Following partnerships with Warner Music and Universal Music, North East-based development organisation Generator will play a key role in next month’s Mercury Prize in Newcastle. Here, CEO Mick Ross outlines their vision for nurturing talent in the region – with support from Sam Fender – and welcomes the focus away from the capital... 

WORDS: Andre Paine
PHOTO: Christopher Owens

You recently used an event in London to call for a regional balancing of funding for music – what was your ...