Tony Platt is a freelance music engineer and producer with over thirty years experience. Starting at Trident Studios Tony moved to Island Studios, working with artists including Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and Bob Marley amongst many others. On leaving Island Tony turned freelance, becoming studio engineer for Mutt Lange on records by AC/DC, Foreigner and the Boomtown Rats as well as working on documentary film soundtracks.

More recently Tony has worked with a number of artists in various genres from blues to rock, hip-hop and jazz and to this end currently shares a small studio at The Strongroom with Haydn Bendall, former Abbey Road engineer/producer.

In addition Tony is a trustee of GETSET, a director of the Music Producers Guild and regularly provides guest lectures and workshops for universities worldwide.

An Evening with Tony Platt will begin at 6 pm and end at 8 pm. For details and to book places, please call us on 0845 122 1555 or email: info@ntileeds.co.uk

Tonight sees Old Broadcasting House hosting a special edition of GeekUp Leeds (a grassroots community for web developers, designers and technologists), with guest speaker Christian Heilmann of Yahoo! UK.

Christian’ll be talking about the Yahoo! User Interface Library and his work with the Web Standards Project.

Oh - did we mention there’ll be a free bar, serving complimentary drinks and snacks

Let the organisers know you’re coming at Upcoming.

UPDATE: More at the NTI Leeds website… 

I awoke this morning to Twitters from coworking gurus Chris Messina and Tara Hunt pointing to a pair of articles - in the New York Times and SF Gate - covering the burgeoning culture of coworking across the globe…

• Shared word spaces a wave of the future
• They’re Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side

There’re some interesting insights including larger companies - Timbuk2 - setting aside their own corporate space for use by coworkers and the serendipity that’s accompanying coworking communities in various locations - how business and creative opportunities form quite organically between freelancers and people sharing a space…all without too much overhead.

We’re starting to see that here at Old Broadcasting House too - with residents collaborating on events like tonight’s special edition of GeekUp.

In the next few weeks, we hope the number of residents reaches a critical mass where such serendepitous opportunites and collaboration are commonplace; we’re gonna try help this along with themed coworking days as pioneered by Manchester’s Paul Robinson.

Oops, bad news - we’ve had to cancel this Wednesday’s An evening with…Clive Grinyer event. Clive contacted us this morning to tell us that he’d broken his fibula and will be outta commission for the next 5-6 weeks.

We thought about finding another keynote speaker, but this event was really about Clive and his amazing body of work, so we’ll be looking to reschedule in the Spring when he’s well enough to travel again.

However, we did manage to signup 72 people for the evening talk - that’s almost as many as BarCamp Leeds! Stay tuned, we’ve got a whole bunch of events coming up in the next few weeks, including a special edition of GeekUp.