Gennaro Leone
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Gennaro Leone

Senior curatorLondon, United Kingdom
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Gennaro Leone
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Gennaro Leone

Senior curatorLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Senior Curator at Boiler Room. Everything we do is rooted in the energy of club culture and its ability to bring people together. Open dancefloors; where music, ideas and people meet. Boiler Room started with a webcam taped to a wall, broadcasting from a warehouse in London, opening a keyhole to the city’s underground. DIY at its finest; raw, uncut, homemade. As an independent music platform and cultural curator we remain true to that history. Connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and irl though parties, film and video. Since 2010, we’ve built a unique archive; featuring over 4,000 performances, by more than 5,000 artists, spanning 150 cities, enabling everyone regardless of where they live to enjoy the freedom it stands for. Our remit is to platform music in new ways - sound on for the voices and stories of the fringes of the mainstream. My role: • Taking a lead role in booking artists for major worldwide branded shows • Acting as a bridge between the music and commercial team and the event production and broadcast team. • Having input on the musical direction and music booking strategy for Boiler Room and it’s global music policy.
Projects
  • Plastic Dreams by 4:3
    Plastic Dreams by 4:3https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/plastic-dreams-miscellaneous-210619
Projects credited in
  • Inside: 20 Years of UK Garage
    Inside: 20 Years of UK GarageThroughout December 2017, Boiler Room celebrated 20 Years of Garage: the sound that dominated UK clubs & culture from the late 1990s onwards. From highflying MCs and pirate radio DJs, to club promoters and avid ravers — a huge array of contributors that made up the scene came together to pay tribute to the legacy of UK Garage. This is our homage to UKG: the sound and scene that rapidly snowballed from a club phenomenon to everlasting global fame, now firmly part of British pop music history. The
  • VR Dancefloors: Techno in Berlin, with Google & Boiler Room
    VR Dancefloors: Techno in Berlin, with Google & Boiler RoomThis was a fun one! Interactive venues are a concept that I've been bouncing around in my head for a while, and I finally got to make a version of come to life in VR. Boiler Room made this excellent film to tease the experience, which gives an atmospheric, almost dystopian peek into the project:
  • GoThinkBig x Boiler Room x O2 : London - BOILER ROOM (2016)
    GoThinkBig x Boiler Room x O2 : London - BOILER ROOM (2016)I was one of the 40 people accept into the Boiler Room and Go Think Big collaboration programme which gave work experience to a handful of young people.
Work history
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    Senior CuratorBoiler Room
    London, United KingdomFull Time
Skills
  • Music Consulting
  • Music
  • Bookings
  • Booking Musicians
  • Curatorial
  • Music Branding
  • Art Curation
  • Sound Design
  • Music Composition
  • Curation