The Hospital Club was founded by Paul Allen and Dave Stewart. The story goes that one night, Paul and Dave were having a drink in Covent Garden when they spotted a boarded-up building over the road.  Between them, they hatched a plan to revive this once elegant shell, and transform it into a hub of creativity – full of people, ideas, music and life. The Club is a now a center for London’s creative community housing a television studio, screening room, live performance space, restaurant, lounges, gallery and bedrooms over seven floors.

Dave Stewart is the creative director of the Hospital Club.

Ditto Music is an online digital music distributor with a proven record of getting unsigned artists into the UK Top 40 music charts, and the world’s biggest artists into the world’s digital stores. Ditto provides everything a record label can offer and has won awards for its customer service. Wherever the next innovation in online music distribution is, Ditto aims to find it and make it easier for musicians to get their music out there, heard and sold.

The Morrison Hotel Gallery represents world-renowned photographers who have captured some of the most inspiring and iconic images of music and musicians photographed over the last fifty-plus years.  It was founded in 2001 by former record company executive and producer Peter Blachley, music industry professional Richard Horowitz, and music photographer Henry Diltz and has since become the place to purchase fine art music photography.

Creative England is dedicated to the growth of the creative industries. They invest in talented people and their creative ideas, nurturing the UK’s richly diverse games, TV, film and digital media industries. From direct investment and soft loans to business mentoring. they champion the best ideas of talented people and their businesses. As a not-for-profit organization Creative England mobilizes public and private resources to garner as much support and investment for the creative industries as possible. They work with a wide range of partners and investors from commercial brands and companies such as Google, Facebook and KPMG to local authorities, cultural bodies and universities, national government, and the European Commission.

Sofar Sounds hosts secret gigs in 165 cities around the world in a quest to bring the magic back to live music. Sofar started in 2009 in a tiny North London flat.

Frustrated by the traditional live music experience, the founders hosted three young artists who played to a carefully selected audience of true music lovers. And after that show those people went and told their friends. Sofar Sounds is now the world’s largest live music discovery community; curating secret, intimate gigs in unique spaces all around the world.