IF YOUR FIRST MEMORY INVOLVES PUTTING YOUR HEAD RIGHT NEXT TO A SPEAKER TO 'GET CLOSER TO THE MUSIC', THEN YOU'RE BEGINNING TO GET THE PICTURE OF WHERE CHRIS BAILEY (THEN AGED 5), AKA THE BOY IN THE CORNER, IS COMING FROM.

CHRIS'S WORK HAS BEEN HEARD ACROSS THE GLOBE AND INCLUDES AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF BROADCAST HOURS. SHOWS AND PROJECTS HAVE AIRED ON BBC RADIO ONE/TWO/SOUNDS/1XTRA, KISS FRESH, CAPITAL, SIRIUS XM (USA), AND MANY MORE PLATFORMS AND NETWORKS ALL OVER THE PLANET.

HE HAS MADE OVER 600 RADIO SHOWS WITH THE WORLD NO.1 DJ, MARTIN GARRIX, WORKED FOR MANY YEARS WITH MAJOR RECORD LABELS LIKE AXTONE/STMPD/SONY, AND TOPPED GENRE CHARTS ON MIXCLOUD. CHRIS TOOK ON THE TECH POST-PRODUCTION FOR ROMESH RANGANATHAN'S 2ND SERIES OF 'FOR THE LOVE OF HIP-HOP' WHICH AIRED ON BBC RADIO TWO, GOING ON TO WIN GOLD AT THE ARIAS FOR THE 'BEST SPECIALIST MUSIC RADIO SHOW' CATEGORY.

RADIO SITS HAPPILY ALONGSIDE HIS PRODUCTION OF PODCASTS FOR A WONDERFUL AND DIVERSE RANGE OF TEAMS, PLUS LAUNCHING VI4YL (DON'T GET STARTED ON VINYL/RECORDS). IN ADDITION, HE HAS TAUGHT RADIO PRODUCTION AT THE LEADING 'POINT BLANK' COLLEGE AND THE 'ROUNDHOUSE' IN LONDON.

A WIDE RANGE OF AUDIO ADVENTURES CONTINUE. PROUDLY GLOBAL IN OUTLOOK AND ETHOS, CHRIS IS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING NEW WAYS OF PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF AUDIO THROUGH ALL MEDIUMS, ESPECIALLY PODCAST AND RADIO.

Long Play: Building Real Audiences in a Short-Form World

Description: TikTok told us attention spans were dead. Podcasting proved otherwise. In an era of 15-second clips and algorithmic feeds, a growing movement of artists, labels and music media is betting big on long-form - and winning.

As music culture fragments across platforms chasing the next scroll, intimate, unfiltered conversation has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for building the kind of trust, community and longevity that no viral moment can replicate.

Featuring Anja Schneider's perspective from the heart of Berlin's electronic music scene, the House Culture media insight of Matt Rouse, and the content craft of Christabel Heasman-Cossins and Chris Bailey (The Boy In The Corner) - moderated by broadcaster, producer and OpenDAW founder Lex Luca - this panel gets into the craft, strategy and real talk behind making content that actually matters.