Interview with Marie: Community Gal at Green Room Session
1. Tell us about yourself! What are the different sides of your personality and how do they show up in your projects?
My name is Mary, I am in charge of social media and digital PR at Pumpkins Agency. I am told to be an eternal optimistic, very curious and talkative, and I enjoy sharing everything I find interesting with my friends and relatives. Finding the exact thing that will please them (sound, image, inspiration, article) is my daily challenge, talking about the interests we share and discovering other things we have in common is what pleases me. I’m always on the look out for unique and fresh content.
The combination of my own curiosity with that hobby and my love of music is the reason why I chose to become a community manager, and to join the Green Room Session team. It also lead me to become a member of Whyd :-) even if the main motivation for me being part of Whyd was my need for putting my Youtube and Soundcloud finds (that were not on Spotify) somewhere where I could organize and share them among music lovers! I discovered the possibility to use it for sound digging afterwards and I now use it everyday on that purpose :)
2. Give us a little background information about Green Room Session, where did the concept come from?
The Green Room Session project was born from the reflexion of a brand (famous worldwide for its red star among other things) that had always been very active in the music community on the field. They felt the need to participate in sharing the best of contemporary music not only punctually during special occasions (big festivals and concerts) but also on a daily basis. That need for dedicating itself full-time to serving this goal required a dedicated team, and that’s how the Green Room Session project was launched. Everyday Green Room Session brings the best of the music news, exclusive content and attractive offers (free tickets and invitations to French festivals and concerts in concert halls from its partners) on its website, and everyday we share the website’s contents to our community of music lovers on Facebook and Twitter, connect with them on Instagram and Whyd to share our best memory snapshots and favorite musical nuggets.
3. Who does Green Room Session work with in the music space?
We have the chance to work with so many great people and projects from the music space! Just remember that you asked for this list when getting tired of reading it ;)
First we work with many french festivals and we’ve even got our own Green Room stage in some of them (Solidays, Eurockéennes de Belfort, Mainsquare Festival, Transmusicales de Rennes). You can find the list of our event partners here. We also work with the most amazing concert halls in France that allow us each month to give away to our community free invitations for great concerts: La Cigale, le Glazart, le Trabendo, le Social Club and le Zénith in Paris, Magazine Club from Lille, le Transbordeur in Lyon, l’Ubu Rennes, la Coopérative de Mai in Clermont Ferrand, l’Espace Julien in Marseille, la Laiterie in Strasbourg and more recently we starting working with le Noumatrouff in Mulhouse.
In order to always offer increasingly rich and varied contents we collaborate all year long with Tsugi and Le Tournedisque: an amazing French blog held by three fellows passionate about music discoveries that allow us to offer each month our “Green Room Session x Le Tournedisque” playlist, we will celebrate our first year of collaboration in June!
Last but not least, this year we have been working closely with Talent Boutique, Because Music and Ed Banger Records to celebrate their 10th anniversary: we offered them the Ed Banger Room where we gathered together memories, special contents and unique collector objects that has been marking their history from 2003 to 2013. We were so proud when this website was awarded by FWA as “site of the day” on May 25th! We also partnered the 10th anniversary world tour of Ed Banger, giving away tickets for each date of the tour that will allow our winners to tour with the label (currently the dates at stake are Tokyo, Los Angeles and Berlin).
4. Can you tell us how you use Whyd with Green Room Session?
The Green Room Session team is composed of music lovers: we naturally dig sounds for ourselves and share them to each others and on the official Twitter account. We wanted to store these somewhere where our followers could find them organized by category, and we enjoy the “no small talks, just music” that rules the Whyd community of sound diggers ! The “hot tracks" category and the "similar to you" one in "Discover" section inspire us everyday, and our finds punctuate our days!
5. When you get to choose the music, what do you like to listen to?
That would be so hard to talk in the name of everyone from the project: Manu for example surprises us regularly with his “voodoo funk” mood and other alternative styles that I had never heard of before, Audrey is making the office a Boiler Room regardlessof the time of day, Guillaume is Muse’s biggest fan, BH is our hip hop expert, Marco loves Daft Punk, Chris’s besetting sin is Daniel Avery and Greg’s one would be Metronomy or Phoenix…
I think this question was for myself but that would not be representative of the eclectic tastes in our beautiful project ! Though currently if I had to choose one song, that would be the remix Hostage made from Willy Moon’s track “My Girl.”
Thanks for filling us in Marie! Make sure you follow Green Room Session on Twitter, like the official Facebook page, and of course, subscribe to them on Whyd!
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