As more and more of our members' acts are touring abroad, especially in Europe, we are happy to say that a Canadian expat living in Britain and working the music industry has agreed to help them out. Shain Shapiro as some of you might remember, was a volunteer at Popkomm last year, and really impressed us with his knowledge of the Canadian scene and the acts that were touring in Europe and Britain. He is a music journalist, and has recently worked for an independent label. You can contact him through us or directly. He has a fee structure for advanced services, but is certainly willing to answer your incidental questions about the market. You can visit his website at www.shainhouse.com
and email him at shain@cirpa.ca.

A little more about Shain...

Shain Shapiro is an expat (from Toronto) who currently resides in North London, UK. Before that, he did his BA at the University of Leeds and McMaster, and his MA at the University of Amsterdam. In London, he works with two of the UK's biggest independent labels, One Little Indian and FatCat Records as their press manager, in addition to being a freelance music journalist in six countries, publishing for fifteen outlets in three different languages. Currently he writes for Clash, AU, Vice, Relix, Pop Matters, Reykjavik Grapevine and View, Pulse and Echo Magazines in Ontario, as well as FFWD in Calgary. He is the former international editor for Europe's largest music website, DrownedinSound, and has worked with CIRPA at PopKomm in Germany.