Rick Lees
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Rick Lees

Event Director / Event Marketer / Digital MarketerManchester, United Kingdom
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Rick Lees

Event Director / Event Marketer / Digital MarketerManchester, United Kingdom
About me
I’m a passionate and enthusiastic freelancer with a proven track record of marketing and delivering successful events from clubnights to multi-day festivals. My strengths lie in branding and social media advertising and I have a strong portfolio of past projects spanning a number of different industries.
Projects
  • Cotton Clouds Festival 2019
    Cotton Clouds Festival 2019My responsibilities include all aspects of branding, marketing & programming for Cotton Clouds Festival 2019
  • Cotton Clouds Festival
    Cotton Clouds FestivalCotton Clouds Festival is a two day 5,000 capacity independent music festival based in Saddleworth, Oldham. Our debut event in 2017 sold out weeks in advance and caught the eye of the national news which resulted in a feature in the Guardian's best things to do that month. The wide spanning family friendly lineup has so far included Sister Sledge, The Lightning Seeds, The Coral, The SugarHill Gang, Starsailor, The Pigeon Detectives, Chali 2na, The Blinders, PINS, The Whip, Hyde Park Brass, T
  • Howling Rhythm
    Howling RhythmHowling Rhythm was launched in Manchester in May 2013 and went on to become one of the North West's most successful clubnights. We noticed that very few events in Manchester were using social media advertising effectively and put together a strategy to build our brand which worked incredibly well. Howling Rhythm holds a cumulative following of over 28,000 fans over Facebook, Instagram & Twitter. Our success online was mirrored in the attendance of our events, we went from drawing circa 80-100
Skills
  • Event Branding
  • Event Coordination
  • Event Concept
  • Event Content
  • Marketing Campaigns
  • Marketing Branding
  • Marketing Design
  • Event Graphics
  • Web Design
  • Social Content Strategy
Awards
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    Nominated for Best Manchester ClubnightCityLife Awards
    Howling Rhythm was nominated by CityLife as Best Manchester ClubNight at the CityLife Awards
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    Nominated for Best Small FestivalUK Festival Awards
    Cotton Clouds Festival was nominated for Best Small Festival at the 2018 UK Festival Awards
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