A powerful assortment of prime music executives from the U.Okay. and all over the world — plus one Grammy profitable artist — got here collectively in London final week for an unique cocktail reception and dinner hosted by Luminate and Music Enterprise Worldwide.

The Music Leaders Dinner, SWXS London Version — held June 5 through the inaugural U.Okay. offshoot of the famed Austin convention — noticed round 60 execs and entrepreneurs from the music biz collect at Little Home Mayfair, Soho Home’s extra intimate London providing.

Hosted by Luminate CEO Rob Jonas and Music Enterprise Worldwide founder and writer Tim Ingham, the occasion — described as essentially the most significant trade gathering since earlier than the pandemic — introduced collectively leaders from labels resembling Recognition/Hipgnosis, Goldstate, Amuse, Mixcloud, Epidemic Sound, Pophouse, UMPG, Consider, AWAL, UMG UK, Sony Music Publishing, Consider, Beggars Group and extra. In the meantime, trade heavyweights resembling Max Lousada and Merck Mercuriadis, plus artist managers behind Adele, Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 and finance leaders resembling Raine Group attended, as did even Grammy-winning musician James Blake.

Alongside the prospect to speak with their trade pals and friends, visitors loved a three-course menu that included sea bass, beef carpaccio, cauliflower quinoa, dry age sirloin, chalk stream trout and sticky toffee pudding, plus Thienot Brut champagne and Soho Home’s signature Picante cocktail.

The primary London dinner of its type occurred amid a interval of worldwide progress for Luminate, the leisure knowledge and analytics firm that works throughout the music, movie and TV industries and powers the Billboard music charts. Its country-level engagement date has been broadened to now cowl some 60 worldwide markets, whereas it just lately partnered with South Korea’s KreatorsNetwork to assist assist Okay-pop labels of their international growth efforts.

The inaugural SXSW London closed on Saturday after 5 days of panels, talks, exhibits and extra. Among the many musicians to carry out have been the likes of Tems and Mabel, whereas the legendary Abbey Street curated a collection of dwell exhibits and conversations, together with an on-stage Q&A with Stylish legend Nile Rodgers.

Selection dad or mum firm PMC owns the SXSW franchise and Luminate.