BASCA have announced their new Songwriter Committee members including BDi producer songwriter Jake Gosling.

BASCA has a Songwriter Committee that consists of working songwriters representing your interests. The committee, voted for by BASCA members, acts as a point of contact for songwriters and a place to share concerns and feel part of a community.

The Songwriter Committee work hard to help BASCA support songwriters in the following ways:

• Organising songwriter critiques and masterclasses
• Offering professional seminars and tutorials covering digital marketing, distribution and publishing
• Providing regular notice of songwriting opportunities, whether training, competitions (such as Eurovision) or networking
• Representing songwriters at the highest level with the BBC, Musicians Union, PRS for Music, UK Music and the UK Government
• Representing songwriters in Europe, at EU Commission level and with other writer organisations e.g. ECSA
• Campaigning for composer rights and credits within streaming services such as Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music
• Providing template contracts – recording, publishing, performance and management
• Partnering with leading colleges and universities such as the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and The Academy of Contemporary Music