EVENTS
ABOVE THE NOISE
Above The Noise is the West of England’s music industry event designed to connect anyone active in the region’s music scene with the modern music business.
Presented in partnership with Association of Independent Music (AIM), this one-day event transforms Bristol Beacon into a hub for artists and music professionals to come together, unlock essential knowledge, and level up the skills needed to advance their careers.
Over the course of the day, you’ll hear from top industry experts and key music support organisations, including representatives of Music Managers Forum, Featured Artist Coalition, Music Venue Trust and UD Music. Through a series of specially curated discussions, gain crucial insights into topics such as label A&R, artist management and brand building, to touring and export in live music, and operating grass-roots music venues.
2nd April 2026
Event Start 12:00
Panel Discussion 15:30
Event End 18:00
ORIGINAL CONTENT CREATION CONCEPTS
In the music industry your content is just as important as your sound. In this practical workshop,multidisciplinary artist Cat Couture will help you to develop your own visual world and how to execute your visuals in a way that authentically portrays your personal brand.
We’ll be exploring how to think bigger, more creatively and more honestly about the impact you want to make with your content as well as a step by step guide of how to shoot and edit your photos and reels without relying on filters and expensive apps.
Cat’s creative career spans film, photography, music, poetry and painting, with work published in Dazed, Wonderland, Rolling Stone, Notion, and Cultured. She’s collaborated with leading contemporary art institutions like Gagosian New York and Saatchi Gallery London, and has also worked as a model, TV presenter and a signed recording artist with Sony Music. Today, she creates without limits and helps others do the same — bringing a wealth of experience in both artistry and self-promotion to inspire the next wave of musicians.
12th June 2026
UD Music Industry Take Over
Venue TBC
PAST EVENTS
DIY Content Creation for Music Artists
In the music industry your content is just as important as your sound. In this practical workshop,multidisciplinary artist Cat Couture will help you to develop your own visual world and how to execute your visuals in a way that authentically portrays your personal brand.
We’ll be exploring how to think bigger, more creatively and more honestly about the impact you want to make with your content as well as a step by step guide of how to shoot and edit your photos and reels without relying on filters and expensive apps.
Cat’s creative career spans film, photography, music, poetry and painting, with work published in Dazed, Wonderland, Rolling Stone, Notion, and Cultured. She’s collaborated with leading contemporary art institutions like Gagosian New York and Saatchi Gallery London, and has also worked as a model, TV presenter and a signed recording artist with Sony Music. Today, she creates without limits and helps others do the same — bringing a wealth of experience in both artistry and self-promotion to inspire the next wave of musicians.
UNLEASH YOUR VISION
A SIX PART WORKSHOP
It's time to share your vision with the world, to dream big unapologetically, stop playing small and stalling with what if’s, because what if it turns out better than you ever could have imagined? No more procrastination, that vision of yours has been waiting long enough to be unleashed.
It’s time to realign you with YOU. Your voice, your style, your vision, your way. Every single one of us has an array of gifts at our immediate disposal to help us live out our purpose. During this six part workshop we show you how to turn those gifts into skills, exploring the variety of ways in which these gifts can be utilised to benefit your vision.
But once we see the vision and know what we're capable of, then what? We take action. We make a solid plan of what we're going to action, how and with whom, implementing structure and intention, starting with visual communication. Together with Couture you’ll plan and execute the film and photography needed to communicate your vision, shot by Cat Couture, edited by Amoroso Films, which you'll then be able to put into practice.
Not only will we learn how to visually position ourselves more clearly, with more authenticity and alignment, we'll also learn how to be accountable to ourselves, discovering tools to help us show up for ourselves even on the days that feel hard, building trust with ourselves which builds confidence, not just in our vision but also in ourselves.
The Music Artist Content Workshop
As a modern music artist, you're not just expected to make phenomenal art and invest in materials, marketing, production costs, management, PR, music videos and press shoots, work trips, tours, merch and more, you're also expected to be an original and consistent content creator to engage your audience all day every day, but how do you navigate all of this when visual content creation either isn't your thing or it simply overwhelms you next to all your other tasks and you simply have no idea where to start? Well we're here to not just bring the fun into content creation, but to make it meaningful and aligned with your self defined branding, allowing you to take creative control.
With The Creative's Content Workshop, over the course of 4 sessions we not only seek to explore, define and refine your own personal visual branding whilst solidifying it all into mood boards, we also show you how to effectively plan your content shoots successfully, eliminating stress or room for error ,whilst leaving plenty of room for magic and ensuring you have the best time. Included is also a full day shoot with all participants in London where each participant will have a 2 hour slot dedicated to creating their original content with all the help and support desired. And last but certainly not least, we'll end with an online workshop on how to choose your final images, select your best takes and show you how to edit your visuals to align with your branding in the most simple ways without relying on dozens of editing apps. Throughout this experience you will also have around the clock guidance from Cat Couture who will answer any questions you may have to make the process and smooth as possible.
