
2009
Applications deadline for One Planet Music Festival 2009 and
Pewsey Music Festival 2009
18 April 2009
Applications now opened for Lancaster Music Festival 2009
(see opportunites
or click <here>
to apply)
17 March 2009
The acts selected for the UK Spring Tour 2009 are:
Old
Man Brown (from Maryland, USA)
The Drews
(from Washington, USA)
17 March 2009
The act selected for the Slavic Adventure 2009 is:
Big
Walker and the Blues Souls (Sweden)
10 March 2009
The acts selected for the Party in the Pub May 2009 are:
Van
Preston (Tennessee)
Hovercraft
Pirates (Northern Ireland)
07 March 2009
Applications now opened for UK Spring Tour 2010
(see opportunites
or click <here>
to apply)
Applications now opened for Pewsey Music Festival 2009
(see opportunites
or click <here>
to apply)
05 March 2009
Applications now opened for One Planet Music Festival 2009 (see
opportunites or
click <here>
to apply)
Applications deadline for Slavic Adventure 2009
01 March 2009
Applications deadline for UK Spring Tour 2009
01 February 2009
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