Thomas Stabler

Thomas is a freelance promoter rep who works delivering events nationally for several of the UK's largest national and independent promoters. Some of the many artists he's worked with include Florence and the Machine, Take That, Little Simz, Chase and Status, Confidence Man, Peter Kay, Run the Jewels and Caroline Polachek.

Working in Live Events for 15 years and having worked tirelessly early on to forge a career in the field during and after University he has via both lecturing, mentoring and through general advise helped create opportunities for people who share the same passion to go into the events industry or indeed any sector within music.

Although a hugely competitive and at times probably quite intimidating industry to try and get into, success within it is built on the most basic of principles and with the right level of application people can have one of the most unique and exciting careers around.

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Lily Sturt-Bolshaw

Lily is a producer/songwriter, mix and mastering engineer, Project Manager and one half of Alt/indie band, Sunflower Thieves.

She graduated from Leeds Conservatoire in 2018 with a BAhons in Music Production and went on to work at Stylus as a Front of House/Monitor Engineer/Stage Manager. Alongside being employed by Leeds Uni Union, she also worked as a freelance sound engineer in venues around Leeds such as Oporto, Hyde Park Book Club and Headrow House and has toured with Clean Cut Kid.

She has since moved away from working in live sound, but she hasn't strayed too far for her work with Come Play With Me. Lily runs CPWM's Come Platform Me: Introduction To Sound programme for people from marginalised backgrounds who want to become live and studio engineers. With help from Eiger Studios and HPBC, the first round of this programme has been an incredible success and is to be repeated later this year!

Lily's band Sunflower Thieves are an independent, self managed and self produced project formed of Lily and childhood friend Amy. They have been writing, producing, performing and releasing together since 2016 and have been played on Radio 1 + 6, BBC Introducing, Radio Scotland and more. They have toured and gigged with the likes of Flyte, Lewis Watson, Memorial, Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly and Siv Jakobsen and will be releasing their second EP this year!

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