Boiler Room (music broadcaster)

Boiler Room
IndustryMusic & Entertainment
FoundedMarch 2010
FounderBlaise Bellville
Thristian Richards[1]
HeadquartersLondon, England
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Blaise Bellville (CEO)
Thristian Richards (host)[2]
ParentDICE
Websiteboilerroom.tv

Boiler Room is an online music broadcaster and club promoter based in London, United Kingdom. It hosts predominantly dance music events, focusing on underground genres, in locations internationally, and broadcasts the shows live over the internet.

It has regular operations in London, Amsterdam, New York City, Berlin, Lisbon, São Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydney, Lima, and Los Angeles and produces about 30 to 35 new shows each month.[3][4] By 2016, Boiler Room had hosted shows in around 100 cities worldwide.[5][6] Its music programming originally focused on dance music such as garage, house, techno, dub but eventually expanded to include grime, hip hop, classical, and jazz.[7][8][9]

  1. ^ "Thris Tian - I like to take the people on a journey". The Guardian. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Boiler Room Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook". pitchbook.com.
  3. ^ "building a music empire with boiler room's blaise and sofie | read | i-D". i-D. 12 February 2015. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  4. ^ "How Boiler Room streams live gigs to more than a million fans worldwide using a webcam (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Cities Archive". Boiler Room. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Boiler Room Is Going to China for the First Time | Thump". Thump. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Sergei Prokofiev 'would support classical music and younger audiences'". London Evening Standard. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  8. ^ Reidy, Tess (4 October 2014). "Classical music breaks out and joins the youth underground". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  9. ^ "jazz plus picks | 02.03.16 – jazz plus". jazzplus.org. Retrieved 24 May 2016.