Northern Irish music industry body to close
A body set up to “accelerate the development of a sustainable music industry in Northern Ireland” has folded after eight years following “irreconcilable differences” between its managers.
Founded in 2001, the Northern Ireland Music Industry Commission was supported by a coalition of bodies that included the Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Belfast City Council, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the British Council and the PRS Foundation for new music.
There are believed to have been problems within NIMIC for much of the past year prompting its principal funder, Invest NI, to withdraw funding following the continuing failure of the Belfast-based organisation’s Board to resolve long-standing internal disagreements. Other sponsors had also indicated an unwillingness to continue funding the body which has now entered into a voluntary winding-up arrangement. Invest NI added that no new funding for any replacement body would be made available.
In 2008, Northern Ireland contributed just 1% of the £3.2 billion generated by the British music industry.
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