Today Feargal Sharkey, with culture secretary Andy Burnham, addressed delegates at Music Week's Making Online Music Pay conference at London's May Fair Hotel.

Chairing the event, Sharkey said

"Ten years since the seismic shock that popularised P2P ...

Charles K Harris is a name you may never heard of. You may not care, but everyone in this room owns an incredible debt to Charles K Harris. In fact, we owe him everything. Now while it’s true that Harris might not have been the first, but in 1892 Harris did a very simple, yet very ...

Hello, my name is Feargal Sharkey. For those of you who don’t know, I am CEO of an organization called, simply, UK Music. An organisation which launched in October 2008 and has but one very clear, remit, goal and ambition - to bring together, under the same roof, representatives from ...

Andy Burnham said: Good morning everyone. It’s that time of year when newspapers are reviewing the year so I thought I’d start by giving you a review of my music highlights this year.

I’ve played Teenage Kicks on the guitar with Fergal Sharkey on a boat on the ...