I’ve been moving furniture around and I’m knackered. I’ve lost half the stuff I put in places to make it easier to find them but I suppose it’s bound to get easier when I eventually do find them. Nevertheless good things happen and Facebook once more re introduces figures from the past and more glorious [...]
Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category
On January - 26 - 2009
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Journey Thru The Past, Managing Creativity, Opportunity, PR, People, Tony Michaelides
On January - 16 - 2009
We need stars, we don’t have them any more and the ones that we do call stars are different, they’re train wrecks, they’re misfits, they’re tortured ‘artists’. But Lindsay, Britney, Madonna even, aren’t tortured like Janis was, Jimi Hendrix or Brian Jones were they are just people craving attention. It doesn’t matter if it’s they [...]
On January - 1 - 2009
The record industry needed to find something that would save them from themselves. They needed to find the solution before the problem,and now the problem is global and has spiraled out of control. Everyone with their own crosses to bear. With the economy taking such an unprecedented pounding you wouldn’t lay money on the music [...]
On December - 13 - 2008
So Robbie Williams wants to return to Take That, now there’s a suprise, I wonder why? Well Robbie, nothing lasts forever and I think you’ve had the best of your days so slipping back now in to a band you walked out on is a little too convenient, especially when their success and comeback has [...]
categories: About The Engine Room, Artist Development, Creativity, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, Managment, People
On December - 2 - 2008
Even though no one knew it at the time, the Stiff/Chiswick challenge became a historical moment in music. It was the night most people either ignored or missed Joy Division, though speaking for myself I couldn’t be accused of ignoring someone I was too knackered to wait around for! As one might expect with Stiff [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Inspiration, Managment, People, Places, Risk vs. Opportunity, Tony Michaelides
On December - 1 - 2008
I was just talking with an old old friend who tracked me down on Facebook ( really no one does get out of there alive ! )He was asking me if I still lived at The Edge, when in fact I told him I hadn’t even lived in the country for 5 years and The [...]
On November - 26 - 2008
I just received a call from Neil with the very sad news that one of our former Island colleagues, Rob Partridge had passed away. Rob was one of the finest human beings ever to have graced the music industry and an engine room giant, yet his greatest quality was that he was an ‘all round [...]
categories: Archives, Creativity, Insights Collection, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, Life, PR, People, Places, Press, View from the "Engine Room"
On November - 15 - 2008
I miss Island Records but I don’t miss record companies, Island was in a class of it’s own. Its a tough one to describe, you really did have to be there. Now I’m standing from the rooftops and shouting, ‘I was there, tough luck if you weren’t!’
My friend Neil met up with Chris Blackwell, Island [...]
categories: Archives, Creativity, Insights Collection, Journey Thru The Past, People, Places, Risk, View from the "Engine Room"
On November - 6 - 2008
The BBC,with their flagship show Top of the Pops were just putting on groups and artists who were already in the charts but not doing anything new. Juke Box Jury did that many years before when they had a panel of celebrities commenting on new releases and predicting if they thought they’d be hits or [...]
On November - 5 - 2008
Many books have been written about Manchester and they’ll be many more to come. I’m just grateful I spent all my working life in the music business in the 70’s, 80’s and 90′ there and was never tempted to take a job down south. I loved working out on the road, loved starting my promotion [...]
