Joel Thomson is a Newcastle based promoter with over 18 years of experience in promotion, venue management and festival programming, including 12 years as senior booker and manager of Newcastle venues The Cluny and Cluny 2, and founder/director of Brave Exhibitions festival. He now works as senior promoter and head of the England office of F54 Live, the sister-company of Glasgow based promoters 432 Presents, and regularly promotes all over the U.K.