It’s incredible to see the media go in to free fall when the U2 show comes to town. As an exercise in how to promote your show no one does it better and no one will ever do it better. It’s close to an invasion, no matter what may be going on in the world [...]
Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
On November - 1 - 2009
On October - 22 - 2009
Seeing the U2 show last week reminded me of how they became as huge as they are. They had a bunch of songs that helped but it was so much more than that. I’m using my blog to blatantly advertise how we’ll be looking at how artists become successful and what they do to get [...]
On March - 1 - 2009
Part of me thinks U2 can’t fail, they took chances with Pop and Achtung Baby but not with the same impact as The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree, well not for me anyway. It’s good that they are prepared to do that and probably the only band alive that can but in this day [...]
categories: Artist Development, Leadership, Managing Creativity, Managment, Opportunity, People, Risk vs. Opportunity
On February - 2 - 2009
Bruce and the E -Street band really tore things up at the Superbowl half time show and I think he inspired both teams because they came out and treated us to a spectacular second half. A few of those players genuinely Born to Run with some amazing sprints. I can’t use the correct jargon because [...]
categories: Artist Development, Creativity, Leadership, Mistakes, News and Social Topics, People, Places
On January - 31 - 2009
Tampa is awash with Superbowlites, they’re everywhere and all to see the men with big shoulders running around shouting until eventually throwing an odd shaped ball out of the ground. Everyone jumps up, play stops and an entire new team runs on. I don’t understand American football and I don’t think I ever will.
Nevertheless it’s [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Innovation, Inspiration, Inspiration vs. Motivation, Leadership, Opportunity
On January - 20 - 2009
So today it all begins. Much as I am delighted to see Obama take the helm it’s just as exciting to see George Bush going. I’ll never understand how he got re elected though, one mistake you can condone but to ask him to come back and do it all over again is a little [...]
On December - 11 - 2008
I have just been reading Neil’s blog about the funeral of our friend Rob Partidge (neilstorey.blogspot.com) and would recommend you do the same. It sounded just like a celebration of his life which we had all hoped for and even though everyone mourned the loss of their dear friend and colleague Rob had clearly given [...]
categories: About The Engine Room, Archives, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, Leadership, People, Places
On October - 30 - 2008
The decision made, Mark called the Polytechnic in Manchester and we were added to the guest list. Having your lodger on the radio back then was a major plus and saved us a fortune in gigs! I think the social secretary at the Poly was a guy called Elliot Rashman who later went on to manage Simply Red, [...]
On October - 28 - 2008
Today the artists are doing what the record companies can longer do , or have no desire to do, build careers. It involves work, hard work by dedicated people and there used to be a word for it, artist development.(OK two words) But you still never hear it mentioned anymore by record companies. It gave [...]
On October - 25 - 2008
So we identified the problem, the record business had the experience because of the people who worked there, and slowly they started to dwindle. The record business was losing ‘record people’ and they were being replaced by the accountants and lawyers. The old guard were the innovators and the risk takers, they were the people [...]
